Telephonic communications inventions

20080107243 - Method and apparatus for handling emergency calls: A method and apparatus for obtaining location information for subscribers connected to an IP access network (300), in order to enable supply of such location information in connection with emergency calls directed to a multimedia service network (302). A request is received (3:1) at the multimedia service network from a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080107244 - System and method for voice message call screening: A mail delivery service that allows users of a networked call processing system to listen to messages that are being left to their mailbox in real time. Improvements applied to this invention allow full control of both the message and the call that is leaving the message to more effectively... Agent: Inter-tel, Inc.

20080107245 - On hold content selection: A message is received that a call has been made to a destination. It is determined that the destination is not available. A menu of options is provided for receiving content while the destination is not available. A selection of one of the menu options is received. Content is provided... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080107247 - Emergency recording during voip session: A method and apparatus are provided for recording a call between a client and an agent through an automatic contact distributor. The method includes the steps of the automatic contact distributor receiving a recording request from the agent, the automatic contact distributor activating a recording program, the recording program sniffing... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20080107248 - Telephonic payment processing method for online services: According to an embodiment, access to an online resource is enabled by associating a telephony number with a network resource that is made available at a network location, where network resource is protected so as to be inaccessible without access being provided for users individually. A particular user may be... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080107249 - Apparatus and method of controlling t-communication convergence service in wired-wireless convergence network: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for controlling a T-communication convergence service in a wired-wireless convergence network, and more particularly, a method and apparatus for providing a function of controlling the T-communication convergence service, in which a communication service and a broadcasting service are converged, without depending on... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080107242 - Line status detection apparatus, communication apparatus, and line status detection method: A first communication apparatus 100 transmits a pilot signal which was generated by a pilot signal generation section 14, at predetermined timing, and detects an unbalance component of a transmission line 300 at the time of pilot signal transmission in an unbalance component detection section 13, and controls a transmission... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080107246 - System and method for providing user input information to multiple independent concurrent applications: In a system for providing user input information to multiple independent, concurrent applications, the applications send subscription messages to a device receiving user input such as a telephone receiving key presses from a keypad. Each subscription message identifies a pattern of user input that the application is to be notified... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080107250 - Telephone communications: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method, in a telecommunication system, of establishing a connection between a calling terminal and a called terminal, the called terminal having an associated presence status, the connection establishment being initiated by a connection establishment request sent by the... Agent: Intellectual Property Administration

20080107251 - Method for using ain to deliver caller id to text/alpha-numeric pagers as well as other wireless devices, for calls delivered to landline networks: A remote call notification system for incoming calls to a wireline telecommunications device. The system includes a switch, a service control point, an intelligent server, and a monitoring module all in communication with each other. The remote call notification is transmitted to a remote communication device such as a PC,... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080107252 - Method and apparatus for communicating with one of plural devices associated with a single telephone number: A system for (and a method of) selectively establishing communication with one of plural devices associated with a single telephone number is provided. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes a wireless connect unit connected between an enterprise private branch exchange (PBX) network and a public switched telephone network. The... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080107253 - Methods and systems for speed dial: An embodiment of a method of speed dial performed in an electronic apparatus comprising a keypad comprising multiple buttons and a display unit is provided. The method comprises the following steps. A numeric sequence is displayed on the display unit for further edit when detecting that a button on the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080107254 - Telephone number area code processor: This invention provides an apparatus and method for processing telephone numbers that assists telephone subscribers in reaching the desired destination when the area code is unknown or has changed. The invention can be integrated into a telephone unit, implemented as a stand-alone device connected to the subscriber's telephone line (including... Agent: Covington & Burling, LLP Attn: Patent Docketing

20080107255 - Proactive system and method for monitoring and guidance of call center agent: System for enhancing existing quality monitoring tools for monitoring and guiding agent performance within call centers, each of which provided with a plurality of agent terminals, a plurality of agent audio interfaces, and a plurality of software applications. The proposed system comprises a module for quality evaluation of agents skills... Agent: Kevin D. Mccarthy Roach Brown Mccarthy & Gruber, P.c.

20080107256 - Virtual contact center: A method, system and computer-readable medium for providing a Virtual Contact Center (VCC) to call-in customers is presented. In a preferred embodiment, the method includes the steps of: screening a plurality of service agents according to agent qualifications needed by a Virtual Contact Center (VCC); developing a network of pre-qualified... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080107257 - Pillow telephone: This product makes it easier to have long conversation while in bed without having to hold the phone up to your ear for long periods of time or having a head phone clamp tightly around or stuck in your ear. Your audio is clear as ever and you don't even... Agent: Odwin Matthews

20080107258 - Input/output end point control for integrated telecommunications- network systems (voip): Disclosed are systems and methods that enable expanded functionality for call control monitoring and control of external electrical/electromechanical devices using a telecommunication system.... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20080101550 - Method and apparatus for line testing: A method of testing a communication line includes applying a voltage as a function of time on the communication line and measuring at least a first current and a second current flowing via the communication line. The second current is measured at a different point in time than the first... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080101553 - Logging call data for failed emergency calls: A method of logging call data for failed emergency calls includes: receiving from a calling party an emergency call that is to be routed to a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) (40) over a telecommunications network (20); determining if the received emergency call is connected to the PSAP (40); and,... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080101551 - Method and system for determining physical location of emergency service callers on a packet switched network: Pluggable communication modules, e.g. SFP, XFP, XENPAK, on a service provider's packet switched network will include network monitoring capability, e.g. Intelligent Pluggable Modules. The Intelligent Pluggable Modules are configured to detect emergency calls. When an emergency call is detected, the module notifies a software application of the detected call, including... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080101552 - Systems and methods for location management and emergency support for a voice over internet protocol device: Example systems and methods to manage location information for emergency services support of an internet protocol (“IP”) communication device are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves determining a geographic location change status associated with the IP device. A message is then forwarded to the IP device based on the geographic... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080101554 - Method and device for generating voice/text/image commercial information ringback tone during communication wait: Voice/text/image commercial information generating method and device during a communication is on wait. The method includes the steps of: checking a telephone call, connecting with a commercial information ringback tone generating system/device at an originating or a receiving communication system when the call is detected, beginning to transmit a commercial... Agent: Liu & Liu

20080101556 - Apparatus and method for reporting speech recognition failures: Provided are an apparatus and method for reporting speech recognition failures. The method includes detecting pure speech data from input speech data and outputting the detected pure speech data; checking at least one speech recognition failure for the pure speech data; and ascertaining speech recognition failure reasons from a check-result... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080101557 - Method and system for notifying a telephone user of an audio problem: A method and apparatus is provided for notifying a telephone speaker engaged in a call or conference that the audio quality being received by one or more listeners is not acceptable. The notice is provided before the call or conference has ended, so that effective action can be taken to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080101558 - Messaging service in a peer to peer type telecommunications network: This messaging system is for use in a peer to peer network including at least one depositary peer (PX, PR) adapted to store a message in one or more portions and to send a message notifying the completion of the storage of that portion to at least one superpeer (SPX)... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080101563 - Selectable voice prompts: In an embodiment of selectable prompts, selectable identifiers can be selected to describe a commodity via parsed voice prompts that correspond to selected ones of the selectable identifiers. A description of the commodity can then be generated from the parsed voice prompts that correspond to the selected ones of the... Agent: Sadler, Breen, Morasch & Colby, P.s.

20080101564 - Communication system: According to one embodiment, a communication system includes a first terminal connected to an IP network and communicates with a second terminal through the IP network and a server apparatus including a controller that controls a communication between the first and second terminals. The first terminal includes a transmitter that... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080101566 - Method to play vendor videos: A method includes identifying that the destination phone number of a call made by a communications device is to a vendor and playing a video clip associated with said vendor on said communications device during said call. Another method includes storing videos associated with a multiplicity of vendors, receiving a... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20080101555 - Methods for voice activated dialing: Methods for routing a call based on voice activated dialing (VAD). A VAD device module may respond to a VAD instruction, or to a call received with a VAD instruction with a corresponding call destination number obtained from a personal VAD directory. If the personal VAD directory fails to include... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080101559 - Call management via television: A telephone call management system and method are disclosed, allowing for call review where a voice mail message being recorded for a specific telephone may be played on a television associated therewith during the time it is being recorded. Optionally, the call may further be retrieved and rerouted to the... Agent: Lawson & Weitzen, LLP

20080101562 - Communication system and voice mail apparatus: According to one embodiment, a communication system includes a voice mail apparatus and a communication terminal which is connected to the voice mail apparatus through a data transmission path, wherein the communication terminal includes a creator which creates e-mail data including the voice files and configuration files necessary to set... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080101561 - Messenger notification system and method using synchronization server: Provided are messenger notification system and method using a synchronization server. The system includes a messenger service system controlling transmission of instant messages of messenger users and monitoring and transmitting messenger users' status change information; at least one external service system monitoring whether a predetermined event occurs and creating a... Agent: Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080101560 - Telephone system: According to one embodiment, a telephone system includes a plurality of terminal devices which are connected to a packet communication network to realize voice calls with one another via the communication network, an attribute management function which manages attribute information for each user of the terminal devices, a message processing... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080101565 - Automated healthcare management functions: The present invention involves value-added applications (or middleware) that integrates and adds value to existing call system and medical software packages by leveraging the assets of telecommunications manager software and medical records software with further specialized software. The EXTENSION system provides a modular set of medical workflow based applications that... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20080101567 - Method and system for call reverse: A method (10) and system (200, 400, or 500) of call reverse can include initiating (12) a call by an originating party (204) to a terminating party (208), comparing (14) rate plans, and automatically reversing (26) the call if a rate plan for the terminating party is currently more economical... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080101568 - Accounting in a transit network: An accounting function in a network between originating and terminating networks is disclosed. A transit network node is provided with an appropriate indication regarding its role in inter-operator accounting, for example if it should act as an intermediary node or not. A transit network node configured to function in an... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080101569 - Prepaid information services: A prepaid information services card is provided for use in both wireline and wireless communications networks without the cardholder having to be a subscriber to a telecommunications service provider. The prepaid information services card may be used to access directory assistance and enhanced directory assistance information services such as weather... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080101570 - Systems and methods for providing per call measurement data in an ims network: Systems and methods for providing per call data measurement in an IMS network are provided. An IMS network adapted to provide per call measurement data comprises a plurality of network nodes serving a call for a subscriber adapted to monitor network performance to generate call measurement data for the call.... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20080101571 - Call routing method: A call processing method is disclosed. A first station initiates a call to a second station. Call information associated with the initiated call is evaluated by comparing the call information with information in a fraud database. Completion of the call is prevented if the evaluation results in a finding of... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20080101573 - Call processing based on electronic calendar information: The present invention allows incoming calls to be processed based on calendar information obtained from an electronic calendar of a called party. When an incoming call intended for the called party is received, a service node may retrieve the calendar information for the called party and process the call based... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20080101572 - Method and system for verifying telephone numbers across service providers: A system for verifying and updating a telephone number across service providers. After dialing a telephone number, a contact name and a timestamp in a central repository is compared with a contact name and a timestamp in a storage device. If the contact name in the central repository does not... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080101577 - Multi-fidelity conferencing bridge: Embodiments according to the present invention allow multiple parties equipped with telecommunications devices (endpoint devices) of similar or differing audio capabilities to join in a conference call and enjoy the fidelity associated with their equipment. Rather than operating with the frequency and fidelity limits of traditional telecommunications circuits (for example,... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20080101575 - Participant prioritization on telephone conference calls: A computer implemented method and a computer program product for prioritizing a participant in a teleconference are provided. Participants in a teleconference are prioritized in order to manage the participants currently speaking and participants wanting to interrupt. A participant has an individual or a group priority level associated with the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080101574 - Source selection for conference bridges: The present invention provides an audio source selection process for a conference bridge. The conference bridge receives multiple audio sources and selects at least one of the audio sources based on the relative signal levels associated with the audio signal at each of the audio sources. The audio signals associated... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20080101576 - Tag interrogator and microphone array for identifying a person speaking in a room: A conferencing room has conferencing equipment which identifies a person speaking, among a group of people in the conferencing room, to remote participants in a conference call. The conferencing equipment includes a plurality of unique tags, each fixed proximate to a seating position for a person in the conferencing room.... Agent: Mg-ip Law, PLLC

20080101578 - Method and system for guardian approval of communications: A method (10) and system (20, 30, or 200) of guardian approval of communications where a guardian phone serves as a master phone (24) to at least one slave phone (26 or 28) can include the steps of forwarding (2) an unknown incoming call to a slave phone to the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080101579 - Telephone system, master device, and terminal accommodation method: According to one embodiment, a telephone system including a first communication terminal configured to perform a telephone communication by use of proper address information, a master device which accommodates the first communication terminal via an extension telephone network, and a second communication terminal configured to perform a telephone communication by... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080101580 - Methods, systems, and products for internet call waiting messaging: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for providing Internet Call Waiting (ICW) Messaging Services. In an embodiment, a calling party places an incoming call to a called telephone number having an active ICW session and data connection. A telecommunications system allows a calling party to communicate an ICW message to... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080101581 - Methods and apparatus to provide contact management with directory assistance: Methods and an apparatus for providing contact management with directory assistance. An example method obtains a directory assistance service record associated with a user, wherein the directory assistance service record includes at least a first data object associated with a directory listing and a second data object associated with the... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080101582 - Systems and methods for implementing split numbering plan area codes in an ims network: Systems and methods are disclosed for implementing a split numbering plan area code in an IMS network. The IMS network comprises a subscriber server adapted to store a new phone number including a new area code for a subscriber assigned as a result of the split numbering plan area code.... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20080101583 - Internet telephone system ensuring communication quality and path setting method: An LSP control unit checks whether or not there is a label switching path of a hundred to thousand times of a band necessary for transferring a VoIP packet between a pair of edge label switch routers in response to notification from a VoIP packet control unit. When there is... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20080101584 - Method of providing context aware announcements: A method and system of providing context aware announcements is provided. Context call handling rules are applied to determine a current context of an incoming call. At least one context aware announcement is provided for providing information associated the current context and call information.... Agent: Inter-tel, Inc.

20080101585 - 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: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20080101586 - Server apparatus: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a memory which stores a second management table which associates telephone IDs of external telephone terminals to be connected to the external communication network with user IDs of external data terminals to be connected to the external communication network, and a controller... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080101587 - Termination for a line card in a telecommunication system: A system of terminating signals in a telecommunication system is disclosed. In one embodiment a line card comprises functional circuitry, line card connector contacts and a termination resistor. The functional circuitry is used to interface first type ports with second type ports. The line card connector contacts are adapted to... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080101588 - System and method of audible caller identification via a multimedia device: A method and system is disclosed that includes receiving an incoming call including caller identification information at an input responsive to a network. An audio alert and display information associated with the incoming call are sent to a multimedia device.... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080101589 - Audio output using multiple speakers: An electronic device comprises an earpiece speaker, a loudspeaker, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to receive a wireless telephony audio signal, to separate the audio signal into a first portion and a second portion, the first portion having higher frequency components than the second portion, wherein... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080101590 - Digital dc feed for a subscriber line interface circuit: A subscriber line interface circuit apparatus includes a controller for controlling a DC feed of a subscriber loop in accordance with a first DC feed curve defined by a first set of points in response to sensed subscriber loop signals. A stability compensator is coupled to the subscriber loop. The... Agent: Davis & Associates

20080101592 - Line driver with active termination: A line driver comprises a driving amplifier receiving an input of the line driver, a current sense resistor connected between the driving amplifier output and the line driver output, and a feedback amplifier sensing the voltage across the current sense resistor and providing a corresponding feedback voltage that is proportional... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080101591 - System and method for selecting a profile for a digital subscriber line: A method for selecting a profile for a digital subscriber line is disclosed, the method including collecting code violation data for a plurality of digital subscriber lines, identifying a group of problem lines in the plurality of digital subscriber lines, modeling estimated code violations for each of a group profiles... Agent: G. Michael Roebuck, PC

20080101593 - Circuit method and system for transmitting information: Disclosed is a method and circuit for echo suppression or cancellation. According to some embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a circuit including a Noise-Enhanced-Receiving-Direction unit and Narrow-Band Remover unit or units.... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP

20080101594 - Keypad having keys with angled engagement surfaces, and associated handheld electronic device: An improved keypad for a handheld electronic device has keys wherein the engagement surface thereof is oriented oblique to the actuation axis of the key. The oblique arrangement of the engagement surfaces visually and tactually distinguishes one key from another, which facilitates their incorporation into various handheld electronic devices with... Agent: Brij K. Agarwal Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20080095325 - Methods, devices and computer program products for providing customer service call direction based upon remote diagnostics: Directing customer service calls based upon remote diagnosis of customer premises equipment (CPE). CPE information is received remotely from the CPE. Network status information is received from a communications network indicative of a current operational status for the network. An issue is detected with the CPE based upon the received... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080095327 - Systems, apparatuses, and methods for interactively accessing networked services using voice communications: The session manager is in communications with the target prospector module and the pool of domain system agents. The session manager is configured to: receive the set of structured logical objectives from the target prospector module, determine whether the set of structured logical objectives contains the necessary information for the... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080095330 - Enhancing interactive voice response systems via messaging: Disclosed are a method, information processing system, and computer storage program product for providing communication between a user electronic device and an Interactive Voice Response (“IVR”) system. At least one selection from a user corresponding to at least one menu in an IVR system is received. The selection comprises an... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l

20080095331 - Systems and methods for interactively accessing networked services using voice communications: The order manager is in communications with the voice recognition module, the text understanding module, and the pool of domain system agents. Further, the order manager is configured to: receive the set of structured logical objectives from the text understanding module, determine whether the set of structured logical objectives contains... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080095333 - System and method of communicating internet user information to service providers: A method of communicating with a service provider is disclosed that includes receiving an email message, identifying the service provider after evaluating content in the email message, and generating an audio message including audio content derived from at least a portion of the content in the email message. The method... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080095337 - Storage of data messages for later retrieval by the recipient: Systems and methods are disclosed that allow for storing of data messages (e.g., text messages or multimedia messages) in a data message mailbox. If a data message is sent from a sender to a recipient, then the communication network receiving the data message attempts to deliver the data message to... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20080095338 - System and method for regulating overlapping media messages: The described systems regulate the transmission and playback of multiple streams of audio data, e.g., for a multiplayer game, and provide sequential playback of audio, buffered while the listener is listening to a different stream, time-compressed if necessary. The systems thus solve a problem of users “talking over each other”... Agent: Mayer & Williams PC

20080095336 - System and method for storage of electronic mail: A method of storage of an e-mail includes either receiving the e-mail at a portable electronic device or sending the e-mail from the portable electronic device. The e-mail is marked for saving at the portable electronic device and transmitted by radio communication for receipt by a server and for storage... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20080095340 - Facsimile apparatus to support a plurality of lines and operating method thereof: A facsimile apparatus capable of transmitting and receiving voice data and non-voice data, and supporting a plurality of lines includes a main section including a plurality of modem units to individually control each of the plurality of modem units, and a line section including a plurality of line connecting units... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080095326 - Method and system for providing presence information using ringback tone: A method for providing ringback tone presence information includes: obtaining a subscription record of a ringback tone presence service corresponding to a user terminal of a call and a routing address of a ringback tone device; connecting the call to the ringback tone device according to the routing address; obtaining... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080095328 - Methods for voice activated dialing: Methods for routing a call based on voice activated dialing (VAD). A VAD device module may respond to a VAD instruction, or to a call received with a VAD instruction with a corresponding call destination number obtained from a personal VAD directory. If the personal VAD directory fails to include... Agent: Nora M. Tocups

20080095329 - Voice mail interface: Persistent voicemail settings features are set by generating a list of persistent settings features, which are maintained in a defined state through more than one subscriber session, to include multiple persistent settings features that can be selected and set in accordance with input of a voicemail subscriber. The subscriber is... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080095332 - Method and apparatus for converting a voice signal received from a remote telephone to a text signal: A telephone call is established between a local telephone (110) associated with a local party and a remote telephone (104) associated with a remote party. The local telephone (110) receives a voice signal from the remote telephone (104) responsive to establishing the telephone call. The voice signal represents directory assistance... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080095334 - Automatic status notification: A status reporting system (SRS) automatically reports updated status of a project to an interested party based on status information stored in a status system. The SRS is communicatively coupled to the status system and includes a monitoring device that contacts the status system to determine whether such status system... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20080095335 - Region-wide messaging system and methods including validation of transactions: Methods and systems are disclosed that allow for the exchange of voice mail messages between different VMSs of different service providers and/or in different networks by the transmission of such messages through a data network using a standard protocol of the data network. Methods and systems also are disclosed that... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080095339 - System and method for providing requested quality of service in a hybrid network: Telephone calls, data and other multimedia information is routed through a hybrid network which includes transfer of information across the internet. A media order entry captures complete user profile information for a user. This profile information is utilized by the system throughout the media experience for routing, billing, monitoring, reporting... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080095341 - Line interface unit of multifunction printer and facsimile: A line interface unit in which a circuit to detect a calling line and a ring signal includes a connecting unit connected to a public switched telephone network (PSTN) to individually detect the calling line and the ring signal and to commonly use an insulating circuit electrically insulated from PSTN.... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080095342 - Interception of cashless calling service subscription: The present invention relates to problems how to generate information related to use of a Cashless Calling Service Subscription. The problems are solved by methods and arrangements in a communication system to generate information related to use of the monitored Cashless Calling Service Subscription. The system provides the information to... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080095343 - Method, system and co switch for implementing bills association: A method for implementing bills association mainly includes generating a session identifier corresponding to a call; indicating bills with the session identifier by communication devices which are required to generate the bills corresponding to the call, to implement the association between the bills generated by the communication devices. Embodiments of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080095344 - Presence agent for a telephone: A presence agent (100) for a telephone line (102) operable to provide telephony presence information to a presence client. A line monitor (104) is included for collecting line status information by monitoring a telephone line associated with the telephone. A presence entity module (108) is coupled to the line monitor... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20080095345 - Method of providing personalized music on hold to callers: An apparatus and method are provided for generating music for a caller during a silent period of a call when the caller is placed on hold by a subscriber of a personalized music on hold system. The music is selected by the subscriber of a personalized music on hold system... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20080095347 - Automatic complaint registration for violations of telephonic communication regulations: In an embodiment, a method comprises receiving call information to record a complaint from a called party against a calling party relating to receipt of a call and adding the call information to a complaint database. The call information may be retrieved from the complaint database and a check made... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080095346 - Availability and location predictor using call processing indications: A system for generating user availability information from call control events within a telephone system, comprising an Event Queue for receiving and storing call control events from the telephone system, and an Interpretation Engine for accessing the call control events in the Event Queue and in response updating a running... Agent: Inter-tel, Inc.

20080095348 - Detecting interruptions in audio conversations and conferences, and using a conversation marker indicative of the interrupted conversation: An implementation for detecting interruptions in audio conversations between a plurality of participants comprising continuously recording the most recent predetermined time segment of the conversation stream of one participant in the conversation, monitoring the conversation stream of the participant for interruptions in said conversation stream and storing the most recent... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080095349 - Method and system for providing calling name identification requery: A method for determining the name of a calling party where the calling party's name and corresponding telephone number are found in a remote database. The method first identifies whether the calling party's telephone number is contained within the local database. When it is determined that the telephone number is... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080095351 - Changing the user interface at a telecommunications terminal: A technique is disclosed that changes one or more properties of a user interface at a telecommunications terminal based on an incoming call. When a first caller calls the telephone number of the terminal directly and the terminal answers the call, the terminal presents the direct call to the user... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080095350 - Method and apparatus for routing calls based on the identification of the calling party or calling line: A method and apparatus for routing calls for a subscriber based on the identification of the calling party or the originating line. Generally, the present invention operates to identify a calling party or originating line and then select a routing list based on this identification. Once a routing list has... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080095352 - System and method for distributing auto-attendant across user endpoints: Embodiments of the present invention generally provide techniques and apparatus that may be used to distribute services in a telephone system. Utilizing these techniques, functions conventionally centralized and requiring a separate server may be distributed to end units, for example, as instances of such applications running on network telephones. Examples... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20080095353 - Computer program products for routing phone calls to a pstn or a packet switched network based on called number: A phone call is selectively routed to a public switched telephone network or to a packet switched network based on a called number to which the phone call is directed. A phone call may be made as a Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol call through, for example, the Internet except when a user dials... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080095354 - Call prioritization methods in a call center: According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided a method of allocating calls coming into a call center from a caller location remote from the call center, receiving a call from a caller which includes information from an RFID chip located in close proximity to the caller location;... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080095355 - Predictive call routing: A predictive call routing system that includes a real-time decision engine to receive information about a customer and identify a skill that is useful for providing service to the caller. The decision engine identifies the skill by generating scores for a plurality of statistical models using the statistical models and... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080095356 - Subscriber line interface circuit with discrete component linefeed driver: A subscriber line interface circuit apparatus includes a signal processor having sense inputs for a sensed tip signal and a sensed ring signal of a subscriber loop. The signal processor generates at least one linefeed driver control current in response to the sensed signals. The signal processor is not a... Agent: Davis & Associates

20080089486 - Temporary emergency call back identifier: A method and node for providing a temporary emergency call back identifier to a User Equipment (UE) for use by an emergency assistance provider. Based on an emergency registration indication, a temporary emergency call back identifier is assigned to the UE. The temporary emergency call back identifier is valid for... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20080089487 - Method and system for telephone number change notification and tracking: A system for broadcasting a notification. In response to receiving a new telephone number for a communication device from a service provider, a telephone number change notification is automatically broadcast to a plurality of contact telephone numbers within a contact list. Each of the plurality of contact telephone numbers within... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080089489 - Voicemail messaging with dynamic content: In one embodiment, a voicemail messaging system provides a user with the ability to record a voicemail message that includes at least one static portion and a dynamic content portion. When the voicemail message is accessed for listening by a recipient the dynamic content portion is filled with information retrieved... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20080089490 - Interacting with a user of a messaging client: The invention discloses a method, computer system and computer program of interacting with a user of a messaging client. In the method a transactive engine engages via an agent, a natural language interaction with a user of a messaging client in order to initiate a transaction and determines, based on... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080089495 - Method and system for remotely accessing a data archive via a telephone: A method, system and computer product for accessing, by means of a telephone, a database containing data arranged in at least one table including a plurality of table entries, each table entry including a plurality of information elements. The invention retrieves identifiers of the information elements from the table. Each... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080089485 - Systems and methods for single end loop testing: Systems and methods for performing single-end line testing (SELT) are described. At least one embodiment includes a method for SELT to determine loop characteristics for a loop. The method for performing SELT comprises generating a test signal through a loop to be tested and receiving an echo response. The method... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080089488 - Messaging advise in presence-aware networks: A presence aware communications system, that includes a messaging system configured to perform one or more of provide a subscriber's communication device with information regarding an incoming contact during a messaging session between the subscriber's communication device and the messaging system, provide the subscriber's communication device with a text message... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20080089491 - Sequential presentation of long instructions in an interactive voice response system: A method of presenting instructions to a user sending an incoming communication to a service center includes presenting a menu to the user. The menu includes a plurality of procedure descriptors to the user. The user is presented, according to a selection of one of the procedure descriptors by the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080089492 - Circuit arrangement for suppressing interference signals in the receive branch of a modem of a household appliance: A circuit arrangement for suppressing interference signals in the receive branch of a modem containing a transmit branch and the receive branch, of a household appliance equipped with a transmitting device for transmitting and a receiving device for receiving data signals, using a bandpass filter. When using a receive circuit... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080089493 - Registration of a telephone/computer association in a computer telephony integration environment: The application relates to the registration of the identity of a telephone terminal in association with the identity of a computer terminal in a Computer Technology Integration environment CTI-enabled switching apparatus and a registration server interconnected by a CTI-link and a telephony link. A registration method whereby the registration is... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080089494 - System and method for securing a telephone system comprising circuit switched and ip data networks: The present invention discloses a system and method for securing a telephone system comprising a circuit switched network and an IP data network. The system comprises a first firewall, between an internal IP data network and an external IP data network, for protecting the internal IP data network against intrusion;... Agent: L. Howard Chen Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP

20080089496 - Methods and apparatuses for dynamically recognizing terms utilized within electronic mail messages: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect a message; detect a message term within the message; search for a match between the message term and a stored term; and display a description based on the match wherein the description is utilized for describing the message term and the description... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080089497 - Method and apparatus for notifying an end user of a messaging event in a multi-user setting: A method and apparatus for notifying an end user of a messaging event in a multi-user setting is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a terminal device having a User Interface (UI) element that selectively identifies one or more parties to whom... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080089498 - Methods, systems, and products for processing communications: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for processing communications. A communication is received that originates from a sender's communications address and that is addressed to at least one of a recipient's multiple communications addresses. The recipient's multiple communications addresses are all associated with a single device identifier. The recipient's communications... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080089500 - Call authorizatin for pay-per-call services: A VoIP-enabled communications system includes IVR authentication for web initiated telephone calls. A web-based user initiates a telephone call by providing his telephone number and one or more target telephone numbers. In some embodiments, the target telephone number is identified by clicking on a call hyperlink. The system calls the... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20080089499 - Apparatus, system, method and computer program product for pre-paid long distance telecommunications and charitable fee sharing: An apparatus system, method and computer program product for providing pre-paid telecommunications services is set forth and may include: receiving an automatic number identification (ANI) at an ANI recognition system of a service provider platform from a user, where the user having previously acquired a communications device, where a pre-paid... Agent: Venable LLP

20080089501 - Caller id spoofing: A method of caller ID spoofing includes: receiving a call at a first telecommunications facility (30) from a calling party served by the first telecommunications facility (30), the call being intended for a called party; determining if a caller ID spoofing feature (33) has been invoked for the call; if... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080089502 - Method and system for use with phone calls originating from a facility: A call processor records a message from a facility phone for a destination phone upon a first collect call from the facility phone to the destination phone being terminated when the first collect call is rejected at the destination phone. In response to the message having been recorded, the call... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080089503 - Voice enhancing for advance intelligent network services: A method for updating communications service parameters includes receiving, at a platform configured for speech recognition functionality and corresponding to a communications address associated with verbally updating communications service parameters, a voice instruction from a requester to update a communications service parameter. The voice instruction is translated into digital command... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080089504 - Method for providing presence information in a telecom network: A method is disclosed for determining if the real-time status of an end-user line (4) is busy or idle. The end-user line (4), via which POTS or ISDN services may be provided, connects an end-user device (2) and an exchange (7) that is comprised by a telecom network (1). For... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20080089505 - Method for allocating a characteristic for allowing a terminating automatic return call: In a method for allocating a characteristic for allowing a terminating automatic return call from an A subscriber to a B subscriber, which are each connected to a switching office, the B subscriber is dialed via an IN service having number conversion, and the IN service is provided by means... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20080089506 - Method and apparatus for delivering and tracking click/call information for pstn and digital telephone networks: A method and apparatus turns a typical home telephone system into a platform for delivery of web based content and services. The preferred embodiment of the invention comprises a broadband enabled telephone system for the home and a series of web servers that collect, package, and deliver personalized content and... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080089507 - Connection manager for integrating legacy telephony environments and ip networks: In a telephony call management system, a method of distributing calls among a plurality of packet-based load balancing resources can include receiving over a telephony channel a call request specifying call information, comparing the call information with selection criteria to select one of the plurality of packet-based load balancing resources,... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080089508 - Call features for automatic call distribution system: Call features for an Automatic Call Distribution (ACD) system implemented within a packet-based telephone environment are disclosed. Within a packet-based network, data messages are transferred between the ACD system and customer telephone stations while the customer waits for an attendant to become available. These data messages allow the customer to... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080089509 - Calling party alert: Devices, systems, and methods are provided to send an alert to a called party communications device during a call setup phase and to present the alert to a called party during an alert portion of the call setup phase. Other devices, systems, and methods are provided that allow a calling... Agent: Parks Knowlton - C001

20080089510 - Personal plug and remote phone (pprp): The personal plug and telephone facility with its associated apparatus provides an improved device for public, private, and business telephone communications. This new functionality would permit a caller to use his standard plug-in cell or his remote cell phone to make a landline call. Adapters would be used to make... Agent: Alvin Julius Watson, Sr.

20080089511 - Method, apparatus and program for providing user-selected alerting signals in telecommunications devices: A method for operating a user communication device (18a, 18b, 19a, 19b), and a program and user communication device that operate in accordance with that method. An interface (2d, 2b, 23, 22) of the communication device (18a, 18b, 19a, 19b) is operated to enter identifiers identifying respective calling sources (18a,... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080089512 - Implementation of a communication link in powered device for layer 2 support: A system and method for enabling communication between power source equipment and a powered device chip. In one embodiment, communication between the power source equipment and the powered device chip is enabled through a communication link established between the powered device chip and a host device on the powered device.... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20080089513 - Methods and devices for detection, control and annunciation of speakerphone use: Disclosed are methods and devices for remote determination, control and/or inhibiting the use of a speakerphone of a far end communication device. The methods and devices provide the ability to determine speakerphone use and provide remote control of a far end device's speakerphone, including prompting whether to disable the speakerphone... Agent: Motorola Inc