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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7738431 | System and method for cellular telephone network access point A wireless telephone includes a cellular telephone controller configured to interface the cellular telephone to a telephone network; a wireless packet network controller configured to interface the wireless telephone to packet network; and a wireless network access ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7734697 | System and method for presence enabled electronic mail folders A telecommunications system includes a plurality of network clients including electronic or multimedia messaging clients. The electronic messaging clients are adapted to provide presence information and to display such presence information in association with receiv... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7707296 | Method and apparatus for selecting a media processor to host a conference A system, method, apparatus, means, and computer program code for selecting a media processor to host a conference is provided. According to some embodiments, a multipoint controller may control or be associated with a plurality of media processors. Different media ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7698367 | System and method for presence enabled e-mail delivery A telecommunications system includes a network (102), a destination multimedia server (104), and a destination presence server (215) operably coupled to the network. A plurality of multimedia clients (122) are also operably coupled to the... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7697924 | Method and apparatus for cost optimization of cellular networks indication A telecommunications system includes a personal computer having a unified communication system including a presence application and a cellular telephone network identifier operably coupled to the unified communication system and configured to identify a cellular tel... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7693888 | Data synchronizer with failover facility A data management system with data stored in multiple disparate formats in synchronized stores, method of synchronizing the data and recovering from synchronization failures and program product therefor. Data changes in one data store are cached in a universal forma... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7664846 | System and method for distributed modeling of real time systems A system for modeling real time systems includes a plurality of modules for modeling components of a system. Each module represents a single component of the system or other systems that compete for system resources. In one embodiment, each module is XML-based. Each... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7657605 | Presence enhanced online processes In some embodiments, a managed presence online processing system may include one or more of the following features: (a) a memory comprising, (i) presence information submitted from a user, and (ii) a presence online processing program that initiates online processes... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653733 | Method and apparatus for facilitating granting of a permission regarding a stored element A system, method, apparatus, means, and computer program code for facilitating sharing and using of information such as files, folders, or other stored elements is provided. According to some embodiments, a user may access or use an interface or window to establish ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7636426 | Method and apparatus for automated voice dialing setup A telecommunications device includes a voice dialer and a text-to-speech engine. The text-to-speech engine is configured to convert at least a portion of a user contact list information to speech and the voice dialer is configured to receive an audio input and perfo... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7636326 | Private communications network including connected public communications devices and method of operation thereof A virtual private communications network (VPCN) and method of using the VPCN. The VPCN includes a communications server and at least one communications trunk connecting the communications server to a public telephone network. A web server and one or more digital tel... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7634075 | Apparatus and systems for utilizing caller ID data to automate return call processing Apparatus and systems for recording Call ID data and transmitting the Caller ID data to remote telecommunications devices on demand, to fully or partially automate the dialing process for remotely calling back a message sender. ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7620689 | Real time communications system A real-time communications system of networked communications devices, method and program product for operating such a system. E-mail activity is, monitored for e-mail exchange threads. Selected threads are identified and a prompt to switch to an IM session is sent ... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7620167 | Apparatus to override the redirect or reject feature at an SIP end point In some embodiments, a do not redirect or reject call management system may include one or more of the following features: (a) a memory comprising, (i) a do not redirect or reject application that allows a caller to prevent a call recipient from redirecting or rejec... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7616758 | Method and system for implementing an intelligent redial system The present invention is directed to a system and method for implementing an intelligent redial system. A method for storing redial data for a connection between a user phone system and a remote phone system may include establishing a connection with the remote phon... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7613154 | System and method for optimizing mobility access A telecommunications processing device (110) includes a wireless network interface (120); and a processor (401) operably coupled to an auto detect module (121) configured to maintain a prioritized WiFi network connection list; wherein sai... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7606866 | Messenger assistant for personal information management A real-time communications device, a real-time communications system of networked distributed such devices and method and program product for operating such devices. The device includes a personal information manager (PIM), an instant messenger and a Messenger Assis... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7606577 | System and method for alternative presence reporting system A telecommunications system includes a plurality of network clients (150) including a positioning controller (504) and a radio data network communications controller (502); and a positioning server (152) including a coordinating controlle... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7606223 | Handling communications between stations in a digital telecommunications system A method and program product for handling communications with stations in communications systems, especially digital telecommunications systems, such as for VoIP telephony. Requests are received for communicating with communications stations in the communications sy... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7603412 | System and method for collaborating using instant messaging in multimedia telephony-over-LAN conferences A telecommunications system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an instant messaging (IM) server and a VoIP server; and a plurality of system clients having both VoIP and IM sub-clients. The system clients can log on to their respective serv... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7599473 | Greetings based on presence status A voice message system utilizes presence status information obtained from a presence server in playing inbox greeting to incoming callers. The presence status can indicate the actual presence or availability of the called user and is thus dynamic in nature. By using... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7596210 | Presence enhanced outcalling An outcalling system considers subscriber presence information in determining when to initiate attempts to deliver messages to the subscriber. The subscriber presence state may provide insight into the likelihood of successful message delivery. The outcalling system... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7583965 | System and method for using an embedded mobility algorithm A wireless telephone includes a cellular telephone controller configured to interface the cellular telephone to a telephone network; a wireless packet network controller configured to interface the wireless telephone to one or more packet networks for voice over IP ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7571190 | Instant message broadcasting and presence enabling from electronic mail application A system and method for broadcasting a message to multiple contacts in a list of contacts provided by an electronic mail application and furnishing presence information for contacts in the list of contacts provided by the electronic mail application includes an inte... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7570163 | Methods and apparatus for managing TLS connections in a large soft switch Methods for efficiently establishing TLS connections include detecting the proximity of a user relative to a communication device and establishing a TLS connection between the switch and the communication device based on the proximity of the user. An apparatus accor... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7558982 | Presence enhanced disaster/overload recovery In some embodiments, a managed content recovery system may include one or more of the following features: (a) a data storage device comprising, (i) presence state submitted from at least one user, and (ii) a managed content recovery program that distributes managed ... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7546127 | System and method for centrally-hosted presence reporting A telecommunications system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of network clients (150) including a positioning controller (504) and a communications controller (502); and a positioning server (152) i... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7545783 | System and method for using presence to configure an access point A telecommunications system includes a wireless packet network; a cellular telephone network; at least one computing device including a wireless network interface card for communicating over the wireless packet network; at least one cellular telephone device, the ce... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7545758 | System and method for collaboration summarization playback A system for collaboration summarization playback includes a graphical user interface (950) for displaying summarization categories (952) associated with recording cues and clips of the multimedia conference. The categories may be arranged as a list or... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7542756 | Apparatus and method for restoring a conference connection to a cellular telephone A telecommunication system has capabilities for managing conference telephone calls. Cellular telephones may be registered to the system and may be used as contact devices in setting up conference telephone calls. When a cellular telephone is participating in a conf... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7542552 | Method and apparatus for generating default personal greetings using text to speech conversion A telecommunications system includes a user database storing user information; a text-to-speech generator; and a default user greeting generator for a messaging system for generating a greeting based on a text-to-speech conversion of user information using said text... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7536708 | System and method for context-based searching and control of an integrated communications center A context-based search system (3800) for control of a digital personal media stream manager (102), for example, to control the programming of a video recording device (114). Such a system may be maintained by a service provider and can identify ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7533166 | Method and system for router misconfiguration autodetection Reconfiguration operations in a networking environment are actively monitored to automatically detect faulty network traffic routing conditions, such as routing loop. The autodetection includes identifying a condition in which one of a number of routers is switched ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532614 | Methods and apparatus for facilitating remote communication with an IP network A system, method, apparatus, and computer program code for facilitating communication via an IP network. According to some embodiments of the present invention, a proxy device is positioned topologically between an IP enabled communication device (e.g., an IP teleph... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7526498 | Method for generating data structures for automatically testing GUI applications The invention relates to methods for generating data structures for use with an environment based data driven test engine for computer programs which have a graphical user interface (GUI). The methods are used in connection with a scriptable GUI test tool. The tool ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7526429 | Spelled speech recognition method and system accounting for possible misrecognized characters Caller interface systems and methods are described. In one aspect, a sequence of recognized characters beginning with a first recognized character and ending with a last recognized character is received. Successive characters are selected one at a time from the reco... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7519202 | System and method for secure bio-print and access methods A telecommunications server includes a bio-print control server including one or more identification databases, a transmit/receive unit, a compare unit, and a routing control unit. Various network clients may include bio-print input units. In operation, according to... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7519073 | System and method for instant messaging control of an integrated communications center A system for Instant Messaging based control of the digital personal video stream manager (102), for example, to program a video recording device (114). The system includes a personal computer (110) having an Instant Messaging client (2202 | 04/14/2009 |
| 7515907 | Systems and methods for location identification of endpoints Devices, systems and methods for transient endpoint location identification are disclosed. The exemplary method may include transmitting a registration request from an endpoint to a server. The server requests a location identification number from the endpoint. The ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7506018 | Methods and apparatus for determining one or more access points in a communication system Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, apparatus, means, and computer program code for designing a communication system. According to embodiments of the present invention, the communication system may include a number of locations, each of wh... | 03/17/2009 |
