Assignee: MCI, LLC

Location: Basking Ridge, NJ
No. of patents: 39

Number	Title	Issue Date
7236486	Integrated customer web station for web based call management A Web-based call routing management workstation application which allows authorized customers to control toll free routing and monitor call center status. An architecture including one or more web servers located in a firewalled demilitarized zone (DMZ) as communica...	06/26/2007
7225249	Integrated systems for providing communications network management services and interactive generating invoice documents A integrated customer interface for providing telecommunications management to a customer at a browser involves a web server and a client application. The web server manages a client session supports communication of request messages received from the browser to a n...	05/29/2007
7209439	Pool-based resource management in a data network In one embodiment, a network system of the present invention includes at least a first router and a second router coupled to an upstream link to permit data flow from the first router to the second router across the upstream link. The second router includes a contro...	04/24/2007
7200208	Method and system for providing communication services for hearing-impaired parties A method for providing communication services for the hearing-impaired includes establishing a communication link between a hearing-impaired party and a communication assistant. The communication assistant may also establish a voice link with a hearing party. The he...	04/03/2007
7197560	Communications system with fraud monitoring A fraud monitoring system is disclosed for a communications system. The fraud monitoring system analyzes records of usage activity in the system and applies fraud pattern detection algorithms to detect patterns indicative of fraud. The fraud monitoring system advant...	03/27/2007
7194543	System and method for creating and managing survivable, service hosting networks The present invention is directed to a system, method and software product for balancing resource services are always available to match the desired work to be done through the use of “sticky services.”. Sticky services are defined as services that you know you ...	03/20/2007
7180990	Prepaid telephone calling card with message recording capability System and method for recording at least one message to be associated with a prepaid telephone calling card. The system and method include and involve a data storage system for storing data corresponding to the prepaid telephone calling card and at least one message...	02/20/2007
7177406	Systems and methods for providing portable voicemail services A system for providing voicemail services includes a network device that receives voicemail messages intended for subscribers. The subscribers may be associated with a number of different local telephone service providers. The network device also stores the voicemai...	02/13/2007
7174323	System and method for multi-modal authentication using speaker verification A system authenticates an electronic transaction between a first user-operated device and a computer. The computer is configured to conduct electronic transactions. The system includes a voice browser and a session correlator. The voice browser is configured to rece...	02/06/2007
7171217	Location finder A system and a method for reporting a location are provided. A location finding device determines whether the location finding device is located within a first distance of a first location or area. When the location finding device determines that the location findin...	01/30/2007
7167546	Provision of voice mail messaging indicator and voice mail access services via common instant communications clients An approach is provided for supporting telephony services over a data network. The approach aggregate message waiting indication information from one or more voice mail systems for notifying a user of the presence of a voice mail message resident on any one of the v...	01/23/2007
7167468	Internet protocol telephony voice/video message deposit and retrieval A method for signaling an Integrated Messaging System (IMS) on an Internet Protocol (IP) based network to deposit a message, including the steps of sending a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) SIP INVITE request to the IMS indicating a message deposit action; receivi...	01/23/2007
7163180	System and method for routing cables A system and method for routing and segregating cables is provided. An embodiment includes a support member having a plurality of cable trays coupled thereto. The cable trays may be arranged in a tiered-manner such that cable receiving portions of the cable trays ex...	01/16/2007
7164986	Method and system for tracked device location and route adherence via geofencing A device tracking location adherence and route adherence technology, is disclosed that at least provides a tracked device receiving, a set of coordinates associated with a boundary area, and obtaining a position of the tracked device. Based upon the received coordin...	01/16/2007
7161959	Method and system for efficiently passing the silence or unused status of a DSO channel through a DsO switch matrix and a data switch A method and system for improving the passage of silent or unused status of Ds0 channel to a data switch with a Ds0 switching capacity. The method allows the Ds0 channel source to be the only equipment that must engage a digital signal processor to remove silent and...	01/09/2007
7154855	Method and system for determining dropped frame rates over a packet switched transport The present invention relates to a method for detecting dropped packets in a network that includes a packet switched network. The method includes establishing a telephonic connection between a first network location and a second network location. A set of N waveform...	12/26/2006
7151942	Advertisement broadcasting for paging A method for appending advertisements to paging messages may be utilized to reduce or substantially eliminate the fees for paging services paid by paging service customers while allowing companies to easily get their advertisements directly to a specific market or m...	12/19/2006
7151822	Method and system for releasing a voice response unit from a protocol session An approach for processing voice calls over a packet switched network as to efficiently utilize the functionalities of a Voice Response Unit (VRU). According to one embodiment, a call originator, acting as a User Agent Client in accordance with the Session Initiatio...	12/19/2006
7150044	Secure self-organizing and self-provisioning anomalous event detection systems An approach for providing managed security services is disclosed. A database, within a server or a pre-existing anomalous event detection system, stores a rule set specifying a security policy for a network associated with a customer. An anomalous detection event mo...	12/12/2006
7142642	Systems and methods for facilitating communications involving hearing-impaired parties A method for providing communication services for the hearing-impaired may include receiving a telephone call having a terminating number associated with a hearing-impaired party. The method may also include forwarding the telephone call to a communication assistant...	11/28/2006
7143100	Method, system and program product for viewing and manipulating graphical objects representing hierarchically arranged elements of a modeled environment A data model of a modeled environment is maintained within a database. The data model includes data defining a plurality of hierarchically arranged subsets of space within the modeled environment and data defining a plurality of items populating the modeled environm...	11/28/2006
7140025	Method and apparatus for providing a real-time message routing communications manager A communications manager in a telecommunications transaction server communicates service request messages and service response messages between one or more remotely executing service request processes and one or more service applications executing on the transaction...	11/21/2006
7136387	Method of and system for providing quality of service in IP telephony A method and system for providing quality of service in an IP telephony session between a calling party and a called party establishes a high quality of service ATM virtual circuit for the session between first and second devices, each of the devices having ATM capa...	11/14/2006
7130393	Intelligent network and method for providing voice telephony over ATM and closed user groups An illustrative intelligent network and method for providing voice telephony over ATM and closed user groups are provided that can provide significant advantages. A method for providing a closed user group service to authorize VToA calls includes determining the clo...	10/31/2006
7127617	On-line directory assistance system An approach for providing an on-line directory assistance services is disclosed. An on-line directory assistance system includes a server that receives a request message for information over a packet switched network from an access device. The server forwards the in...	10/24/2006
7117447	Graphical user interface (GUI) based call application system An approach for providing self-service call plan application development is disclosed. A graphical system includes a computing system that is configured to cause a graphical user interface (GUI) to be present for automated creation of an application for controlling ...	10/03/2006
7113932	Artificial intelligence trending system A data processing system program to develop, train, and implement a neural network for identifying customers who represent a bad debt risk is disclosed. A feature vector is applied to a neural network to generate outputs that approximate the relative likelihood that...	09/26/2006
7106748	Intelligent network and method for providing voice telephony over ATM and alias addressing An illustrative intelligent network and method for providing voice telephony over ATM and alias addressing are provided that can provide significant advantages. The intelligent network includes a multi-service control point, an ATM signaling intercept processor, and...	09/12/2006
7103151	Telephone system and method for reliable emergency services calling A method of routing a telephone call includes receiving an indication, at a handset device 112, to initiate a telephone call. It is then determined, preferably by the handset device 112, whether the telephone call is an emergency services telephone cal...	09/05/2006
7096226	Database system, particularly for multimedia objects A database system stores data relating to media objects and includes a meta table, a supplementary meta table, a content table, a supplementary content table, each supplementary content data record being linked to a supplementary metadata record and to a content dat...	08/22/2006
7092385	Policy control and billing support for call transfer in a session initiation protocol (SIP) network A session initiation protocol (SIP) server adds billing and authentication information to conventional SIP messages used in establishing call transfers. This additional information is later verified by a SIP server and used to enable advanced billing and fraud prote...	08/15/2006
7089197	System and method for verification of customer information entered via an Internet based order entry system A method for the verification of customer information entered via an Internet based order entry system, including the steps of generating an order list containing a plurality of call records corresponding to Internet based customer requests for a plurality of fulfil...	08/08/2006
7085230	Method and system for evaluating the quality of packet-switched voice signals A method and apparatus for determining what level of performance must be maintained by a second communication service so as to be perceived as being of equal quality to a first communication service, especially where the second communication service is subject to ad...	08/01/2006
7085550	Method and apparatus for optimizing radio frequency (RF) coverage in a radio communication network A radio communication network includes a plurality of base station receivers coupled to a switch for communication with at least one mobile station. A network monitoring device queries the switch for data related to the radio coverage provided by the communication n...	08/01/2006
7069446	Stateless mechanism for data retrieval An approach for providing retrieval of information over a packet switched network is disclosed. A client is configured to transmit a request message for information over the packet switched network. A stateless-server is configured to communicate with the client and...	06/27/2006
7042999	Method and system for providing direct routing of local number portability (LNP) calls to alternate terminations An approach for processing a call over a telecommunications system is disclosed. A call processor (e.g., a Service Control Point (SCP)) communicates with a switch to provide an alternative route for a call, received by the switch, that is determined to be a local po...	05/09/2006
7043757	System and method for malicious code detection A system for malicious code detection includes a front-end processor, multiple scanning computer systems, and a detection management system. During operation, the multiple scanning computer systems scan content for malicious code and generate an alarm when the conte...	05/09/2006
7042871	Method and system for suppressing early media in a communications network An approach is provided for supporting telephony services over a data communication network. A network server receives multiple early media streams associated with a communication session between an originating network element and one or more terminating network ele...	05/09/2006
7039171	Method and system for call tracking to discover inmate-employee fraternization A method and apparatus for discovery of inmate-employee fraternization includes correlating inmate identification records and employee information data from a plurality of correctional facilities in a central database with call detail records from inmate telephone a...	05/02/2006

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