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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8095882 | Additional functionality for telephone numbers and utilization of context information associated with telephone numbers in computer documents Telephone numbers are identified and highlighted on any computer document being loaded into a graphical user interface (GUI) for viewing by a user, and context information associated with the telephone numbers so tagged may also be viewed. The user may click on any ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 7570613 | Organization of automatic power save delivery buffers at an access point A method and apparatus providing delivery of buffered frames in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) is presented. The method and apparatus determines an occurrence of at least one non-APSD station in said WLAN, and when at least one non-Automatic Power Save Deliver... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7565325 | Multi-site software license balancing A multi-site software license balancing system for allocating a predetermined number of software licenses between two or more license servers located at different sites. Each license server compiles software license allocation and availability data and shares the al... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7529558 | System and method for location based push-to-talk A system and method are provided for establishing location-based push-to-talk communication groups. A location determining application is incorporated within a communication network for members of a push-to-talk group. This application may include global positioning... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7487237 | Load optimization Methods, computer code, and means are described that can control load in a network. In some applications, the monetary cost of operating the network can be reduced. Utilization of links in the network can be monitored. A degree of suboptimality with respect to some ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7468669 | RFID patch panels and cables The present invention provides a device, system, and method for identifying interconnect cables used in a network and the locations in the network where the interconnect cables are deployed. The identification information may be used to audit, for example, patch pan... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7432951 | Video-telephony integration An integrated video-telephony system is provided. The system allows a video communication session to be established to complement an audio communication session when communication devices or endpoints associated with the audio communication session are also video co... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7426577 | Detection of load balanced links in internet protocol netwoks A system is provided that includes a memory 204 comprising a baseline topology 216; and a processor 208 that selects, from the baseline topology 216, first and second addresses associated with first and second routers 224 and 22... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7415417 | Presence awareness agent The present invention is directed to a customer contact 100 in which a agent service function 136 to collect predetermined types of information regarding the contact and/or the contact center 100 and interface with the contact. The interface can... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415100 | Personal virtual assistant A computer-based virtual assistant the behavior of which can be changed by the user, comprising a voice user interface for inputting information into and receiving information from the virtual assistant by speech, a communications network, a virtual assistant applic... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412044 | Instant messaging to and from PBX stations The present invention is directed to a message interfacing agent 224 enables a circuit-switched communication device 106, such as a telephone, to receive and respond to electronic messages and the feature server 228 enables external endpoints to... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408925 | Originator based directing and origination call processing features for external devices The present invention is directed to an architecture 200 for setting up a communication between first and second communication devices 216 and 220, the first communication device 216 corresponding to a first directing server 224 an... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406231 | Electroluminescent patch cable The present invention provides an interconnect cable having an electroluminescent element disposed therein in order to facilitate locating the interconnect cable. The electroluminescent element is activated by a driver that may be selectively applied to specified dr... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406539 | Method and apparatus for performance and cost optimization in an internetwork Systems and methods are described for supporting routing intelligence for evaluating routing paths based on performance measurements. The routing intelligence may include processes executed in a self-contained device. This device may control one or more edge routers... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403773 | Location-based access control for wireless local area networks A wireless local area network (LAN), and a method of operating the same, prevents unauthorized users from accessing the wireless LAN. A signal strength of a station attempting to access the wireless LAN is measured. If the signal strength is less than a predetermine... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403784 | Method and apparatus for positioning a set of terminals in an indoor wireless environment Methods and apparatus are provided for estimating a location of a plurality of wireless terminals. Signal strength measurements are obtained for at least one packet transmitted by each of the wireless terminals; and a Bayesian algorithm is applied to the signal stre... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400586 | Collaborative remote communication circuit diagnostic tool The invention is a diagnostic tool for collaboratively testing a T1 line from remote terminals. A Diagnostic Interface Unit (DIU) containing test and monitoring equipment is connected into a T1 line close to a demarcation point. Testing from that common point, to ei... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7397778 | Method and apparatus for predicting the quality of packet data communications The present invention provides a prediction of an available communication channel quality. According to the present invention, in response to a request for a communication channel, network devices are queried for network parameter status information. Based on the ne... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395057 | System and method for reconnecting dropped cellular phone calls The present invention relates to a system and method of reliably determining that a cellular phone call has been dropped and then automatically reconnect the call. The invention is applicable for use in telephone systems that have off-premises call hunting algorithm... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395047 | Enhanced emergency system telephone feature for PBX and key systems When an emergency call is made from a location on a premises that has on-premises (non-public) emergency-response personnel, the communications system responds by accessing a private database of information about the premises, retrieves therefrom information about t... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392048 | Peer-to-peer discovery for location-based forwarding An apparatus for enabling signals directed to a first telecommunications terminal to be forwarded intelligently to a second telecommunications terminal in the vicinity of the first terminal is disclosed. In particular, the illustrative embodiment automatically forwa... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389114 | Estimating the location of inexpensive wireless terminals by using signal strength measurements A system is disclosed that enables the estimation of the location of a wireless terminal in a wireless network. The illustrative embodiment works without requiring modifications to be made to the wireless terminal. Furthermore, the hardware of some embodiments of th... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386850 | Arrangement for scheduling tasks based on probability of availability of resources at a future point in time A resource task-completion forecaster (122) of an ACD (104) determines a probability that an agent (156) will complete servicing a presently-assigned call by a specified time horizon h. The forecaster determines (202) the type of call tha... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386100 | Arrangement for maintaining mode synchronization in automatic TTY-to-text translation systems Teletype (TTY, also known as Telecommunication Device for the Deaf, or TDD) transmissions are moded. The same sequence of tones may code for a letter or for a figure. When a TTY device is transmitting to a text-based Internet Protocol display device, via a TTY-to-te... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7379431 | Error correction method and apparatus for TTY on VoIP transmissions The present invention is directed to a system for reliably transmitting characters encoded as audible signals using voice over Internet protocol communication systems. According to an embodiment of the present invention, tones within a sequence of tones encoding a t... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376127 | Methods for reconstructing missing packets in TTY over voice over IP transmission A system for reconstructing missing packets in a packetized audio TTY stream that includes: (a) an input 328 operable to receive a plurality of first packets, each comprising one or more TTY tones in a sequence of TTY tones;... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373657 | Method and apparatus for controlling data and software access A proximity based computer access system is provided. According to the invention, a local key associated with a workstation wirelessly communicates with a local key which is associated with a user. If the user, and remote key, are outside of a preset radius of the w... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372856 | Method for real-time transport protocol (RTP) packet authentication A method for Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) packet authentication on a packet data network. In particular, the invention relates to a method for preventing toll fraud, privacy compromise, voice quality degradation, or denial of service (DoS) on Voice over IP net... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369649 | System and method for caller initiated voicemail annotation and its transmission over IP/SIP for flexible and efficient voice mail retrieval A voice-mail annotation system and method that enables callers to annotate the messages they leave at the time they leave them. Annotation may be performed using a touch screen or a telephone key-pad. In addition to allowing the caller to more clearly specify the in... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366110 | Method and apparatus for merging call components during call reconstruction The present invention is directed to a secondary communication server 216 for assuming control of a communication formerly controlled by a primary communication server 212 in the event of a failure, comprising: (a) an... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366499 | Announcement service for the visually impaired A visually-impaired person possessing a GPS-equipped cellular phone, or other mobile communications device, who wants to know their location, uses the cellular phone to call a location-announcement service. In response, the service queries the GPS receiver for the p... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366916 | Method and apparatus for an encrypting keyboard A method and keyboard for protecting data generated by the keyboard by reading data from a keypad of the keyboard, encrypting the read data, and transmitting the encrypted data from the keyboard to a computer. A method for protecting by the computer data generated b... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363212 | Method and apparatus for translating a classification system into a target language A method and apparatus are provided for translating a classification system in a source language into one or more additional target languages. The classification system employs a sample response repository to learn to classify a communication into one of a plurality... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363367 | Systems and methods for robust, real-time measurement of network performance Methods and apparatuses for obtaining delay, jitter, and loss statistics of a path between server and an end user coupled via an internetwork are described. The server may comprise a web server in communication with the end user via the Internet. Statistics are obta... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359979 | Packet prioritization and associated bandwidth and buffer management techniques for audio over IP The present invention is directed to voice communication devices in which an audio stream is divided into a sequence of individual packets, each of which is routed via pathways that can vary depending on the availability of network resources. All embodiments of the ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359495 | Method and apparatus for uniform operational access across multiple information systems A method and apparatus for determining operational preferences for a user access to a plurality of telecommunication response systems designating by the user that user operations of one of the plurality of telecommunication response systems will be the operational p... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353388 | Key server for securing IP telephony registration, control, and maintenance A packet-switched communications device in an enterprise network is provided. The packet-switched communications device has a corresponding unique identifier, such as an address or extension. The device includes a processor operable to (a) establish a secure communi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352705 | Method and apparatus for determining endpoints for use as testing devices A method and apparatus for testing a digital network having a plurality of subnetworks by determining by one of a plurality of user endpoint devices assigned to one of the plurality of subnetworks upon the one of the plurality of user endpoint devices being idle tha... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349994 | Method and apparatus for coordinating routing parameters via a back-channel communication medium Systems and methods are described for enabling routers to coordinate via a back-channel communication medium. The information exchanged over the back-channel is used to increase the number of paths considered for the routers during route optimization. The Decision M... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348862 | Modular connector with suppression of conducted and radiated emissions An RJ 45 connector for unshielded CAT5 cable has electromagnetic-interference-suppression circuitry to meet the Class B conducted and radiated emissions standard. The connector comprises, in addition to signal-conditioning transformers, a current-blocking ferrite an... | 03/25/2008 |
