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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7739561 | Method and apparatus for monitoring an optical network signal A method is disclosed for monitoring a communication link between a first apparatus and a second apparatus, the method comprising receiving concurrently from the first apparatus (e.g., a central office) at the second apparatus (e.g., an optical demarcation point at ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7649986 | Automated electronic telecommunications order translation and processing Systems and method for processing orders for telecommunications services are disclosed. Generally a telecommunications transaction set of an electronic data interchange standard is received, the telecommunications transaction set corresponding to a telecommunication... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7646726 | System for detecting packetization delay of packets in a network A system is disclosed for detecting packetization delay of packets in a network. The system includes a router to receive at least one packet containing data. A detection system, which is in communication with the router, extracts a codec information and a packet len... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7643625 | Method of and system for altering incoming call controls after a call has been placed to an emergency number According to the various embodiments of the present invention, an outbound call to a number on an emergency call list may change the incoming call controls to a telephone. In particular, methods of altering incoming call controls after a call has been placed to an e... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7620168 | Network element routing service Systems and methods for providing a call to a telephone number are disclosed. Generally a first network element is queried regarding treatment of a call. A telephone number is associated with a second network element, and the call is routed to the telephone number w... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7606555 | Location information system for a wireless communication device and method therefor A location information system (102) includes a controller (200), a location entry device (202), a memory device (204) and wireless communication units (206-209). The controller (200) receives location information from... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7606218 | Ethernet-based digital subscriber line methods and systems A digital subscriber line access network comprises a remote Ethernet device disposed in a serving area interface. The remote Ethernet device serves as an Ethernet bridge for a neighborhood service area. The remote Ethernet device communicates with a plurality of cus... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7580514 | Method, system, and articles for providing a family telecommunication service A menu is provided in a first telephone call. The menu provides a plurality of destination options including a first destination option for a residence of a family, a second destination option for a first member of the family at a first location other than the resid... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7580462 | Method and system to improve the transport of compressed video data A method comprises determining a plurality of time intervals Tp and Tn within a variable bit rate (VBR) representation of an image sequence. The time intervals Tp are those in which a number of blocks of information per unit time is greater than a baseline value. Th... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7577243 | Method, system, and article for determining an availability of a telecommunication device A data structure, which identifies a party of a telecommunication network and a telecommunication feature unavailable to the party, is stored in a database. After storing the data structure, availability data is inputted. The availability data indicates an availabil... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7567901 | Bio-phonetic multi-phrase speaker identity verification Systems and methods for bio-phonetic multi-phrase speaker identity verification are disclosed. Generally, a speaker identity verification engine generates a dynamic phrase including at least one dynamically-generated word. The speaker identity verification engine pr... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7567655 | System and method for accessing a messaging service using a short dialing sequence A system and method for providing easy access to messaging services in a telecommunications network having office switches that are used by different providers of telephone and messaging services. The system uses a supplementary services database to maintain custome... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7545924 | Method and system for selectively performing call information query A system and method for providing call information query stores modified call information associated with a telephone number within the local databases of a service provider's local network. The modified call information enables a service provider to unilaterally al... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7539249 | Method and system to improve the transport of compressed video data A method comprises determining a plurality of time intervals Tp and Tn within a variable bit rate (VBR) representation of an image sequence. The time intervals Tp are those in which a number of blocks of information per unit time is greater than a baseline value. Th... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7535998 | Voice over IP method for developing interactive voice response system A personal Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system includes a plurality of IVR servers communicating personal IVR service node information in a network and a plurality of personal IVR service node clients coupled to the plurality of IVR servers communicating the per... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7508926 | Method and system for creating a billing record with a called party's name A method and system are provided for creating a billing record with a called party's name. Providing the called party's name on the billing record facilitates the calling party's review of the billing record by reducing the amount of time and effort needed to determ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7505570 | Voice over IP method for developing interactive voice response system A personal Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system includes a plurality of IVR servers communicating personal IVR service node information in a network and a plurality of personal IVR service node clients coupled to the plurality of IVR servers communicating the per... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7502416 | Method and system to improve the transport of compressed video data A method comprises determining a plurality of time intervals Tp and Tn within a variable bit rate (VBR) representation of an image sequence. The time intervals Tp are those in which a number of blocks of information per unit time is greater than a baseline value. Th... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7499594 | Multi-resolution predictive foveation for bandwidth reduction of moving images A scene of an image sequence is compressed using a number of foveation zones, each foveation zone being weighted based on a probability of a viewer looking at a corresponding portion of the first scene. Each foveation zone in the scene has a corresponding resolution... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7454470 | System and method for analyzing communications The invention provides a system and method for analyzing a collection of communication messages. The communication messages may be any one of a collection of electronic mail messages, voicemail messages, instant messaging dialogues and other forms of communications.... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7451452 | Methods and systems of verifying EMS compliance via NMS interface A test harness tests an element management system (EMS) via a network management system (NMS) interface for compliance with a particular interface standard. The test harness may be used by a party other than a vendor of the EMS to verify compliance of the EMS to the... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7451309 | Signature specification for encrypted packet streams Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for specifying a signature for an encrypted packet stream. One method receives the encrypted stream of packets, and encryption obscures the contents of a packet. A signature for insertion into the stream of packets is spe... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450698 | System and method of utilizing a hybrid semantic model for speech recognition A method for processing a call is disclosed. The method receives a speech input in connection with a call and transforms at least a segment of the speech input into a first textual format. The method also generates a first list of entries based, at least partially, ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450504 | Admission control for QoS-driven wireless LANs A method and a system for a quality of service (QoS) point coordinator (PC) for a basic service set (BSS) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) is disclosed. The PC includes a QoS management entity (QME) and an admission control entity (ACE). The QME receives at l... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7448324 | Segmented rod projectile At least some of the segments of a segmented rod projectile are provided with a mechanism that causes them to divert away from the projectile's original line of flight after the segments are separated during flight to the target. That mechanism is illustratively a n... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7444371 | Method and apparatus for limiting reuse of domain name system response information A method of limiting reuse of domain name information includes the steps of requesting the information by a local domain name server from an authoritative domain name server, and providing this information to a requestor, such as a client or server. The domain name ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444078 | Transient control solution for optical networks An optically amplified wavelength division multiplexing network has the functionality to add/drop channels at the optical add/drop multiplexing (OADM) nodes. The OADM node includes a receiver amplifier, an OADM module, and a transmitter amplifier. Once the OADM node... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440957 | Updates through views A method and system are disclosed that allow database views and base tables to be treated identically with respect to queries, insertions, deletions and updates. The method and system include separating the data instance of a view into a logical data instance and a ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437369 | Systems and methods for data retrieval, manipulation, and delivery Systems and methods are disclosed that include a user interface that enables a user to request a pre-defined report. The user may specify either or both of an electronic mail delivery address for the report and an interval at which the report is to be updated. Such ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436940 | Methods and systems for enabling a reply call to voice mail message Methods and systems for enabling a subscriber to reply to a voice mail message that has been made available for the subscriber at a voice mail system (VMS). In response to an indication, the VMS transmits a release message with respect to the subscriber's communicat... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436938 | Method of providing 911 service A method of providing 911 service to a private branch exchange, includes grouping a plurality of private telephone numbers into a set. An outgoing telephone line for a 911 call is assigned to the set. A location information for the outgoing telephone line is input i... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436821 | Methods and apparatus for authorizing and allocating outdial communication services Methods and apparatus for authorizing and allocating outdial communication services are disclosed. A disclosed system comprises an application server to initiate an outdial communication service, a gateway to transport the outdial communication service from the appl... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436346 | System, method and interface for controlling multiple electronic devices of a home entertainment system via a single control device A portable communication device is provided and includes a display. At least one remote control soft button is presented at the display and an electronic device control command is associated with each remote control soft button. Further, the electronic device contro... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7435009 | Optical fiber connection system An optical fiber connection system detects when proper connection is made between a fiber-optic cable and a bulkhead. A conductive strip on the fiber-optic cable contacts a first and second conductor on the bulkhead upon proper positioning of the bulkhead relative t... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434262 | Methods and systems that selectively resurrect blocked communications between devices Data communications between devices are selectively blocked and resurrected based on error notifications. Data communications from one or more source devices to one or more intended destination devices are selectively blocked based on content of the data communicati... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433963 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for using a translation/instruction system to redirect a multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) packet A multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) packet is processed by receiving an MPLS packet that has first header information including at least a first MPLS label at a first MPLS network node. A translation system is operated to obtain second header information that inc... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433897 | Systems and methods for database registration Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for database registration. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for database registration includes receiving a user identifier of a user and then sending a query to a first d... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433864 | Compiling information obtained by combinatorial searching Included are embodiments for searching sensitive information. At least one embodiment of a method includes searching for a first piece of sensitive information, searching for a second piece of sensitive information, and combining a score associated with the search f... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433830 | Method and system for assigning and dispatching a telecommunications systems work order based on global positioning information Methods and systems are disclosed for enhancing telephone work orders with Global Positioning System information. One method generates a work order for repair of a telecommunications network. A turf is assigned to the work order, and the assigned turf is verified wi... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433458 | System and method for viewing contents via a computer network during a telephone call A method for enabling one or both parties of a telephone call to view contents of a source computer via a computer network during the telephone call. The method includes the following steps: (1) associating a telephone number of a telephone line with a network addre... | 10/07/2008 |
