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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5897612 | Personal communication system geographical test data correlation A method for correlating data taken during two test drives through the coverage area of a personal communication system, the data from each test set including a sequence of locations along a drive, a location from the first set being correlated with a loc... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5845942 | Bill having one or more information panels and a perpendicularly oriented remittance panel A bill comprises a first sheet of paper having two or more information panels and a remittance panel defined therein. Information (e.g., text) in the information panels is oriented in a first direction, and information in the remittance panel (e.g., text)... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5832439 | Method and system for linguistic command processing in a video server network A method for providing a user with the facility to linguistically direct a computer system to present desired audio/video programming is provided. The method is intended to be used in conjunction with a computer system having an input device, an audio int... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5821930 | Method and system for generating a working window in a computer system A method and system for generating a working window on a video monitor in a computer system is provided. The method comprises the steps of determining if a user has performed a first predetermined input stroke along at least a portion of a display screen.... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5818125 | Secondary source of energy system for powering communications hardware and services and associated method A system for providing backup power for a communications system is disclosed. The backup power system of the present invention includes a device for supplying capacitively stored power and a device for monitoring a power level in the communications system... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819250 | Method and system for multimedia interaction with a database A method and system for interacting with a database via multiple types of media where the database includes data lacking a format for use with each of the media. The method includes selecting data to be accessed, selecting one of the media for providing a... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5812638 | Telephone operator mid-call queuing interval system and associated method A method for handling incoming callers to a call processing system such as a directory assistance facility, and associated system is disclosed. The method includes the steps of recording a greeting message from an operator, recording information provided ... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5812702 | System and method for enhancement of coded images using adaptive spatial filtering Pixels in a low bit-rate encoded image are categorized into two or more categories. In one embodiment three pixel categories are used: 1) pixels belonging to quasi-constant (QC) regions where the pixel intensity values vary slowly (e.g., pictorial portion... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5806025 | Method and system for adaptive filtering of speech signals using signal-to-noise ratio to choose subband filter bank A method and system for adaptively filtering a speech signal. The method includes decomposing the signal into subbands, which may include performing a discrete Fourier transform on the signal to provide approximately orthogonal components. The method also... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5799016 | Network addressing scheme encoding communication channel information An addressing scheme is disclosed for a network wherein addresses of the scheme not only uniquely identify addressable process interfaces or nodes communicating with the network, but also each such address encodes information related to a communication ch... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5793956 | Method and system for testing an audiotex system An automatic method and system for testing an audiotex system. The method includes generating an input signal for receipt by the audiotex system, identifying a failure if the audiotex system fails to generate an output signal in response to the input sign... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5793758 | Method and system for wireless communication of a datagram A method is disclosed for communicating a datagram in a wireless communication network. The network includes a transmitter and a receiver. The method begins with the step of identifying a transmitting signal shape code. The next step of the method uses si... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5778174 | Method and system for providing secured access to a server connected to a private computer network A method and system for providing secured access to a server connected to a private computer network protected by a router acting as a firewall is provided. The method includes establishing a bypass communication route around the firewall router, exchangi... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5768686 | Method and system for position determination using video dial tone A method for determining and reporting the position of a mobile unit to a third party via a video dial tone (VDT) network is described. The method is directed for use in a wireless communication system having at least one registration area including at le... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5764756 | Networked telephony central offices A communications networking system is disclosed for controlling and monitoring devices within a telephony central office. The networking system includes a high bandwidth local area network (LAN) within the central office for transferring substantially all... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5754630 | System and associated method for multiple extension routing via an advanced intelligent network (AIN) A multiple extension routing via AIN system and method is disclosed. The method and system concerns rerouting an incoming call from an incoming caller to a single telephone number to at least one of a plurality of destination telephone numbers correspondi... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5748890 | Method and system for authenticating and auditing access by a user to non-natively secured applications A method for authenticating access by a user to non-natively secured applications intended for use in cooperation with an operating system having a native security system. A profile is assigned to the user which defines the user's access rights to the non... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5745590 | Closed loop mail piece processing method A method for generating a plurality of mail pieces including error detection and reprinting capabilities. The method provides a mail handling process which tracks processing errors with the use of a first and second scan code which obtain information rega... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5737719 | Method and apparatus for enhancement of telephonic speech signals A method and apparatus for enhancing the intelligibility of a telephonic speech signal within the available bandwidth and intensity limits of a telephone communication network. The method combines enhancement of both the formant ratio and the consonant/vo... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5729599 | Method and system of forwarding calls in a remote access call forwarding service of a telephone system A remote access call forwarding method and system adapted for an Advanced Intelligent Network to forward a call incoming to a subscriber's telephone number in response to a routing destination number if the routing destination number does not correspond t... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5729368 | Method of providing non-intrusive optical test access without optical loss A non-intrusive test method for monitoring the performance of an optical communications system generates a parallel electrical signal corresponding to a transmitted or received optical signal without the use of a signal attenuating beam splitter or other ... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5724412 | Method and system for displaying internet identification on customer premises equipment A method and system for providing a telephony subscriber with Internet information related to a caller attempting to call the subscriber is disclosed. The Internet information is provided to the customer premises equipment of the subscriber during the fir... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5664002 | 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 a cable network unit where the power is converted and supplied to the equipment including customer premises equipmen... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5655006 | Automated system and method for voice processing An automated method and system for voice processing is used with a plurality of voice mail boxes each of which is assigned to a corresponding one of a plurality of subscribers and is operative to receive and store a plurality of voice messages. After play... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5600706 | Method and system for determining the position of a mobile receiver A position system and method utilizes a plurality of range transceivers located at known fixed locations and which are adapted to transmit approximately synchronized digital range signals for receipt by both a primary receiver and a supplemental receiver,... | 02/04/1997 |
