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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7327835 | Methods and systems for enabling return to same position in a review of messages in a voice mail system using tag or identifier stored in the voice mail system Methods and systems for enabling a subscriber to interrupt a review of messages in a voice mail system (VMS), to make a call or take some other action, and to return to the same position as occupied at the time of interruption in the review of messages in the VMS. I... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328264 | System and method for fractional resource scheduling for video teleconferencing resources The present invention discloses a system and method for reserving fractionally schedulable resources. The system includes a scheduling engine to receive reservation requests. The scheduling engine applies the reservation request to a resource usage table correspondi... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324464 | Communication system with connectable interface device The communication system includes multiple participating devices connected with each other by a data line. At least one connection device for connection to a corresponding participant device defined as associated with it is connected to the data line. The communicat... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325033 | Video conferencing system using video manager to provide picture-in-picture image to display devices located remotely from co-located computing systems System and method for operating a system including one or more co-located computers, e.g., rack-mounted blades, coupled to one or more remote human interfaces (RHIs), and where content or communication is received from sources, e.g., external content sources, intern... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321559 | System and method of noise reduction in receiving wireless transmission of packetized audio signals A receiver for receiving wireless packetized audio signals having packet headers, and packet payloads including encoded audio signals is provided. The receiver includes an audio decoder for decoding the encoded audio signals into digital audio signals, an audio erro... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319745 | Voice conference historical monitor A method for displaying a voice conference historical monitor is provided. A summation of a plurality of voice streams is received at a user's endpoint of a multipoint conference, each voice stream being associated with a respective one of a plurality of speakers' e... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319540 | Systems and methods for remote viewing of patient images A digital camera containing patient images is connected to an uploader computer and the patient's name or history is entered into the uploader computer. The uploader computer then connects to the Internet, connects to the secure host server, uploads the images to th... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319694 | Communication apparatus and network system having rapid digital interface Dominated nodes A, B and C equip only with lower layers 1a, 2a and 3a, and upper layers for the lower layers are not equipped. Each of the lower layers 1a, 2a and 3a comprises a pres... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317716 | Methods and systems for presence-based telephony communications A system and method can enable a user of a communications network, such as a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), wireless and/or voice over IP network to participate in Presence Availability Management (PAM) and Instant Messaging (IM) activities of a PAM/IM ne... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317919 | Initiating a wireless communication session from contact information on a computer A communication session between a wireless communication device and one or more recipient communication devices is initiated in response to user input received at a separate computing device. The intended parties of the call are identified at the computing device in... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317899 | Communication apparatus A portable terminal device aborts a screen display process of the current application on a display in accordance with a switch of a communication partner during communication with a speaker A and executes a screen display process of an application corresponding to a... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7313593 | Method and apparatus for providing full duplex and multipoint IP audio streaming A conference server enables collaborative communications among a variety of client processes of varying configurations all operatively coupled over a computer network to each other and to the server. The server receives audio streams from participating client proces... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313617 | Methods and systems for a communications and information resource manager Methods and systems for managing the communications and information resources of a user. A manager interfaces with communications systems such as a telecommunications and/or data network. The manager allows a user to participate in, keep track of, log, monitor, and ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313233 | Tone clamping and replacement A method and apparatus to manage tone clamping are described. ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313131 | Processing of communication session request messages SIP (session initiation protocol) requests are processed by a networked server having a processor which has a dedicated packet handling circuit (or network-aware co-processor), without passing said requests through an IP stack to an application layer. The co-process... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313327 | Switching control device for wavelength-division multiplexing optical signal In a WDM optical communication network composed of a transmitter, an optical switching device (an optical cross-connect, an optical router, etc.) and a receiver, when transmitting switching information to the optical switching device, the transmitter suspends the tr... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310320 | System and method for providing reservationless conferencing A video teleconferencing method for providing reservationless conferencing. The method involves creating a conference profile identifying selected connection parameters; allocating a dial-in number; notifying participants of the dial-in number; detecting a call from... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310334 | Method and apparatus for media stream monitoring A network processing device is signaled to establish a media path with another network processing device in a packet switched network with Session Initiated Protocol (SIP), International Telecommunication Union (ITU) standard H.323, MGCP, Megaco, or some other signa... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310308 | Systems and methods for multiple mode voice and data communications using intelligently bridged TDM and packet buses Systems and methods by which voice/data communications may occur in multiple modes/protocols are disclosed. In particular, systems and methods are provided for multiple native mode/protocol voice and data transmissions and receptions with a computing system having a... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305040 | Edit system, edit control device, and edit control method A splicer/transcoder 21 interfaces with a material archiver/server using a stream. The splicer/transcoder 21 interfaces with an editor and switcher 22 using a base band signal. In a predetermined region including at least an edit point, a transc... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305078 | Speaker identification during telephone conferencing Systems and techniqes for identifying a participant in a teleconference allow other participants at remote locations to be informed of the identify of a current speaker. A currently speaking participant is identified in a teleconference conducted using a connection ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305454 | Apparatus and methods for provisioning services Disclosed are methods and apparatus for effectively provisioning services for access by other entities or services. In general, a service manager is configured to manage the provisioning of services between remote entities within a computer network. In general terms... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301913 | Transcoding arrangement in a session initiation This invention relates to a SIP and SDP protocols. The idea of the invention is to modify SDP descriptions included in SIP messages to facilitate transcoding. After receiving an INVITE message from a calling party, the SIP proxy negotiates with a transcoder for gett... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302050 | Method and system for independent participant control of audio during multiparty communication sessions A method and system for independent participant control of audio during a multiparty communication session includes receiving an audio stream from each of a plurality of participants to a multiparty communication connection. An audio control signal is received from ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302053 | System and method for providing a communication session A communications system includes a plurality of service providers, and at least one management unit, wherein the at least one management unit selects at least one service provider of the plurality of service providers and utilizes at least one service of the at leas... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298834 | System and method for large capacity conference calls A system and method for teleconferencing using multiple media mixers is provided. In an exemplary embodiment, a conferencing system may include a conference control server in communication with a central media mixer (CMM) and one or more edge media mixers (EMM). The... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295973 | Quality control quantization loop and bitrate control quantization loop for quality and rate control for digital audio An audio encoder regulates quality and bitrate with a control strategy. The strategy includes several features. First, an encoder regulates quantization using quality, minimum bit count, and maximum bit count parameters. Second, an encoder regulates quantization usi... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295558 | ATM adaption layer traffic scheduling The ATM transmitting apparatus for transmitting messages, such as frame relay packets, associated with a plurality of connections comprises ATM layer transmission equipment for receiving multiple messages, segmenting each received message into a plurality of smaller... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295548 | Method and system for disaggregating audio/visual components The present invention is directed to a method and system for disaggregating and connecting A/V components, and communicating A/V content stream information. An A/V stream from a source device is packaged for transmission over an IP network to one or more output devi... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292543 | Speaker tracking on a multi-core in a packet based conferencing system A distributed intelligence conferencing system having a plurality of conferencing nodes to connect groups of participants to a conference. Each of the conferencing nodes provides for the connection of one or more participants to the conference. Each node includes a ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292527 | Residual frequency error estimation in an OFDM receiver An OFDM receiver configured for measuring frequency error based on comparing prescribed pilot tones from a prescribed group of consecutive symbols in a received OFDM signal. A complex conjugate generator is configured for generating complex conjugates of the prescri... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292901 | Hybrid multi-channel/cue coding/decoding of audio signals Part of the spectrum of two or more input signals is encoded using conventional coding techniques, while encoding the rest of the spectrum using binaural cue coding (BCC). In BCC coding, spectral components of the input signals are downmixed and BCC parameters (e.g.... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289620 | Method and apparatus for managing incoming and outgoing calls at an endpoint placed on hold A method and apparatus for managing incoming and outgoing calls at an endpoint placed on hold are disclosed. A first call that includes an outbound media stream is established on a network between a first endpoint and a second endpoint. The first endpoint detects th... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7287036 | Method and apparatus for automatically searching hypertext structure A method and apparatus for automatically accessing a WWW page is provided for realizing a function of automatically jumping to a desired page to automatically download desired data in spite of intervening pages which require a user to enter information, and a functi... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286524 | System and method for high capacity/failure tolerance telecommunications in a signaling network gateway A telepathy system provides for the transport of voice communication over a data centric network. Through use of the SS7 signaling network, an additional STP pair may be located between STP pairs in the SS7 network and a switch specially configured for converting vo... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286652 | Four channel audio recording in a packet based network An apparatus for and a method of audio recording in packet based telephony systems. Using the present invention, the equivalent of four audio channels are recorded utilizing only two recording channels. Each channel recorded comprises the stream of packets generated... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7287080 | System and method for transmitting data via data networks, particularly the internet, using an asynchronous data connection To provide a bi-directional data connection via the Internet, even across firewalls and starting from a client which is not visible as a server on the Internet, a first connection request for establishing a first transmission channel is sent from a first data proces... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7287030 | Data repository and method for promoting network storage of data In general, the invention features methods by which more than one client program connected to a network stores the same data item on a storage device of a data repository connected to the network. In one aspect, the method comprises encrypting the data item using a ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283557 | Asynchronous crossbar with deterministic or arbitrated control Methods and apparatus are described relating to a crossbar which is operable to route data from any of a first number of input channels to any of a second number of output channels according to routing control information. Each combination of an input channel and an... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283624 | Idle detection for answer supervision A network device has the capability of monitoring voice over data networks calls. The network device includes a voice activity detector that detects voice activity on a voice channel. If no voice activity is detected, the network device disconnects the call. The net... | 10/16/2007 |
