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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5809130 | System and method for selectively retrieving communications from any selected location A communication system operative to retrieve communications from a plurality of calling parties by a called party at a plurality of selected secondary party locations, each having a corresponding Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) device and a communicatio... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5784562 | System for using a dialog session context to process electronic forms data on the world wide web An electronic document processing system is disclosed for a communications network, wherein the network protocol has the property of repeatingly breaking down each established communication connection between network nodes attempting to carry on a dialog ... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5774887 | Customer service electronic form generating system An apparatus for producing a series of electronic forms that are related to completing a task. The apparatus includes a computer system in which one or more databases are stored. The computer system displays a list of tasks that can be selected by a custo... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5727058 | Apparatus and method for routing communications to a variety of CPE devices Provided is an apparatus and method for routing communications in an Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) having at least one central office switch. The disclosed system routes communications from a calling party having at least one Customer Premises Equipm... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5633912 | Mobile telephone user interface including fixed and dynamic function keys and method of using same A user interface for use in a mobile telephone handset which includes static visual display means for presenting the status of the mobile telephone and other services accessible by the user. The interface further includes dynamic visual display means for ... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5572573 | Removable user interface for use with interactive electronic devices An improved user interface for use in interactive electronic devices. The user interface eliminates the complexity and ambiguity problems encountered in conventional interfaces through the incorporation of a physical overlay designed for use in cooperatio... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5559858 | Method and apparatus for delivering secured telephony service in a hydrid coaxial cable network A hybrid coaxial cable network employing interdiction to ensure privacy in telephony communications. The video and telephony signals are secured such that telephony and interactive video signals to and from a subscriber do not appear on the network at any... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5537647 | Noise resistant auditory model for parametrization of speech A method and system are provided for alleviating the harmful effects of convolutional and additive noise in speech, such as due to the environmental noise and linear spectral modification, based on the filtering of time trajectories of an auditory-like sp... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5515367 | Method and system for planning and installing communication networks A method is disclosed for use in cooperation with a computer having memory in a Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) for generating an optimized transition plan for the placement of Self-Healing Rings (SHR) and the routing of point-to-point demand in accor... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5479495 | Method and system for automatically accessing and invoking switch-based services in an advanced intelligent network A method and system is provided for use in an Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) for automatically accessing and invoking existing switch-based services without going off-hook. To be operative, the Advanced Intelligent Network must be equipped with O-call... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5475615 | Method and system for sizing interactive video delivery systems A method and system for determining the required number of active video circuits in an interactive video delivery network required to meet the specified blocking probability constraints. By determining peak loading hours as well as the number of system su... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5469495 | Method and apparatus for delivering secured telephone service in hybrid coaxial cable network A hybrid coaxial cable network employing interdiction to ensure privacy in telephony communications. The video and telephony signals are secured such that telephony and interactive video signals to and from a subscriber do not appear on the network at any... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5467384 | Method and apparatus for providing power to a coaxial cable network A fiber optic/coaxial cable telephony network including power. Power is supplied through the coaxial cable portion of the video network to an cable network unit where the power is converted and supplied to the equipment including customer premises equipme... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5457738 | Method and system for searching an on-line directory at a telephone station A method and system are disclosed for processing and displaying objects to permit a search of a database by a user of a telephone station. The telephone station includes a computer, a display device having a display screen adapted to cooperate with a poin... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5450317 | Method and system for optimized logistics planning An improved logistics planning method and system for recommending optimal order quantities and timing, choice of vendor locations and storage locations, and transportation modes, for individual items and for product families. The system is designed for us... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5450522 | Auditory model for parametrization of speech A method and system are provided for alleviating the harmful effects of convolutional distortions of speech, such as the effect of a telecommunication channel, on the performance of an automatic speech recognizer (ASR). The technique is based on the filte... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5448631 | Apparatus for handling features in a telephone network A feature manager that handles the interactions between features in a telephone network is disclosed. A basic call processor transmits a sequence of event messages to the feature manager. The event messages are then transmitted from the feature manager to... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5440335 | Method and apparatus for delivering passband and telephony signals in a coaxial cable network A method and apparatus for delivering passband and telephony signals including signal combining and splitting. The method and device employs passive electronics in the form of L-filters, high pass filters and low pass filters to deliver baseband telephone... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5388185 | System for adaptive processing of telephone voice signals A system for adaptively processing a telephonic speech signal performs modification in either the spectral domain or the time domain to bring the power in each frequency above the hearing threshold of the listener but below the upper limit of the listener... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5355401 | Method and apparatus for providing telephony power through a coaxial cable network A fiber optic/coaxial cable telephony network including power. Power is supplied through the coaxial cable portion of the video network to an optical network unit where the power is converted and supplied to the telephone network.... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5323444 | Emergency call system with call capacity/last chance routing feature A community emergency response service system is provided with three types of destinations to which emergency calls may be routed. These include public safety answering points (PSAPs), switch directory numbers and public switching telephone network direct... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5255346 | Method and apparatus for design of a vector quantizer A method and apparatus for the design of a robust vector quantizer is disclosed. The initial output vector set is equal to the centroid of a training sequence of input vectors. A neural-network simulation and neighborhood functions are utilized for splitt... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5222080 | Method and apparatus for signal reconstruction A method for reconstructing an incomplete signal in a sub-band transmission system is disclosed. Signal degradation from signal loss in a sub-band transmission system may be avoided by formulating an error function, and finding an optimal signal which min... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5218627 | Decentralized video telecommunication system Provided is a method and apparatus for the decentralized control of respective video cameras at a plurality of subscriber stations. According to the invention, there is provided a telephone, video camera, input device and camera control module at each sub... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5218649 | Image enhancement system A system for enhancing the quality of an image that suffers from staircase effects, contouring effects, and granular noise, without affecting the existing method of creating the image is disclosed. The enhancement system identifies the edge and nonedge re... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5165008 | Speech synthesis using perceptual linear prediction parameters A method for synthesizing human speech using a linear mapping of a small set of coefficients that are speaker-independent. Preferably, the speaker-independent set of coefficients are cepstral coefficients developed during a training session using a percep... | 11/17/1992 |
