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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7184531 | System and method for authorizing a party to join a conference A system, method, apparatus, means, and computer program code for allowing an authorized party to join a conference are provided. In some embodiments, an application may create or generate a request for an MCU to handle an ad-hoc or meet-me type conference. The appl... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181401 | Methods for generating voice prompts using grammatical rules in a system proving TDM voice communications and VOIP communications 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... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181526 | Announced session description A method of announcing a description of a media session, for example a multimedia conference, that is to take place over multicast capable links is provided in networks configured for Internet Protocol operation. A modular method of announcing media sessions include... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7180890 | Phone connector component operationally connectable through packet network to any selected one or more switch components for originating and/or terminating telecommunication service A phone of a system comprises a connector component that is operationally connectable through a packet network to any selected one or more of a plurality of switch components. The any selected one or more of the plurality of switch components serve to provide one or... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177286 | System and method for processing digital audio packets for telephone conferencing Telephone conferencing with processing of sequential audio input packets from connections of the conference with assignment of input packets from each connection to a sequence of output sending periods, determination of applicability to each output period of using a... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177654 | Apparatus and method for delivering paging messages A radio system comprising a switching and management infrastructure arranged to deliver voice and data between a plurality of communicating parties, and a mobile station. Said radio system comprises a multiplicity of traffic channels, each traffic channel being asso... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177323 | Ensuring quality of service (QOS) for a multi-media calls through call associated individual media stream bandwidth control A multi-media call application is disclosed. The application guarantees quality of service (QOS) for a packet based multi-media call (CALL). The guaranty is effectuated through call associated individual media stream bandwidth control. ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7176957 | Local video loopback method for a multi-participant conference system using a back-channel video interface A multi-participant videoconference system incorporating a back-channel connection and a client video mixer is disclosed. The multi-participant videoconference system includes a client component and a server component. The server component provides a composite confe... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7178051 | Method for synchronous support of fault-tolerant and adaptive communication An invention is provided for fault-tolerant and adaptive communication in a distributed computing environment. The invention includes detecting an interruption in a digital connection on a network between two endpoints. Upon detection, a connection state value indic... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174365 | System and method for controlling one or more multipoint control units as one multipoint control unit A video teleconferencing system for controlling multiple multipoint control units (MCU) from a single apparatus. The system utilizes a Virtual MCU (VMCU) (110) to communicate with a plurality of MCUs (135, 140, 145). A user initiates a reserve conferen... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7173911 | System and method for music-on-hold in a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) environment This method for music-on-hold in a voiceover Internet Protocol (VoIP) environment includes determining a quality value for each of a plurality of audio streams communicated in the VoIP format. One of the audio streams may be selected for playing to a call on hold ba... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7173914 | Communication node receipt of node-output information from processorless central equipment A first communication node of a plurality of communication nodes connected with processorless central equipment in a system sends one or more first portions of node-output information to the processorless central equipment. One or more additional communication nodes... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7170863 | Push-to-talk wireless telecommunications system utilizing a voice-over-IP network A method and system to provide push-to-talk from one user to another in a wireless packet data telecommunications network is described. The system may include: a wireless communication network including push-to-talk (PTT) functionality, with a Session Initiation Pro... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170500 | Flip-style user interface A flip-style user interface for controlling a display on a device such as a computer system, and a method thereof. Layers of flexible material are coupled along one edge in a stack that is coupled to the computer system. A user flips the layers (e.g., leaves) in a m... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171492 | Method and application programming interface for assigning multiple network addresses A method and application programming interface for using multiple network addresses on a common physical layer. The host protocol stack supports multiple Internet Protocol interfaces. When a process makes a function call to create a new socket, a new IP address is a... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167897 | Accessories providing a telephone conference application one or more capabilities independent of the teleconference application A system and method providing capability expansion in a teleconferencing environment. One or more accessories are invoked and arranged in an accessory stack associated with an application. The accessory stack is positioned logically between a teleconferencing applic... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167833 | Conference management assistance apparatus and conference management assistance program The present invention relates to a conference management assistance apparatus for assisting a presiding person of a conference and has an object to provide information which assists smooth progress of proceedings at a conference. The present invention includes an in... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7166062 | System for interaction with exercise device An exercise device is configured to enable a user to interact with a trainer in real-time communication. The exercise device includes an exercise mechanism having a movable element for movement in performance of exercise by a user. Communicating with the exercise me... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7166064 | Systems and methods for enabling two-way communication between one or more exercise devices and computer devices and for enabling users of the one or more exercise devices to competitively exercise Systems and methods for providing two-way communication between an exercise device and a computer device. A computer device and an exercise device employ different protocol formats and communicate through a translator device, which includes a microcontroller specifi... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7165035 | Compressed domain conference bridge The system and method of the present invention comprises a compressed domain conference bridge. The method includes maintaining full intelligibility for all users even when there are multiple simultaneous talkers. The bridge also allows a user to hear a plurality of... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164761 | Telecommunication resource allocation system and method A telecommunication system includes telecommunication resources, points, and a connection manager. The connection manager is configured to establish connections between the telecommunications resources and the points in response to a request from an application. The... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164665 | Transfer of IP data in telecommunications system A method for transferring IP data comprising payload and header fields in a telecommunications system, the method comprising compression and decompression of the header fields of the IP packets. At least two logical connections are allocated for the transfer of head... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7162199 | Method for real-time team coordination with unrealiable communications between team members A system and method of coordinating team members, each team member having a mission processor, in real time for continued coordinated operation in the absence of reliable communications between team members. Prior to a mission, each team member is provided with comm... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162241 | Method for managing multicast group in mobile communication system A multicast service of a 3GPP Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is disclosed. By allowing an RNC to manage multicast group member information by multicast services on multicast areas, when a user terminal being currently provided with an MBMS service... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161939 | Method and system for switching among independent packetized audio streams The present invention provides a method and system for noiselessly switching between independent audio streams. Such noiseless switching preserves valid RTP information at the time of switch over. For established VOIP calls, the present invention can noiselessly swi... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161905 | Method and system for managing time-sensitive packetized data streams at a receiver According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for managing time-sensitive packetized data streams at a receiver includes receiving a time-sensitive packet of a data stream, analyzing an energy level of a payload signal of the packet, and determining whether... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7159031 | Remote customer management of virtual routers allocated to the customer A computerized system for providing subscriber control of network parameters includes a service processing switch having a plurality of network resources; a service provider management server communicably coupled to the service processing switch and operable to conf... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158624 | Methods and apparatus for selectively including an audio signal component within an audio output signal An apparatus and method selectively includes an audio signal component, such as hold music or a hold tone, within an audio output signal, such as a composite audio signal from a multi-party teleconference, based upon a condition of an audio delivery system. In one a... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158534 | Unified distributed architecture for a multi-point video conference and interactive broadcast systems A unified architecture for a multipoint VC session and interactive broadcasting system is provided that includes a server, one or more video accessing points, reflectors and client machines. The server sets up the video communication sessions (VC sessions), each of ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158487 | Multimedia terminal for telephony allowing multipoint connections A multimedia terminal for telephony based on the ITU-T Standard H.323 sets up multipoint connections to a plurality of other terminals. The multimedia terminal has a controller for processing signaling information for point-to-multipoint connections and has a mixer ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158483 | Communication node and communication terminal The disclosed communication node has a function for recognizing one communication node on the first network as one of constituent elements in own communication node, and a function for disclosing an own configuration information regarding the constituent elements as... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7155729 | Method and system for displaying transient notifications A notification component that is shared between all applications that provides notifications to users without interrupting the task that the user is working and allows users to manage the notifications from one location. The user can globally set preferences as to h... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155480 | Client-server conference and user seeking through a server storing a list comprising active conference servers and excluding nonactive conference servers Client-server conference and user seeking is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes at least one server of a first type, a server of a second type, and a client. Each of the at least one server of the first type maintains at least one conference. The server... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154999 | Sending identification information of a plurality of communication devices that are active on a communication session to information receiving component An apparatus in one example comprises one or more information sender components that upon engagement of a communication device with a communication session that involves a plurality of communication devices, send to one or more information receiver components identi... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154906 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image processing program, and computer-readable storage medium storing image processing program code A natural-image signal obtained by encoding a natural image is input. An artificial-image signal obtained by encoding an artificial image is input. The natural-image signal and the artificial-image signal are adaptively multiplexed according to the communication sta... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154864 | Method and apparatus for providing conference call announcement using SIP signalling in a communication system A method and corresponding equipment for setting up a conference call via a communication network that uses session initiation protocol (SIP) signalling for call setup, the method including steps (E1a E2a E3a E4a | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154863 | Apparatus and method for computer telephone integration in packet switched telephone networks A computer telephony interface (CTI) applications computer interfaces to a Internet telephony system which utilizes, preferably, the session initiation protocol (SIP). In one preferred technique, an additional pass through server is added to connect end users to the... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154852 | Devices, softwares and methods for dynamic bandwidth allocation for ATM connections Devices, softwares and methods dynamically allocate bandwidth in ATM SVC connections. If there is an increase in the rate of demand, additional switched virtual circuits are opened for adding bandwidth. If demand decreases, some of the additional switched virtual ci... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154533 | System and method for monitoring and diagnosis of video network performance A system and method for diagnosis of video device performance in the transfer of audio visual data over a video network physically interfaces with the network to receive audio visual data associated with the video device of interest and uses diagnostic tools to acce... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7152118 | System, method and computer program product for caching domain name system information on a network gateway A system, method and computer program product is provided for caching domain name system (DNS) information on a network gateway. In particular, a network gateway that interfaces one or more customer premises equipment (CPE) devices to an IP network maintains a centr... | 12/19/2006 |
