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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8081744 | Interactive content for click-to-call calls In a click-to-call (C2C) communication environment, a web client of a computing terminal is configured to initiate a C2C call when a user selects a call tag provided in a web page being presented to the user. The call is intended to be established between a remote e... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077851 | Personal-call and feature control system and method for controlling telephones, providing extended features for such telephones and routing of media-rich calls A Personal-CFC system and method is described for controlling a multiplicity of telephones, for providing extended feature sets globally to all such telephones and for routing of media-rich calls between such telephones and multimedia equipment. The Personal-CFC is ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8059804 | Control program providing method using communication system, center apparatus in communication system, user apparatus in communication system, and program recorded on recording medium in user apparatus A method includes creating process data which constitutes at least a portion of the control program and describes the execution contents of the communication functions, and parameter data which constitutes a different portion of the control program from the process ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8031852 | Method for increasing ease of doing business through use of an access point model A method and service for handling incoming customer calls. The invention uses an Access Point Model (APM) that includes an inventory of access entry points for voice, text, and/or web communication from a customer; a process network that lists the names and roles of... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027446 | System and method for providing service mediation and orchestration for external telephony applications A system for providing service mediation comprising a service enablement platform between a service network and a telephony application external to the service enablement platform, the service enablement platform comprising an adaptor providing an interface between ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8005202 | Automatic generation of a callflow statistics application for speech systems A method, system and computer program for automatically generating call flow statistics in a voice application. Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to call flow statistics generation systems and provide a novel and non-obv... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000459 | System and method for a wireless meta service A system and method for creating a custom-developed service by a customer in a service directory of a network service provider are provided. The data defining the custom-developed service received by the network service provider may be tested, corrected, and verifie... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7894584 | Messaging interface between telecommunications service provider processing systems A messaging interface provides the flexibility to allow interchangeability of underlying telecommunications service provider processing systems, such as billing systems. At the same time, the messaging interface extends the underlying functionality of the telecommun... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7801291 | Control program providing method using communication system, center apparatus in communication system, user apparatus in communication system, and program recorded on recording medium in user apparatus A method includes creating process data which constitutes at least a portion of the control program and describes the execution contents of the communication functions, and parameter data which constitutes a different portion of the control program from the process ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7769153 | System and method for automated routing and processing of telecommunication service orders The present invention provides a system and method for the automated routing and processing of telecommunication service orders. A system and method in accordance with the present invention may further prioritize the analysis and processing of telecommunication serv... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7646859 | Method and apparatus for integrated telephone and internet services A system and method for providing integrated telephony and Internet services is described. An embodiment of the present invention comprises passively collecting incoming and/or outgoing call information from communications links communicatively coupled to a first pa... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7643626 | Method for deploying, provisioning and storing initial filter criteria The inventors provide herein methods for the decomposition of initial Filter Criteria (iFCs) into user-independent, global data and user specific data. In various embodiments of the present invention, the approach is based on Trigger point templates that represent f... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7623644 | System for executing advanced interactive voice response services using service-independent building blocks A service execution environment for an advanced interactive voice response (IVR) service node. The service execution environment functions within a next generation service node (NGSN) IVR platform in a telecommunications network. The environment uses individual serv... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7529358 | Dynamic feature and function availability for software PBX A system and method for controlling a communications system that dynamically provides context sensitive functionality. In one embodiment, the system comprises a Private Branch Exchange (PBX) connected by communications channels to one or more communications devices ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7415103 | Method and configuration for controlling and/or monitoring a terminal connected to a communications system The invention relates to a method and configuration for controlling and/or monitoring terminals connected to a communications system. In order to control and/or monitor terminals, which are connected to a communications system and which have at least one controllabl... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412038 | Telecommunications voice server leveraging application web-server capabilities A method for providing voice telephony services can include the step of receiving a call via a telephone gateway. The telephone gateway can convey call identifying data to a resource connector. A media port can be responsively established within a media converter th... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412045 | Telecommunications service program A method of deploying a telecommunications service implemented in a service graph formed from a plurality of service independent building blocks includes developing the service graph from a plurality of service independent building blocks interconnected to execute a... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7397911 | Automation of customer premises equipment provisioning in a telecommunications network A method to systematically analyze a next generation telecommunications network to result in creating a provisioning plan for provisioning the network to provide services for one or more subscribers. In one specific embodiment, the method involves creating and stori... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7382869 | Real time customer service data manipulation to allow multiple services per trigger type A system for providing multiple call processing services to a customer includes a first call processor configured to provide a first call processing service; a second call processor configured to provide a second call processing service; and a feature manager in com... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7362853 | Cost negotiation for communication sessions A method of negotiating the sharing of a cost associated with a communication service between a plurality of participants. The method comprises sending a cost sharing request from a terminal 1 used by a first of the participants to the terminal 12,13 u... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362698 | Method, system and service for achieving synchronous communication responsive to dynamic status A method for routing a communication connection request includes the steps of obtaining context information from a communication connection requestor in response to a communication connection request. The steps further include using the context information to determ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356806 | Method and system for processing records of events during use of a communications system In a communications network that provides services to a plurality of users, events occurring during service processing are accumulated in an event record and sent to a record processor to perform post-processing, such as assessing charges to be billed to users of th... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352853 | Automation of customer premises equipment provisioning in a telecommunications network A method of automation of subscriber customer premises equipment provisioning for use in a next generation telecommunications network. In one specific embodiment, the method involves receiving a service request from a network service provider that specifies a servic... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350202 | Method for re-programming a firmware state machine during execution A method of reprogramming classification data in a packet classification state machine without interrupting the operation of the state machine is disclosed. Data relating to a plurality of new nodes from a starting node of the classification tree within a classifica... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340507 | Network architecture and methods for service script execution and management A communication network comprising at least an application server means (APSE), a subscriber information register means (HSS), a call state control functional entity (CSCF), and a service portal (SP), wherein the application server means (APSE) is connected to the s... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337219 | Classifying devices using a local proxy server A local proxy in a home network may identify the device class to which a particular device in the home network belongs based on the receipt of a message requesting a network address for use by the device. A device class may include a broad category to describe the d... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7325047 | Dynamic undeployment of services in a computing network Methods, systems, and computer program products for improving network operations by dynamically undeploying services (such as web services or other network-accessible services) in a computing network. A process is defined whereby conditions such as usage metrics for... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7320120 | Pluggable notations and semantics for visual modeling elements Described is a method, system and data structures to logically separate the notations from the semantics of model element objects into separate code components, and to enable subsequent re-association of a selected notation with a selected semantic. Various notation... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320017 | Media gateway adapter A method for communicating messages from a media gateway is disclosed. A thread pair comprising a communication protocol control stack thread and one or more media gateway adapter threads is assigned to a message from a media gateway. The thread pair is associated w... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320033 | Dynamic local drive and printer sharing A system and process are described where a user of a mobile device grants access to resources associated with the mobile device to other users. Access is typically established when the user of the mobile device couples the device to a network environment and another... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319744 | Unified messaging/call routing configuration using palmtop computer A method of routing telephone calls, emails and faxes using a palmtop computer. Using a date book forming a part of a personal information manager application of a palmtop computer, the user enters an appointment into the date book. Such an appointment has a startin... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7308091 | Web-based data manipulation for advanced intelligent network service control point services Systems and techniques for managing multiple call processing services by establishing a connection to a service control point; rendering a call management profile maintained by the service control point in substantially real time using a Web-enabled interface, the c... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305399 | Method and apparatus for applying a parametric search methodology to a directory tree database format A method of and apparatus for applying a parametric search methodology to a searchable database formatted in a directory tree structure. The directory tree structure includes nodes comprising a collection of related data and branches comprising links between the nod... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305401 | Method and apparatus for performing a research task by interchangeably utilizing a multitude of search methodologies A method of and apparatus for performing a research task within a searchable database by interchangeably utilizing a multitude of search methodologies including keyword search, hierarchical search, and dichotomous key search. A search criteria is correlated to a sea... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305400 | Method and apparatus for performing a research task by interchangeably utilizing a multitude of search methodologies A method of and apparatus for performing a research task interchangeably utilizes a multitude of search methodologies including keyword search, hierarchical search, dichotomous key search, and parametric search. A search criteria is correlated to a searchable databa... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7293082 | Method and system for modeling behavior of elements in a telecommunications system A node representing a network element is provided. A service state for the node is stored in the node. A service state for a first parent node upon which the node is operationally dependent is stored in the node. In response to a triggering occurrence, a second pare... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289962 | Compressed list presentation for speech user interfaces A list presentation method. The list presentation method can include the steps of: dynamically grouping selected items in a list based on sequentially positioned symbols in the items which are common to one another; labeling each group of selected items; audibly pre... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7277535 | Controlling connection processing A method, telecommunication system and a network node for controlling processing of a connection, particularly when information necessary for the controlling is available at an early stage. At least one processing instance is formed for the connection to control eve... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275067 | Method and apparatus for providing multiple levels of abstraction in descriptions of audiovisual content A method and apparatus for processing descriptions of audiovisual content are described. According to one embodiment, a description of audiovisual content is evaluated and a determination is made as to whether the description is an abstraction. If it is determined t... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272713 | Controlling file operations A technique is disclosed for protecting a file. In one embodiment, the technique comprises requesting access to a file, accessing a vnode associated with the file; and executing a substitute routine associated with the vnode. ... | 09/18/2007 |
