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Telephonic Communications > Audio Message Storage, Retrieval, Or Synthesis > Interaction With An External Nontelephone Network (e.g., Internet) Interaction With An External Nontelephone Network (e.g., Internet)Interaction With An External Nontelephone Network (e.g., Internet) patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.07/19/07 - 20070165797 - System and method for reconciling billing mismatch A system and method for reconciling the differences in pricing breakout definitions between telecommunication carriers so that rates and codes can be communicated between carriers in a format that is compatible with the systems of the respective carriers. ... 06/28/07 - 20070147593 - Electronic player for implementing internet telephone functions and method thereof An electronic player for implementing Internet telephony function and method therefof, wherein the electronic player comprises a connecting interface for establishing connection and communication between said electronics player and a computer; an audio signal controller for transmitting encoded audio signals between said computer and said electronic player according to an ... 05/24/07 - 20070116206 - Computer implemented voice markup system and method A computer-implemented method and system for processing a service request received from a telephone communication device. The telephony system and method utilizes a call management server and a voice interpreter server. The call management server receives an incoming call from a user, and the voice interpreter server processes the service ... 04/19/07 - 20070086581 - Method and communication system for circuit switch users accessing ip multimedia subsystem A method for a Circuit Switch (CS) domain user accessing an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) domain includes: an access gateway control function (AGCF) entity maps CS domain signaling messages forwarded by a mobile switch center (MSC)/visiting location register (VLR) to session initiation protocol (SIP) signaling messages and transmits the SIP ... 04/19/07 - 20070086580 - Data transmission system, data transmission method, data transmission apparatus, and computer usable medium therefor A communication system, comprising a communication apparatus, an external memory unit, which stores a search criterion for destination information indicating a destination of communication that is designated under a predetermined criterion, a reader system, which reads the search criterion stored in the memory unit, a destination information obtaining system, which ... 04/05/07 - 20070076857 - Intermediary network system and method for facilitating message exchange between wireless networks Network System and Method for facilitating message exchange between mobile subscribers belonging to the same or different public land mobile networks, possibly incorporating different standards. Message exchange between two subscribers of the same or different networks may involve one or more lookups on subscription data, zero or more message transformations, ... 04/05/07 - 20070076856 - System and method for suppressing silence in voice traffic over a wireless communication medium A method and system for increasing the efficiency of providing bandwidth for voice traffic to a data provider via wireless communication mediums is provided. This is generally accomplished by not transmitting any data during the silence periods and playing out background noise (i.e., comfort noise) at the other end, to ... 04/05/07 - 20070076855 - Method and system of partitioning a signaling protocol Systems and methods for partitioning session initial protocol (SIP) processing among execution units are disclosed. An exemplary device comprises: a plurality of execution units and a plurality of session initiation protocol (SIP) processes. The SIP processes comprise: a SIP transport process; a SIP location server process; and a plurality of ... 04/05/07 - 20070076854 - Method and system for handling multimedia calls A method and system for handling multimedia calls is disclosed in which an IP multimedia terminal initiates a multimedia call request to a 3G terminal via a video inter-work device; the video inter-work device negotiates with 3G network and sets up a speech bearer between the video inter-work device and ... 03/29/07 - 20070071185 - Exchange apparatus and method of selecting voice storing area According to one embodiment, an exchange apparatus comprising a first storing unit which includes a plurality of voice storing areas, a read unit which reads, from the first storing unit, information indicating one of the voice storing areas corresponding to a request to record a message, upon receiving the request ... 03/22/07 - 20070064887 - Wireless communication system for telephonic calls Multi-tier system for digital radio communication. The multi-tier system has a first-tier base station with relatively long-range radio and has a second-tier base station with relatively short-range, low power and cheaper radios. The system can be more versatilely configured to meet demands of various applications. The application may include data ... 03/22/07 - 20070064886 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for dynamically controlling a pstn network element from an ip network element using signaling Methods, systems, and computer program products for dynamically controlling a PSTN network element from an IP network element using signaling are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method may include receiving a first SIP message from an IP application server. The first SIP message may identify a call event trigger ... 03/15/07 - 20070058792 - Method and system for booting, provisioning and activating hardware and software clients Automated booting of a client for a subscriber is provided for clients that are for use in interactive user sessions that involve multimedia. A subscribe message is sent from the client to a proxy server. The proxy server authenticates the subscribe message, and sends the subscribe message to the configuration ... 03/15/07 - 20070058791 - Method for handoff from packet switching domain to circuit switching domain and equipment thereof The present invention discloses a method for handoff from a PS domain to a CS domain, including: the MS obtaining a handoff number and initiating a CS domain session request by taking the handoff number as a called number; a network side associating the CS domain session request to an ... 03/15/07 - 20070058790 - Network telephone system and methods therefor One embodiment of the present invention includes a telephony interface, a network interface and a local area network (LAN). The telephony interface provides connectivity between one or more netphones and an external telephone network such as a PSTN telephone system. The network interface provides connectivity between one or more computers ... 03/15/07 - 20070058789 - Method and apparatus for interworking voice and multimedia services between csi terminal and ims terminal A method and apparatus is provided for communication between a first terminal capable of using both a Circuit Switched (CS) call and an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) session, and a second terminal capable of using the IMS session, in a communication system supporting a Combined CS call and IMS ... 03/15/07 - 20070058788 - Multimedia subsystem service control for circuit-switched subsystem calls The present invention allows calls that are controlled by a multimedia subsystem (MS) to employ bearer paths that are supported in whole or in part by a circuit-switched subsystem (CS). As such, calls controlled by the MS can have a portion of the bearer path provided through the CS when ... 03/15/07 - 20070058787 - Centralized feature platform in a packetized network A packetized telecommunication network directs a call that is received at a gateway of the network to connect to a feature platform via the network, which performs a service related to the call, such as an authentication service. After the service is performed, the call is redirected to another location ... 02/22/07 - 20070041525 - Generating call control and dialog elements for telephony service applications using a graphical user interface Described are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products for generating an integrated call control and dialog application. A graphical user interface is provided. A user is enabled, using the graphical user interface, to select an element from a plurality of elements. The plurality of elements include at least ... 02/22/07 - 20070041524 - Screening of calls in a packet-based network In a remote management messenger system (RMMS), a method for screening a packet-based call originated from a caller via a caller telecommunication device (CTD) to a receiver telecommunication device (RTD) via the RMMS. The method includes activating, if a receiver associated with the RTD does not respond to the packet-based ... 11/23/06 - 20060262910 - System and method for capturing and processing business data A method and a system for interpreting information in a document are provided, with the system receiving an image of a document from a remote source ant converting it into multiple sets of blocks of characters. Tags indicating likely meaning of blocks are assigned to them. At least some of ... 09/14/06 - 20060203979 - Transferring state information in a network A system for storing information in a network. The system includes one or more network elements and a message adapted for transfer between the one or more network elements. A mechanism selectively augments the message with information pertaining to a state associated with the one or more network elements. In ... 09/07/06 - 20060198501 - Method and device for constructing a voice dialog A method of constructing a voice dialog comprising the steps of (i) defining a plurality of sub-dialogs in a determined voice dialog; (ii) determining chaining sequences between at least some of the sub-dialogs; and (iii) producing a specification of the voice dialog by transforming at least the sub-dialogs and chaining ... 08/17/06 - 20060182239 - Process for synchronizing a speech service and a visual presentation A process for synchronizing speech information on a first terminal and a visual presentation of data on a second terminal, the first terminal managing a speech communication channel towards a speech server, the second terminal managing a data communication channel towards a contents distribution server, which includes the steps of: ... 08/17/06 - 20060182238 - Method and apparatus for voice message editing A method and apparatus for voice message editing, particularly a method and apparatus for splicing voicemails sections together. A system, method and computer program product are described for forming a voice message on an interactive voice response system (IVR) spoken by a user including recording a first voice message where ... 08/17/06 - 20060182237 - System and method for healthcare personnel notification and tracking The embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for notifying healthcare personnel including identifying a particular notification recipient, identifying at least one predetermined notification rule for the particular recipient, selecting a device of the recipient to receive a notification message, the device being selected according to ... 08/10/06 - 20060177023 - Distributed cache system An integrated messaging system for performing various types of messaging across different types of networks, including integrated user interfaces and administrator interfaces. Embodiments include a communication server that couples among networks of different types, and an interface module that couples to the communication server. The interface module may be hosted ... 07/13/06 - 20060153346 - On-line authentication registration system The invention provides a process for verifying an on-line registration by telephone. A registrant at least partially completes an on-line registration form at a web-site. During the registration process, the registrant either provides his telephone number, or a verification system telephone number is provided to the registrant. A telephonic connection ... 06/29/06 - 20060140359 - Arrangement in a local computer for sending voice messages to a unified communications system A user computer, for example a personal computer (PC), includes a recorder configured for generating an audio file having an identifier enabling a unified messaging system to identify the audio file as a voice message, and an e-mail client configured for sending the audio file to a prescribed destination corresponding ... 06/29/06 - 20060140358 - Call handling method and apparatuses A call handling apparatus includes a recording medium (34) operative to store a call record (38) associated with a call made by a calling party (16) to a called party (17) and received by a plain-old-telephone service (“POTS”) telecommunication interface (19) disposed at an end-user site (14) associated with the ... 05/04/06 - 20060093102 - Remote internet telephony device A device and process to allow remote receipt and placement of Internet Telephony connections (calls) using emulation of traditional POTS telephone service through a combination of software and a specialized cordless handset appliance. The system allows ringing and answering of inbound calls, dialing of outbound numbers, and signaling of handset ... 04/27/06 - 20060088144 - Method and apparatus for associating messages with data elements A method and apparatus for associating message types, elements, and/or content with data from one or more data stores are provided. Current limitations on the tracking and management of information contained within or associated with message types and elements are overcome through an association manager or “data linking engine” that ... 04/20/06 - 20060083363 - Interface for providing connection of a switch and a vms using an ip network An interface for use in a telephone communication system provides for connection of a telephone switch to an IP network, allowing data signals between the telephone switch and a VMS to be transmitted by the IP network. In addition to transmission of the signals over an IP network, the interface ... 04/20/06 - 20060083362 - System for distributing vxml capabilities for execution on client devices A system for interacting with voice extensible markup language application content includes a content source node connected to a network for rendering availability of voice extensible markup language content and code; a communication device connected to the network for acquiring at least the code rendered available; and a software interface ... 04/20/06 - 20060083361 - Intelligently providing dialup access numbers using an automated voice response system A method for an automated voice response system to present access numbers to dial-up Internet users. The automated voice response system can perform the step of establishing a telephony communication with a party responsive to a received telephone call from the party. An indicator a service region within which dial-up ... 04/06/06 - 20060072718 - Method for exchanging messages between an end subscriber and a text message server and a telecommunication network and service computer for this The invention relates to a method for exchanging messages between an end subscriber and a text message server in a telecommunication network via even a conventional telephone device, which is connected to the text message server via a gateway with browser, which has means for voice recognition and for converting ... 04/06/06 - 20060072717 - Systems and methods of adding attachments to voice calls over a circuit-based network Systems and methods are disclosed for adding attachments to voice calls. A communication system for the invention includes a file server and a switching system of a circuit-based network. During a voice call connected between a first station and a second station over the circuit-based network, the switching system detects ... 04/06/06 - 20060072716 - Downloadable and controllable music-on-hold A method is disclosed that enables a telecommunications terminal user who is on hold during a call to determine which audio segments, such as musical compositions, are to be played, without some of the costs, disadvantages, and limitations of techniques in the prior art. The illustrative embodiment of the present ... 03/23/06 - 20060062360 - System and method for dialog caching A system for providing efficient data handling for automated dialogs and the resulting data is disclosed. The system for providing efficient data handling for automated dialogs and the resulting data includes a data provider, a dialog, a dialog delivery system suitable for delivering the dialog based on data from the ... 03/23/06 - 20060062359 - Method and apparatus for a telephone user interface control for enabling and disabling a web interface The present invention provides a method and apparatus to activate or deactivate a web interface to a voicemail system through a telephone user interface to the voicemail system. During a setup procedure that runs on the first use of the telephone user interface, the method and apparatus asks the subscriber ... 03/02/06 - 20060045242 - Deployment of announcements in local exchange switching platform A custom announcement is efficiently deployed to a local exchange switching platform, such as a switch from the Nortel DMS family. Initially, an announcement provider creates a binary file representing the requested announcement and stores the file on a server accessible to a telecommunications carrier. A representative of the telecommunications ... 02/16/06 - 20060034431 - Layered message processing model Methods, systems, and computer program products for processing network messages in a manner that simplifies messaging application logic. Processing layers of a messaging system architecture that may include a transport layer, a channel layer, a send/receive layer, a service/client layer, and potentially others, are aware of an End Point Reference ... 02/09/06 - 20060029195 - Methods, apparatus and computer program products for message notification in a voice over internet protocol communication system A method for providing message notification in a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communication system includes: receiving an off-hook notification from a subscriber to the VoIP communication system; and generating an audible announcement to the subscriber responsive to the off-hook notification, wherein the audible announcement includes a verbal voice announcement ... 01/26/06 - 20060018447 - Message notification instant messaging Methods, apparatus and systems for message notification in instant messaging are provided in which a message in an instant messaging session is received at a client application. The content of the received message is compared with a set of entries and the content is matched with an entry. Notification of ... 01/26/06 - 20060018446 - Interactive voice message retrieval A method for exchanging voice messages that may be employed in an answering machine, in wired or wireless telephone, or in an voice messaging system. An incoming voice message from a message source is received and recorded, parsed into segments, and the parsed message is played back to a listener, ... 01/26/06 - 20060018445 - Method and system for multi-mode communication with sender authentication Enabling control over multiple forms of communication to a recipient, such as email, instant messages, cell phone calls, conventional phone calls, faxes, and the like. The recipient defines rules for authenticating senders and for determining when, where, and how communication from the senders is transmitted to the recipient's preferred receiving ... 01/26/06 - 20060018444 - System and method for voice-mail and e-mail synchronization Disclosed is a unified messaging system and method for combining a voice-mail system with an e-mail system. The present invention is a hybrid event driven system that polls a universal e-mail box for receipts, with the voice-mail system being fully event driven. The present invention maintains two persistent log-ins to ... 01/12/06 - 20060008059 - System and method for managing messages in a packetized voice environment A system and method are disclosed for managing messages in a packetized voice environment. A system incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone. The VoIP telephone may include an interface for communicatively coupling with a broadband network access device. The VoIP telephone ... 01/05/06 - 20060002521 - Distributed customizable voicemail system A Voice extensible Markup Language (VXML) based voicemail system that has a distributed architecture is disclosed. The VXML voicemail system includes a media server and an application server. The media server is in communication with a telephone network. The media server receives a telephone call through the telephone network and ... 01/05/06 - 20060002520 - Message durability and retrieval in a geographically distributed voice messaging system A message retrieval subsystem comprises a voice extensible mark-up language browser, a message server, and a message library. The VXML browser is configured with an application programming interface that enables a subscriber of a distributed voice messaging service to request a stored message. The message server receives a request to ... 12/15/05 - 20050276394 - Methods and apparatus for processing and display of voice data Apparatus and methods for creating a composite data source having a common data representation from disparate sources of voice data. Data transmission links are established to heterogeneous messaging data sources, requests for voice data is sent using data access protocols, the voice data is received, and a set of voice ... 11/10/05 - 20050249339 - Providing notification of voicemail (vm) messages using instant messaging (im) transport Systems and methods are disclosed in which notifications of incoming voicemail (VM) messages are provided over an instant messaging (IM) transport. Briefly described, for some embodiments, among others, notifications for VM messages are generated, and the generated notifications are then transmitted to an IM contact address over an IM transport. ... 10/27/05 - 20050238148 - Voice mail system, method and network devices A network device has a voice mail module adapted to provide voice mail functionality for calls of a first type directed to the network device. The calls of the first type are originally intended for the network device. The voice mail module also provides voice mail functionality for calls of ... 09/22/05 - 20050207545 - Web integrated interactive voice response One embodiment of a representative system for web integrated interactive voice response includes an interactive voice response system adapted to provide a plurality of voice menus to a user over a telephone and a graphical user interface system adapted to provide a plurality of menus in a graphical format to ... 09/22/05 - 20050207544 - Dynamically reconfigurable distributed interactive voice response system The present invention is a computer system and method that manages connections between one or more data network interfaces and one or more phone interfaces. A manager process, running on a computer system having both data and phone network interfaces, receives one or more telephone calls from one or more ... 09/15/05 - 20050201532 - Network-based voice activated auto-attendant service with b2b connectors In a particular embodiment, a method of processing enterprise information system data for use by a voice activated auto-attendant service network is disclosed. The method includes provisioning a network-based voice activated auto-attendant service via a web interface including downloading a platform independent business to business (B2B) connector package, interacting with ... 09/08/05 - 20050195949 - Status transmission system and method A method includes receiving, on a first network device, an announcement message from an endpoint device connected to the first network device via a network connection. The announcement message, which includes at least one connection criteria, is transmitted to one or more downstream network devices. ... 09/01/05 - 20050190897 - System and method for the creation and automatic deployment of personalized, dynamic and interactive voice services This invention relates to a system and method for creation and automatic deployment of personalized, dynamic and interactive voice services, including information derived from on-line analytical processing (OLAP) systems and other data repositories. More specifically, the invention relates to a system and method that enable personalized delivery of information in ... 08/25/05 - 20050185771 - Method of delivering multimedia associated with a voice link A method of cooperatively providing voice service(s), carried over a circuit-switched (“CS”) type network, with multimedia service(s), carried over a packet-switched (“PS”) type network to a wireless unit. The method of involves the communication between a calling-from-party and a calling-to-party. The method includes the step of receiving an initiation signal ... 08/11/05 - 20050175161 - System and method for facilitating a custom ring in connection with a call A system and method are disclosed for facilitating a custom ring in connection with a call. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an electronic device operable to support telephonic communication. The electronic device may have a housing component at least partially defining an ... 08/04/05 - 20050169443 - System for computer-based, calendar-controlled message creation and delivery Methods and apparatus are described for creating, scheduling and delivering messages. A message having a first audio component is generated in response to input from a user. The input includes words entered by the user. The first audio component is operable to facilitate audible playback of the words. Delivery of ... 07/28/05 - 20050163291 - Method and system for remote audio recording onto an audio card An audio message recording and playback system including a recorder-imprinter device, a self-contained voice module for playback of an audio message and a number of input devices for initially recording the audio message to the recorder-imprinter device. An internet web site is established for taking orders from customers, where customer ... 07/21/05 - 20050157857 - Arrangement for converting telephone number formats for notification systems A notification system includes a dial map configured for converting the destination telephone number within a notification message from an original format to another format recognizable by a messaging server, based on execution of a mapping rule selected based on a match between the mapping rule and the destination telephone ... 07/21/05 - 20050157856 - Method and apparatus for providing an externalized interface to mobile telemetry devices An approach is provided for retrieving telemetry data. A gateway receives telemetry data message from a telemetry device associated with a user. The gateway determines location of a data repository (e.g., file server, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) site, etc.) for delivery of the telemetry data message, wherein the location is ... 07/07/05 - 20050147217 - Method and system for implementing a speech service using a terminal device and a corresponding terminal device The invention relates to a method and system for implementing a speech service using a terminal device, in which the terminal device sends a call/service request to a server for the speech service, the server sends speech alternatives corresponding to the service to the terminal device as a special text ... 07/07/05 - 20050147216 - Automated method and system for interacting with telephone call trees An automated method, system and computer instructions for users to visually navigate telephone call trees are disclosed. A caller can connect to an automated telephone answering service, and download the service's call tree. The caller can view a display with the call tree, and modify or rearrange the order in ... 06/23/05 - 20050135574 - Telephone network/computer network gateway Some embodiments provide a computer network, a computing device coupled to the computer network, and a telephone coupled to the computer network and to a telephone line. The telephone may receive telephone call signals from the telephone line and transmit information associated with the telephone call signals to the computing ... 06/16/05 - 20050129193 - Apparatus and method for a world wide web-based directory with automatic call capability Apparatus, and an associated method, for providing a Web-based directory with automatic dialing capabilities that may be used by the user of a standard wireline or cellular telephone to establish contact with entities having SIP phones or other IP-based communication devises. The Web-based directory includes not only the names of ... 06/09/05 - 20050123106 - Ip handset-based voice mail notification A system and method that notifies the receipt of a voicemail message at an IP telephone using one or more of instant messaging and short message service. A preferred embodiment of the invention provides an IP telephone that prepares a notification regarding the receipt of a voicemail message. In one ... 06/09/05 - 20050123105 - Systems and methods for monitoring network-based voice messaging systems Systems and methods for monitoring a call directed to a telephony network-based voice messaging service (VMS) implemented using packet-switched data network telephone conferencing resources, such as an IP-based voice-over-IP conferencing system. The systems and methods use one or more media gateway systems providing an interface between a conventional telephony domain ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |