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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8144848 | System and method for telephone directory advertising A directory advertising system includes a user interface module, a database, and a control module. The user interface module displays a special telephone number for an advertiser in a directory advertisement. The database stores the directory advertisement, the spec... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8094794 | Advertising message referrals Advertising referral methods and systems allow a first user to refer advertisements of interest to other users, taking advantage of pre-existing social networks. A referral server may coordinate a referral by either receiving a referral message from the first user f... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8081742 | Technique for effectively providing a personalized information assistance service A user may utilize a communication device, e.g., a wireless phone, mobile device or personal digital assistant (PDA), to contact an information/call center where an operator provides personalized information and communications services to the user in accordance with... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8073118 | Providing effective advertising via synchronized telephone and data streams Information, such as advertising, is presented to VoIP users (12) via a combination of telephone and data streams during session initiation via an IP phone or a personal computer (18). A proxy server (20) that receives the call request coordinat... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8059801 | Telephone communications system, a method of delivering content to a calling party and a method of distributing information to a calling party A telephone communications system, a method of delivering content to a calling party and a method of distributing information to a calling party. In one embodiment, the telephone communications system includes: (1) a master subsystem configured to store ringback inf... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8045687 | Call-connecting device, call-connecting method, call-connecting program, and call-accepting server A server system includes a database having an identification number and a contact destination number as associated information; a storage device for containing the database; a call-accepting unit for accepting a call designating an advertised telephone number from a... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7991130 | Method, system, apparatus, and computer program product for transmitting a message A method for effecting delivery of a message from an originator in an original message format to a plurality of authorized receivers in a respective reception message format includes: (a) composing the message; (b) characterizing the message for addressing to indica... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7933393 | Method and apparatus for selective post-call audio logo/message A system relays a call from a calling party to a called party and, upon termination of the call by the calling party, a post-call announcement is played to the called party. Attributes of either the calling party, the called party, or both are passed to a database. ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7876886 | Method and apparatus to provide pay-per-call performance based advertising In one embodiment, the invention provides a method. The method includes assigning a unique telephone number to an advertiser; providing an advertisement on a media channel on behalf of the advertiser, the advertisement including one of the unique telephone number an... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7848499 | Method for tracking effectiveness of telephone response advertising A method of advertising a product, comprising assigning a respective telephone number to a plurality of advertising media elements is disclosed. Telephone numbers are assigned and calls are forwarded to be answered by a sales person or persons. The assignment of the... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7831028 | System and method for call tracking A system for collecting caller information comprises an interexchange switch adapted to extract caller information associated with a call directed to a telephone number, the interexchange switch further adapted to forward caller information to a server manager, the ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7831473 | Methods, systems, and products for crediting accounts Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for crediting an account. An advertisement is received, and the advertisement includes an account number that uniquely identifies an account associated with the advertisement. The advertisement is presented at the communi... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7792257 | Method and system for determining gender and targeting advertising in a telephone system A method of operating a telephony system. The method includes connecting a call from a caller to a call processing entity, receiving voice information from the caller during a time period associated with the call, and processing the voice information to provide one ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7764772 | Method, system, apparatus, and computer program product for transmitting a message A method for effecting delivery of a message from an originator in an original message format to a plurality of authorized receivers in a respective reception message format includes the steps of: (a) composing the message; (b) characterizing the message for address... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7746990 | Providing called number characteristics to click-to-dial customers A system and method to provide content and call attributes for a destination phone number using a click-to-dial connection includes accepting a query, retrieving links to a document, and searching through cached data using the query to identify relevant or destinati... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7697673 | System for advertisement selection, placement and delivery within a multiple-tenant voice interaction service system An advertisement delivery system for publishing a voice-enabled advertisement chosen among multiple voice-enabled advertisements to a specific voice application version chosen among multiple voice application versions available to the system has a telephony interfac... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7555106 | System and method for automatically assigning an extension number to a telephone number to enable precise, efficient and scalable tracking of the origin of a telephone call from a prospect to an advertiser within a performance advertising multi-advertisement, multi-publisher framework A system and method for automatically dynamically creating an extension number associated to an assigned telephone number to enable precise, efficient and scalable tracking of the origin of a telephone call from a prospect to an advertiser within a voice communicati... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7519169 | Systems and methods for management and dissemination of information from a controlled environment facility Systems and methods for the dissemination of information from a controlled environment facility employ facility information management functionality managing resident information and facility information, and call manager functionality selectively providing at least... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7466805 | Technique for effectively providing a personalized information assistance service A user may utilize a communication device, e.g., a wireless phone, mobile device or personal digital assistant (PDA), to contact an information/call center where an operator provides personalized information and communications services to the user in accordance with... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7428221 | Arrangement for providing network prefix information from attached mobile routers to a clusterhead in a tree-based ad hoc mobile network Mobile routers establish a tree-based network topology in an ad hoc mobile network, the tree-based network topology having a single clusterhead and attached mobile routers. Each attached mobile router has a default egress interface configured for sending messages to... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428497 | Methods and apparatuses for pay-per-call advertising in mobile/wireless applications Methods and apparatuses to connect telephone calls and track information about the telephone calls resulting from advertisements on mobile/wireless media channels. In one embodiment, a method includes: assigning a telephone number to an advertiser, one of the teleph... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424442 | Method and apparatus to allocate and recycle telephone numbers in a call-tracking system In one embodiment, the invention provides a method. The method includes dynamically allocating a telephone number to an advertisement on a just-in-time basis; and if the telephone number is not called for a predefined period of time then unallocating the telephone n... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7400711 | System and technique for dynamically interjecting live advertisements in the context of real-time isochronous (telephone-model) discourse A method, system and program storage device are provided for interjecting messages into a real-time isochronous discourse (such as a telephone call) between a plurality of callers wherein the method, system and device accesses the call between the callers, monitors ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7395048 | Unsolicited wireless content delivery and billing apparatus and method A wireless communication system (10) provides unsolicited content (40) to a wireless device (12) by using a network element (14) that contains logic circuitry that sends unsolicited content for the wireless device (12), without req... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7389106 | Traffic shaping of cellular service consumption through modification of consumer behavior encouraged by cell-based pricing advantages Changes in wireless service user behavior are encouraged and produced to shape utilization patterns among cells within a rate plan region by using shaping rules which define potential discounts from a standard charge rate under certain cell-specific utilization cond... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7376223 | Method and system for connecting a subscriber to an advertiser prior to call completion A method and system are provided for connecting a subscriber to an advertiser prior to call completion in an intelligent telecommunications network. A subscriber telephone line is provisioned to receive advertisements which are stored in an originating switch in the... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369864 | Electronic short messaging and advertising method and means An electronic short messaging and advertising method and means relates to an electronic advertising method, where minimal initiative is required from the consumer. Some embodiments of the invention may also be applied to an electronic sales method. The invention may... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366683 | Methods and apparatuses for offline selection of pay-per-call advertisers Methods and apparatuses to connect telephone calls and track information about the telephone calls resulting from advertisements for groups of advertisers. In one embodiment, a method includes: determining a geographic area after receiving a telephone call to a firs... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366111 | Arrangement for providing optimized connections between peer routers in a tree-based ad hoc mobile network Mobile routers in a tree-based network topology with a single clusterhead in an ad hoc network establish connectivity based on each attached mobile router sending a neighbor advertisement message to an attachment mobile router via a corresponding egress interface. A... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359494 | System and method for restricted telephone message delivery A system for controlling restricted telephone calls that originate from a facility includes a facility resident telephone for calling a destination telephone number as a collect call, where the collect call is completed when accepted, a call processing platform elec... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359737 | Data transmission-reception system and data transmission-reception method A data communication system is disclosed which comprises: first terminal devices for transmitting contents and content provider identification data identifying the providers of the contents; a server device for receiving and storing the transmitted contents and cont... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353229 | Post-session internet advertising system The present invention is directed to a post-session advertising system that may be used in media such as computers, personal digital assistants, telephones, televisions, radios, and similar devices. In one preferred embodiment, a first display is viewed in a first p... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7343005 | Method and apparatus for voice-over IP services triggered by off-hook event The present invention is drawn to a method and apparatus for taking advantage of the always-on nature of a broadband VoIP network connection to provide enhanced services triggered by the off-hook event, bypassing a dial tone. In use, a caller triggers a network base... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7328001 | Traffic shaping of cellular service consumption through modification of consumer behavior encouraged by cell-based pricing advantages Changes in wireless service user behavior are encouraged and produced to shape utilization patterns among cells within a rate plan region by using shaping rules which define potential discounts from a standard charge rate under certain cell-specific utilization cond... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7305442 | Asynchronous user-authorized advertising A system and method for advertising on a subscriber terminal. A server may send an advertising authorization request to the subscriber terminal. The advertising authorization request may comprise options that a user may select for accepting or rejecting an advertise... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7292683 | Ad ringer A method and system are provided for playing an advertisement to a telephone subscriber prior to call completion in a telecommunications network. A subscriber telephone line is provisioned to provide an advertisement. A switch in the telecommunications network detec... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7269572 | System, method, and architecture for implementing a business Ifiniti on an information network The invention is a business system that incorporates Affinity organizations and secondary affinity organizations to secure subscribers as buyers for affiliate organization products. In one embodiment, purchases are made through a customizable purchasing platform tha... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7254547 | Dynamically targeting online advertising messages to users A facility for providing targeted advertising messages is described. The facility receives advertising requests each identifying a user. For each received advertising request, the facility applies a sequence of conditions to information relating to the identified us... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254383 | Voice over IP based biometric authentication A system is provided for verifying an identity of a calling party. The system includes a storage that stores voice sample information in association with information that identifies an individual. The system also includes a receiver that receives, from a communicati... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248689 | Display device This invention provides a display device that can be updated via a communications network. In an improved version the advertising material used to update the device depends upon a called number dialled on a telephone which is associated with the device. ... | 07/24/2007 |
