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Telephonic communications February patent applications/inventions, industry category 02/11

20110044431 - Communications history log system: A method is provided in which information about one or more telecommunications session characteristics is stored in a communications history log. A prediction is then made for the occurrence of telecommunications session characteristic in the future on the basis of the information stored in the communications history log.... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20110044432 - Dynamic control of voice mail delivery sequence: A user of a conversational biometrics based voice mail system sets a user profile of the user that defines one or more biometric parameters of received voice mail intended for the user. A conversational biometrics device analyzes the voice mail in accordance with the one or more biometric parameters of... Agent: Leveque Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20110044433 - Method of generating a temporarily limited and/or usage limited means and/or status, method of obtaining a temporarily limited and/or usage limited means and/or status, corresponding system and computer readable medium: The invention refers to a method of generating a means and/or status which is temporarily limited and/or usage limited and allows access to a service which has access restrictions, the method being carried out in a computing system and comprising the steps of establishing a telecommunications connection such that an... Agent: Brian R. Galvin

20110044434 - Enhanced call tracing: Methods, devices, and systems are provided for employing an efficient call tracing algorithm. Messages may be filtered according to an initial filter criteria, then messages that meet the initial filter criteria are analyzed to develop a secondary filter criteria. The first and/or second filter criteria can then be applied to... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20110044435 - System and method for integrating runtime usage statistics with developing environment: A self-help application such as in an interactive voice response (IVR) platform serving users is enabled for providing an integrated development (IDE) and monitoring environment. This provides real-time reporting and analysis on user behavior, application performance and transaction success. The application is coded in software objects (VoiceObjects) specific to the... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - San Francisco

20110044436 - Personal notification and broadcasting: While various communication systems permit one-on-one communication between users, it is difficult to contact multiple users at a time with little hassle. The personal notification and broadcasting system provides a solution for contacting a plurality of contacts in emergency and non-emergency contexts. The system receives a call from a caller... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20110044437 - Method and system for presenting dynamic commercial content to clients interacting with a voice extensible markup language system: A system for selecting a voice dialog, which may be an advertisement or information message, from a pool of voice dialogs and for causing the selected voice dialog to be utilized by a voice application for presentation to a caller during an automated voice interactive session includes a voice-enabled interaction... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20110044439 - Methods and apparatus for authorization and/or routing of outdial communication services: Methods and apparatus for authorization and routing of outdial communication services are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises receiving a request to authorize an outdial communication service call initiated by a message center, and accessing an authorization table to determine whether the outdial communication service call is authorized, the... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20110044438 - Shareable applications on telecommunications devices: During voice communication between multiple telecommunications devices, a shareable application facilitates concurrent sharing of data and processes between the devices. The application may be configured to monitor the voice communication and execute a predetermined function upon detecting a predetermined condition in the voice communication. The application may further facilitate sharing... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20110044440 - Sending a user associated telecommunication address: Other embodiments provide for sending a single associated telecommunications address, individual identifiers of each of the participants, and a communication device name to better identify exactly who is calling. The system can also detect when an additional participant has joined the communication session and when a participant leaves the communication... Agent: Avaya Inc. Margaret Carmichael, Docketing Specialist

20110044441 - Device and method for preventing ion build-up in liquid crystal displays: A desktop network protocol telephone set has a network interface for connecting the telephone set to a local area network. An audio interface provides audio signals to and from a handset of the telephone set. A processing circuit is responsive to communications from the network interface. A control circuit coupled... Agent: Mitel Networks Corporation Michelle Whittington, Esq.

20110044442 - Call routing or escalation based on the identity, role or urgency of the calling or communicating party: Aspects are directed toward managing, including reorganizing, inbound communications, a communications log, or presentation of a communication to a user, based on one or more of the identity, role and urgency of calling or communicating party, including, for example, forwarding or hybrid priority routing. For example, in an e-mail type... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20110044443 - Communication terminal and communication method thereof: A communication terminal includes an obtaining unit, a judging unit, a removing unit, and a transmitting unit. The obtaining unit obtains a phone number which is associated with a message from a transmitter. The judging unit determines whether an international code precedes a telephone number used by the transmitter, and... Agent: Altis Law Group, Inc. Attn: Steven Reiss

20110044444 - Multiple user identity and bridge appearance: A call control system is provided that can determine the location of a person. From the location of the person, the call control system can temporarily associate a different phone with the person. A bridge appearance may then be changed to include the temporary association such that calls from the... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20110044446 - Prioritized call sessions: A local network call handling device is configured to establish multiple concurrent call sessions between local network end devices and an external network. When a prioritized end device attempts to establish a call session, the call handling device may initially determine if a first call session identifier is available. If... Agent: Banner & Witcoff , Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007412

20110044445 - System and method for creating a routing matrix for routing local calls: A method includes gathering local call attributes from a call detail record capture utility, linking supplemental attributes to the local call attributes; and generating a local call report, which associates local call routes with a plurality of attributes. A system includes an electronic cost administrator operable to gather call detail... Agent: Level 3 Communications, LLC C/o Cpa Global

20110044447 - Trend discovery in audio signals: Techniques for processing data representative of text associated with one or more content sources to generate a specification of a set of keyphrases of interest; processing a first set of audio signals collected during a first time period to generate first data characterizing putative occurrences of one or more keyphrases... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20110044448 - System for low complexity adaptive echo and next cancellers: The present invention relates to design and implementation of low complexity adaptive echo and NEXT cancellers in multi-channel data transmission systems. In this invention, a highly efficient weight update scheme is proposed to reduce the computational cost of the weight update part in adaptive echo and NEXT cancellers. Based on... Agent: Keshab K. Parhi

20110038467 - Voicemail server monitoring/reporting via aggregated data: A device receives, from a voicemail server, log information associated with voicemail transactions performed by the voicemail server, and determines data elements, of the log information, to be aggregated. The device also aggregates the determined data elements of the log information, determines a time period to provide the aggregated log... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20110038468 - Method and system for measuring market-share for an entire telecommunication market: A method for collecting data to measure market-share for a defined telecommunication market. A market of interest is defined and a random panel of numbers is created. A call set-up is initiated to the created random panels by generating signaling messages wherein the signaling messages access a Calling Name Services... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20110038469 - Method and system for processing calls in an architecture allowing a telephony identifier to be associated with a group of identities: A system and a method for processing calls. The system comprises a database including: a plurality of telephony identifiers; and for each telephony identifier, information regarding a group of persons that is associated with the telephony identifier, each person of the group of persons being reachable by placing a call... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20110038470 - Centrally located server delivery of personalized content to telecommunications devices: Methods and systems for personalized content delivery to telecommunications devices are disclosed. One system includes a signal intercept application configured to receive a signal relating to an incoming phone call to a telecommunications device. The system further includes a content server configured to receive a message from the signal intercept... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20110038471 - Dialing plan analysis and cleanup: A method is disclosed that enables a user to administer a dialing plan or plans. The disclosed private-branch exchange, or other type of telephone exchange or switch, analyzes the dialing plan that it uses and then makes a recommendation for the dialing plan. In order to analyze the dialing plan,... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20110038472 - Teleconference monitoring and alerting method: A method is disclosed which allows an invitee to a conference call, who is not present on at least part of the call, to have the call monitored in his or her absence. The invitee is offered the opportunity to review, ahead of the call, one or more electronic documents... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20110038473 - Selective bandwidth connectivity through network line cards: Public communication networks increasingly need to provide customers with a range of communication services, from baseband voice service, to computer data communications, to high speed digital data communications for multimedia and the like. Many such services would be blocked by existing telephone network line cards, which provide coding and decoding... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20110038474 - Operating managing server, system, computer-accessible medium and program: The objective is to provide a monitoring device that enables a supervisor in a contact center to recognize the status of each operator easily, and to recognize an irregularity in operation quickly. A server 10 is connected to a telephone switchboard 30 and a terminal 20 which has a display... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20110038475 - Systems and methods for data synchronization in a customer center: A synchronization manager comprises an instruction execution system. The instruction execution system is configured to identify an initial master application of a plurality of workforce applications that are in communication with a contact center, identify remaining ones of the workforce applications as slave applications, determine a substitute master application hierarchy... Agent: Setter Roche LLP

20110038476 - System and methods for scheduling and optimizing inbound call flow to a call center: A method for providing inbound call reservations to a communication center has steps for monitoring service access points into the communication center by reservation software executing from a machine-readable medium, evaluating communicators and potential communicators, and issuing invitations for reserved communication sessions to qualified communicators and potential communicators, the reserved... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc,- Alcatel Joint Number

20110033031 - Method and apparatus for detecting ring trip precursors: A method for controlling a ringing signal includes generating a ringing signal on a subscriber line, detecting a condition indicative of the subscriber line going off-hook and reducing an amplitude of the ringing signal responsive to detecting the condition. A line card includes a subscriber line interface circuit operable to... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20110033032 - Detecting false answer supervision: A method and corresponding apparatus are provided to detect false answer supervision by determining false answer supervision as either as a function of a number of completed calls of short duration or as a function of a distribution of differences between timestamps of alert signals and timestamps of connect signals... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20110033034 - High-assurance teleconference authentication: A method is provided for authorizing an authenticated user into a teleconference session as a participant that avoids some of the costs and disadvantages of doing so in the prior art. The authorization is a combination of the enterprise user's authentication at work and cryptographic authorization to the teleconference system... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20110033035 - System and method for initiating a conference call: The present invention is a system and method for initiating conference calls via an instant messaging system to reduce the effort required to initiate and manage the call. The system uses an IM connection between a requesting party and a conference call server to inform the conference call server of... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20110033033 - Techniques for controlling access to teleconferences: Techniques for managing teleconferences. A plurality of people are associated with a plurality of identifiers such that each person is associated with at least one identifier. For each caller to a teleconference associated with a different identifier, authentication information is solicited from the caller. Authentication information is received from the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP/oracle

20110033036 - Real-time agent assistance: Some general aspects of the invention relate to systems and methods for improving contact center agent performance, for instance, by integrating real-time call monitoring with speech analytics to present agents with information useful to the handling of the current calls. In some implementations, phonetically based speech analysis techniques are applied... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20110033037 - Adaptive filtering with flexible selection of algorithm complexity and performance: An adaptive filter configured to use multiple algorithm species that differ in the quality of echo suppression and respective burdens imposed on the computational resources of the host communication device. Depending on the available computational budget, the adaptive filter selects an algorithm species that, while supporting a relatively high quality... Agent: Mendelsohn, Drucker, & Associates, P.C.

20110033038 - Method and apparatus for battery switching during ringing: A method for providing a ringing signal includes providing a plurality of batteries coupled to a subscriber line interface circuit operable to generate the ringing signal during a ringing cycle and switching selected batteries during the ringing cycle based on values of the ringing signal during the ringing cycle. A... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20110033039 - Method and apparatus for controlling ringing voltage: A method for controlling power dissipated in a subscriber line interface circuit includes measuring a power parameter of the subscriber line interface circuit during a ringing cycle, comparing the measured power parameter to a target power parameter and adjusting at least one ringing parameter of a ringing signal generated by... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20110026686 - Use of unique references to facilitate correlation of data retention or lawful interception records: The invention relates to a method of providing call- or service-related information to a Lawful Interception (LI) system or to a Data Retention (DR) system in a telecommunications network. In the method, a node is provided, which is in communication with an interception requesting element of the LI/DR system. At... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20110026687 - Emergency 911 services with just-in-time provisioning for voip customers: A method enables VOIP customers to obtain emergency E911 services from a Public Switched Access Point (PSAP) via a service provider. The customer registers a calling device and at least one device location with the service provider for services. An E911 call to the service provider is initiated by the... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20110026688 - Automated passcode recovery in an interactive voice response system: The preferred embodiments of the present invention include providing automated passcode recovery in an interactive voice response system by providing to a caller an automated passcode recovery question and processing a caller answer to the automated passcode recovery question to authenticate the caller.... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Mb Attn: Patent Docketing

20110026689 - Telephone call inbox: A system and method for extracting and presenting useful data from calls received by a client is disclosed. The resulting “telephone call inbox” is a way for a client view pay per call advertising as a stream of consumers with information available to understand the call activity of the consumers... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler PC

20110026690 - Method of informing a person of an event and method of receiving information about an event, a related computing: The invention refers to a Method of informing a person of an event comprising carrying out in a computing system the steps of: receiving (10) information of an event (1); determining (11) a specific person which is to be notified of the event (1); performing (12) an information action with... Agent: Brian R. Galvin

20110026691 - State-based management of messaging system jitter buffers: Buffering is made more efficient by resizing a jitter buffer based, for example, on a user's location within a TUI. To illustrate how this might be implemented in a TUI-based system, assume that two jitter buffer sizes are available: a larger one for voice and a smaller one for DTMF.... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20110026692 - Messaging features for phonecasting systems: A disclosed phonecasting system and method involves receiving a telephone call from a caller via a telephone number, and providing an audio signal in response. An audio file including audio content corresponding to the telephone number is played, thereby producing the audio signal. A message is selectively sent to the... Agent: James G. Stewart PC

20110026693 - Apparatus and method to bridge telephone and data networks: In one embodiment, an adaptor includes a first interface configured to connect to a telephone handset and configured to receive signals from, and transmit signals to, the telephone handset. The adaptor includes a second interface configured to connect to a telephone base and configured to receive signals from, and transmit... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20110026694 - Method and apparatus for integrating phone and pda user interfaces on a single processor: Separate processors, a PDA processor, and a baseband processor are maintained in a PDA having an integrated telephone device. The PDA processor runs PDA related programs and a user interface for the telephone device. A link between the PDA processor and baseband processor transfers data and commands from the user... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20110026695 - Communication device and communication system: A communication system includes a data processing device that communicates with a communication device via a first transmission link. The communication device includes a first communication controller that controls communication with the data processing device via the first transmission link, and a second communication controller that controls communication via a... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20110026696 - Single telephone number access to multiple communications services: A platform provides access to multiple telecommunications services via a single telephone number. These services may include, for example, voicemail services. facsimile messaging services, paging services, and outbound calling services. A guest caller may call the single phone number to speak to a subscriber, leave a voicemail message for a... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20110026697 - Method and system for determining gender and targeting advertising in a telephone system: A method of operating a telephony system includes connecting a call from a caller to a call processing entity and receiving voice information from the caller during a time period associated with the call. The voice information is processed to provide one or more elements of waveform characteristics associated with... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20110026698 - Rich caller id with communication history: In an example embodiment, there is described a unified communication system that automatically presents a number of communication attempts from a caller since last contact with a caller, along with the caller identification information. Optionally, links may be provided to access detailed information about the past communication attempts.... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20110026699 - Method and system for authenticating telephone callers and avoiding unwanted calls: A service that handles incoming telephone calls without bothering the telephone subscriber is disclosed. The service permits a call to go through to a subscriber if the service determines that the call is not unwanted and the caller has been unauthenticated. The authentication is based on challenging the caller to... Agent: Ibm - Arc (shimokaji & Associates, P.C.)

20110026700 - Method, system and apparatus for providing calling name identification: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method, system and apparatus for providing customized calling identification. A method for providing customized calling identification comprises receiving a request for initiating an out-going call from a communication client, the communication client being registered in association with a network address and... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20110026701 - Methods and apparatus for providing expanded telecommunications service: The present invention provides flexible call processing. For example, a call processor system can receive an inbound call intended for a called party and place an outbound call to the called party. The call processing system can provide the called party with a call transfer option.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20110026702 - Managing communications: A method of handling a request to set up a call between a calling party and a called party in a communication network. A switching node that serves the called party receives a request to set up a call from the calling party, and the request includes information identifying the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20110026703 - Universal addressing of a communication partner by means of transparent static provision of a call number: The invention relates to a method for establishing a communication connection between a calling user A and a user B to be called in a communication system, in particular a telecommunication fixed network and/or a mobile radio network and/or a computer network or a combination of said networks, wherein a... Agent: Kf Ross PC

20110026704 - Identity management and service access for local user group based on network-resident user profiles: A profile-based system is employed to manage user identities and preferences, devices, content and/or other aspects of service delivery. The user profiles may be maintained in one or more servers or other elements located in an external network access via a customer premises equipment (CPE) gateway of a local network.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff , Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007412