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A combination beverage container and spittoon includes a bottom portion including outer wall and a first inner wall defining a spittoon space.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7292667 | Method and system for transmitting synchronization information with data A method for transmitting synchronization information with data, which data corresponds to a sequence of samples representative of a signal, includes detecting the occurrence of two consecutive equivalent samples and inserting a synchronization pattern for the secon... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7184977 | CLEC convergent billing system A process is provided for a billing controller receives a request identifying a customer and indicating one of a plurality of providers for a selected product, converts a portion of the received request into a provisioning request based on the selected product; and ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7103599 | Parsing of nested internet electronic mail documents A system and method for automatically processing and responding to large volumes of customer complaints regarding Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) and other service disruptions. The complaints include one or more electronic mail (email) documents, each email docum... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099281 | Passive system and method for measuring the subjective quality of real-time media streams in a packet-switching network In accordance with the present invention, a portion of a packetized data stream is copied from a data network without interfering with the flow of the data in the network. A known test signal is then substituted for the information contained in each copied packet to... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7092699 | Seamless wireless phone access service A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for synchronizing the memory of a wireless telephone with a networked computer over a wireless link. A communication network in accordance with the present invention, includes a plurality of portable wireless telephone... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7092506 | Systems and methods for providing audio information to service agents A system permits a customer service agent to receive and listen to an audio recording from a caller on a voice device (110), and thereby prepare to support the caller before connecting directly with him/her. The incoming call may originate on a public telepho... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7088705 | Public wireless/cordless internet gateway A localized wireless gateway system provides wireless telephone communication, and for at least interexchange communication, provides voice telephone access to a public packet data network, such as the Internet. The wireless gateway system includes base station tran... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7072896 | System and method for automatic loading of an XML document defined by a document-type definition into a relational database including the generation of a relational schema therefor A system and a method are provided for generating (28) a schema (22) for a relational database corresponding to a document having a document-type definition (18) and data complying with the document-type definition (18). The document-type... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7062465 | Methods and apparatus for providing agent controlled synchronized browsing at a terminal Establishing a (secure) synchronized (web) browsing session between a customer at a first terminal (such as a kiosk for example) and a live agent at an agent station. A session manager may be used to establish this session. The first terminal does not need to downlo... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7054636 | Method and system for communicating data from wireline terminals to mobile terminals Methods and systems are provided for communicating data from wireline terminals to mobile terminals in a telecommunications network, which includes a home node associated with the mobile terminal and one or more visited nodes. To establish communication with a mobil... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050990 | Information distribution system A system and method that enhances the “focus” of information exchanged between sellers and buyers. Buyers identify potential sources for goods and services that are desirable to the buyer. Buyers can focus their access to listings of seller information by identi... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050812 | Methods and techniques in channel assignment in a cellular network A cellular network configuration tool is described that performs frequency assignments for use in a cellular network. The channels are assigned in accordance with input configuration data such as a channel separation matrix, geographic data, and requested channel as... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7047242 | Weighted term ranking for on-line query tool Disclosed is a system for performing online data queries. The system for performing online data queries is a distributed computer system with a plurality of server nodes each fully redundant and capable of processing a user query request. Each server node includes a... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043633 | Method and apparatus for providing adaptive self-synchronized dynamic address translation A communication device is provided for a local enclave. The communication device processes packets to be transferred from the local enclave to a wide area network. The communication device intercepts packets originating from a host on the local enclave, the packets ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043250 | Systems and methods for forming and operating a communications network Methods are provided for forming and operating mesh communications networks. A primary application of these methods would be for a network for interconnecting telephone central offices. Compared to current networks, a network based on these methods may provide highe... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039166 | Apparatus and method for visually representing behavior of a user of an automated response system A system for visually representing user behavior within an interactive voice response (IVR) system of a call processing center generates a complete sequence of events within the IVR system for plural calls to the call processing center, the plurality of calls being ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039598 | Method of estimating expected revenues from business directory books A new system of analyzing advertising revenue derivation is provided that is particularly useful for predicting an amount of revenue that can be expected from advertisements placed in a business directory book having a certain geographic coverage. The system compris... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7035934 | System and method for improving traffic analysis and network modeling A system (800) improves a network designer's ability to analyze a data network having several routers. The system (800) accesses static routing information and/or open shortest path first route summarization information, determines an identity of a net... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035817 | Electronic catalog method Disclosed herein is an electronic catalog protocol format and process for distributing and disseminating electronic catalogs. The electronic catalog protocol can be used on the Internet and other networks and in physical media such as CD-ROMS. ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031438 | System for obtaining forwarding information for electronic system using speech recognition A unified message platform system integrates voice recognition and dialing capabilities with directory systems, including automated telephone directory systems and private database directory systems, to enable a user to access stored directory information related to... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027574 | Network planning traffic measurement program In a public switched telephone network, real time monitors on SS7 links will collect interoffice signaling messages. A site processor compiles data from the signaling messages relating to individual calls, to form call detail records (CDRs) for all interoffice call ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027568 | Personal message service with enhanced text to speech synthesis A server in a network gathers textual information, such as news items, E-mail and the like. From that information, the server develops or identifies messages for use by individual subscribers. The same server that accumulates the text messages or another server in t... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023976 | Method and system for on-demand call waiting A method is provided for enabling a customer to activate a call waiting feature for a list of caller numbers specified by the user. Calls from numbers on the list generate call waiting tones if they call while the customer is talking to someone. Other callers will h... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020249 | Voice interface unit for line conditioner control Interfacing to and controlling POTS line conditioning devices using a Voice Interface Unit (VIU) are described. Technicians perform tests and checks while a POTS line is in a conditioned state. The VIU provides a centralized voice input/voice output interface allowi... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7012992 | Methods and apparatus for automating testing of signalling transfer points Methods and apparatus for automating network testing to determine device interoperability and standards compliance in a network setting are described. The invention provides for maintaining clock error information for multiple network clocks and for adjusting test r... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7012982 | Method and system for de-jittering of transmitted MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video The present invention relates to an improved method of de-jittering MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 data that is transmitted over a network. First, a network system jitter associated with periodic reference data packets is estimated. Then, the estimated system jitter is used to a... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7002950 | Systems and methods implementing internet screen dialing for circuit switched telephones A system includes a telephony device (152) and a computer (102) coupled to a telephone line (194). The computer (102) includes an input device (210) and a processor (205). The processor (205) receives an electronic do... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999576 | System connection adapter and terminal Existing switch markings for telephone numbers are mechanically manipulated via the Recent Change channel to provide an appropriate treatment. In case a call to a vacant pooled-in number cannot be completed, a terminating switch, instead of generating a REL message ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6996132 | Method, apparatus and program for determining available bandwidth between multiple points in a communication system A method, apparatus (22), and program are provided for determining an amount of bandwidth available in at least a portion of at least one communication path (5, 3, 6, 7, 10-1, 9, 12, 13, 14, 24a, 24b) coupling a plurality of... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6980659 | Methods and systems for supplying encryption keys A system encrypts information. The system includes a key storage module (135) configured to store encryption bits in a memory of the key storage module. The system further includes a communication device (105) configured to retrieve a quantity of encry... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6977996 | Fee collection system and method for call completion Methods and systems for administering calls on a voice network allow a user to selectively determine which calls will be accepted. The methods and systems may provide unwanted callers with an option to speak with the user for a fee. The methods and systems may provi... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6978384 | Method and apparatus for sequence number checking Methods and systems are provided for sequence number checking. Sequence numbers of data packets are compared to a “sliding” window. The sliding window indicates a range of sequence numbers considered valid (or invalid). The size of the sliding window may be a pa... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6978091 | Methods and apparatus for generating local oscillation signals Generating oscillator signals with which selected signals may be mixed. Such oscillator signals may be generated by dividing a pilot tone, such as a 120 MHz pilot tone found on many cable TV systems. Oscillator signals for demodulating received selected signals may ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6968050 | Methods and apparatus for authenticating and authorizing ENUM registrants AIN based methods and apparatus for authenticating and authorizing people to register information corresponding to a telephone number, e.g., in an ENUM database, are described. The methods of the invention may be used to authenticate a party seeking to register tele... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965890 | Hyper video: information retrieval using realtime buffers Disclosed is a method and device for selecting documents, such as Web pages or sites, for presentation to a user, in response to a user expression of interest, during the course of presentation to the user of a document, such as a video or audio selection, whose con... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6947407 | Power control based admission methods for maximum throughput in DS-CDMA networks with multi-media traffic A method for maximizing the data throughput over a multi-code DS-CDMA network by controlling the number of codes assigned to each user while controlling the power budget of each user so that each users bit energy to noise ratio is met along with the quality of servi... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6937705 | Apparatus and method for visually representing events in calls handled by an automated response system A system for visually representing call events in calls handled by an automated response system of a call processing center uses a recording of calls recorded from end to end. Events of interest that occurred during a recorded call are annotated and time stamped, an... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6920615 | Method and system for service-enablement gateway and its service portal A method and system for dynamic service support is presented. A portal-page service and an interface bundle are installed at the gateway. A customer service at the gateway, based on the interface bundle, is installed at the gateway. The portal-page service searches ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6909696 | Systems and methods for visualizing a communications network A system facilitates the visualization of a network having multiple nodes. The system collects information from at least one of the nodes (510). The information describes network operation over a period of time. The system then reconstructs the network operat... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6898277 | System and method for annotating recorded information from contacts to contact center A system for forming a database indexed with content-based parameters, corresponding to recordings of contacts to a contact center, includes an analysis unit, a mining unit, and a correlation unit. The analysis unit performs automated-portion analysis techniques to ... | 05/24/2005 |
