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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7388481 | Method and apparatus for asset management in an open environment A method and apparatus for asset management in an open environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method correlates a person's RFID tag with an RFID of an asset and uses this information to determine whether an asset is allowed to pass an access point. ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7388464 | Location system and communication A location system comprises a plurality of transponders whose locations are detectable by a base system. The base system interrogates (51-55) the transponders one at a time in accordance with a schedule of consecutive time slots. In response to a prior... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386489 | Automated sales support device A system and method for notifying salespersons of customer communications including a target item is provided. Individual customers are mapped to one or more salespersons. Target items of interest to a salesperson are defined and a salesperson is associated with a c... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386443 | System and method for mobile automatic speech recognition A system and method of updating automatic speech recognition parameters on a mobile device are disclosed. The method comprises storing user account-specific adaptation data associated with ASR on a computing device associated with a wireless network, generating new ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386108 | Routing extensions for telecommunication network system and method A distributed features system is disclosed which permits a telecommunication network to accommodate the creation of open multimedia services. It is an object of the present invention to create an architecture that facilitates modularity and compositional service cre... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7385938 | Method and apparatus for adjusting a network device configuration change distribution schedule The invention comprises a method and apparatus for adjusting a distribution schedule controlling distribution of network device configuration changes associated with a plurality of network devices. Specifically, the method comprises determining a distribution status... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386631 | Apparatus and methods for providing translucent proxies in a communications network The Translucent Proxying of TCP (TPOT) device and methods use TCP-OPTIONS and IP tunneling to guarantee that all IP packets belonging to a specific TCP connection will traverse the proxy which intercepts the first packet of data. This guarantee allows the ad-hoc dep... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383211 | Automated sales support device A system and method for notifying salespersons of customer communications including a target item is provided. Individual customers are mapped to one or more salespersons. Target items of interest to a salesperson are defined and a salesperson is associated with a c... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383210 | Automated sales support method A system and method for notifying salespersons of customer communications including a target item is provided. Individual customers are mapped to one or more salespersons. Target items of interest to a salesperson are defined and a salesperson is associated with a c... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383185 | System and method of epsilon removal of weighted automata and transducers An improved ε-removal method is disclosed that computes for any input weighted automaton A with ε-transitions an equivalent weighted automation B with no ε-transitions. The method comprises two main steps. The first step comprises computing for each state “p”... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379865 | System and methods for concealing errors in data transmission A frame erasure concealment device and method that is based on reestimating gain parameters for a code excited linear prediction (CELP) coder is disclosed. During operation, when a frame in a stream of received data is detected as being erased, the coding parameters... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379508 | Frequency-domain method for joint equalization and decoding of space-time block codes Space-time block coding is combined with single-carrier, minimum-mean-square-error, frequency-domain equalization for wireless communication through a medium characterized by multi-paths. The transmitter encodes incoming symbols into two or more streams that are tra... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379432 | Hybrid coordination function (HCF) access through tiered contention and overlapped wireless cell mitigation A method and system reduce interference between overlapping first and second wireless LAN cells in a medium. Each cell includes a respective plurality of member stations and there is at least one overlapped station occupying both cells. An inter-cell contention-free... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379066 | System and method of customizing animated entities for use in a multi-media communication application In an embodiment, a method is provided for creating a personal animated entity for delivering a multi-media message from a sender to a recipient. An image file from the sender may be received by a server. The image file may include an image of an entity. The sender ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376597 | Automated sales support method A system and method for notifying salespersons of customer communications including a target item is provided. Individual customers are mapped to one or more salespersons. Target items of interest to a salesperson are defined and a salesperson is associated with a c... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376596 | Automated sales support device A system and method for notifying salespersons of customer communications including a target item is provided. Individual customers are mapped to one or more salespersons. Target items of interest to a salesperson are defined and a salesperson is associated with a c... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376595 | Automated sales support method A system and method for notifying salespersons of customer communications including a target item is provided. Individual customers are mapped to one or more salespersons. Target items of interest to a salesperson are defined and a salesperson is associated with a c... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376142 | Integrated services director (ISD) overall architecture A video enable answering machine having many new features including customized video announcement messages, caller ID based video announcement messages, and time based video announcement messages. ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376084 | Method and apparatus of providing resource allocation and admission control support in a VPN Method and apparatus for effectively supporting resource allocation and admission control of a Virtual Private Network in a service provider network. ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373316 | Automated sales support method A system and method for notifying salespersons of customer communications including a target item is provided. Individual customers are mapped to one or more salespersons. Target items of interest to a salesperson are defined and a salesperson is associated with a c... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7371175 | Method and system for enhanced audio communications in an interactive environment Enhanced audio communications is provided in an interactive environment, such as a gaming environment, having multiple participants. An input audio signal, such as a speech signal, that is originated by one of the multiple participants is received. In addition, one ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372850 | Method and system for employing underutilized communication channels as outbound gateways Disclosed is a method and system for employing underutilized communication channels as outbound gateways. A call from a calling terminal to a called terminal is routed to a first residential gateway at a first customer premises via a broadband data network and then ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373292 | Text-to-scene conversion A system is disclosed for generating a scene description from a set of words. The system includes modules that perform the following functions: performing a linguistic analysis on a set of words to generate a structure representation of semantic relationships betwee... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373300 | System and method of providing a spoken dialog interface to a website Disclosed is a system and method for generating a spoken dialog service from website data. Spoken dialog components typically include an automatic speech recognition module, a language understanding module, a dialog management module, a language generation module an... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369994 | Methods and apparatus for rapid acoustic unit selection from a large speech corpus A speech synthesis system can select recorded speech fragments, or acoustic units, from a very large database of acoustic units to produce artificial speech. The selected acoustic units are chosen to minimize a combination of target and concatenation costs for a giv... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369992 | System and method for triphone-based unit selection for visual speech synthesis A system and method for generating a video sequence having mouth movements synchronized with speech sounds are disclosed. The system utilizes a database of n-phones as the smallest selectable unit, wherein n is larger than 1 and preferably 3. The system calculates a... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369650 | Service and information management system for a telecommunications network A system for service control and operations for a telecommunications network. In particular, an architecture and method for a service control and operations element system. The system communicates with a plurality of interconnected telecommunications network element... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369542 | Method and apparatus for routing data A method and apparatus for handling internet access telephone calls made via cable company telephone services. A head end data terminal receives cable signals and converts them into individual signals. An intelligent switch detects signals destined for an internet s... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369538 | Method and apparatus for implementing a high-reliability load balanced easily upgradeable packet technology A network is defined with several alternative softswitches/proxies, which may be used for communication. Each softswitch/proxy has a unique Internet Protocol (IP) address. The softswitches/proxies receive configuration data from a centralized user-profile server, wh... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369506 | Method and apparatus for enabling the detection of transparent defects The present invention enables the network to determine the true state of events that appear normal but produce service disruptions by periodically probing the status of all network elements and endpoints and comparing this status to historical graphs of the network.... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369493 | Congestion control in an IP network Upon detection of an overload condition at a network element, the network element sends two messages to those other network elements which may potentially send request messages to the overloaded network element. If the network utilizes the SIP signaling protocol, th... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369487 | Clustered OFDM with channel estimation An improved OFDM receiver is realized by employing a simplified delay function for the transmissions channel. The simplified delay function yields a simplified frequency-domain correlation that is applied to develop an Eigen matrix U that is used in developing estim... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369993 | System and method of pattern recognition in very high-dimensional space A system and method of recognizing speech comprises an audio receiving element and a computer server. The audio receiving element and the computer server perform the process steps of the method. The method involves training a stored set of phonemes by converting the... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366163 | Method for providing local and toll services with LNP, and toll-free services to a calling party which originates the call from an IP location connected to a sip-enabled IP network A method for providing combined local, toll, toll free services, and number portability, to a calling party originating calls from an IP-based communication devices which are coupled to an IP-based multi-media service provider. The method includes receiving a SIP IN... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366173 | Method for distributing calls to a group of end points A switching apparatus distributes incoming calls to end point terminals that belong to a service group and that interact with the switching apparatus via messages. The messages query the end point terminals by specifying a range and asking those end point terminals ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366782 | Systems and methods for termination of session initiation protocol Systems for graceful termination of support for session initiation protocol communications on a server are described. Systems include techniques for setting a time period for gracefully terminating such support, for sending a service unavailable message to a client,... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366670 | Method and system for aligning natural and synthetic video to speech synthesis Facial animation in MPEG-4 can be driven by a text stream and a Facial Animation Parameters (FAP) stream. Text input is sent to a TTS converter that drives the mouth shapes of the face. FAPs are sent from an encoder to the face over the communication channel. Disclo... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366665 | System and method for processing speech files A system and method for speech file processing which provides users with differentially selectable speech file transcripts which can be sent to one or more other users. The speech files may be voicemail messages from which respective voicemail transcripts are create... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366655 | Method of generating a labeling guide for spoken dialog services A method is disclosed for designing a labeling guide for use by a labeler in labeling data used for training a spoken language understanding (SLU) module for an application. The method comprises a labeling guide designer selecting domain-independent actions applicab... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366417 | Delivering multicast services on a wavelength division multiplexed network using a configurable four-port wavelength selective crossbar switch A method and a system in which selected wavelengths of a wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) signal are modulated with multicast data for multicasting data services on an optical network. The WDM signal is received from a hub node of the optical network, such as a... | 04/29/2008 |
