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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7440562 | Phone line supervisory controls Controlling use of a telephone line includes receiving a specification from a first entity that defines one or more supervisory controls on use of a controlled telephone line by a second entity. The supervisory controls specify people with whom the second entity may... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7418089 | System and method for restricting and monitoring telephone calls A telecommunications service controls and monitors telephone calls by storing at a service control point (SCP) restricted telephone numbers and priority telephone numbers. Upon receiving call data relating to a call between a subscriber telephone number and an outsi... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7406161 | System and method for real-time fraud detection within a telecommunication network Real time detection of the fraudulent use of a telecommunications network is accomplished by analyzing data for each call that is occurring within the network. A signal protocol receiver is used to collect signaling protocol for each call that is occurring within th... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7359502 | System for providing network information service using CID-type messages A network-based announcement and message delivery service for providing a landline customer with information of interest such as weather, financial market data, time/temperature, sporting event results, etc. The information is provided to the subscriber by way of in... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355988 | Application server having asynchronous event manager configured for terminating messaging operations and rolling back prescribed data structures An application server includes an asynchronous event manager configured for selectively terminating an instance executing a messaging session, based on detecting a message from a gateway server that the incoming call is a call having a type that differs from the pre... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7289617 | Phone line supervisory controls Controlling use of a telephone line includes receiving a specification from a first entity that defines one or more supervisory controls on use of a controlled telephone line by a second entity. The supervisory controls specify people with whom the second entity may... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283969 | Methods and systems for automatically registering complaints against calling parties Disclosed is a communication system that is adapted to notify a calling party that no further call attempts should be made and to automatically register a complaint with a calling party complaint registration database. The calling party complaint database is further... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280821 | Outgoing call handling system and method A cellular system for handling outgoing calls from a mobile station (1) including a network element (8) being capable of recognizing voiced commands and names, and has in memory a database of telephone numbers corresponding to an array of names. The mo... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7266187 | Caller ID system with retransmitted caller ID information Upon detecting an incoming call, a call screening system determines the CALLER ID information associated with the call and compares it to a database of allowable calling parties. If the calling party is to be allowed to ring through, the call screening system routes... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260197 | Call blocking device and methods A caller ID device includes a switch and a control circuit in communication with the switch, wherein the control circuit includes a memory, the memory having a table of blocked calls, and wherein each of the blocked calls is identified as a blocked call in response ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260196 | Method and system for providing enhanced caller identification and privacy management Processing a call from a calling party at a calling communication station to a called communication station includes detecting signalling information for the call, including determining whether standard caller identification for the calling communication station can... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7245713 | Call monitoring Methods and systems are provided for monitoring calls routed to a telephone network-based voice mail system. When a subscriber receives a telephone call, a determination is made as to whether the call should be routed to the voice mail system. If call monitoring ser... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7231029 | On-demand call blocking service In a telecommunication system configured to provide a connection between a caller and a callee via a telephone network, wherein the telephone network is configured to connect the caller and the callee, a method for allowing the callee to prevent the caller from esta... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231026 | Detection of carrier mis-routing in telephone systems Methods to identify inter-carrier telephone calls in a telephone system that are being mis-routed in such a way as to violate existing regulatory tariffs and/or established inter-carrier contracts. The common name for this manipulation is “arbitrage”, and the in... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7218718 | Method to perform a telecommunication with dialing destination preview The present invention concerns a method to perform a telecommunication between a caller terminal and a callee terminal identified by an identification code, such as a phone number. Method wherein it comprises the steps of: collecting routing information relat... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7203296 | Method, system, and article for placing a telephone call to a previously-called party Upon receiving a service code from a calling party, a list of parties previously called by the calling party is retrieved. An audio message is generated based on the list, and communicated to the calling party. A dialed input indicating a selected party from the lis... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203650 | Telecommunication system, speech recognizer, and terminal, and method for adjusting capacity for vocal commanding In telecommunication systems including a terminal and a speech recognizer for vocal commanding, an indication signal originating from the terminal is detected, e.g., a telephone number dialed or a key signal or a vocal signal, or originating from an application loca... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200215 | Time based regulation of access to callees A method, system, and program for time based regulation of access to callees are provided. An authenticated identity of a caller placing a call is preferably detected. Then, a communication link from the caller to a callee is only attempted if the authenticated iden... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197125 | Method and apparatus for selecting and managing wireless network services using a directory A method and apparatus are disclosed for modifying a subscription of a subscriber to a telecommunications service based on subscriber information and service information that are stored in a directory repository. A directory-enabled service selection framework is co... | 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 |
| 7193967 | Switching system An ATM switching system 1 is provided with an ATM switch 11, a reserved connection memory 12 for storing reserved connection information, a call history memory 13 for maintaining call histories of requests for connection from subscriber's... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7180991 | Dynamic, interactive call notification A system and method that provides a dialog with the called party when a call is received, a process is initiated to communicate with the calling party and a process is initiated to communicate with the called party. The processes communicate with each other to provi... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177271 | Method and system for managing admission to a network A method and system for managing admission to a network considers the packet delay of the network in making an admission decision. The packet delay of the network is periodically probed. To avoid disturbing or impairing the traffic of the network, a sequence of prob... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7164757 | Methods and apparatus to manage collect phone calling limits Methods and apparatus to manage collect phone calling limits are disclosed. A disclosed example method comprises: determining if collect calls from one or more predetermined locations to a terminating phone number have exceeded a collect calls limit; and determining... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164759 | Method for categorization and prioritization of phone callers A method (200) of categorizing and prioritizing a phone call for a recipient's phone number can include the steps of defining (205) a set of rules for a predetermined caller or a group of predetermined callers and assigning (210) a code to the s... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7162019 | System and method for privacy screening A communications network-based system and service is disclosed. The service permits subscribers to control and manage incoming telephone calls. Subscribers can establish preferences for how calls will be handled by a communications network if the calls are received ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158619 | Remote call monitoring Methods and systems are provided for monitoring calls routed to a telephone network voice mail system from a variety of remote telephone locations. When a subscriber receives a telephone call, a determination is made as to whether the subscriber's line is busy or wh... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7155001 | System and method for restricting and monitoring telephone calls A telecommunications service controls and monitors telephone calls by storing at a service control point (SCP) restricted telephone numbers and priority telephone numbers. Upon receiving call data relating to a call between a subscriber telephone number and an outsi... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7142510 | Communications network In a communications network, communications terminals exchange call control capability data which mutually identifies selected call control protocols and network address types. The terminals subsequently set up a call using protocols chosen from those identified. Th... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139382 | System and method for restricting incoming calls A method for restricting the completion of a call made to a subscriber is disclosed. The method includes activating a termination attempt trigger, requesting call-processing instructions in response to detection of the activated termination attempt trigger, receivin... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139369 | Interface and method of designing an interface A method of designing an interface system that allows users to map the representation of their task directly to the interface. There are three major phases to the Customer-Centric Approach to Interface Design (C-CAID). End-users' tasks are categorized to determine t... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7123707 | Methods of controlling communications with at least two calling party devices by a user of a called party device Methods, and communications devices employing such methods, of controlling communications with at least two calling party devices by a user of a called party device. A first call link is established between a called party device and a first calling party device. The... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7116775 | Apparatus and method for managing BLF information in an inter-networking system An apparatus and corresponding method for managing busy lamp field (hereinafter, referred to as BLF) information in an inter-networking system are provided which are capable of collecting and managing BLF information of every PBX in a BLF information repeater added ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7099453 | Method and apparatus for enhanced call routing in a telecommunication system A method for routing calls in a telecommunication system includes detecting data for a call from a calling party to a called party, providing a menu of options to the calling party and routing the call in accordance with information about the calling party, informat... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7088801 | Single telephone number access to multiple communications services A platform provides access to multiple telecommunications services via a single telephone number. These services may include, for example, voicemail services, facsimile messaging services, paging services, and outbound calling services. A guest caller may call the s... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7082193 | Call waiting calling party defined content Embodiments of the method and system provide for providing a call waiting method for use in a telecommunications network in which a first caller is engaged in a current call with a second caller, and for processing an incoming call from a third caller to the first c... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7076049 | Method of designing a telecommunications call center interface A method is provided for designing an interface system. The method includes receiving a call from a customer at a call center, and logging a reason the customer is calling the call center. Subsequently, reasons from multiple customers are collected and categorized i... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7065197 | Status messaging using associated phone tags A method for managing communication requests includes receiving tag information from a user of a communication device, and associating the tag with a communication device. The tag information includes criteria for determining whether the tag applies to an incoming c... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7058067 | Distributed interactive multimedia system architecture Various aspects of an interactive multimedia system and associated methods. In general, the multimedia system employs central and peripheral hubs that function to provide services to a plurality of clients of a call manager server, or manager subsystem. The hubs and... | 06/06/2006 |
