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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170189 | Cross-platform message notification Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed to provide notification of receipt of a communication across multiple platforms of potential diverse types. Cross-platform message notification can comprise receiving a request to initiate a communication fr... | 05/01/2012 |
| 7372948 | Method and system for providing enhanced caller identification information A method and apparatus permit handling of unwanted calls from callers such as telemarketers, when caller identification is provided. In one embodiment, the called party adds the caller identification information for the telemarketer to a personal list after receivin... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7352855 | Method and system for providing a privacy management service A method for providing a privacy management service in a telephone system including initiating a telephone call from a subscriber telephone number to a called party telephone number. The initiating is performed by a subscriber. It is determined if the called party t... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7336975 | Mobile unit, call origination controlling method, and call termination controlling method A mobile unit 10 is provided with a called party number acquiring unit 102 for acquiring a called party number corresponding to a call origination command entered by a user, a number checking unit 103 for checking the called party number acquire... | 02/26/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7269249 | Systems and methods for providing user profile information in conjunction with an enhanced caller information system An enhanced caller-id service providing multi-media based caller information to subscribers via a server system. The server system can combine user-provided profile information with other data to provide more detailed reports for the subscriber. The server can also ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269412 | Caller identification device and method of operation thereof A self powered caller identification device (CID) for a cellular telephone system (CTS) includes a receiver, a transmitter and a processor, all of which being adapted to provide access to the content of a data channel and to deny access to the voice services of a vo... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7245944 | Method of storing caller ID in mobile communication terminal Disclosed is a method of storing a caller ID in a mobile communication terminal that may store the caller ID in a missed call list even when a battery is removed under state that an incoming call is being received. The method comprises: storing in a non-volat... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7236579 | Universal call-log system and method for a home network telephone A system and method are provided for maintaining a universal call-log in a Home Network telephone system. The method comprises: transceiving calls on at least one external telephone line; bridging calls to a plurality Home Network endpoints; and, logging the bridged... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7224774 | Real-time call control system A system and method are provided for real-time call control. When a call is received at a telephone server for a service subscriber, the server identifies the subscriber and retrieves information that will allow the server to contact the subscriber via instant messa... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7196718 | Method and apparatus for transmission of digital image to destination associated with voice call participant A method and apparatus for transmitting a digital image correlated with a phone number to a destination after placing a voice call with the phone number. The method involves (i) maintaining data that correlates phone numbers with digital images, (ii) placing a voice... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194075 | System and process for automatic storage, enforcement and override of consumer do-not-call requests A method of implementing call compliance at a central facility, the method involving: receiving a call from a caller on an incoming connection; enabling the caller on the incoming connection to initiate an outgoing call on an outgoing connection; receiving over the ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7180988 | Packet network interface device and systems and methods for its use Certain embodiments of the invention provide network interface devices, as well as systems and methods for using them. For instance, in accordance with some embodiments, a network interface device can comprise an isolation device, which can be configured to isolate ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7130401 | Speech to text conversion system Disclosed is a system for automatically accessing an account and routing speech to text converted communication to a predetermined text capable device based on user identification. A user placing a call into a communications server is automatically identified based ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7113503 | Intelligent network interface device for caller identification multicasting The present invention relates to a network interface device and a communication network incorporating the network interface device. The network interface device may receive incoming calls placed from a copper loop network, a cable network or wireless network, determ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7106838 | Method for serving character message transmission during telephone call over PSTN The present invention discloses a method for serving character message transmission during a telephone call over PSTN connected to the central office to which information terminals having displays are connected for telephone calls and for data communication, the met... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7085358 | Visual caller identification A visual 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 series of colored lights for visually alerting the called party to an incomi... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7046691 | Methods and systems for dynamic conversion of objects from one format type to another format type by selectively using an intermediary format type The dynamic conversion of a data structure from an origin data format into a destination data format is described. Instead of using a single data conversion module to accomplish this data conversion, a gateway computer system identifies a sequence of format conversi... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7020164 | System and method for special signaling with customer premises equipment A system and method are provided for special signaling with customer premises equipment. The system includes loop termination equipment coupled to a local loop and comprising a signal generator. The system also includes customer premises equipment coupled to the loc... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6980633 | Enhanced call-waiting with caller identification method and apparatus using notch filters An enhanced telephony call waiting feature and apparatus is provided wherein identifying information related to a third party wishing to converse with a first party already communicating with a second party is provided to the first party during a mute condition in a... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6956936 | Virtual telephone A telephone communication system utilizing a virtual phone wherein a telephone switch or similar digital switching device, a digital telephone and an external device such as a personal computer (PC) or other processor are generically interfaced. The virtual phone ge... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6954522 | Caller identifying information encoded within embedded digital information A method of providing caller information can include receiving a voice signal, detecting portions of the voice signal that are inaudible using a perceptual audio processor, replacing the inaudible portions of the voice signal with digital caller information, and tra... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6937713 | IP call forward profile A method and system for providing call forwarding in an IP telephone network is disclosed. First, when a telephone number for a first telephone from a second telephone is dialed, the call is routing to a call manager. Call setup procedures with a BRG responsible for... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6920210 | Device and method for network communication A method and device for allowing dissimilar networks to transfer information is disclosed. ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6882714 | Universal call-log system and method for a home network telephone A system and method are provided for maintaining a universal call-log in a Home Network telephone system. The method comprises: transceiving calls on at least one external telephone line; bridging calls to a plurality Home Network endpoints; and, logging the bridged... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6829340 | Masked phone service with mask phone number The present invention disclosed a masked phone service, which depending on phone user's original phone number to virtually create multiple new corresponding substitutive phone numbers, called mask phone numbers; to mask phone user's original phone number when on dem... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6810115 | Caller identification method for a telephone system and telephone system with a caller identifying function using the method In a transmitting-side telephone apparatus 1 of a telephone system, a multimedia data multiplexing portion 108 multiplexes character data in a character data memory 101, image data in an image data memory 104, and music data in a music da... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6751441 | Intra-premises wireless broadband service using lumped and distributed wireless radiation from cable source input A premises, connected to receive broadband service(s) and also connected to a cable system, is provided with a broadband interface which connects to in-premises cabling which is coupled to consumer receivers such as a television sets, PDAs, laptops. Connected to the... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6636587 | Information reception processing method and computer-telephony integration system When a sender sends a transmission message to a receiver by use of a communication appliance such as telephone, portable telephone, facsimile or electronic mail, the transmission massage is temporarily received by a computer-telephony integration (CTI) se... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6625168 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AND MONITORING FIRST TELECOMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICES CONNECTED TO PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGES OR SECOND TELECOMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICES COUPLED TO LONG DISTANCE NETWORKS In a system for controlling and monitoring first telecommunication terminal devices coupled to private branch exchanges or second telecommunication terminal devices coupled to long-distance networks, at least one application-related conversion unit is pro... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6584188 | Intelligent telephone set An intelligent telephone set is disclosed that includes a caller-ID circuit that extracts a call identifier from an incoming call. A call processing circuit in communication with the caller-ID circuit assigns the incoming call to a caller category associa... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6570971 | Method and system for providing enhanced caller identification information including tailored announcements A system (100) and method deliver audible caller identification information when standard Caller ID information can not be provided. A calling party is prompted by an announcement to provide the audible caller identification information. The announcement ... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6560317 | Receiving caller identification information with a telecommunications device for the deaf A central office (CO) for a telephone connected with a telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD) called by a calling device determines that the called TDD is connected with the called CO. The called CO postpones indication that the called TDD has connec... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6553061 | Method and apparatus for detecting a waveform A device for detecting a predetermined waveform in a received signal and synchronizing the detected waveform to the predetermined waveform is disclosed. The device includes a memory element for storing a reference set of encoded values. The reference set ... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6510215 | Caller ID data-reporting mechanism for electronic devices and associated methods Caller ID (CID) data-reporting circuitry operates in conjunction with direct-access arrangement (DAA) circuitry or other circuitry that operates within the operational requirements of the Audio Codec '97 (AC-97) Component Specification. The CID data-repor... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6493439 | Analog caller identification transmission method and apparatus A method for routing analog Caller ID signals includes receiving an incoming telephone call for a first telephone extension, the incoming telephone call associated with a first set of analog Caller ID signals, asserting a ringing signal to the first telep... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6493428 | Text-enhanced voice menu system A text enhanced voice menu system includes data storage, a voice communication path, a text communication path and switch logic. The data storage stores audio information for producing a voice menu, and stores text information for producing a text version... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6463138 | Telephone system for formatting caller ID information into a form useable by an application program and exporting the caller information to the application program A telephone system which detects ring signals and detects caller ID signals and decodes them into caller ID data and then reformats the caller ID data into one or more alphanumeric strings useable by another computer process such as a point of sale comput... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6445779 | Method and apparatus for providing outbound voice-to-fax service A subscriber, using a voice telephone set (12) may transmit a facsimile message to a recipient facsimile machine (14) by dialing a telephone number associated with a platform (22) in a telephone network (20) that provides outbound voice-to-facsimile servi... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6421427 | Interactive voice response data transfer system and method An interactive voice response (IVR) system collects data associated with a telephone call, and provides the data to a server. The server transforms the data into a format consistent with a different telephony platform specification implemented by clients ... | 07/16/2002 |
