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Telephonic communications September class, title,number 09/12

20120243668 - System and method for evaluating and troubleshooting a digital subscriber line system: Disclosed is a method and system for evaluating and troubleshooting a DSL system in a plurality of DSL systems having a common static characteristic. The plurality of DSL systems are ranked based on a ranking characteristic different than the common static characteristic.... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20120243669 - System and method for automatically transcribing voicemail: Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable media for automatically transcribing voicemail. The method includes receiving a plurality of voicemail messages from callers, identifying for each voicemail message in the plurality of voicemail messages a first frequency with which the respective caller leaves voicemails, identifying for each voicemail... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20120243670 - Automatically updating meeting information: Techniques for automatically providing updated meeting information are provided. The techniques include facilitating receipt of a message pertaining to a meeting, automatically interpreting the message to determine if the message requires that meeting information be changed, automatically updating the meeting information if a change is required from the message, and... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120243671 - Enhanced directory assistance system with voice over ip call handling: A method for operating a directory assistance system responsive to Voice over IP device requests including receiving a first directory assistance request from at least one Voice over IP device and identifying the requested information on a database. The requested information is formatted in the database in accordance with a... Agent:

20120243672 - System and method for delivering advertising to packet-based telephones: A system and method of delivering targeted advertising to packet-based network telecommunications devices may include accessing a database configured to store telephone services information of telecommunications devices. The telecommunications services information may indicate whether a telecommunications device has packet-based network access. Telecommunications devices that have telephone number information including NPA-NXX... Agent: Centurylink Intellectual Property LLC

20120243673 - Automatic rejoining of conferences: Users are enabled to re-join a conference after an intentional or unintentional disconnect based on detecting the user's identifier. An identifier associated with a user such as a caller id number is determined or a cookie installed in the user's computing device facilitating communications when the user first joins a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120243674 - Location system and method for assisting emergency services in identifying the physical location of an ip telephony user: A location device for associating a physical location with a communications device. The communications device has assigned device identification and uses an assigned network address for use in routing call data over a communications network. The location device comprises a memory for storing location information related to the physical location... Agent:

20120243675 - Method for announcing a calling party from a communication device: A system and method are disclosed for announcing a calling party from a communication device. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a call processing system can have a controller for processing calls in a communication system. The controller can be programmed to detect... Agent:

20120243676 - Method and system for echo cancellation in presence of streamed audio: During playing of a streamed audio while engaging in a voice communication session, a communication device may be operable to generate a background audio during an echo cancellation operation for the voice communication session, using known information associated with the streamed audio. The streamed audio may comprise audio content that... Agent:

20120243677 - Handset unit and telephone device: A telephone device having barcode scanning capability includes: a control module, a display unit, and a handset. The control module has a database and a processor electrically connected to the database. The display unit is electrically connected to the processor of the control module. The handset unit has a housing,... Agent: Flytech Technology Co., Ltd.

20120237001 - Phone test set tdr: A phone test set provides TDR capability in a hand held device, enabling measurements on phone lines including, distance to opens, distance to shorts, and distance to bridge taps.... Agent: Fluke Corporation

20120237003 - Emergency number integrated information assimilation device: An information transponding device in communication with an emergency number answering point, an ALI database and a remote storage device. The information transponding device receives ANI information from the emergency number answering point and accesses corresponding information in the ALI database and the remote storage device and assimilates the information... Agent:

20120237002 - Triggering a 911 voice call from a non-voice message: A voice based emergency call, such as a call to 911, is provided to a public safety answering point (PSAP) triggered from a non-voice based emergency call. When a non-voice based call is sent to a PSAP that does not accept non-voice based calls, upon determining that the PSAP can... Agent: At&t Mobility Ii LLC

20120237004 - Wireless communications interface: A wireless communications interface couples wireless service to conventional wireline phone appliances. In one embodiment, the wireless communications interface is connected to the phone appliances through existing phone jacks. This allows a user to place and receive calls over a wireless network using the existing wireline infrastructure in a building.... Agent: Parkervision, Inc.

20120237005 - System and method of adjusting the sound of multiple audio objects directed toward an audio output device: Embodiments of the present invention include methods and apparatuses for adjusting audio content when more multiple audio objects are directed toward a single audio output device. The amplitude, white noise content, and frequencies can be adjusted to enhance overall sound quality or make content of certain audio objects more intelligible.... Agent: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation

20120237006 - Apparatus and method for providing caller information: Provided are an apparatus and method for providing caller information, capable of automatically collecting identification information of a caller during a call with a caller not stored in an address book, and providing the identification information of the caller that is collected during the call to a user if the... Agent: Pantech Co., Ltd.

20120237007 - Method for setting voice tag: A method for setting a voice tag is provided, which comprises the following steps. First, counting a number of phone calls performed between a user and a contact person. If the number of phone calls exceeds a predetermined times or a voice dialing performed by the user is failed before... Agent: Htc Corporation

20120237008 - Message routing and determining a message recipient in a unified messaging system: A sender is identified based at least in part on originator identification information associated with an incoming communication. A message recipient is then determined based at least in part on the identified sender and one or more databases associated with message recipients by comparing the originator identification information to one... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20120237009 - Systems and methods for multimodal communication: Described are a system and method of presenting electronic information from an interactive response system to a user communications device. The interactive response system determines a trusted communication service for exchanging the electronic information with the user communications device. First electronic information is presented in a first communication mode from... Agent: Mitel Networks Corporation

20120237010 - Coupling signal processing circuitry with a wireline communications medium: A system and method for processing a communication signal from a wireline is provided. The system comprises a coupling unit and signal processing circuitry. The coupling unit comprises a transformer and is configured to receive the communication signal from the wireline. The coupling unit is also configured to generate a... Agent: Broadcom Europe Limited

20120237011 - Apparatus and methods for notification of a party in a telephone conference: Systems, methods, and machine-readable articles of manufacture enable private notification of a participant in a telephone conference. In representative embodiments, a system receives a telephone call intended for a first conference participant, generates an informative announcement containing information regarding the call, mixes the informative announcement with the conference audio, and... Agent:

20120237012 - Xdsl system and signal transmission method, sending device, and receiving device of xdsl system: An xDSL signal transmission method includes: receiving 2N−1 signals from 2N−1 signal input ends, where each signal in the 2N−1 signals is a signal transmitted by an independent channel in the xDSL system; pre-multiplying a (2N−1)×1 matrix formed by the 2N−1 signals by a first conversion matrix to obtain a... Agent:

20120237013 - Method and a system for transferring data related to a calling card function in a telecommunications network, as well as a server, a computer program and a computer program product: The invention concerns a system for transferring data related to a calling card function between a server (1001) and a network device (1002, 1003, 1004, 1200, 1201) in a telecommunications network (1000), wherein said server (1001) is adapted to provide said calling card function, and in that said server (1001)... Agent: Alcatel Lucent

20120237014 - Routing calls in a network: A method includes receiving a telephone number mapping query associated with a call. The method may also include generating routing information based on the query and forwarding the routing information to a control device. The routing information may indicate that processing associated with routing the call is to bypass a... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20120237015 - Telephone system: A telephone system comprising switching circuitry configured for coupling a call to a telephone extension coupled to the system, voice processing circuitry configured for automatically interacting with the call, a microprocessor, a first data bus connected between the microprocessor and the switching circuitry, and a second data bus connected between... Agent: Estech Systems, Inc

20120237016 - System and method for observing a communication session: An approach is provided for initiating a service observing session by tracking a number of concurrent service observing sessions to an automatic call distributor, and selectively restricting the number of concurrent sessions based on a predetermined restriction criterion. Each of the service observing sessions is established for a user to... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20120237017 - Method, device and system for extending channels: The present invention provides a method, a device and a system for extending channels, and belongs to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: generating a non-cascade extended channel by using a first channel and a second channel; and generating a first-level cascade extended channel by using the non-cascade... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20120237018 - Apparatus and method for convergence control: Regardless of the presence of echo or uplink speech, a microphone signal is received at a small filter and this small filter is functionally and/or physically separate from an adaptive echo canceller filter. The signal is applied to the small filter and an error signal is determined from the signal... Agent: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.

20120237019 - Wall mount telephone and wall mount telephone assembly: A wall mount telephone is for use with a socket panel that includes at least one socket receptacle selected from a power socket and a telephone socket. The wall mount telephone includes a base and a handset device. The base includes a mounting wall having a back side provided with... Agent: Yomore Technology Co., Ltd.

20120230474 - Performance testing of echo cancellers using a white noise test signal: Test equipment including a signal generator and a method of generating a test signal associated with an overall frequency band are disclosed. Also disclosed is a method of using the test signal to test an echo canceller. The method of generating the test signal includes generating a first time segment... Agent: At&t Corp.

20120230475 - Id-programming by selt/melt: The present invention relates to a method and a ID-programming tool (30) for assigning a unique network entity identity number to a network entity (10). The network entity (10) is adapted to perform said method. The network entity (10) comprises a number of subscriber lines (12) and the network entity... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20120230476 - Multicarrier modulation messaging for power level per subchannel information: Upon detection of a trigger, such as the exceeding of an error threshold or the direction of a user, a diagnostic link system enters a diagnostic information transmission mode. This diagnostic information transmission mode allows for two modems to exchange diagnostic and/or test information that may not otherwise be exchangeable... Agent: Aware, Inc.

20120230477 - System and method for voice activated dialing from a home phone: A system and method for remotely enabled voice activated dialing. Generation of a special dial tone indicating that a user may give the voice identifier is initiated. A voice identifier is received over a network from a wired telephone utilized by a user. Dialing information associated with the voice identifier... Agent: Centurylink Intellectual Property LLC

20120230478 - Callee centric location and presence enabled voicemail using session initiated protocol enabled signaling for ip multimedia subsystem networks: An architecture and method of voicemail based on session initiated protocol presence and location information of a callee is disclosed. A method of providing voicemail includes determining a location and a presence of a callee, and playing a customized voicemail greeting to a caller based on preferences defined by the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120230479 - Enhanced caller identification using caller readable devices: A method of providing originator information to an intended communications recipient during establishment of a communication session includes reading, at an originating communication terminal, originator information carried by a device located with the originating terminal, and including at least some of the originator information in at least one signal transmitted... Agent: Rockstar Bidco, Lp

20120230480 - Method for selection and routing of an outbound voice call to an appropriate network for completion: The disclosed embodiments include a method of initiating a call. The method includes receiving, at a network device over a first network, an identifier associated with a called party. The method determines a first security level associated with the first network and identifies a plurality of networks associated with the... Agent: Embarq Holdings Company, LLC

20120230481 - Prepaid short messaging: A prepaid messaging solution that uses open networking standards and supports pre-payment of enhanced Internet messaging services. The prepaid messaging solution accurately determines if a subscriber has sufficient account balance to deliver a complete short message, prior to message delivery. Message delivery is prevented if insufficient funds are in the... Agent:

20120230482 - Remote diagnosis of beverage preparation machines: A communication system (1) comprises: a beverage preparation machine (10) having a data-exchange communication module (11, 11′); a service unit (30) that is distant from the beverage preparation machine and that is arranged for exchanging data with the communication module of the beverage preparation machine; a transmission arrangement (15, 20,... Agent: Nestec S.a.

20120230483 - Answering machine detection: A call is placed to a communications device. A response to the call is received from a call recipient associated with the communications device. The received response is processed based on a set of parameters. Based on processing the received response, a determination is made whether the call recipient is... Agent: Angel.com

20120230484 - Audo-dial connection into conference calls with attendee status broadcast: Methods and systems for dialing into conference calls are presented. A meeting reminder is displayed and a conference call confirmation instruction, delay instruction, or cancellation instruction is received from a meeting attendee. Responsive to receiving a delay instruction, a delayed call-in time is established and a status message is sent... Agent: Plantronics, Inc.

20120230485 - Method and system for conference call scheduling via e-mail: A method and system for conference call scheduling using e-mail. The method and system can receive and parse an e-mail received from a conference moderator, containing scheduling and participant information and schedule a conference call with minimal further user intervention. In essence, the method and system can operate as a... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20120230486 - Methods and apparatus for proximity based call termination: A system and method for automatic proximity based call termination determines when a mobile telephony device enters a predetermined area. When that occurs, call termination instructions are automatically issued to re-direct incoming telephone calls directed to the mobile telephony device to an alternate telephone number. In some instances, incoming telephone... Agent:

20120230487 - Method and apparatus for progressive call forwarding: The present invention describes a method and apparatus for providing an advanced call forwarding feature for telephone service subscribers. More specifically, the present invention provides a method and apparatus to forward a phone call to multiple phone numbers in a progressive manner. With this invention, when a phone number is... Agent:

20120224674 - Systems and methods for handling crosstalk vectoring failures in multi-card vectoring groups: A communication system comprises a plurality of line cards having transceivers coupled to a plurality of subscriber lines. Each line card has at least one active transceiver within the same vectoring group, and each line card also has vector logic capable of cancelling crosstalk induced by an active transceiver that... Agent:

20120224675 - System and method for auditing route parameters in a network: A method includes collecting route parameters from a first intermediate node and a second intermediate node that can be configured to communicatively couple a source node to the destination node, determining at least a first route through the first intermediate node and a second route through the second intermediate node,... Agent: Level 3 Communications, LLC

20120224676 - Correlating calls after a referral: In one embodiment, a network device attaches a header including an identifier for an original call to an outgoing refer message and may also modify a table entry for a consultative call to include the identifier. The network device then monitors incoming invite messages for a header containing the identifier... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20120224677 - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for service data flow (sdf) based subscription profile repository (spr) selection: According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for SDF based subscription profile repository selection. The method includes receiving a first signaling message. The first signaling message includes service data flow information for identifying a service data flow. The method also includes selecting, using the service... Agent:

20120224678 - Monitoring inmate calls using silence recognition software to detect unauthorized call connecting: A system and method for managing and controlling telephone activity in a correctional facility comprises providing a first communicative connection between a caller and a recipient, delivering the conversation between the caller and the recipient over the first communicative connection and executing silence recognition software to identify a plurality of... Agent:

20120224679 - Systems and methods for scheduling of outbound agents: A system for scheduling outbound agents comprises an instruction execution system. The instruction execution system is configured to identify a workload comprising a plurality of outbound contacts. The instruction execution system is further configured to receive historical information comprising connection rates of past outgoing contact attempts. The instruction execution system... Agent:

20120224680 - Predicted call time as routing variable in a call routing center system: Systems and processes are disclosed for routing callers to agents in a contact center based on predicted call handle times. An exemplary process includes using predicted call handle time as a variable for call routing along with a performance matching and/or psychodemograhpic matching process of caller-agent pairs to maximize sales,... Agent: The Resource Group International Ltd

20120224682 - System for automatic assignment of agents in inbound and outbound campaigns: A system manages inbound and outbound transactions in a contact center that executes software, and one or more data repositories. The software provides a function designating in agent profiles stored in a data repository, individual agents or groups of agents as capable of operating in either the inbound or outbound... Agent:

20120224681 - Contact center routing: A method may include receiving a call from a caller and determining whether the caller has previously called a call center. The method may also include identifying, in response to determining that the caller has previously called the call center, an agent that handled the previous call from the caller,... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20120224683 - Systems and methods selectively excluding tones from vectoring: A discrete multi-tone (DMT) transceiver communicates tones across a subscriber line. Vectoring is employed in an effort to reduce the effects of crosstalk. However, for some tones, such as tones significantly affected by radio frequency interference (RFI) or other forms of alien noise, vectoring may actually introduce distortions such that... Agent:

20120224684 - Soft attenuation of high-power signals: In one embodiment, a high-level compensation (HLC) module receives samples of an input signal and determines whether a magnitude of each sample, represented in a linear domain, is relatively low or relatively high by comparing the magnitude to a threshold. If a sample is less than or equal to the... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20120224685 - Cross-talk coefficient updating in vector transmission: Embodiments related to far-end cross-talk coefficient updating in vector transmission systems are depicted and described herein.... Agent:

20120224686 - Stochastic vector based network echo cancellation: An apparatus generally having a first circuit and a second circuit is disclosed. The first circuit may be configured to generate a first sample by filtering an input vector based on (a) a filter vector and (b) a stochastic vector. Each of a plurality of components in the stochastic vector... Agent: