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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8019061 | Communication terminal, and dial registration method and dial registration program therefor A communication terminal having one or more one-touch-dial buttons simplifies operations needed for registration of destination data such as phone numbers or mail addresses. A communication terminal (e.g., a cellular phone) having one or more one-touch-dial buttons ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7869581 | Communication terminal, and dial registration method and dial registration program therefor A communication terminal having one or more one-touch-dial buttons simplifies operations needed for registration of destination data such as phone numbers or mail addresses. A communication terminal (e.g., a cellular phone) having one or more one-touch-dial buttons ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7801287 | Systems and methods for generating telephony dial tones A system for generating number tones for dialing a telephone device comprising a socket assembly and at least one dialer module. The socket assembly defines at least one socket, where the socket is electrically connected to the telephone device. The at least one dia... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7400714 | Communication device and management server A communication device includes a communication unit carrying out a communication by a plurality of communication channels and a plurality of communication protocols and a management table including plural groups of registered information, wherein one group includes... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7330282 | Document delivery system, document delivery apparatus, document delivery method, program for executing the method and storage medium storing the program A document delivery apparatus is provided, which is capable of performing automatic delivery processing of document information (e.g. received fax documents and scan documents) that has been created by devices, such as registering the documents in folders of a prede... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324223 | Network facsimile device and a method of controlling the network facsimile device The invention relates to a network facsimile device for communicating in at least one of a plurality communication modes for transmitting designated image information to a designated destination. The device comprises input means for inputting information identifying... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7318033 | Method, apparatus and program for recognizing, extracting, and speech synthesizing strings from documents Even when a copying machine with a voice guidance function is used, a problem of wastefully copying wrong documents or documents with missing pages remains unsolved for visually impaired persons. To this end, a document image is read, character strings on the read d... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7292362 | Facsimile apparatus When a facsimile data is received, a control unit causes the content of the facsimile data to be displayed on a display. The control unit causes a recording unit to print the content of the facsimile data on a recording sheet when a “Print” key is pressed down w... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7265853 | Postage server system and method A system and method for transmission of a document from a sending location to a receiving location by way of a trusted way location is disclosed. A selected document is physically or electronically transmitted by a sending location to a letter server operated by a d... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7206316 | Methods and system for fast session establishment between equipment using H.324 and related telecommunications protocols Methods of establishing multimedia telecommunication (a multimedia “call”) between equipment (“terminals”). More particularly, the invention provides methods for reducing the time required to establish calls between terminals that implement the ITU-T H.324 R... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7190284 | Selective lossless, lossy, or no compression of data based on address range, data type, and/or requesting agent An integrated memory controller (IMC) including MemoryF/X Technology which includes data compression and decompression engines for improved performance. The memory controller (IMC) of the present invention preferably selectively uses a combination of lossless, lossy... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7187463 | Method of determining whether registration information to be erased includes information reserved for use in a communication job A communication apparatus having means for recording registration information including telephone numbers and address information, which is registered individually by a user per an apparatus or a user, is provided. In the device, a selection of an attribute of the r... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187656 | Method and system for processing tones to reduce false detection of fax and modem communications A tone processing method and communications system which reduce the probability of falsely detecting modem and facsimile communications that occur on a communications link. The link connects a calling endpoint to an answering endpoint. In a preferred embodiment, whe... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7184528 | Method for inputting internet address using a keypad A method for entering an Internet site address including a plurality of Internet sub-addresses for wirelessly accessing an Internet website using a keypad of a mobile communication terminal is disclosed. According to the method, at least one Internet sub-address is ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7139380 | System and method for performing signaling-plan-specific call progress analysis Call progress analysis is performed in a telephone system employing different in-band signaling plans are used. From address information for a call destination in a call initiation message, it is determined which type of in-band signaling plans is utilized by equipm... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139104 | Downsized facsimile machine using semiconductor DAA A facsimile machine having a semiconductor DAA provided in a line I/F part performing facsimile data communication with a network includes a tone signal reception part in the form of a semiconductor device. The tone signal reception part is provided in the semicondu... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7130337 | Method and system for sample and recreation synchronization for digital transmission of analog modem signal A method and system for the synchronization of the transmission of digitally converted analog modem signals between two or more modems using either RF over-the-air or A/C power line communication channels. This invention provides for modem speed optimization my mini... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7124167 | Computer based system for directing communications over electronic networks The present invention includes a system and method for communicating across an electronic communication network. The present invention permits a user of the electronic communication network to communicate with one or more other users of the electronic communication ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7113304 | Network facsimile apparatus A communication apparatus is connected to a terminal apparatus via a network. The communication apparatus includes a memory that stores image data and a storage period of the image data and a checker that determines whether a storage time of the image data exceeds t... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7108436 | Image forming apparatus, communication apparatus, apparatus setting method, program for implementing the method, and storage medium storing the program An image forming apparatus in which apparatus setting information registered in at least one of other apparatuses connected to the image forming apparatus via a communication line is obtained from the other apparatuses. The apparatus selling information of the other... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7095517 | Communication apparatus and storage medium The invention provides a communication apparatus that broadcasts facsimile data by electronic mail (e-mail) on the Internet. In the communication apparatus, recipient's position information, and other broadcast recipient's disclosure information, can be included in ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095830 | Communication apparatus, communication method, and storage medium An object of this invention is to provide a communication apparatus capable of maintaining the secrecy of data received in a memory box when forwarding the data. To achieve this object, when data received in a memory box designated by a sub-address/password signal i... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092379 | Internet telephony arrangement and method An arrangement which includes a telephone and an interface unit, which interfaces the telephone to both a standard switched telephone communications network and an Internet communications network, is disclosed. The interface unit includes an input coupled to the tel... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7072642 | Receiving device and repeating device A mobile station MS accesses a home page of an IP server W and receives HTML data. The mobile station MS then extracts URLs, telephone numbers, and/or electronic mail addresses marked by anchor tags in the obtained HTML data and stores them with titles in the flash ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068776 | Method and system for routing calls to desire discount telephone services A method and system for automatically completing long distance, international and local telephone calls using a preselected discount telephone service. A R.A.T. sensor array monitors a telephone line for activity. When the dialing of an outgoing call is detected, a ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7054435 | Apparatus and method for determining a minimal time bound for performing tone detection Performing tone detection for an amount of time that is calculated from the tones that the detector is designed to detect. ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7024486 | System for directly transmitting an image data signal from a scanner device to a computer terminal via a network without using a server A network scanner apparatus is connected to a least one terminal via a network. A control portion controls the network by the use of a TCP/IP protocol. A readout portion reads-out a paper to produce an image data signal. An operation portion inputs an IP address as ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7019855 | Method for informing a transmitting module of error occurrence in a receiving part of a facsimile A process and apparatus for informing a transmitting facsimile machine of occurrence of an error in a first receiving facsimile machine, including the steps of: inputting the telephone number of a second facsimile machine; when a ring signal is input from the transm... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6995856 | Image data communications device and method An image data communication apparatus is connected to an image data source and to a network, and transmits image data attached to an e-mail to a receiving apparatus via the network. The e-mail including a mail from command and a mail message. The image data is attac... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6981023 | Message routing Methods, devices, signals, and systems are provided in a message routing architecture which provides improved capabilities for integrating “digital” communication through email messages with “analog” communication through voice and/or fax or pager messages. ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6972858 | Image communication apparatus and image communication method A network controlling section makes communication with a receiver side, and receives receiver side information including the presence or absence of Internet facsimile capabilities on a receiver side, mail addresses, and an apparatus possession capability. A receiver... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6967946 | Voice and data exchange over a packet based network with precise tone plan A signal processing system which discriminates between voice signals and data signals modulated by a voiceband carrier. The signal processing system includes a voice exchange, a data exchange and a call discriminator. The voice exchange is capable of exchanging voic... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965443 | Communication apparatus and storage medium A communication apparatus that reduces the number of procedural steps that need to be performed by a user in attaching facsimile data to an e-mail and transmitting the e-mail, includes a CPU of a personal computer that starts a transmission program for performing a ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6952279 | Network facsimile apparatus The network facsimile apparatus is able to communicate using both a public switched telephone network and a computer network, and has a facsimile section which transmits and receives an image via the public switched telephone network, a mail section which transmits ... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6937354 | Multi-function unit, server and network system having multi-function unit A multi-function unit includes a printer engine, a logical copying machine carrying out a copying process with respect to a recording medium by the printer engine, and a plurality of logical printers carrying out printing processes with respect to the recording medi... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6920143 | Computer telephony system using multiple hardware platforms to provide telephony services A computer telephony system includes a multi-platform architecture that provides a layer of abstraction between application software and hardware associated with a platform. According to this architecture, service modules residing on different platforms access compu... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6801521 | System and method for distributed call signaling in telephony-over-LAN networks A gateway (106) to an H.323 network configured to monitor and intercept in-band signaling from external networks. The gateway (106) further provides to the H.323 terminal (102) out-of-band signaling indicative of the nature of the in-band signal... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6748059 | Apparatus and method for unified tone detection Performing tone detection by (1) creating a search engine for every period of all possible tones, (2) applying the search engines on one period of the unknown tone, (3) eliminating the search engines that did not match the period of the unknown tone, (4) reapplying ... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6639974 | Fax routing system and method using standard fax machine and personal computer A fax routing system and method using a standard fax machine and personal computer. The telephone number is decoded from the telephone number dialing which is generated by the fax machine. This number is looked up in a table. If a corresponding Internet-a... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6614892 | Data communication apparatus and method of data communication A data communication apparatus which first searches a plurality of addresses recorded for an input transmission destination. A communication line is selected which is suited to the set mode. Then, a check is made to determine whether or not the address is... | 09/02/2003 |
