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Telephonic communications August inventions list 08/11

20110206188 - Telecommunication system for improving quality of service: Telecommunication system servicing a plurality of telecommunication interface lines that allows improving a service quality by keeping connection on these lines in the case of computer freezing and during to its restart (reboot).... Agent:

20110206189 - System for automatic tty equipment detection and for notification of the hearing impaired: The invention is directed to efficient notification of the hearing impaired during emergencies. A message initiating agency and an administrator create an outbound message for delivery and further selects a number of campaign related parameters. A telecommunications interface module is provided that is capable of detecting the presence of a... Agent: Twenty First Century Communications, Inc.

20110206190 - Method and system for routing calls based on a language preference: A method processes a call received from a caller over a communication network. The method determines a telephone number of the caller, and accesses an electronic database to determine a stored language preference of the caller, the caller's stored language preference being associated with the caller's telephone number in the... Agent: At&t Labs, Inc.

20110206191 - Method of posting a voice related message on a remotely accessible networking page: A method of posting a voice related message on a remotely accessible networking page includes receiving, at a data center, a voice connection from a communications device. An account on the remotely accessible networking page that is associated with the voice connection is identified at the data center. A voice... Agent: General Motors LLC

20110206192 - Messaging system configurator: Apparatus, methods, and machine-readable articles of manufacture facilitate configuration of a networked messaging system. In some embodiments, nodes of the system are automatically interrogated to obtain current configuration information of each of the nodes, and a configuration file with the nodes' current configuration information is generated and stored in a... Agent:

20110206193 - Intelligent electronic communications: Establishing a telephone call includes enabling display of a visual indicator of a call destination entity and detecting selection by a user of the visual indicator. The availability of the user to receive a first telephone call is determined. Voice communications between the call destination entity and the user are... Agent: Aol Inc.

20110206194 - Systems and methods for providing multiple simultaneous calls from the same prepaid account: Prepaid services include associating a plurality of users with a prepaid services account. The account is configured to track a prepaid balance associated with the account as well as to allow at least a subset of the plurality of users associated with the account to draw down the prepaid balance... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20110206195 - System and method for verifying the user's alias: The present invention provides a method and system for verifying a user alias. The method comprises: a calling terminal inserting a set alias and a calling user's own number into calling information when calling a called terminal; after the called terminal receives the calling information, when the calling terminal registers... Agent: Zte Corporation

20110206196 - Contact management and communication: A system and method for managing contact information is provided. In one implementation, for example, a method comprises accessing a contact record associated with a user of a user communication device, the contact record comprising at least one originating identifier identifying the user communication device and at least one contact... Agent: Subject Company Inc.

20110206197 - Method and system of enabling electronic communication without knowledge of receiving party's electronic contact information: By providing identification information for a second party, a first party may access address profiles to send an electronic communication to the second party without knowing the electronic contact information for the second party. The address profiles are created by collecting electronic contact information from a plurality of public and... Agent: Relay Holdings, LLC

20110206198 - Method, apparatus and system for capturing and analyzing interaction based content: An apparatus and methods for capturing and analyzing customer interactions the apparatus comprising interaction information units, interaction meta-data information units associated with each of the interaction information units, a rule based analysis engine component for receiving the interaction information, an adaptive database, an interaction capture and storage component for capturing... Agent: Nice Systems Ltd.

20110206199 - Time-based work assignments in automated contact distribution: A contact center is described and systems, methods, and devices for processing work items within the contact center are provided. An Estimated Contact Handling Time (ECHT) is computed for one or more work items in the contact center and work items are distributed within the contact center at least partially... Agent: Avaya Inc.

20110200179 - Providing of presence information to a telephony services system: In support of an interactive telephony services system, a presence gateway provides presence information regarding availability of a called party to communicate using an instant communications client.... Agent: Verizon Business Global LLC

20110200180 - Method and apparatus for providing virtual messaging: A method and apparatus of providing virtual messaging is provided. The method comprises examining status information associated with a plurality of servers for notifying call recipients of messages using at least one messaging protocol, wherein each of the plurality of servers operates independently, identifying an available server of the plurality... Agent: Ureach Technologies, Inc.

20110200181 - System and method for automatic distribution of conversation topics: A method and system for distributing to a destination a notification of a topic being discussed by two participants of a voice call. Terms are extracted from an audio stream generated during the voice call. A topic is determined based on the extracted terms. A topic notification identifying the topic... Agent: Oto Technologies, LLC

20110200182 - Call log consolidation with alternate dialing options: A system (and method) is disclosed for consolidating communication details associated with a data object in a call log. The system receives communication information corresponding to a contact record and determines whether a call log includes a previously stored data object having the communication information and associated with the contact... Agent:

20110200183 - Variable noise control threshold: An interface allows a simple control to be shared by one or more conference participants. One exemplary embodiment maps complex techniques associated with conference control into a simple control. The control may be a single slider to adjust both the amount of control and the level of aggressiveness to get... Agent: Avaya Inc.

20110200184 - Multiple protocol communications: A particular method includes receiving a dialing code from a calling device at a customer premise device coupled to the calling device. The method also includes selecting a telecommunication protocol based at least in part on a network of a receiving device. The method further includes initiating a call to... Agent:

20110194676 - Personalized alert information available by telephonic device: Techniques for notifying a customer of a financial institution about an alert message over a communication device are disclosed. Upon contacting an alert message center of the financial institution, the customer is presented with a notification of alert messages and may choose what action to take with respect to each... Agent: Bank Of America Corporation

20110194677 - Method and system for call, facsimile and electronic messaging forwarding: A method and system are provided for forwarding telephone calls, facsimile transmissions and electronic messages to a single forwarding telephone number. The telephone calls, fax transmissions and electronic messages are first forwarded to a central forwarding repository by the forwarding party where the fax transmissions, and messages are converted to... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20110194678 - System and method for handling telephone interruptions: A system and method for handling telephone call interruptions from a common telephone number or common user that provides the user with intelligent options to efficiently manage the interruption. The system is particularly efficient in handling interruptions that involve voicemail messages. The system identifies matches of outgoing calls to and... Agent: International Business Machines

20110194679 - Communication ranking and organization: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed herein for organizing communication information. Data received associated with a communication is recorded at the communication device. An identifier is associated with the communication. The identifier indicates a unique identity. A call score is calculated for the identifier at the communication device based on the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110194680 - Method to manage multiple caller identities in a telecommunication system: In a telecommunication system, providing to a recipient end point a caller identification (CID) from a calling end point, the calling end point including a default CID and at least one additional CID, the method includes receiving a call setup message from the calling end point, the call setup message... Agent: France Telecom

20110194681 - Portable continuity object: A method for providing continuity over a series of transactions is provided, comprising the steps of (a) creating a Portable Continuity Object (PCO) as a defined digital package by an instance of PCO software executing on a computerized appliance also capable of communication transaction; (b) providing identity of a person,... Agent:

20110194682 - Predictive contact information representation: A probability that one or more contacts may be selected is determined. The probability that one or more contact may be selected may be determined based on one or more information types stored in a device and which may be used by a prediction engine module to determine the probability... Agent:

20110194683 - System and method for handling a meeting request: Data processing and communications devices are configured to generate, using command signals received from at least one user input device, a signal set representing a meeting request, the meeting request signal set comprising signals representing one or more parameters for a proposed meeting and configured for causing a second data... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20110194684 - System for indicating priority levels for transaction and task engagement in a call center: A call center system has a computerized server executing software (SW) from a machine-readable medium, a data collection function of the SW enabled for collecting data regarding incoming transactions, a data processing function coupled to the data collection engine and enabled for processing the data collected against a set of... Agent:

20110194685 - Method and system for nonlinear acoustic echo cancellation in hands-free telecommunication devices: A method and system for determining and compensating for a non-linearity in a hands-free acoustic telecommunication device is disclosed. The method determines a back electromotive force signal induced in a loudspeaker from at least one of a coil voltage, a current signal and estimates of coil resistance and inductance, estimating... Agent: Nxp B.v.

20110188640 - Dsl system estimation: Estimates of a communication system configuration, such as a DSL system, are based on operational data collected from a network element management system, protocol and users. The operational data collected from the system can include performance-characterizing operational data that typically is available in the OSL system via element-management-system protocols. Generated... Agent: Adaptive Spectrum And Signal Alignment, Inc.

20110188643 - Method and apparatus for providing queue delay overload control: A method and apparatus for handling an overload condition in a communication network are disclosed. For example, the method calculates a call target rate by at least one core signaling network element for at least one edge signaling network element. The method then sends the call target rate by the... Agent:

20110188642 - Method and apparatus for providing retry-after-timer overload control: A method and apparatus for handling an overload condition in a communication network are disclosed. For example, the method calculates a retry-after-timer parameter by at least one core signaling network element for at least one edge signaling network element. The method then sends the retry-after-timer parameter by the at least... Agent:

20110188641 - Method and apparatus for removing noise signal from input signal: A method for removing a noise signal from an input signal that is received. In the method, the amount of energy of the input signal is detected, a noise signal included in the input signal is estimated, an intermediate output signal is generated by removing the estimated noise signal from... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110188644 - Method and apparatus for providing ivr system requested data: A method and electronic device for storing and transmitting response data in an interactive voice response (IVR) system session are provided. Response data, such as a credit card number, system access code or password may be stored in the device. During an IVR session, the response data may be selected,... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20110188645 - Telephone call handling system: A telephone call handling system wherein a user is provided with caller I.D. information. For responding to the information, the system affords the user a plurality of call handling options beyond the simple option of answering the call or not. The user can instruct the system to implement any one... Agent:

20110188646 - Adaptive communication device with telephonic interface capabilities: The present invention is an adaptive communication device with telephonic interface capabilities which allows the device to interface with standard telephony. The adaptive communication device is comprised of a user interface with a digitized user interface and movement transducer.... Agent:

20110188647 - Information displaying method, mobile phone, and storage device: An information displaying method, a mobile phone, and a storage device are provided. The information displaying method comprises the following steps. Whether a communication process is started is determined. If the communication process is started, then telephone number information is received. Event information is obtained according to the telephone number... Agent: Htc Corporation

20110188648 - Computer-telephony integration in a service provider environment: One embodiment of the present invention provides a method and system for handling a telephone call. The method comprises receiving an incoming call at a computer-telephony server located as service provider equipment within a telephone network, followed by setting up a call from the computer-telephony server to a customer location.... Agent: New Voice Media Limited

20110188649 - Voip dial plan analysis and improvement based on design patterns: A computer implemented method that analyzes and improves a dial plan. A dial plan design template system receives an existing dial plan. The dial plan design template system models the existing dial plan as a directed graph. The dial plan design template system analyzes the directed graph to determine compliance... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110188650 - Arrangement for network interface module: With regard to the interface module, embodiments of the interface module include a housing containing a pivotal rearward extending portion wherein a bottom of the pivotal rearward extending portion is above a bottom of an adjacent portion of the housing providing an open region below the bottom of the pivotal... Agent: Afl Telecommunications LLC