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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7864939 | Call arrangement and connection using messaging A method and a system allows an Instant Message (IM) user or an E-mail user to arrange and to place a present or a future telephone call by way of a respective IM or E-mail, without dialing a telephone. ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7653193 | User information management system for controlling conference bridge connections An apparatus and method is provided for managing and controlling connections to conference bridges for proposed conference call participants to access a scheduled conference call. A first call is made to a conference bridge. Next, an attempt is made to contact the p... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7430288 | Exchange and conference communication method therefor An exchange capable of increasing the number of participants in a conference without increasing conference circuits for conference communications. The exchange (2) switches connections either between a line wire (11) and a plurality of extensions (1... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7412047 | Conference call setup automation The present invention automatically establishes a connection to each participant of a teleconference. Conference call set up and connect information may be provisioned in a variety of ways, including via a menu-based Dual Tone Multiple Frequency (DTMF) mechanism and... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7366780 | System and method for controlling and managing sessions between endpoints in a communications system In a communications system having a plurality of endpoints (240,242,246) each including a logical entity and its physical counterpart, a system for controlling and managing session between at least two endpoints. The system including a registration manager ( | 04/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7343008 | Identity-based conferencing systems and methods Described in this paper are systems and methods of providing conferencing services where a conference participant is identified by the conferencing system when calling into the system. The system and methods focus on individual users instead of groups of participant... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343154 | Apparatus and method to determine dialing prefixes for call origination to a telephone number In a communication device operable in at least two states, a method of transitioning between a call in a first state and a second state, each state having an associated number, each number having a prefix portion and a suffix portion, the call having at least one ca... | 03/11/2008 |
| RE40135 | Audio conferencing system According to the principles of the invention, there is provided a conferencing system that dynamically assigns calls to DSP resources. The system may attempt to process each audio conference on a single DSP node, so that information about conference participants doe... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336776 | Method of establishing a multi-user call in a communication system The present invention provides a method for establishing a multi-user call in a communication system. The communication system receives a call request to establish a group call with a shared group of users. The communication system determines which of the plurality ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330540 | Systems and methods for providing conference communication Systems and method for providing conference communications. Various of the methods include receiving a communication request that includes an access identification. The access identification is used to identify two or more connections. Communication is initiated bet... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328239 | Method and apparatus for automatically data streaming a multiparty conference session A system and method for automatically data streaming a multiparty conference. The system allows a session moderator or other guests to request data streaming of the multiparty. The data-stream-initiation request is received from an Internet-based interface. Upon rec... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7317695 | Conference call initiation An apparatus and method initiates a conference call in a telecommunication system. A call set up message is sent by a user's equipment, a message header indicating the equipment's own public identity as the call recipient and a tag indicating that the user equipment... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7295661 | Enhanced telecommunications alerting A method and apparatus for providing a calling customer with arrangements for enhanced alerting of called numbers. A customer defines an alerting list which is entered by the telephone company and can be modified by the customer. When the customer dials a special nu... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7257090 | Multi-site teleconferencing system A teleconferencing system (1) comprises multiple teleconferencing bridges (5, 6, 7) each having an associated database (8, 9, 10). A server (20) hosts a local engine (22) associated with each bridge, and a multi-site engine (21 | 08/14/2007 |
| 7251319 | Method and system for application initiated teleconferencing A method of call conferencing using a voice browser can include establishing a voice browsing session between a calling party and the voice browser, and conferencing an additional party into the voice browsing session. The conference can provide a voice communicatio... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251316 | Methods and systems for enabling conversations about task-centric physical objects Methods and systems for enabling discussions among people about physical objects are provided. Each physical object, of a plurality of physical objects, is associated with a unique corresponding identifier and with at least one person interested in the physical obje... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7245716 | Controlling hold queue position adjustment A method, system, and program for allowing callers to adjust in position within a hold queue are provided. An advancement token earned by a caller while waiting in a hold queue is detected. The advancement token is stored for redemption in a future call by the calle... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7231208 | User interface-technique for managing an active call A portable electronic device includes a housing, a processor supported by the housing, a memory coupled to the processor, and a communications transceiver coupled to the processor. The transceiver is configured to support voice conference calling between more than t... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7218715 | Method and system for setting up a telephone conference call in a switched telephone network through the internet Method and system for setting up connections between a plurality of telephone devices (8, 9) of a switched telephone network (1), for establishing a conference call, comprising connecting a web client terminal (18) to a web server (15, 24... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215759 | Hold queue wait estimations A method, system, and program for estimating hold queue wait times are provided. Call times are individually estimated for multiple calls within a call center. In particular, call times may be estimated according to representative profiles, caller profiles, and curr... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7209947 | Data network-assisted conference establishment A system and method for providing data network-assisted conference service to a wireless terminal. Conference-related information is received from a conference originator and stored. Prior to conference establishment time, a conference notification message is sent t... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206397 | Method for allocating network resources Network resources for a call between a calling party and a called party are allocated. The network resources for the call are reserved based on a reservation request. In particular, the network resources for the call are reserved based on a reservation request. Prio... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7197124 | In-bound call directed telephone station and method of directing a telephone station based on an in-bound call An in-bound directed telephone station, and a method of directing a telephone station based on an in-bound call, are disclosed. The inbound directed telephone station includes a handset having a call receiver and a call originator, a first memory location, coupled t... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7184531 | System and method for authorizing a party to join a conference A system, method, apparatus, means, and computer program code for allowing an authorized party to join a conference are provided. In some embodiments, an application may create or generate a request for an MCU to handle an ad-hoc or meet-me type conference. The appl... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7167552 | Quorums in meet-me conference calls In one embodiment, a method for joining a meet-me conference call includes but is not limited to presenting an option to specify a quorum associated with a meet-me conference call, in response to user input to an application program co-resident with a terminal. In o... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7162025 | Conference call dialing A communication device recognizes a first string of characters as a telephone number and a second string of characters as additional information related to the telephone number. A menu is then displayed having a menu item including the telephone number and the addit... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7154864 | Method and apparatus for providing conference call announcement using SIP signalling in a communication system A method and corresponding equipment for setting up a conference call via a communication network that uses session initiation protocol (SIP) signalling for call setup, the method including steps (E1a E2a E3a E4a | 12/26/2006 |
| 7139249 | Method and apparatus for an audio bridge A method and apparatus to form an audio bridge session are described. ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7133512 | Conference call aggregation using an interactive voice response system Within an interactive voice response system, a method of aggregating conference calls can include registering a caller with the interactive voice response system, accessing a calendar system used by the registered caller to determine teleconference data specifying a... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7127053 | Call scheduling on a telephone network using a telephony interface A system and method to allow telephone subscribers to schedule calls for future placement on a telephone network using a telephone interface. In an illustrative implementation, a telephone subscriber part of an AIN telephone network is offered a call scheduling serv... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7119828 | System and method for establishing and controlling an on-demand teleconference by a remote computer A teleconference network, using multiple teleconference bridges and a data network is disclosed. A first telephone network transmits, in one or more frames, a voice transmission generated by a first telecommunication unit. A first gateway, connected to said first te... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120668 | Systems and methods for matching participants to a conversation Systems and methods for connecting two or more individuals to an Internet conversation based on their mutual interests, the current content they may be viewing and what they want to talk about at that time. The techniques of the present invention allow an individual... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7106851 | System and method for connecting pending and preset telephone calls to facilitate transitioning to a phone call A system and method for connecting pending and preset telephone calls to facilitate transitioning to a phone call. Embodiments of the present invention include a method for anticipating and connecting a telephone call comprising identifying a trigger action associat... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103172 | Managing caller profiles across multiple hold queues according to authenticated caller identifiers A method, system, and program for managing caller profiles across multiple hold queues according to authenticated caller identifiers are provided. An identity of a caller of a call received at an on hold system is authenticated. The call is then placed in a hold que... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7085243 | System and method for providing reservationless conferencing A video teleconferencing method for providing reservationless conferencing. The method involves creating a conference profile identifying selected connection parameters; allocating a dial-in number; notifying participants of the dial-in number; detecting a call from... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7076051 | Promoting caller voice browsing in a hold queue A method, system, and program for promoting caller voice browsing while a caller is waiting in a hold queue are provided. At least one web page is selected for voice browsing by a particular caller waiting in a hold queue. The particular caller may be offered an inc... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076554 | Internet service telephone communication connection method First and second telephone sets each comprise telephone set control units, voice codecs, and accumulating units. When the first telephone set, which is a subscriber of an internet service provider network, sends out internet service connection point data to the seco... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7068776 | Method and system for routing calls to desire discount telephone services A method and system for automatically completing long distance, international and local telephone calls using a preselected discount telephone service. A R.A.T. sensor array monitors a telephone line for activity. When the dialing of an outgoing call is detected, a ... | 06/27/2006 |
