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Telephonic communications January recently filed with US Patent Office 01/13

20130028392 - Data collection in an access network: A telecommunications access network includes a plurality of telecommunications lines (1), a plurality of aggregation devices (51-54), a plurality of data collector modules (71-73) and a line provisioning and de-provisioning system (90), wherein each line is connected between customer premises equipment (11-13,21-23,31-33,41-43) and a line aggregation device (51-54). The access... Agent: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company

20130028394 - Method and system for a multitenancy telephone network: A method and system for operating a multitenancy telephony system including a call queue that stores call requests received from a plurality of users; an expandable and contractible telephony resource cluster that establishes call sessions for call requests; a analysis system that calculates capacity requirements of the system; a resource... Agent: Twilio, Inc.

20130028393 - Methods and systems for maintaining diversity for telecommunications services: Diversity among telecommunications circuits is maintained by analyzing factors including whether synchronization leads are shared by diverse circuits, whether violations of diversity are brought about by new orders that have been placed, and whether improper personnel have been assigned to monitor diverse circuits. Diversity is further maintained by reporting within... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, Lp

20130028395 - Telephone switchboard and electronic device for providing power to load having different resistance values at different operation modes: A telephone switchboard provides various operating voltages to a telephone in different operation modes. The telephone switchboard includes a control unit, an output control circuit and a voltage converter. The control unit detects the operation mode of a telephone and generates control signals to the output control unit. The output... Agent: Fu Tai Hua Industry (shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

20130028397 - Call processing in a voicemail system: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a method that involves receiving an indication that communications with a subscriber have been interrupted while engaged in voicemail processing, and recording a pointer to a last state of voicemail processing. Additional embodiments are disclosed.... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20130028396 - Customer shared control in customer service scenarios: Provided herein is a system and method for sharing control of a customer service provided by a contact center. The method may include: receiving, from a customer, a customer contact to request the customer service; communicating by use of a communication channel between the customer and the contact center in... Agent: Avaya Inc.

20130028398 - Systems and methods for call replay: Call replay systems and methods are disclosed. A call replay system can record a telephonic communication and replay the recorded communication upon request. The entire communication may be recorded, or only a portion, such as the most recent few minutes. The entire recording can be transmitted to a requestor, or... Agent: At&t Mobility Ii, LLC

20130028399 - System and method for monitoring a voice in real time: The invention relates to a system and a method for real-time monitoring and analyses of a conversation of an agent by capturing and processing a plurality of features of the speech of the agent during the conversation with the caller. The system and method further provides a monitoring device for... Agent: Tata Consultancy Services Limited

20130028400 - System and method for electronic communication using a voiceover in combination with user interaction events on a selected background: A Skqueak™ is an interactively created electronic memo/message that combines a voiceover with user-interaction elements on a selected background. The background could be images, sequence of images from a video, entire video, files such as documents or pre-canned templates. The user inter-action elements are sketch animations, text animations, symbols, shapes,... Agent: Pelfunc Incorporated

20130028401 - Techniques for telephony-based voting: A telephone network voting system receives telephone ballots cast by voters by dialing a telephone number. The telephone number is dialed by voters spread over a large geographic area. The voting calls are routed to points of presence local to or otherwise identified with the caller by using the caller's... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property Ii, L.p., Via Transfer From At&t Corp.

20130028402 - System and method for broadcasting packetized voice messages: A particular method includes initiating outbound calls associated with at least two recipients that are to receive a notification message. The outbound calls include a first call to a first telephone address associated with a first recipient of the at least two recipients. The method further includes, in response to... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I. L.p.

20130028403 - Line sharing multipoint pots splitter with intelligent termination: The present invention provides for a system and method for blocking leakage signals and uncoupling connections in a communication system. A leakage signal (LS) blocking splitter employs a high-pass filter which effectively blocks the lower frequency leakage signal. A detect and terminate function detects service on the communication connection to... Agent: Brandywine Communications Technologies LLC

20130028404 - Audio conference platform with dynamic speech detection threshold: The present invention comprises a method for audio/video conferencing. In a preferred embodiment, the method comprises using a dynamic threshold value to determine whether there is speech on a line. One aspect, the method comprises determining a dynamic threshold value based on one or more characteristics of signals received on... Agent:

20130028405 - Call method, device, and communication system for private branch exchange user: A call method, a device, and a communication system for a private branch exchange (PBX) user are provided. User data of the private branch exchange user may be sent to an application server when the private branch exchange user has opened an account but not registered. The application server ma... Agent:

20130028406 - System, method and software for a speech-enabled call routing application using an action-object matrix: A system, method and software for facilitating a speech-enabled call routing application using an action-object matrix is disclosed. In operation, a natural language user utterance may be evaluated to identify an action and object available in an action-object matrix indicating transactions or operations available to a user. Depending upon the... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20130028407 - Voltage generation apparatus and voltage generation method: A voltage generation apparatus includes a booster circuit which outputs a direct-current voltage after having performed boosting processing, the voltage value of the direct-current voltage being specified on the basis of a pulse width of a series of pulse signals inputted, a direct-current to alternating-current conversion circuit which generates a... Agent: Nec Access Technica, Ltd.

20130028408 - Soft reset method for dsl apparatus: A soft reset method for a DSL apparatus. The method includes: receiving a soft reset command; controlling, according to the soft command, a service module of the DSL apparatus to perform a soft reset; and simultaneously controlling, according to a preset service module type, a non-service module of the DSL... Agent: Huawei Device Co.,ltd.

20130028409 - Apparatus and method for echo control in parameter domain: The present invention relates to call voice signal processing, and particularly, to apparatus and method for echo control in parameter domain. The apparatus includes: an echo detection module configured to extract parameter domain characteristic parameters of a far-end output signal and a near-end input signal, respectively, through parameter domain decoding,... Agent:

20130022177 - Phone test set modem: A phone test set provides modem capability in a hand held device, enabling bi-directional data communications. Demodulation is provided by sampling digitized incoming phone line signals at 4 times carrier frequency, and employing values representing 0 and 90 degree samples to extract the information signal.... Agent: Fluke Corporation

20130022178 - Detection of wiring defects: A method for detecting a defect in wiring in a DSL system. The method includes collecting data including instantaneous values, a history of values, and/or parameters relating to a central office or customer premises equipment, analyzing a line for a wiring defect based on the collected data, and reporting whether... Agent:

20130022179 - Method for assembling a business process and for orchestrating the process based on process beneficiary information: A system for assembling a business process or a portion thereof includes a rules base containing executable rules and defined business process elements, a workflow orchestration engine, and at least one interface available to a process beneficiary. Information known about and or provided by a process beneficiary interacting with the... Agent:

20130022180 - Voice phone-based method and system to authenticate users: Provided is a method and a telephone-based system with voice-verification capabilities that enable a user to safely and securely conduct transactions with his or her online financial transaction program account over the phone in a convenient and user-friendly fashion, without having to depend on an internet connection.... Agent: Ebay Inc.

20130022181 - Systems and methods for visual presentation and selection of ivr menu: Embodiments of the invention provide a system for generating an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) database, the system comprising a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory comprising a list of telephone numbers associated with one or more destinations implementing IVR menus, wherein the one or more destinations... Agent:

20130022182 - Integrated, interactive telephone and computer network communications system: A method comprising the steps of: receiving via internet a time, a date and a telephone number for a reminder telephone call (such as a wakeup call); storing in a database the time, date and telephone number of the reminder telephone call; and delivering to the subscriber via telephone the... Agent: Net2phone, Inc.

20130022183 - Systems and methods for visual presentation and selection of ivr menu: Embodiments of the invention provide a system for generating an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) database, the system comprising a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory comprising a list of telephone numbers associated with one or more destinations implementing IVR menus, wherein the one or more destinations... Agent:

20130022184 - Methods and telecommunications system for transmitting a facsimile message: A method and system for transmitting a facsimile message uses a public-switched telecommunications network, the public-switched telecommunication network having a messaging platform capable of storing a plurality of facsimile messages. The initiation of a telephone call to a destination is detected, the content of the call including the facsimile message.... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20130022185 - Audio visual player apparatus and system and method of content distribution using the same: A system is presented providing content to a plurality of handheld devices (including musical selections). The devices can access a server over the Internet via a WIFI or other similar wireless interconnection and can download songs requested by a user from the server or from other users using, e,g,, a... Agent: Music Gremlin, Inc.

20130022186 - Telecommunications least cost routing system: Methods, systems and apparatus for populating a least cost routing database. In one aspect, a method includes receiving from a carrier a bid for routing a telephone call to a destination; automatically loading the received bid into a least cost routing database to generate an updated least cost routing database;... Agent:

20130022187 - Method and system for blocking communication sessions: An approach is provided for blocking communication sessions. Attribute information of a user is acquired. A unique identifier is generated based on the acquired attribute information. The unique identifier is associated with a plurality of communication identifiers that are used to activate, respectively, a plurality of communication services, wherein the... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20130022188 - Directory assistance service based on context identifier: Methods and systems are disclosed for providing context information pertaining to a request of a directory assistance operator service based on a context identifier. The context identifier permits the directory assistance operator service to obtain context information including a location of the user and a location relevant to a directory... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20130022190 - Systems and methods for facilitating conference calls using security keys: Systems and methods are described that facilitate a conference call between a plurality of communication devices. The method can comprise: providing a first control link between a first primary communication device and a conference call controller; providing a second control link between a second primary communication device and the conference... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130022189 - Systems and methods for receiving and processing audio signals captured using multiple devices: Systems, methods, and apparatus for using different interfaces to receive from different devices representations of at least one audio signal. In some embodiments, each representation may be generated using at least one microphone of the respective device during a meeting attended by a plurality of participants. In some further embodiments,... Agent: Nuance Communications, Inc.

20130022191 - Systems and methods for visual presentation and selection of ivr menu: Embodiments of the invention provide a system for generating an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) database, the system comprising a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory comprising a list of telephone numbers associated with one or more destinations implementing IVR menus, wherein the one or more destinations... Agent:

20130022192 - Efficient and cost-effective distributed call admission control: A distributed call control system is provided that can allot bandwidth amongst several call controllers. The distributed call control system includes one or more access elements that interface with a cloud that execute two or more instances of call processing servers that administer call control. The cloud members negotiate and... Agent: Avaya Inc.

20130022193 - Mobile-to-mobile call determination: Methods and systems for determining call types are described herein. An intelligent node is configured to determine whether a call is a mobile-to-mobile call between subscribers of a telecommunication service provider based on a response to a request from the intelligent node. The intelligent node may further be configured to... Agent: T-mobile Usa, Inc.

20130022194 - Agent skill promotion and demotion based on contact center state: A contact center is described along with various methods and mechanisms for administering the same. The contact center proposed herein provides the ability to, among other things, selectively promote and demote agent skills to respond to various changes in contact center conditions. This enables the contact center to respond to... Agent: Avaya Inc.

20130022195 - Determining expected wait time: Embodiments for managing customer wait time at a call center are provided. In one embodiment, a system includes a switch having a software engine that determines the customer wait time, a computing device executing a work force optimization (WFO) software module, such that the software engine transmits a query to... Agent: Avaya Inc.

20130016816 - Computer-implemented system and method for matching agents with callers in an automated call center environment based on user traits: A computer-implemented system and method for matching agents with callers within a call center environment is provided. A database of traits for agents within a call center is maintained. A call is received into the call center and a voice recording is obtained from a caller during the call. The... Agent:

20130016815 - Computer-implemented system and method for providing recommendations regarding hiring agents in an automated call center environment based on user traits: A computer-implemented system and method for providing recommendations for hiring agents within a call center environment is provided. A list of candidates for hire as agents within a call center is maintained. A voice recording from each of the candidates is analyzed by measuring voice characteristics within the voice recording... Agent:

20130016817 - Voice response apparatus and method of providing automated voice responses with silent prompting: A voice response unit (VRU) includes a silent prompt feature in the form of an intentional delay inserted after a message is given to a caller, during which delay the caller may invoke alternative processing or interrupt current processing. If appropriate alternative or interrupt commands are not received during the... Agent: Google Inc.

20130016818 - Terminal and method for offering termination-side services: A terminal and a method are described herein for offering termination-side services to a user. In one embodiment, the terminal (e.g., cellular terminal, enterprise or residential wireline device, mobile device) is configured to provide one or more termination-side services (e.g., color ring back tone, voice mail, call diversion, hold before... Agent:

20130016819 - Method and structure for controlling incoming communication notification: A method and structure for avoiding undesirable interruptions by incoming calls during face-to-face conversations or oral presentations. A speaker recognition circuit is trained to recognize the user's voice, even in the presence of other voices and ambient noise. A number of speaker recognition algorithms may be employed within the scope... Agent:

20130016820 - Echo cancellation apparatus, conferencing system using the same, and echo cancellation method: An echo cancellation apparatus is connectable to a speaker configured to output speaker signals and a microphone configured to receive a sound from the speaker and including a plurality of microphone elements. The echo cancellation apparatus includes: a generating unit configured to generate a plurality of sensitivity signals having different... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130016821 - Mobile video dating service: A method includes sending media clips provided by date candidates to a device of a seeker for viewing by the seeker, receiving a selection of a candidate from the seeker device, sending a media clip provided by the seeker to a device of the selected candidate for playing and facilitating... Agent: Vringo Inc.

20130016822 - Inbound call identification and management: Examples of inbound call identification and management are described including a call management system that includes one or more repositories that can include data representing call action policies and data representing attributes associated with the caller devices and the callee devices. Further, the call management system can include one or... Agent: Ringcentral, Inc.

20130016823 - Computer-implemented system and method for providing coaching to agents in an automated call center environment based on user traits: A computer-implemented system and method for providing coaching to agents in a call center during a call is provided. A voice recording is obtained from a call between a caller and an agent of a call center. The voice recording of the caller is analyzed by measuring voice characteristics of... Agent:

20130016824 - Method and system for controlling establishment of communication channels in a contact center: A method for controlling establishment of a communication channel between a service provider terminal of a contact center and a service request terminal. Receipt of a request to establish the communication channel is responded to by determining whether a license for a media type associated with the communication channel is... Agent: Rockstar Bidco L.p.

20130010931 - Estimating pair symmetry status for a communication line: An apparatus for estimating pair symmetry status for a communication line (Ci). The apparatus is configured to: obtain a value set indicative of a signal to noise ratio for the communication line (Ci) and at a receive band frequency (f); determine a crosstalk coupling length (Li) for the communication line... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20130010932 - Method and apparatus for processing of a toll free call service alarm: A method and apparatus for automatic processing of toll free call service alarms are disclosed. For example, the method receives a trouble ticket by a service provider for a toll free call service alarm, and retrieves a calling to number and a calling from number from the trouble ticket. The... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20130010933 - Software program and method for offering promotions on a phone: The present invention includes a method and software application for providing a promotion to a user on a phone. The software application resides on a user's phone and “listens” for phone numbers dialed by a user. In response to the user dialing a phone number, the software determines whether a... Agent: Nuance Communications, Inc.

20130010935 - Apparatus and method for ensuring a real-time connection between users and selected service provider using voice mail: A method and apparatus are described for ensuring a real-time connection between users and selected service providers using voice mail. The system enables seekers of a wide array of services to select, contact, converse, and pay for a service provider using a communications device such as the telephone. A seeker... Agent:

20130010936 - Call screening reduction system: A system and a method for conducting a telephone survey, which reduce the number of calls that are not answered by survey participants, are provided. The system comprises means of making outbound telephone calls with a selected call display number, storing a call record for each outbound call, and routing... Agent: Advanis Inc.

20130010934 - Methods and apparatus to facilitate voicemail interaction: Example methods and apparatus to facilitate voicemail interaction are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves, during a call session with a voicemail system, receiving an audio segment from the voicemail system. The example method also involves performing feature recognition on the audio segment and outputting a display element to a... Agent:

20130010937 - Updating voicemail with selective establishment of pdp contexts and data sessions: A method for updating voicemail data at least partially stored at a device can include obtaining a command to update the voicemail data at a device. The device can activate a data session through which voicemail data can be downloaded to the device. In some embodiments, the device can automatically... Agent: At&t Mobility Ii LLC

20130010938 - System and method for providing telephone assignment information to telephone service technicians: A system and method for telephone service technicians to retrieve telephone line assignment information, including receiving a telephone call from a telephone service technician. A telephone number assigned to a customer of a communications carrier may be received, where the telephone number is associated with a telephone operating on a... Agent: Centurylink Intellectual Property LLC

20130010939 - Integration of voice chat services: A communication system provides a user with the ability to redirect telephone calls to a voice chat account and vice versa. In one example, a voice chat gateway may receive communication requests and determine whether communications directed to a first party is to be redirected. If so, the voice chat... Agent: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC

20130010940 - Method and system for providing communication control functionality at a remotely located site using a distributed feature architecture: A method for providing communication control functionality at a remotely located site using a distributed feature architecture which provides communication features and data records to an Enhanced Network User (ENU). The ENU connects to a Distributed Feature Network (DFN) in order to gain access to communications features contained in the... Agent: At&t Corp.

20130010941 - Systems and methods for personal identification number distribution and delivery: Systems and methods for obtaining a personal identification number (PIN) from a client terminal are disclosed. A method includes storing, at the client terminal, PINs for plural prepaid services. The method also includes receiving, at the client terminal, a request for a PIN associated with a desired prepaid service corresponding... Agent: Ewi Holdings, Inc.

20130010942 - System and method for remote home monitoring and intercom communication: A system and method for remote home monitoring and intercom communication. An indicator is received for activating an interactive feature of a telephone. A determination is made whether the indicator authorizes the interactive feature. The audio interface of the telephone is activated.... Agent: Centurylink Intellectual Property LLC

20130010943 - System and method for controlling free phone calls through an institutional phone system: A method of controlling free phone calls places from within a secured premises through an institutional phone system generally includes assigning a unique access identifier to an individual caller upon entry into the secured premises; receiving a destination number from the individual caller within the secured premises, the destination number... Agent:

20130010944 - Incoming and outgoing call control customization: Customer communications can be controlled in accordance with customized rules. An entry menu includes options to modify an existing rule or create a new rule for controlling customer communications. An initial selection criteria menu includes options to indicate whether the new customized rule will be built using a preexisting template... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p. (formerly Sbc Knowledge Ventures, L.p.)

20130010945 - Systems and methods for facilitating transferring of conference calls using mobile communication devices: Systems and methods for facilitating transferring of a conference call. In some embodiments, users of a secure mobile device may be provided with the ability to transfer a media session for use in a conference call to a non-secure communication device. The method may include displaying a user interface on... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130010946 - Method and apparatus for self-learning of call routing information: The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for learning call routing information in a communication system. A switching architecture is presented. The switch may be implemented in a centralized architecture or a distributed architecture. In addition, the switch may be implemented in a variety of networks such... Agent: At&t Corp.

20130010947 - System and method of determining call treatment of repeat calls: A method is disclosed that includes retrieving first data associated with a call from an action-object table. The method further includes retrieving second data from a resolution table based on the first data. The second data indicates a treatment type to be provided to the call. The method further includes,... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20130010948 - Telecommunications module with disconnection feature: A telecommunications module (1) comprises at least one pair of contact elements (13, 15) each extending between opposed sides (7, 8) of the module and having contacts (9, 10) at each end to which connections can be made. Each contact element comprises first and second parts (17, 19), the first... Agent:

20130003940 - Xdsl multistandard driver circuit: An electric circuit for amplifying an xDSL signal comprises an operational amplifier and a signal monitoring circuit. The operational amplifier is configured to amplify the xDSL signal, is powered by a variable voltage supply and has a gain which is adjustable by an operating mode control signal. The signal monitoring... Agent:

20130003941 - Technique for effectively collecting and analyzing data in providing information assistance services: A system for evaluating performance of an information assistance service includes a mechanism for processing communication calls which involve a call activity; one or more devices for generating data in processing the communication calls, and a processor for deriving information from the data, the information being used to evaluate a... Agent:

20130003942 - Attaching multiple phone lines to a single mobile or landline phone: Agencies issue multiple devices to personnel for maintaining distinct identities over the course of assigned investigations. To provide flexible capabilities to agencies, a phone is converted for use with multiple attached telephone numbers. Accordingly, a single phone may be used to manage multiple identities over the course of one or... Agent: Callyo 2009 Corp.

20130003944 - Computer-implemented system and method for processing audio in a voice response environment: A computer-implemented system and method for processing audio in a voice response environment is provided. A database of host scripts each comprising signature files of audio phrases and actions to take when one of the audio phrases is recognized is maintained. The host scripts are loaded and a call to... Agent:

20130003947 - Customized caller id based upon called party number: A “customized” caller ID service platform is utilized within a telecommunications network (which may be the PSTN, an IP network, or any other network for supporting voice communication) to allow for the caller ID information transmitted to a called party to be tailored to the specific called party. A database... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property Ii, Lp Via Transfer From At&t Corp.

20130003945 - Method and device for providing speech-to-text encoding and telephony service: A machine-readable medium and a network device are provided for speech-to-text translation. Speech packets are received at a broadband telephony interface and stored in a buffer. The speech packets are processed and textual representations thereof are displayed as words on a display device. Speech processing is activated and deactivated in... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property Ii, L.p.

20130003943 - Method and system for simultaneously managing a plurality of simulated real-time conversations: A method and system is disclosed for managing a plurality of simulated real-time conversations simultaneously with a plurality of callers. The disclosure includes personalizing a number of selectable audio responses associated with a call script in an agent-operator's own unique voice, interacting with a caller, and selecting an audio response... Agent:

20130003946 - System and method for a visual voicemail interface: A system and method for receiving information for voicemail. A call is received from a caller. A voicemail message from the caller is recorded. A caller identifier is received from the caller in response to recording the voicemail message. The caller identifier is associated with one or more profiles. The... Agent: Centurylink Intellectual Property LLC

20130003948 - Providing contextual information with a voicemail message: Aspects of the present invention are directed at obtaining contextual information with a voicemail message. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided that obtains additional contextual information that is not obtained automatically when a voicemail message is received. More specifically, the method includes automatically obtaining a first set... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130003949 - Method and system for providing enhanced caller identification information including screening invalid calling party numbers: A system and method deliver audible caller identification information when standard Caller ID information is invalid or cannot be provided. In one disclosed embodiment, the Caller ID information must include a valid number of digits and a valid area code. If the Caller ID information is not valid, a calling... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p. Via Transfer From Ameritech Corporation

20130003950 - Security key creation: A device may obtain calling security parameters, may communicate the calling security parameters to a network device, and may receive, from the network device, a calling parameters identifier associated with the calling security parameters. The device may communicate the calling parameters identifier to a called device, may receive a called... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20130003951 - On-hold visual menu from a user's communications device: A user equipment communications device is configured to provide personal content to a party to a call with a user of the device, when the user places the party on hold. The device determines that the party has been placed on hold and that the user has enabled sharing of... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130003953 - Communication system, communication apparatus, communication control method, and communication program: A calling side communication apparatus includes a communication function executing means 11, a non-real time call sending means 12 for sending, in accordance with user operation, a non-real time call which is a request of telephone call which continues until a user at the other side responds or until a... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130003952 - Systems and methods of third party call control and content insertion: Systems and methods for providing third party call services with the delivery of content to a calling party communication device are described herein. The systems may comprise a website server and telco gateway configured to enable a calling party to initiate a communication session between a calling party communication device... Agent: Cox Communications, Inc.

20130003955 - Delivering specialized services to users of phones: An aspect of the present invention enables users to avail specialized services using missed calls. In one embodiment, a missed call server on receiving an indication that a missed call has been placed by a user to a phone number, determines the specialized service corresponding to the phone number, and... Agent: Zipdial Mobile Solutions Pvt. Ltd

20130003954 - Techniques for bypassing call screening in a call messaging system: A system, method, and computer-readable media for bypassing call screening in a call messaging system includes storing a call screening rule for a callee specifying one or more conditions under which the call screening rule applies to an incoming call to the callee and specifying one or more call screening... Agent:

20130003956 - Sip refer extensions: A system may include a call controller configured to receive a refer message configured to transfer a first endpoint of a call session, the call session being between at least the first endpoint at a first communications device and a second endpoint at a second communications device, the refer message... Agent:

20130003957 - Guiding calls via graphical user interface: A user device may display, via a graphical user interface, questions associated with a voice menu that is used by an interactive voice response (IVR) system to forward calls. The user device may obtain, via the graphical user interface, user responses to the questions. In addition, the user device may... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20130003958 - Functionalities for local number portability in a telecommunications network: According to various embodiments of the present invention, systems and methods for local number portability in a telecommunication network are disclosed. An embodiment of a method includes submitting a local number portability (LNP) order for the TN directly to a first telecommunications carrier that the TN is to be transferred... Agent: Level 3 Communications, LLC

20130003959 - Reception management system and method of handling transactions: A reception management system for handling transactions includes a plurality of ACMs (Automated Contract/Consulting Terminals) for receiving procedure requests for predetermined transactions from customers, a plurality of ROTs (Remote Operation Terminals) to be employed by an operator for handling the procedure requests, a server for storing information for managing the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130003961 - Far-end crosstalk canceling method and device: A method for remote crosstalk cancellation, includes: the combination transmitting signal is performed a pre-coding of crosstalk cancellation in the manner of self-adapting filtering, the self-adapting changes of the values of filtering parameters are guided correctly with the influence of the crosstalk component in the received signals which is reflected... Agent:

20130003960 - Full duplex speakerphone design using acoustically compensated speaker distortion: A telecommunication system including a fall duplex speakerphone, comprising a first microphone to generate a coupled signal including uplink information and non-linear distortion sensed by the first microphone in a speaker phone mode, a second microphone to generate a reference signal including downlink information and the non-linear distortion sensed by... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130003962 - Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for providing active echo-cancellation for systems combining voice communication and synchronous audio content: An apparatus for removing an echo(es) from audio content may include a processor and memory storing executable computer code causing the apparatus to at least perform operations including receiving combined audio content including voice data associated with speech of users in a call and information including audio data provided to... Agent: Nokia Corporation