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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7054611 | System and method for providing mobile caller information to a special number service station A system for providing particular information relating to a caller placing a call from a mobile calling instrument to a special number service station in a telecommunication network includes: (a) an information store for storing a body of information including the p... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6993118 | System and method for accessing personal information relating to a caller in a remote telecommunication network A telecommunication system for accessing personal information relating to a caller having a home network and being engaged in a call with a call taker in a remote network distal from the home network includes: (a) an internetwork communication system coupling a plur... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6484434 | Emergent lip fishing lure A fishing lure comprising a body having a nose, a tail and a horizontal center line. There is an emergent lip of an inverted trapezoidal shape attached to the body. The emergent lip is adjacent to the nose of the body at approximately a 45° angle to the ... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6389279 | Method and apparatus providing call redirection for subsequent call events in a telephone communications system An apparatus and method in a telephone communications system that provide for redirecting a call by an adjunct processor, utilizing a control message. The control message contains various directives for current or subsequent execution by a telephone switc... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6349136 | System and method for controlling a conference call A system and method that provides control of a conference call. A controlling party enters a code and is isolated from the conference. Each conference participant is sequentially connected to the controlling party so that the controlling party may determi... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6137875 | System and method to minimize glare in interoffice trunk allocation A system and method for allocating trunks in order to minimize glare. Trunk groups between switches are subdivided and each subgroup uses different allocation algorithms. A first switch hunts a first subgroup using a first algorithm and the second subgrou... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6125117 | Hybrid packet-circuit telephone network configuration A new local-toll telephone network configuration which, using aspects of data network configurations in a unique way, supports both voice and data telephone calls. Further, this invention may be used in conjunction with existing switching systems, so that... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6002679 | Method for assigning feature sets on virtual private telecommunications networks A wireless telecommunications system is disclosed that is capable of providing both public wireless service and virtual private network service on existing IS-95 CDMA facilities without changes to the air interface, the hardware design or the protocols fo... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5999521 | System and method for providing local services to a wireless telephone served by another system A system and method that controls a wireless call from a home system regardless of its current serving system. In this system, when a wireless telephone is roaming, the serving system sets up a transmission path to the home system. The home system perform... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5974129 | Distributed virtual cache method for use in a database query control system A system and method for caching frequently called numbers so that call delivery time is shortened and the signaling network and service nodes are not overloaded by telephone number queries. In a distributed control switching system, each processor that pe... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5959996 | System for interfacing numerous ISDN data connecting to a data network through the telephone network A system for providing low cost data connections directly to a long distance switch in order to connect a plurality of ISDN-based data connections to a data network such as the Internet. A line card of this invention connects directly to a time slot inter... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5949770 | Method for assigning feature sets on virtual private telecommunications networks A method for operating a wireless telecommunications system that is capable of providing both public wireless service and virtual private network service on existing IS-95 CDMA facilities without changes to the air interface, the hardware design or the pr... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5943332 | Method for implementing virtual private wireless telecommunications networks A wireless telecommunications system that is capable of providing multiple virtual wireless networks (e.g., a public network and/or one or more private networks) from a single IS-95 compliant CDMA radio without changing the air interface or modifying exis... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5905951 | Remote office administrative and maintenance system for cell sites in a wireless telecommunication network A system for providing a wireless connection from a cell site to its own operations and maintenance panel (OMP). A new unit is built into a cell site on the radio shelf that includes features of a cellular telephone. Such unit includes a modem so that a l... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5886991 | System and method for quickly distributing program updates in a distributed architecture processing system A system to deliver data at very high data transmission speeds to many units in a distributed processing system simultaneously. A distributed processing system is supplied with a local area network (LAN) which is connected to each unit of the distributed ... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5841848 | System and method for completing telephone calls to emergency telephone numbers in highly concentrated access systems Disclosed is a system and method which screens all telephone call originations on an access system for calls to emergency services during times of telephone system congestion and bases a decision as to how to handle the call on such determination. Accordi... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5724345 | System and method for a scalable and reliable transmission of electronic software distribution A system and method which delivers data at very high data transmission speeds to many locations simultaneously. A SCANS system is supplied with a satellite uplink communication module which transmits data to an earth orbiting satellite. The satellite then... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5699419 | Analog multibutton telephone keysets A keyset that connects to telephone switches via analog lines, wherein a processor in the keyset communicates with the switch via in-band signaling to provide keyset functionary. When a call comes into the switch for one of the directory numbers (DNs) ass... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5699362 | System and method for direct output of constant rate high bandwidth packets streams from long term memory devices An apparatus that retrieves data from a plurality of long-term memory devices and delivers the data to a packet network over a plurality of channels, wherein each of the channels has a specific bandwidth requirement. The apparatus comprises a storage devi... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5691985 | System and method for increasing throughput of inter-network gateways using a hardware assist engine A high bandwidth gateway comprises a source of packet traffic wherein received packets are stored in a buffer, a destination interface circuit for the packets, a microprocessor and a bus that interconnects the components. The microprocessor, which in the ... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5684789 | Remote control, link independent A/B switch box with diagnostic loopback A modular switch box which is responsive to a control signal, is diagnosable, and is not dependent upon the type of protocol being switched. There may be a plurality of switch boxes wherein each switch box includes a plurality of inputs and an output. The... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5675643 | Line card that provides remote line activation and soft dialtone A line card apparatus which provides soft dialtone and automated remote cross-connect capability, comprising one or more line interfaces and a switching matrix which can connect a plurality of lines to the one or more line interfaces. This switching matri... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5675706 | Vocabulary independent discriminative utterance verification for non-keyword rejection in subword based speech recognition A verification system to determine unknown input speech contains a recognized keyword or consists of speech or other sounds that do not contain any of the keywords. The verification system is designed to operate on the subword level, so that the verificat... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5673255 | Apparatus for providing service to telephone subscribers connected to a remote terminal from multiple telephone service providers An unbundling apparatus to permit competitive access providers access to telephone lines connected to a remote terminal, and the ability to control and test such lines. Such unbundling apparatus includes a switch fabric, a command module, and a testing mo... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5652627 | System and method for reducing jitter in a packet-based transmission network A system and method for use in a video transmission network that regulates the timing of both the video signal and the audio signal regardless of the transport mechanism used to deliver the digitized audio and video signals from the source to a set top bo... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5651059 | Service package field update for a-i-net SCN and SCP A method providing updates of feature package application processes, including changing data storage structures, in a controlled manner without losing call data. A service package application field update (SPAFU) process and a replacement feature process ... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5649088 | System and method for recording sufficient data from parallel execution stages in a central processing unit for complete fault recovery A fault recovery system and method that deterministically reconstructs the instruction stream of a multiple execution stage ("pipelined") processor. A log ("queue") is provided for each critical data item to record the instructions, operations and effects... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5631907 | Reliable broadcast protocol structure for electronic software distribution According to this invention, the system prepares user data into blocks of manageable size prior to software distribution. A block is similar in principle to memory pages in a file management system and has a predefined size, sequential ordering, and layou... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5613037 | Rejection of non-digit strings for connected digit speech recognition A high reliability digit string recognizer/rejection system that processes spoken words through an HMM recognizer to determine a string of candidate digits, a filler model for each digit in the digit string, and other information. Next, a weighted sum is ... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5577246 | Database memory compaction and reclamation method A method for maintaining the performance of the system while identifying and reclaiming unreferenced tuples. A set of status bits is associated with each tuple, which are used to indicate the current state of the tuple, and whether it is in a transient st... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5574783 | System and method for providing competitive access telephone service for telephones connected to a remote terminal of the monopoly service provider A system for providing a competitive access provider controls specific lines in a remote terminal connected to a monopoly service provider connected directly from the remote terminal to a competitive access switch. In order to control the line or lines in... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5560033 | System for providing automatic power control for highly available n+k processors A highly available processor complex that can use industry standard hardware and software through use of an N+K sparing arrangement with a separate monitor ("watchdog") processor. The watchdog processor monitors periodic "heartbeat" messages from the moni... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5551035 | Method and apparatus for inter-object communication in an object-oriented program controlled system In a telecommunication switching system the telecommunication software is implemented by means of independent software components referred to as objects. The objects communicate with each other by messages and symbolic names only. A runtime system include... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5550904 | Method for identifying the originating network at the terminating network for transnetwork calls Relates to arrangements for utilizing an originating caller's customer network identifier (ONI) to provide special treatment of a call, especially one that terminates outside the caller's network. The ONI is recognized in an originating switching system a... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5544235 | Identification of called directory number at multiple directory number per line premises prior to ringing signal reception A telecommunication network having a switching system connected to a called station by a line that provides notification to a called party of information relating to an incoming call. This information generally consists of the called number, but may also ... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5539729 | Method for overload control in a packet switch that processes packet streams having different priority levels A system and method that controls potential overload of packet switches when the packet switch has multiple packet streams with different priority levels. A counter is associated with the higher priority packet stream, so that when the counter reaches a p... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5530854 | Shared tuple method and system for generating keys to access a database A shared tuple method for storing data in a database which supports modification of view relations without causing anomalous changes to logically unrelated tuples in the same or other relations. A generated key is generated by the database which uniquely ... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5521919 | Method and apparatus for providing switch-based features A system and method to provide voice enhancement circuits on a voice path on an individual basis, without having in-line circuits inserted into the lines or trunks. The enhancement circuit is inserted within one or more of the switches. This system compri... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5504657 | System for providing air flow control and EMR shielding of front panels of computers and similar electronic equipment A face plate with an elastomeric, electrically-conductive gasket to provide electromagnetic radiation and control air flow for a front panel of an electronic equipment frame. The metallic face plate has a plurality of edge surfaces which are capable of pr... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5485613 | Method for automatic memory reclamation for object-oriented systems with real-time constraints A method for memory reclamation for object-oriented program-controlled systems with real-time constraints. Resource reclamation, commonly called garbage collection, in object-oriented systems is segmented into discrete, real-time bounded segments. Schedul... | 01/16/1996 |
