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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120083249 | VISUAL MANIPULATION OF AUDIO A mobile communication device displays, via a display, an audio waveform associated with a voicemail received by the mobile communication device, and receives selection and sustained contact with the audio waveform from a user associated with the mobile communication de... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120071137 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RECORDING, MANAGING, AND PRESENTING VOICE GREETINGS According to one exemplary embodiment, a method and system for recording, organizing, and presenting one or more voice greetings is disclosed. The method or system can be implemented using software running on any of a variety of computing devices. The method and system ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071138 | Systems and Methods for Providing Context-Based Voicemail Voicemail systems and methods for managing voicemail systems are provided herein. The subject voicemail systems provide a plurality voicemail greeting, each of which are associated with a context tag. The context tag can be, for example, a location, a device parameter, ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120052846 | Voice Mailbox Configuration Methods And Apparatus For Mobile Communication Devices Techniques for use in a mobile telephone for configuring voice mailbox configuration information at a remote voicemail system for storage in association with a voice mailbox of the mobile telephone. The mobile telephone displays, in a GUI, a user input prompt for initia... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052845 | USER INTERFACE FOR SELECTIVELY PLAYING BACK CONTENT OF A FORWARDED MESSAGE Disclosed in an example embodiment herein is an apparatus comprising a user interface, and a controller coupled to the user interface. The controller is operative to display images associated with a message that has been forwarded at least once in a predefined format on... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120053938 | Advanced Voicemail Features Without Carrier Voicemail Support In one embodiment, a communication request from a remote requester is intercepted at the computing device. Based on the intercepted communication request, one or more voicemail features are enabled at the computing device, independent of carrier voicemail support. The r... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120028616 | Terminal in digital trunking communication system and method for realizing fast answer thereof A method for realizing a fast answer of a terminal in a digital trunking communication system comprises: after receiving a channel assignment message signalling from a system side, a main control device of the terminal establishes a service channel, determines a call ty... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120009904 | Systems, Methods, and Computer Program Products for Determining a Location of a Tracked Device After a Device or Network Failure Systems, methods, and computer program products are for receiving a tracking failure notification including a device identifier of a tracked device that is unavailable because of a failure condition, determining the failure condition as being one of a network failure an... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110300833 | INTELLIGENT TEXT MESSAGE-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUAL VOICE MAIL A visual voicemail system can convert visual voicemail message content to an alternate format based on the location of the recipient device, whether and how the recipient device is in motion, a priority of the message content, user preferences, or other criteria. Altern... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110294464 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A NETWORK SERVICE IN A DISTRIBUTED FASHION TO A MOBILE DEVICE Systems and methods for operating a mobile virtual network are disclosed. A mobile virtual network operator is disclosed as an entity that provides a mobile networking service to a user, the mobile networking service being provided using a physical mobile network provid... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110294472 | COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING AND OPERATING THE SAME A communications device for use on a communications network comprising: at least two communications profiles, each communications profile being associated with a geographic region within which the communications device is to be used processing means arranged to allow an... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110287746 | INTELLIGENT CALL NOTIFICATION IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK Notification of missed voice calls directed to non-responsive called party devices in a communication network is provided. An incoming call directed to a called party device, when the called party device is in a non-responsive state, are received at a messaging platform... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110281561 | Method and apparatus for call handling There is provided a system and method of call handling comprising a first communications device having an acceptor of call purpose from a first party for a call, a communications channel including a conveyor of call purpose and a second communications device coupled to ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110275350 | Method of Simulating Communication A method of simulating a conversation includes providing at least one pre-programmed conversational script on a storage device; selecting the at least one pre-programmed conversational script for playback on the mobile communications device at a predetermined time; rece... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110275351 | MOBILE VOICEMAIL APPLICATION An arrangement is provided for detecting that a called party is not (or is not able) to accept an incoming call, such that a voicemail application should be initiated. In response to this detection, a premium voicemail service is initiated, for example by a SIP server t... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110269432 | LOCAL VOICEMAIL FOR MOBILE DEVICES This document describes various techniques for implementing local voicemail on a mobile device. These techniques may include enabling the mobile device to answer a voice call, record audio of the voice call to provide a voicemail file, and store the voicemail file to lo... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110269433 | MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS TERMINAL PROVIDING MEMO FUNCTION AND METHOD THEREOF A mobile communication terminal including a controller configured to activate both a speakerphone function and an additional function on the terminal when a functional key corresponding to the additional function is selected during an existing call, and an input unit co... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110263228 | PRE-RECORDED VOICE RESPONSES FOR PORTABLE COMMUNICATION DEVICES A portable communication device may be used so that, in place of speaking into the portable communication device during a telephone call, users may initiate playback of pre-recorded messages to the party with whom the user is communicating. In one implementation, a devi... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110263229 | CLIENT DEVICE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROUTING A CALL A telecommunication method, server and system that route an outbound telephone communication initiated by a wireless remote device through an enterprise communication network. The system also routes an incoming call to a device associated with an enterprise communicatio... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110254800 | Voicemail Manager for Portable Multifunction Device A computer-implemented method for management of voicemail messages, performed at a portable electronic device with a touch screen display, includes: displaying a list of voicemail messages; detecting selection by a user of a respective voicemail message in the list; res... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110244834 | Method and Apparatus for Intelligently Composing a Multimedia Message for a Mobile Radio System The invention presently proposed relates to a method and an apparatus for intelligently composing a multimedia message for a mobile radio system. In this method, a digital voice message is received from a digital answering service, a blank multimedia message is generate... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110244833 | Telephone Service Logic and Control In the preferred computer system, the user is provided with a separate Internet-accessible entity referred to here as the “personal page.” A personal page, preferably, includes memory for storing information related to the user. For example, on his/her personal page... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110230170 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING INFORMATION TO A TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DEVICE The present invention provides systems and method for delivering information to a transmitting and receiving device. The device receives a notification alerting a user of the device that information is available to be obtained and, in some embodiments, providing a short... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110231184 | Correlation of transcribed text with corresponding audio In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at a communication device an audio communication and a transcribed text created from the audio communication, and generating a mapping of the transcribed text to the audio communication independent of transcribing the audio... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110217956 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, SCREEN INFORMATION OUTPUT METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM An electronic apparatus has a storage part to store a plurality of screen information, including incoming call screen information, a display part to display the screen information, and an output control part to output to an outside of the electronic apparatus arbitrary ... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110212709 | ANONYMOUS CALL BLOCKING IN WIRELESS NETWORKS Wireless networks and methods are disclosed that provide for anonymous call blocking in wireless networks. A wireless network of the invention includes an MSC system and an HLR system. When a calling party initiates a call to a called party, the MSC system receives the ... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110207436 | TARGETED NOTIFICATION OF CONTENT AVAILABILITY TO A MOBILE DEVICE A system and method for publishing information to a community of users is disclosed. Published information is inclusive of, for example, calendar data, blog data and photographs. Communities may be defined by PIM data or automatically generated by a data aggregation ser... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110207437 | System and Method for Enhanced Message Notification Enhanced message notification is provided by an enhanced notification function element and a subscriber preference profile database. The enhanced notification function element queries the subscriber preference profile database to obtain subscriber communication terminal... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110195694 | Desktop mobile information provider A system, method, and desktop mobile information provider for unifying mobile devices with provisioned endpoints. In one illustrative embodiment, a user's mobile device can receive a mobile event. The mobile device can then transmit the mobile event to either a private ... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110183650 | REGULATING ALERTS GENERATED BY COMMUNICATION TERMINALS RESPONSIVE TO SENSED MOVEMENT Various computer-implemented methods and associated mobile communication terminals are provided that regulate the generation of user alerts responsive to received messages so that the alerts may be generated/regenerated when the terminal is moved by a user. A mobile com... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110177796 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MESSAGING USING VOICEMAIL Methods and apparatus for providing voicemail services to callers of wireless devices may include providing customized outgoing messages to callers based upon the caller's identification. A subscriber to the voicemail service may select one or more contacts associated w... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110159852 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CORDLESS PHONE AND OTHER TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES Systems, methods and apparatus are provided that combine a software application framework within a variety of consumer communication devices to provide enhanced functionality. The enhanced functionality devices can then be controlled and integrated into an Internet base... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110143725 | VISUAL VOICEMAIL DETECTION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM A visual voicemail message may be generated and/or rendered and provided to a mobile device in a format determined based on a characteristic. For example, an identifier of a mobile device may be received. Upon receipt of the mobile device identifier, a characteristic su... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110145848 | DISTRIBUTED CONTRIBUTION OF DISPARATE INTERACTIVE ELEMENTS Mechanisms are provided for collecting user response information corresponding to a request transmitted as a part of unidirectional media broadcast. Mobile devices used to display media broadcast containing the request, such a survey, are also configured to send informa... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110143721 | Visual Voicemail Unavailability Solution A solution for notifying a user of alternate means of accessing voicemail data utilize a timer that can be set on a user device upon receipt of a message waiting indicator. When the timer expires, if no data communications connection has been established between the use... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110143722 | Integrated Visual Voicemail Communications A single visual voicemail communications session is established and used to provide various content to a visual voicemail client on a wireless device. Rather than requiring the establishment of multiple communications session in order to obtain messaging, multimedia, an... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110143723 | AUTOMATIC DELIVERY OF VISUAL VOICEMAIL A visual voicemail may be automatically transmitted to a receiving mobile device after the visual voicemail fails to reach the receiving mobile device during an initial delivery attempt. For example, a visual voicemail delivery system may receive an indication of an inc... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110143724 | Alternate Voicemail Deposit Notification for Roaming Mobile Devices Systems and methods allow a roaming mobile device to communicate with a visual voicemail (VVM) system to inform the VVM system of its roaming status. The VVM system then suspends VVM service for the voicemail account associated with the roaming mobile device and instruc... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110136474 | AGGREGATED MULTI-NUMBER VISUAL VOICEMAIL SERVER A system, in which a server is connected to a group of voicemail servers, is provided. A first voicemail server provides voicemail services to landline telephone devices. A second voicemail server provides voicemail services to wireless telephone devices. The server rec... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110130122 | Method and Apparatus for Sending Voice Message in Mobile Network To use the supplementary services of a conventional mobile communication service, such as Short Message Service (SMS) and Voice Mail System (VMS) service, there are problems in that an access method to each service must be known and several steps must be undergone. The ... | 06/02/2011 |
