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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120051269 | INTERNET PROTOCOL PHONE AND CONFERENCE CALL ESTABLISHING METHOD An internet protocol (IP) phone establishes a conference call with a plurality of other IP phones until the IP phone has no available audio mixing capacity. The IP phone selects one of the other IP phones having available audio mixing capacity in the conference call whe... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044817 | Managing Network Bandwidth A system for managing network bandwidth, according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a configuration storage module and a call manager. The configuration storage module includes a supported codecs storage, codec lists, administrator settings storage a... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20110305170 | SWITCHABLE CONFERENCE MULTICAST STREAMING WITH DYNAMIC ASYMMETRY Techniques are provided herein to add multicast media streams to teleconferencing sessions without the unwanted side effects that occur when a speaker's own media is echoed back to the speaker. Multicast and unicast media streams are generated by a network device, e.g.,... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110286367 | Internet conference call bridge management system The invention pertains to an Internet conference call bridge management (ICCBM) system and method with which a person (customer) having access to the Internet may efficiently input the contact number of at least one party (call recipient) with whom the customer wants to... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110274013 | APPLICATION SERVER FOR DISPATCHING PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS IN A HOSPITAL, IN REAL TIME An application server (AS) for dispatching physiological signals in a hospital, in real time, this hospital comprising a local area network infrastructure (HN) with a virtual local area (VN) supporting voice over IP telephony application, comprises:—means for receivin... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110267989 | PROCESSING OF A REQUEST TO INSTIGATE COMMUNICATION BY A ROUTING DEVICE ASSOCIATED WITH A PLURALITY OF TERMINALS A method and apparatus are provided for processing a request to instigate communication, received by a routing device associated with a plurality of terminals. The request relates to a communication to be established between a sender device of the request and at least o... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110205939 | Method for Implementing Radiophone Based Conference Call and Dynamic Grouping The present invention provides a method for implementing a radiophone based conference call and dynamic grouping, which generally includes selecting a dynamic grouping function and members of an intended group through a man-machine interface of a radiophone, generating ... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110194467 | System and Method for Converged Network Services Systems and methods for providing services for stations supported by a residential gateway are provided. The residential gateway can support one or more fixed-line station and/one or more mobile stations. The mobile stations can be supported by a wireless macro network ... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110194466 | Pull Based Data Driven Consultative Transfer A method for transferring a telephone call includes receiving a communication at a first client computer from a second client computer. The first client computer and the second client computer run communication software that supports voice over Internet Protocol. The co... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110149810 | DECOUPLED CASCADED MIXERS ARCHITECHTURE AND RELATED METHODS Methods for inter-mixer communication enable a “self-formed” cascaded mixer node tree topology. One method enables inter-mixer node signaling and includes first selecting a plurality of media flow payloads at a first cascaded mixer node. A set of conference payloads... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110149811 | Web-Enabled Conferencing and Meeting Implementations with Flexible User Calling Features Meeting and conferencing systems and methods are implemented in a variety of manners. Consistent with an embodiment of the present disclosure, a meeting system is implemented that includes a computer server arrangement that is configured to provide a web-accessible virt... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110141950 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MULTI-MEDIA CONFERENCING BETWEEN UNIVERSAL PLUG AND PLAY (UPnP) ENABLED TELEPHONY DEVICES AND WIRELESS AREA NETWORK (WAN) DEVICES A system and method of multi-media conferencing between Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) telephony devices and Wide Area Network (WAN) devices is provided. The method includes initiating a multi-media conferencing session with WAN devices by at least one telephony control... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110116409 | MULTI-PARTICIPANT CONFERENCE SETUP Some embodiments provide an architecture for establishing a multi-participant conference. This architecture has one participant's computer in the conference act as a central content distributor for the conference. The central distributor receives data (e.g., video and/o... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110090823 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING CALL ORIGINATIONS USING SMS AND HOTLINE CAPABILITIES A method for handling call originations is provided. The method includes sending origination information from a mobile device to an application server in an enterprise network using Short Message Service (SMS) and determining whether a hotline feature is present in a su... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110069643 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING AUDIO IN A COLLABORATION ENVIRONMENT A method and system for designating an aural position of an audio stream in a collaboration environment. A plurality of icons corresponding to participants are displayed in a user interface. A moderator may move the icons from a first position in the user interface to a... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110013541 | Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) location based 911 conferencing Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) emergency calls to an Emergency Response Center (ERC) are handled through a VoIP conference bridge on a VoIP service provider's soft switch. The soft switch works with a VoIP positioning center (VPC) to obtain location information, wh... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20100322113 | ACCESS CONTROL TO COMMUNICATION FACILITY Access to a teleconferencing system is granted to a prospective attendee (1) for a predetermined duration, by dating the user for access to the facilities (107) for a predetermined duration, and allocating resources (110) to the user for the predete... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100296418 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING CENTRALIZED SERVICE CHAIRMAN SIDE CONFERENCE SERVICE OF IP MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM A method for implementing a chairman side conference service of an IP Multimedia Subsystem centralized service is disclosed. A non ICS UE has contracted a conference service and is currently in calls with multiple UEs. The method for implementing the conference service ... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100260075 | System and process for mass telephony conference call A method of providing conference call connections includes initiating a conference call between multiple conferees using a conferencing controller, placing each of the multiple conferees in a half-duplex listen only mode using the conferencing controller, and receiving ... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100246449 | SESSION REPLACEMENT USING REPLACED SESSION ATTRIBUTES Architecture for session management enabling the reusing of session attributes of a current session in creating a new session, for adding new participants to a call session. A telephony component manages IP-based call sessions. The telephony component can be an IP telep... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100246450 | EXTENSIBLE REALTIME DELEGATION FOR CALLS, CONFERENCES AND COLLABORATION Architecture for enabling identification of a call party's representative during calls on behalf of the call party. The call representative is delegated to initiate or answer an IP call on behalf of the call party. An IP-telephony component initiates or answers the IP c... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100238842 | PHONE CONFERENCING ARCHITECTURE WITH OPTIMIZED SERVICES MANAGEMENT Architecture that employs a cost-effective mechanism to only engage the services as needed, and then release these services in a managed way. This reduces the runtime cost so that users can have more conferences for the same amount of hardware purchased for such purpose... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100220635 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING CONFERENCE CALLS USING MULTIPLE MEDIA STREAMS Systems and methods are described that facilitate a conference call between a plurality of communication devices. The method may comprise: providing a first primary communication device; providing a second primary communication device; providing a conference call contro... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100220634 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING CONFERENCE CALLS USING SECURITY TOKENS Systems and methods are described that for authenticating participants in a conference call. One method may include: providing a first primary communication device having a first security token generator configured to generate first security tokens; providing a second p... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100214963 | Telephone system A telephone system that allows multiplexing and demultiplexing plural group calls through simple operations is provided. The telephone system includes a conference trunk creating unit that creates a conference trunk as required and has a multiplexing/demultiplexing spec... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100189018 | System architecture for linking packet-switched and circuit-switched clients A method and computer program product which allows both phone-based and IP-based clients to participate in a single audio conference. The method enables at least two multi-point control units (MCUs) (i.e., conferencing servers) to connect via a standard data linkage (i.... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100182938 | Feature Interaction Detection in Multi-Party Calls and Calls With Bridged Appearances A method is disclosed for detecting feature interactions in multi-party calls (i.e., calls involving more than two endpoints), and in calls with bridged appearances. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, a set of rules is applied to the specifications of two f... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100165889 | DISTRIBUTED AUDIO CONFERENCING ARCHITECTURE WITH OPTIMUM RESOURCE UTILIZATION AND SEAMLESS SCALABILITY A conference call solution with one or more conference server, one or more conference bridge and one or more media mixer. A conference server is chosen as the conference bridge for the conference call using various optimization techniques. A media mixer for the conferen... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100165890 | Voice Communication with Any of Multiple Terminals Among other disclosed subject matter, a computer-implemented method for handling a voice communication in an integrated system includes receiving information indicating that a voice communication between a first party and a second party is to be initiated. The method in... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100142413 | Media Stream Setup in a Group Communication System A basic idea for efficient media communication between two nodes in a group communication system is to set up a number, N, of parallel, separate media streams of the same media type in a given direction between the nodes, where N is equal to or greater than 2. Before se... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100142412 | METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING THE PRESENTATION OF MEDIA STREAMS IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND TERMINAL FOR TRANSMITTING MEDIA STREAMS For some mobile communication services, a media stream such as video, will be combined with another media stream such as voice. For example, a user of a first terminal (101) is involved in a voice call over e.g. a circuit switched network (103) with a frie... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100128641 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING CONFERENCE CALLS A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller to retrieve from an address book a communication identifier for each of a plurality of participants, determine from the address book a con... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100131866 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WEB-BASED TELECONFERENCING A system enables web-based teleconferencing. The system uses a voice services router connected to phone devices associated with respective web browser clients. The system also uses an application server connected to the voice services router for receiving conference cal... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100118742 | System and Method for Monitoring Call Flow in Heterogeneous Environments The call states of all devices in a call are monitored and reported even when the devices belong to networks that use different types of call identifiers. A first device and a second device are different types of devices selected from a group of types comprising: a lega... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20090323561 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING VOICE CONTROL FOR ACCESSING TELECONFERENCE SERVICES A method and apparatus for providing access to teleconference services using voice recognition technology to receive information on packet networks such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Service over Internet Protocol (SoIP) networks are disclosed. In one embod... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090323560 | Customized Media Routing For Conferencing Technologies are described herein for customizing media routing for a conference. In one method, a request to modify a routing table is received. The routing table specifies connections between a plurality of sources and a plurality of sinks. The method determines wheth... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090286522 | MULTIPARTY CALL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE TERMINAL A multiparty call processing method and mobile terminal implemented with the multiparty call processing method is provided. A multiparty call processing method for a mobile terminal detects a call request to a first network, determines whether the mobile terminal is in ... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090251529 | NETWORK MANAGEMENT SERVER FOR MANAGING MULTIPLE OPERATING MODES OF A CONFERENCING NETWORK WITH DIFFERENT SETS OF POLICIES A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed to manage multiple operating modes in a video conferencing network under which different sets of policies can operate. The system is a network management server, designated herein as the Elastic Gatekeeper, th... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090245143 | CONFERENCE SYSTEM, CONFERENCE PROGRAM, AND CONFERENCE RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD Conference system includes a conference status recording unit recording an identifier of a conference using allocated resources and a usefulness value indicating the degree of usefulness of the conference. A request accepting unit accepts a conference start request from... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090232032 | Methods and Apparatus for the Manipulation of Conferenced Data Methods and apparatus may permit the manipulation of conferenced data. Primary sequenced audio-optical data structures may be populated with conferenced data, and secondary sequenced audio-optical data structures may be populated with derivative conferenced data. Electr... | 09/17/2009 |
