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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7063619 | Method and apparatus for identifying game players and game moves A method and apparatus is disclosed for simultaneously indicating on each of a plurality of communication terminals, instructions transmitted by each terminal and the identity of the respective terminals that transmitted the instructions. Such a feature can be used ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062021 | Integrated telephone call and context notification mechanism A mechanism for placing a telephone call while at the same time communicating context (e.g., subject, importance and/or nature) of the telephone call. The caller uses a mechanism on a user interface to instruct a caller computing system to place a telephone call to ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058023 | Self-configuring network telephone system and method A self-configuring telephone device interconnected by a network to other network telephone devices. The network telephone device is especially adapted to connect to other similar devices on a network, such as a local area network, without the need for a central cont... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054645 | System for intelligent home controller and home monitor A system utilizing a transmitter emitting a unique signal and a base station receiver having a database of household members is used to ascertain the identity of household members who are home at any particular time. Such information is used by the local telephone n... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054433 | Method and apparatus for transmitting data without establishing a call path The present invention provides a method and system for sending a server-specified message from an application server to Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) without setting up a call path between the application server and the CPE. The application server is coupled wit... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050811 | Method of setting up an application initiated call to a mobile station within a CAMEL network, and a telecommunications system comprising a CAMEL network A method is provided of setting up a call connection to a mobile station operative to communicate with a Customised Application for Mobile Enhanced Logic (CAMEL) telecommunications network. The call is initiated by an Open Service Architecture (OSA) application, whi... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7047092 | Home automation contextual user interface A user interface having a plurality of user interface elements including: background, passive elements such as frames and borders, information display elements that present information from application software operating on the control unit, and control elements tha... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046994 | System and method for associating a contact with a call ID This invention is directed toward a computer-implemented system and method for associating a contact with a telephone number. The method includes determining a set of candidate contacts from within a contact information database related to the telephone number, sear... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046782 | Telephone call control system and methods A system and methods through which incoming calls to and/or outgoing calls from a telephone can be controlled. The present invention utilizes an authorized caller list to determine whether an incoming call should be connected, and a similar list to determine whether... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046777 | IVR customer address acquisition method A method of automatically acquiring and/or updating a customer address within an interactive voice response system including establishing a telephony connection with a customer and identifying a telephone number associated with the customer. A directory assistance d... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046772 | Method and system for call, facsimile and electronic message forwarding A method and system are provided for forwarding telephone calls, facsimile transmissions and electronic messages to a single forwarding telephone number. The telephone calls, fax transmissions and electronic messages are first forwarded to a central forwarding repos... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043229 | System and method for determining tariffs for real-time calls involving ported directory numbers A system and method for determining a tariff for a real-time wireless service such as a prepaid service (PPS) for a wireless telephone call. A Local Number Portability Point (LNPP) provides an interface between service scripts in a Service Control Point (SCP) or app... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039177 | Automatic update of a directory entry within a directory of an electronic communication device by electronic notification A system and method are presented for updating directory entries within an electronic communication device upon receipt of an electronic notification. Electronic communication devices may include, but are not limited to telephones, facsimile machines and electronic ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039172 | Dual language caller ID with asian language support A caller ID system and method includes the ability to transmit a party's name in native language characters along with a transliteration of the party's name into global characters, such as Latin characters. The native characters could include Chinese, Japanese or Ko... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7035623 | System and method for creating a note related to a phone call This invention is directed toward a computer-implemented system and method for creating a note in a mobile communication device. The method includes creating a call note if a phone call is in progress. The call note includes call data that are related to the phone c... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035622 | System and method for creating a note related to a phone call This invention is directed toward a computer-implemented system and method for creating a note in a mobile communication device. The method includes creating a call note if a phone call is in progress. The call note includes call data that are related to the phone c... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035388 | Caller identifying method, program, and apparatus and recording medium A caller number received from an exchange machine by a telephone coordination server (CTI server) is noticed to a customer database to search for caller information. When pieces of caller information are acquired from the customer database by the telephone coordinat... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031464 | Ring relay control unit for foreign exchange station The ring relay control unit of an FXS includes a main control unit for controlling relay interrupt command; a relay control device for generating a relay control signal in accordance with a relay interrupt command transferred from the main control unit, an SLIC for ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031453 | Telephony ring customization The present invention provides for customizing a telephony ring signal to correspond to the originator of an incoming call. Preferably, a user will access an application server using a browser to associate audio files with telephone numbers of people who are expecte... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027803 | Method for transmitting information A method is for transmitting information within a user group. Communication terminals, which are registered with a central communication device, are assigned to the individual users of the group. Information for the members of the group is stored in the central comm... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027569 | Telephone call screening system and method and caller registration system and method for use therewith A telephone call screening system screens telephone calls placed to a subscriber based upon a preferred caller database established by the subscriber from a networked caller registry database. A caller registration system allows callers to select a private identifie... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7024539 | Resistor identification configuration circuitry and associated method Programmable on-chip identification circuitry and associated method are disclosed that provide integrated circuits with the ability to select and report from multiple different vendor and system identification configurations. The integrated circuit device includes p... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020271 | Ring control device A system and method that allows a ringer of a telephone to be silenced on demand without preventing outgoing calls to be placed. In an embodiment of the invention, there is a ring control device comprising a switch, a voltage control device in electrical series with... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020267 | Geographical number portability Telecommunication system, with a communication network (1), and a database (10), accessible through the network (1), the database (10) comprising telephone numbers (60), and associated with a telephone number a location identificat... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020250 | System and method for providing visual indication of caller and telephony platform information on customer premises equipment A system and method for receiving information regarding a telephony platform and for retrieving the object of the services provided by the telephony platform corresponding to the information received. Customer premises equipment is connected to the general switched ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016482 | Method and system of providing caller identification with name A system (20) for providing a caller identification with name service includes a destination service switching point (22) having a plurality of destination numbers (24). A switching control point (26) has a caller identification with name... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7016480 | System and method for granting permission to receive interactive voice broadcast of a voice service A system and method granting permission to transmit interactive voice broadcasts of a voice service over a voice network, including information derived from on-line analytical processing (OLAP) systems is disclosed. The system and method include a call server and a ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7012999 | Audio caller identification An audio caller identification system and method are provided. A caller identification device of a called party's telephone, whether integrated with the telephone or stand-alone, includes a speaker for audibly alerting the called party to the nature of an incoming c... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7010116 | Method of programming telephone numbers and identifiers in a telephone A method and telephone apparatus which detects when a telephone number has been entered into the telephone and determines if the entered telephone number has previously been stored in the memory of the telephone is provided. If the entered telephone number has not b... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009556 | Providing geographic based promotion services to a computing device A geographic-based communications service system has a mobile unit for transmitting/receiving information, and access points connected to a network. The access points are arranged in a known geographic locations and transmit and receive information from the mobile u... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006832 | Method for intelligent home controller and home monitor A method utilizing a transmitter emitting a unique signal and a base station receiver having a database of household members is used to ascertain the identity of household members who are home at any particular time. Such information is used by the local telephone n... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006613 | System and method for screening incoming video communications within an interactive television system A video communication request from a caller to a recipient is screened by an unauthorized caller list, an authorized caller list, a recipient-specific caller list, third party authorization, and/or various combinations of these. Depending on which screening list, if... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006612 | Fax transmission denial by sensing for CNG tones within a telephone network A presence of a facsimile transmission tone generated by a calling party within a call is sensed for within a public telephone network before the call has been routed to a called party. If the facsimile transmission tone is present in the call, the telephone network... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7003466 | Destination device initiated caller identification A method, system, and program for origin device initiated caller identification are provided. In response to detecting a call extended to a destination device, extending a request from said destination device to an origin device requesting a voice utterance of the c... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003040 | System and method for multiplexing media information over a network using reduced communications resources and prior knowledge/experience of a called or calling party A system and method for managing communication in an integrated services network ensures that media information is displayed on at least one of two terminals during a call without using any transmission bandwidth. This is achieved by having at least one of the termi... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6996837 | Terminal equipment for cable television Terminal equipment has a master terminal (1) and a slave terminal (2), the master terminal (1) includes a first tuner (TA) receiving the cablecast signal for television programming delivered from the cable television station, and applying an ima... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6996224 | Peripheral apparatus for intelligent networks and method for providing user services in intelligent networks An apparatus and method for providing user interaction functionality in connection with providing call services (e.g., toll-free calls, 900 calls, calling card calls, etc.) in an intelligent network, especially, but not necessarily only, an advanced intelligent netw... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6996219 | System and method for sending called party caller identification information to a forward-to telephone device in a communications system A method, computer program product, and a signaling system for conveying caller identification information of a called party to a forward-to telephone device in a communications system. A call set up message is received at a switching system servicing a called telep... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6996218 | FSK decoder for caller ID A device for processing a frequency shift keying (FSK) signal including caller ID information that comprises an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) converting the FSK signal into a digital FSK signal, the FSK signal further comprising a first frequency component, a se... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6996217 | Converting automatic number identification information to caller ID information A telephone system for reliably providing caller identification information to telephone call recipients such that they can choose whether or not to answer a telephone call. The telephone system includes a decoder module for receiving a toll-free telephone call and ... | 02/07/2006 |
