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Telephonic communications October categorized by USPTO classification 10/10

20100272242 - Voice over internet protocol (volp) location based 911 conferencing: Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) emergency calls to an Emergency Response Center (ERC) are handled through a VoIP conference bridge on a VoIP service provider's soft switch. The soft switch works with a VoIP positioning center (VPC) to obtain location information, which is compared against a PSAP database to find... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20100272243 - Automated selection of tty-modes in a mobile device: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for allowing a user to select, from a plurality of TTY-modes, one TTY-mode to associate with one phone number. The associated TTY-mode will be used for either incoming or outgoing calls using that phone number. Further disclosed are a plurality of TTY-modes to associate... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20100272244 - Music data processing method and electronic apparatus using the same: A music data processing method applied to an electronic apparatus includes obtaining a time data; retrieving a partial music data from an input music data according to the time data; and performing a pre-end-play processing on the partial music data to output an output music data. With the pre-end-play processing... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20100272245 - Join-us call-log and call-answer messages: The present invention provides methods, devices, and systems for facilitating an ad-hoc conference. More specifically, a “join-us” concept is employed that links functionality in non-real-time messaging systems with real-time ongoing state of calls information in a communications network. This combines the spontaneity and security of an ad-hoc conference call with... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20100272246 - Methods, systems, and products for dynamically-changing ivr architectures: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for dynamically changing an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system. Responses to a menu of prompts are monitored. A presentation order of the menu of prompts is automatically updated according to a set of rules. The set of rules describe qualifications for dynamically changing the... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Sz Attn: Patent Docketing

20100272247 - Method and apparatus for enabling a calling party to leave a voice message for a called party: A method for execution by a network entity to allow a calling party to leave a message for a called party, the calling party using a communication device to call the called party, the network entity being connected to the communication device via a communications network. The method may comprise:... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20100272248 - Voice communications apparatus: Voice communications apparatus intervenes between a telephone set and a broad-band transmission path that has a communication band broader than a voice band limited by the transmitter and receiver characteristics of the telephone set. The voice communications apparatus includes a transmitter frequency characteristic corrector circuit for correcting the frequency characteristic... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20100272249 - Spatial presentation of audio at a telecommunications terminal: The present invention utilizes pseudo-stereo for the communication of secondary information to the user of a telecommunications terminal, such as a speakerphone. In particular, the terminal utilizes a method for the presentation of secondary information to the user of the terminal in a teleconference call by adjusting the spatial properties... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20100272250 - Method and system for pulling a call: A method and system for transferring a call from a first device to a second device. The method includes: a) transmitting a notification from a call management server to the second device to indicate that the first device is engaged in a call that is transferable; b) receiving, at the... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20100272251 - Echo removing apparatus, echo removing method, and communication apparatus: Disclosed herein is an echo removing apparatus including: a sound input terminal configured to input an external sound signal from external equipment; a first echo removing device configured to, after admitting as input signals the external sound signal coming from the external equipment and input through the sound input terminal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100272252 - Microphone line based detection of headset plug removal: Embodiments of the invention include methods, apparatus, systems and means for distinguishing between microphone line signals resulting from: actuation of a microphone button of a headset plugged into a telephone device jack, and removal of the headset plug form the jack. During a telephone call, a first signal can be... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100266106 - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for remotely evaluating and controlling voice over ip (voip) subscriber terminal equipment: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for remotely evaluating and controlling VoIP subscriber terminal equipment using test calls, status queries, and usage statistics are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes initiating test calls with VoIP subscriber terminal equipment and obtaining test call results. The method further includes analyzing usage... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20100266107 - Emergency call handling in accordance with authentication procedure in communication network: Techniques are provided for handling of an emergency call as it affects an authentication procedure in a communication network. For example, it is assumed that, in a communication network, a first computing device comprises user equipment and a second computing device comprises an authentication function. Thus, a method comprises the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20100266108 - Message relay system with message relay server: A message relay server includes; a call state control section configured to acquire a call state data which contains identification data of telephones, which perform a speech communication call, of a plurality of telephones from a line switching server which controls the speech communication call; a call state storage section... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100266109 - Methods and apparatus to provide a telephone system configuration interface: Methods and apparatus for a telephone customer to configure telephone service for multiple users at a single location associated with the customer. The location has at least two telephones, at least two phone numbers and a voice mail box. The telephone customer is visually provided an option to assign one... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20100266110 - Method and apparatus for providing a customer premise based communication system: A method and an apparatus for providing a customer premise based feature. For example, the method receives a call directed to a customer, wherein the call is associated with a customer premise based feature. The method then forwards the call to a customer premise based communication system located at a... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20100266111 - Phone url exchange: A computer system (a method) for exchanging information such as a Universal Resource Locator (URL) or a Universal Resource Identifier (URI) over a communication channel in general and over a telephone communications channel in particular in a unified communications system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises a phone... Agent: Patent Law Works LLP/shoretel Inc.

20100266112 - Method and device relating to conferencing: A system in which a processor processes received signals corresponding to a voice of a particular participant in a multi-party conference; extracts characteristic parameters for the voice of each particular participant; compares results of the characteristic parameters of each particular participant and determines a degree of similarity in the characteristic... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20100266113 - Telephone call maintenance with single party for subsequent reconnection: Disclosed herein is a solution for managing telephone calls that allows a telephone switch to maintain a connection with one Party to a telephone call while allowing the connection between the switch and the other Party to be disconnected. When the parties wish to be reconnected, the switch re-establishes the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20100266114 - Multimedia terminal adapter and automatic call forwarding method: A multimedia terminal adapter (MTA) electronically connected to a call management server and phone sets configured in at least two different networks, includes a receiving module and a control module. The control module drives the phone sets configured in the at least two different networks to ring when the receiving... Agent: Altis Law Group, Inc. Attn: Steven Reiss

20100266115 - Management of transaction routing to enterprise agents: A system is provided for routing transactions to individual ones of a group of agents, comprising, a queue wherein transactions to be routed are placed, a transmission facility sending invitations to interact with a transaction from the queue to agents, and a router routing transactions from the queue to individual... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc,- Alcatel Joint Number

20100266116 - Pacing in knowledge worker engagement: A method for mapping ready agents to incoming transactions has steps for (a) placing incoming transactions in a first queue managed by software executing from a machine-readable medium on a computerized appliance; (b) issuing a determined number of invitations in a period of time to agents known to be available... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc,- Alcatel Joint Number

20100266117 - Network switch with integrated cable termination locations: A network switch that can directly receive and connect to telecommunications cables includes: a body; a first panel mounted to the body; a first plurality of ports located in the first panel, each of the first plurality of ports configured to receive a telecommunications cable; a second panel mounted to... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20100266118 - Method and system for stereo echo cancellation for voip communication systems: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention is directed toward a method and system for cancelling line echo in the presence of a known secondary audio signal. Filter adaption is enabled in the presence of a known secondary audio source such as the sound of a computer game, a music... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.