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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184787 | System and method for generating a personalized bill using a personal address book A system and method is disclosed for creating a personalized phone bill populated with names from a subscriber's personal address book on the subscriber's device. A billing application receives a request to generate a phone bill for a subscriber, and obtains usage d... | 05/22/2012 |
| 7974610 | Persistence of interrupted calls A system for recovering an unintentionally interrupted call in a telephony network includes an interrupted call data capturer and a re-connector. The interrupted call data capturer is deployable in the telephony network and configured to capture data pertaining to a... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7813724 | System and method for multimedia-to-video conversion to enhance real-time mobile video services A communication system converting multimedia data of enhanced services into video stream for transmission to a user's handset communication device. The system includes a database storing therein users profile data; a mailbox system storing therein users mailboxes an... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7747706 | System and methods for completion of attempts to access content A content consumption session completion system and method useful in conjunction therewith, the system comprising an apparatus for detecting uncompleted content consumption sessions by monitoring consumption of data services by a user and logging information regardi... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7668515 | Portable telephone for conveying real time walkie-talkie streaming audio-video A communications device having a display and an integral camera and being provided with a walkie-talkie mode for conveying real time streaming audio-video to one or more receiving devices. ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7522712 | Method for initiating a session in a store and forward messaging system A method for initiating a session in a store and forward messaging system, such as a voice/video call answering (VCA) system, is provided. A data storage device stores capability information for subscribers of the messaging system, the capability information includi... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7493269 | Method and system for enabling the dispensing and redeeming of vouchers by voicemail A system for providing voucher dispensing and redeeming using current mobile communications hardware and infrastructure. The system enables the creation, reception and usage of voice vouchers, wherein digital vouchers are embodied as attachments within voicemail mes... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7436949 | Personal ring tone message indicator A system and method of message indicating that enable the sender of a message to chose the ringing tone of the receiver's cellular telephone upon arrival of the sender's message. The sender has the ability to either choose or create the ringing tone to be played on ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7408106 | Tele-karaoke A system and method of tele-karaoke that enables a user to perform and record karaoke using a terminal such as a cellular telephone. The karaoke performance is recorded as an MMS message which subsequently allows a user to send the recorded performance to others. Th... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7353187 | Methods and systems for storing predetermined multimedia information An apparatus for storing predetermined multimedia information is provided. The apparatus includes a telephony messaging platform and first and second storage locations contained in the telephony messaging platform. The predetermined multimedia information is stored ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7301899 | Prevention of bandwidth congestion in a denial of service or other internet-based attack A method and apparatus for preventing a Denial of Service attack directed at a target that is hosted on a server. The attack is detected and the IP address of the source client of the attack is identified. The IP address of the source of the attack is then communica... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7272216 | Incomplete call notification A method and apparatus for providing a telephone subscriber with data of uncompleted calls. A determination unit detects an uncompleted call by receiving a signal from a telephone switch or by monitoring the operation of the network exchange switch. The switch is th... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7196807 | Encrypted e-mail message retrieval system An electronic message retrieval system in which the electronic message, and any corresponding attachments, can be encrypted by the sender of the message and routed to the intended recipient, even if the intended recipient is in a mobile location or it is otherwise i... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7133504 | Non-voice completion of voice calls The present invention relates to a system for allowing a caller to leave a voice message for a called party, who is unavailable, such that the voice message is transferred to the called party in a non-voice format. The present invention enables the user to automatic... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7123697 | Method and system for providing a call answering service between a source telephone and a target telephone In a method and voice mail system for providing a call answering service between a source telephone and a target telephone, a voice mail system receives an unanswered call directed to the target telephone. If the target telephone is not busy, the voice mail system e... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7099457 | Personal ring tone message indicator A system and method of message indicating that enable the sender of a message to chose the ringing tone of the receiver's cellular telephone upon arrival of the sender's message. The sender has the ability to either choose or create the ringing tone to be played on ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 6996531 | Automated database assistance using a telephone for a speech based or text based multimedia communication mode An interface for remote human input for reading a database, the interface including an automatic voice question unit for eliciting speech input, a speech recognition unit for recognizing human speech input, and a data recognition unit for recognizing remote data inp... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6987763 | Load balancing A system, computer program product and method for distributing incoming packets among several servers or other network devices, such as routers or proxies. The distribution is based on calculations, which include data associated with each of the packets. The data is... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6965917 | System and method for notification of an event A method and a system for notifying a subscriber of the occurrence of an event, which may be a messaging event, in which a message is received by a messaging service associated with the particular subscriber; or a non-messaging event, such as the occurrence of a par... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6961414 | Telephone network-based method and system for automatic insertion of enhanced personal address book contact data A system and method for automatic insertion of enhanced personal address book contact data from the telephone. The PAB telephone network-based system includes an application unit to coordinate the addition of new contact data by a user via his telephone, and/or is u... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6961330 | Web development and deployment using SMS and USSD A communication system contains a protocol converting controller. The controller receives an upstream mobile terminal message from a mobile terminal and converts the upstream mobile terminal message into an upstream Internet message to be used by an Internet server.... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6912544 | System and method for interleaving of material from database and customized audio-visual material A system and method for real-time transfer of multimedia material from a remote device to a centralized multi-media storage unit, wherein the multimedia material is combined with extrinsic material to generate a virtual record. A user selects specifications and inst... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6856809 | SMS conference A method, computer system, computer program product, and user interface for enabling SMS users to engage in many-to-many conversation, or an SMS conference, utilizing SMS services. Specifically, a user initiates an SMS conference by sending a short message, includin... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6801603 | Online aggregation Method and apparatus for providing a centralized access, in real-time, to messages received in, or sent from two or more mail accounts of a user. Data related to incoming and/or outgoing messages from one or more accounts of the user is continuously aggregating and/... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6792082 | Voice mail system with personal assistant provisioning A personal assistant system uses context to intelligently make contacts and for provisioning an address book. The system can be customized by subscribers for all or specific contacts. The system uses history information to make predictions of whether calls will be s... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6775359 | Voice reply to incoming e-mail messages, via e-mail Method and apparatus for replying to an incoming E-mail message by a corresponding voice message response. The recipient reads, or listens to the incoming E-mail message and voice data, containing a recorded voice reply to the incoming E-mail message is then generat... | 08/10/2004 |
