Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8019067 | User interface for telephone system administration A user interface for a telephone system may include a telephone portion operable to provide telephone administration functionality for each of a plurality of telephones of a telephone system. The telephone portion may include a telephone icon corresponding to at lea... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7933395 | Virtual tour of user-defined paths in a geographic information system Interactive geographic information systems (GIS) and techniques provide users with a greater degree of flexibility, utility, and information. A markup language facilitates communication between servers and clients of the interactive GIS, which enables a number of GI... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7903800 | Method and system for visually representing telephone call tree interface A method, system and computer instructions for visually representing telephone call tree interfaces for interaction by users of data network phones, such as, for example, wire-line telephones, data network telephones, or IP telephones. A caller can connect to an aut... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7813488 | System and method for providing information regarding an identity's media availability Embodiments provide a system, methods, apparatus, means, and computer program code for providing information regarding an identity's media channel availability. ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7693272 | Providing a file relating to a telephone call When a person receives an incoming telephone call, one or more files that the person is most likely to need are provided. The files are identified by analyzing information about what the person did in previous phone conversations with the same caller. That is, when ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7492883 | Method and system for visually representing telephone call tree interface A method, system and computer instructions for visually representing telephone call tree interfaces for interaction by users of data network phones, such as, for example, wire-line telephones, data network telephones, or IP telephones. A caller can connect to an aut... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7433954 | Providing telephony services in a communications network A communications network includes packet-based networks that are coupled to various network elements. A method and apparatus is provided to implement telephony services in the communications network. The architecture for providing the telephony services may include ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7386108 | Routing extensions for telecommunication network system and method A distributed features system is disclosed which permits a telecommunication network to accommodate the creation of open multimedia services. It is an object of the present invention to create an architecture that facilitates modularity and compositional service cre... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7363363 | System and method for provisioning universal stateless digital and computing services A service provisioning system and method for providing remote access to digital services over a communications network, comprising a plurality of client devices connected to the communications network for requesting digital services from a plurality of service cente... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358960 | System and method for displaying two-dimensional data on small screen devices An invention is provided for displaying two-dimensional data on small screen devices. The invention includes providing a first data set display section on a screen, which is capable of presenting a list of entries in a first data set. In addition, a second data set ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7360153 | Method and apparatus for importing digital switching system data into a spreadsheet program A method and apparatus for importing digital switching system data into a spreadsheet program. Via the switch data examiner of the present invention, raw data from a digital switch/switching system such as the 5ESS® is converted by the switch data examiner to a for... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356409 | Manipulating a telephony media stream Systems, methods, and data structures for pluggable terminals are provided. Pluggable terminals are part of client and server TAPI communications systems. Pluggable terminal allow third parties to provide their own media processing devices and implement control meth... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352851 | Exchange and computer readable medium storing exchange control program An exchange is provided, the exchange receiving a number of a telephone terminal of a called party, selecting a network from a plurality of connectable networks including the Internet with the number and connecting to the network. In addition, the exchange calls the... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7346155 | System and method for implementing and accessing call forwarding services A web server implements a call service, including call service data corresponding to a directory number of a user. The web server includes a first interface for communicating with a call processor that processes telephone calls in a telecommunications network. The p... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7333601 | Telephone-receiving call center system A call center system used for receiving incoming calls in accordance with the present information has a plurality of terminals, an incoming-call control apparatus and an exchange. Each of the terminals is accommodated by the exchange and includes a display unit as w... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330539 | Method and apparatus to allow customers to initiate call center contact A network operation center is provided. The network operation center provides a message to a customer over a communication link and waits for a reply to the message from the customer. When the reply is received, the network operation center determines whether the re... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7320026 | Intersystem messaging using ENUM standard A system and method for transforming voice mail messages into a package capable of being parsed and read by different proprietary voice mail systems. More particularly, the present invention relates to a system and method that allows for intersystem messaging throug... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315518 | Method and apparatus for the prevention of unwanted calls in a callback system In one method and apparatus for blocking unwanted calls in a callback system, parameters associated with a callback request (e.g., the user device to which the call is to be directed, the IP address from which the request originated or an identifier of the source co... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310417 | Restricted voice routing An enhanced AIN telephone system that can screen incoming calls during predetermined time periods and block some calls while allowing selected calls to be completed. ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310662 | Token-based web browsing with visual feedback of disclosure A data communications network may be browsed using one or more tokens by receiving an input keyword string from a user, determining whether there is a match between the input keyword string and a database of keyword strings, determining a category of the keyword str... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7272415 | Telephone system enabling operation of a telephone set by way of a portable terminal In a telephone system which includes a main device and a telephone set connected to the main device and which further includes a portable terminal having a display unit, the portable terminal further has an interface portion for interfacing the display unit with the... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266362 | Virtual subscriber network A user device (e.g., a mobile telephone) communicates with an access node in a manner that causes the access node to provide call control and service options available through the access node. The capability and cost information is presented to a user device subscri... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7257638 | Distributing network applications Systems and methods for distributing applications across a server and one or more nodes in a network. When a node is turned on or booted, a node application is requested from the server and loaded on the node. The node application provides a user interface through w... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7248899 | Portable terminal apparatus having an improved display drive controller A problem of this invention is to satisfy both of securement of visibility of a display unit and suppression of noises at the time of a telephone call etc. using a receiver and a microphone. In a portable terminal apparatus which relates to the invention, a control ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7236578 | System and method for remotely accessing caller ID information A remote access device is provided with access to caller ID information stored in a base unit. A communication path between the remote access device and the base unit is established. Caller ID information is transmitted from the base unit to the remote access device... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7227940 | System and method for implementing and accessing call forwarding services A call forwarding service forwards calls placed to a subscriber's number to a forward-to number. Enabling an interface with the call forwarding service includes transmitting display data from a call forwarding service server through a packet switched data network to... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7215757 | System and method to provide automated scripting for customer service representatives A disclosed method provides automated scripting to guide a customer service representative (CSR) in handling a call from a customer. Operations within the method may include displaying products and two or more purpose classifications for selection by the CSR. The pu... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7213073 | Call management system A computer system provides, via a network, at least one telephone feature to a telephone of a user. The computer system receives instructions regarding the telephone feature via the network from a graphical user interface operating on a computer of the user. The net... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7188139 | Portable information processing terminal, information input/output system and information input/output method Each device arranged in an information space and a computer are sustainedly connected and the connection can be visually recognized on the display screen of the computer. More specifically, there is provided a feature of “gaze-link” metaphor with which connectio... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7185075 | Element management system with dynamic database updates based on parsed snooping A new approach to maintaining concurrency in a network element management database. A background process constantly monitors the channels which carry network element configuration commands, and automatically parses any messages which carry information about the stat... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184533 | Method and apparatus for mixed media contact notification service A method and apparatus for providing an automatic called party locator service by intelligently managing lists of contacts. The apparatus includes a contact list manager (10) where lists of contacts are stored, and a locator (60) capable of sending out... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181225 | System and method for surveying wireless device users by location The present invention is a system and method for conducting survey using wireless devices. The system architecture of the present invention comprises a location server and a location system. The location server can receive a survey request from a subscriber, delinea... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177405 | Computer telephony integration including option for calling party to re-direct unanswered call from voice messaging to second lower interest users associated with called party In a CTI system an incoming call is alerted to the called user's list of users who have expressed a primary level of interest in that called user's incoming calls, and the call is routed by the PBX to a Voicemail system if, for example the call is not answered withi... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177407 | System and method for integration of softkeys with voice mail A mechanism is disclosed for displaying, on a telephone display, actions that are appropriate for a particular context when accessing a voice mail system (VMS). These actions may vary depending on the context of a user's access to the VMS. The actions are identified... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7170986 | Call setup using a packet-switched address such as an internet address or the like The present invention, generally speaking, provides a method and apparatus for setting up a telephone connection using an email address or the like. In many cases, an email address or other Internet address such as a URL may be easily remembered or, in the case of a... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167729 | Portable electronic apparatus A portable electronic apparatus includes guide areas associated one-to-one with preselected keys arranged on a key input section and displays, in each of consecutive operation steps, guidance information representative of items which can be selected by the user in t... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164756 | Data communication system for supplementing telephone calls A telephone device coupled to the public switched telephone network is utilized by a user to participate in a telephone call between the user and a second party. A data store is provided for storing one or more personal data elements configurable on behalf of the us... | 01/16/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7148795 | System and method for management of resources in emergency situations Provided is a method for designing, managing and executing emergency response plans. Specific plan and resources are defined and a defined plan is executed either automatically or manually according to pre-determined or “real-time” parameter definitions. An exec... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7143147 | Method and apparatus for accessing a wide area network A voice web browser system includes a telephone, an access system coupled to a TCP/IP network, a telephone system coupling the telephone to the access system, and a speech-to-text system for “reading” text that had been sent over the TCP/IP network to the teleph... | 11/28/2006 |
