Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property, Inc.

Location: Wilmington, DE
No. of patents: 40

Number	Title	Issue Date
7386476	Small business service buying club systems and methods Systems and methods allow small businesses and other buyers to aggregate their purchases to obtain volume discounts from suppliers. The systems are especially beneficial to small businesses that may be unable to obtain any discounted price on their own. The systems ...	06/10/2008
7360160	System and method for providing substitute content in place of blocked content A method for blocking content from being presented at a client device including substitution of alternative content. The client device recognizes and evaluates the received tags and blocks content based on a user profile. Substitute content is then identified and pr...	04/15/2008
7340037	Processes and systems for correlating work orders Methods and systems are disclosed for correlating work orders. One embodiment includes communicating with a communications network and acquiring new work order information representing a new work order. The new work order information is searched for at least one cor...	03/04/2008
7308094	Processes and systems for screening work orders Processes and systems are disclosed for screening a work order to diagnose and to isolate trouble in a telephone system. One embodiment includes communicating with a communications network and acquiring work order information, the work order information representing...	12/11/2007
7289605	Processes and systems for creating and for managing trouble tickets and work orders Processes and systems are disclosed for creating and for managing trouble tickets and work orders. One embodiment includes communicating with a communications network and receiving a request to create a trouble ticket. The trouble ticket is created to investigate a ...	10/30/2007
7269250	System and method for processing traffic study requests A system and method for processing traffic study requests in a communications network. The system provides a log-in window for a user identification validation. If a user is an authorized user of the system, the system provides a window for displaying a CPNI disclai...	09/11/2007
7269163	Remote control telephone dialing system and method An apparatus for allowing a calling party to initiate a telephone call from an Internet-enabled device. The apparatus includes a server for receiving an originating telephone number and a destination telephone number in response to a command from the Internet-enable...	09/11/2007
7269128	System and method for proactive scheduling of system maintenance A system for planning maintenance activities in a communication network is provided. The system comprises a query execution module, an out of sync record generator module, and a network maintenance function command module. The query execution module is operative to ...	09/11/2007
7266508	System and method for managing customer contacts and related information A system and method for retaining institutional customer contact knowledge and experience is disclosed. The system and method permits multiple users to interact with a centralized database that retains customer contact information. The system and method allows multi...	09/04/2007
7266184	Securely sending notification of a new incoming e-mail message by way of a public network A system notifies a computing device of an incoming message. In the system, a message server is coupled to a data communications network for receiving the incoming message, and a communications system is coupled to the message server so that the message server can c...	09/04/2007
7263102	Multi-path gateway communications device Methods, systems, and apparatuses are disclosed for enabling a virtual personalized network. Communications are established with a personal digital gateway to control access, sharing, security, and/or management of up-to-date personalized data exchanged between or a...	08/28/2007
7262695	Network interface device An apparatus is disclosed that provides a gateway function. The apparatus has an enclosure surrounding a network interface device. The network interface device has a communications network interface to a communications network and a power line network interface to a...	08/28/2007
7260630	Method, system, and storage medium for collecting SNMP bandwidth data One embodiment of the invention relates to a method for collecting SNMP bandwidth data from a network device via a data collection system. The method involves simultaneously collecting data samples from a port on the network device by collecting servers. The collect...	08/21/2007
7260198	System and method for displaying a party profile for incoming and outgoing calls This specification relates to a method for providing information about a caller before the call is completed. The invention comprises a method for intercepting a telephone number from a phone line or phone system, searching a database for information associated with...	08/21/2007
7260197	Call blocking device and methods A caller ID device includes a switch and a control circuit in communication with the switch, wherein the control circuit includes a memory, the memory having a table of blocked calls, and wherein each of the blocked calls is identified as a blocked call in response ...	08/21/2007
7260194	Method and system for providing long distance service A system and method of providing long distance service products to users. Post-paid debit calling cards are purchased on-line by a customer or user and the user is billed monthly, along with other service charges. The calling card account, however, is debited as it ...	08/21/2007
7257741	Methods and systems for communications device troubleshooting Methods and systems provide for the troubleshooting of communications devices that interconnect a personal computer or network of personal computers to a network of a service provider. The troubleshooting is provided through a computer application program that may t...	08/14/2007
7257466	Intelligent control devices A control device operates to selectively provision power. The control device can be implemented as part of an electrical apparatus, such as a computer, television, VCR, hairdryer or other device which operates on AC power. The control device can be also implemented ...	08/14/2007
7257387	Method and system for emergency control of a voice/data communications device Emergency remote control communications systems and methods provide remote access to, activation of, deactivation of, monitoring of, communications with, and/or otherwise management of a Voice-Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications device (and/or another perip...	08/14/2007
7257213	Call scheduling in a telephone network using a telephony interface A system and method to allow telephone subscribers to schedule calls for future placement on a telephone network using a telephone interface. In an illustrative implementation, a telephone subscriber part of an AIN telephone network is offered a call scheduling serv...	08/14/2007
7257212	Methods and systems for automated prepaid service routing Methods and systems for automatically routing a long distance call placed by a subscriber to a prepaid service provider. Methods are discussed for allowing the prepaid subscriber to directly dial a called party's long distance telephone number, and then routing the ...	08/14/2007
7257204	Methods, systems, and products for providing communications services Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for providing communications services. One method allows a subscriber to create a data message. The subscriber may associate the data message to an originating party and to a recipient. When a communication from the origi...	08/14/2007
7257219	Routing data based on comparative income values To select routing of communications in a network with a plurality of paths between a first location and a second location, a routing choice is determined from among the plurality of paths based at least in part upon at least one of a communication-success amount of ...	08/14/2007
7254417	Car-safe messaging interfaces for interactive pagers and related methods Messaging interfaces that may be used in conjunction with interactive pagers include a housing that contains a message processing circuit, a user interface, and a communications circuit that is used to forward the text messages between the message processing circuit...	08/07/2007
7254226	Call waiting priority alert A method for delivering a priority call waiting alert service to a telephone subscriber. An embodiment of the present invention may be implemented on an Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN). When a call intended the subscriber is received by a service switching point ...	08/07/2007
7254221	Methods, systems, and products for providing communications services Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for providing communications services. One method receives a communication from an originating party, with the communication intended for a receiving party. A database of pre-created data messages is accessed, with the da...	08/07/2007
7251502	Mobile aerial communications antenna and associated methods A mobile aerial communications antenna assembly including a mobile aerial assembly and a transportation system operably connected to the mobile aerial assembly, wherein the transportation system includes a lift source operable for generating a lift force and a plura...	07/31/2007
7251483	Systems and methods for providing data rate indications A system including a service measurement database having stored therein network service measurement data relating to a network and a server in communication with the service measurement database, wherein the server estimates a data throughput for a device that is in...	07/31/2007
7251479	Methods and systems for enabling address book selection and communication with a wireless device Methods and systems are provided for establishing communication with a wireless device and a recipient telecommunications device in a telecommunications network. In one computer-assisted embodiment, the method includes identifying at least a first address associated...	07/31/2007
7245925	System and method for using location information to execute an action Provided are methods for executing an action in response to a request for a service using location information in conjunction with service-specific parameters. A user may request a provider of a specified service (e.g., taxi, plumber, pharmacist, etc.). In evaluatin...	07/17/2007
7245713	Call monitoring Methods and systems are provided for monitoring calls routed to a telephone network-based voice mail system. When a subscriber receives a telephone call, a determination is made as to whether the call should be routed to the voice mail system. If call monitoring ser...	07/17/2007
7245701	System and method for verifying central office wiring associated with line sharing A system and method for verifying the integrity of a DSL circuit on a shared telephone line. The invention uses the amplitude modulation principles to overcome the difficulty associated with a blocking capacitor that isolates a DSLAM on the DSL circuit from the rest...	07/17/2007
7243362	System and method for inserting advertising content in broadcast programming A system for inserting viewer-specific advertising content comprises a viewer device. The viewer device identifies viewer characteristics regarding the viewer. Upon receipt of advertising content, the viewer device identifies advertisements matching the viewer chara...	07/10/2007
7243078	Method of providing customer services A method for providing real-time individualized customer support simultaneously to a plurality of customers in a chat-room environment is disclosed. The method monitors the content of chats or conversations between service representatives and customers to automatica...	07/10/2007
7238156	Systems, methods, and devices for health monitoring A health monitoring system is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the health monitoring system includes a first server configured to receive a first set of information from a monitoring device, wherein the first set of information includes a health condition rea...	07/03/2007
7236573	Method and apparatus for testing telephone sound quality A method and apparatus for testing telephone sets to determine their sound quality comprising a system for repeatedly applying a sequence of pulse tones to a test telephone where the respective tone frequencies are different and within the normal human voice range.	06/26/2007
7237266	Electronic vulnerability and reliability assessment Systems for providing information on system vulnerabilities include a database populated with descriptive system information and a database structure configured as a hierarchical plurality of database pages configured to include element vulnerability information and...	06/26/2007
7237119	Method, system and computer program for managing user authorization levels An embodiment of the invention is a method of managing user authorization levels for access to a plurality of applications. The method includes receiving a request from a user to establish a user profile and establishing an employment indicator for the user. A user ...	06/26/2007
7236611	Gesture activated home appliance Apparatus for operating home appliances using gesture recognition are disclosed. An image receiver receives a continuous stream of images of a gesture made within the image receiver's field of view. An image processor is connected to the image receiver for sampling ...	06/26/2007
7233656	Method and system for identifying telemarketer communications A method and system for identifying telemarketer communications directed to a subscriber of a call screening service is provided. A link monitoring system monitors all inbound and outbound calls of a carrier network collecting data such as calling and called telepho...	06/19/2007

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Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property, Inc.