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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6384853 | Apparatus and method for preventing screen savers from shutting down ToL clients A telephony-over-LAN client is provided which disables a screen saver during active calls by generating a software interrupt indicative of either false keyboard interrupts or false mouse movements. The ToL client is configured to periodically activate suc... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6370238 | System and method for improved user interface in prompting systems An improved prompting system for accessing specified functions. According to one embodiment, a particular user may identify himself to the system and thereafter preprogram one or more paths that lead directly to a desired function within the hierarchical ... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6351526 | Dialing process for IP telephony A system and a method for communicating dialed digits between a communication device and a call processor during call setup include transmitting at least the first digit of a telephone number from the communication device to the call processor within a fi... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6249540 | Method and system for shifting frequency subsets to avoid base station interference in a frequency hopping cordless telephone system A method and system are disclosed for shifting frequency subsets to avoid base station interference in a frequency hopping cordless telephone system. A base station communicates with the handsets using frequencies selected from active frequency subsets. F... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6055224 | Method and system for handling telecommunications data traffic A method and device for (a) generating a constant rate data stream from data, (b) providing, via a termination unit, the constant rate data stream to a router, and (c) assigning an address to the termination unit. The method and device permit the data to ... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5887056 | Method for routing telephone calls to subscribers of different service providers within a common numbering plan area A method for enabling a plurality of Local Service Providers within a common Numbering Plan Area (NPA) to serve Subscribers of the plurality of Local Service Providers. The method includes the step of assigning to each Subscriber of a Local Service Provid... | 03/23/1999 |
