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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7899171 | Voice call system and method of providing contents during a voice call There is a need for providing a content to a user in process of a voice call without interrupting the conversation. A presence server is provided to manage positions, in a virtual space, of a user of each of voice telecommunication terminals and an advertisement sou... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7826604 | Three-way call detection using steganography Three-way call detection is an important component of correctional facility telephone equipment because it helps restrict calling access by certain persons to certain restricted telephone numbers. Various three-way call detection methods exist, but all of these impl... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7639791 | Means and method for detecting three-way call attempts Method, including monitoring an audio signal on a telephone line with a detector and detecting an energy pulse in the audio signal on the telephone line; processing the energy pulse with a processor, where the energy pulse comprises a plurality of frequency componen... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7409047 | Personalized telephone directory and calling system An embodiment of this invention provides a secure, integrated and hierarchical database to store phone numbers of services, along with personal protected information required by the service. This hierarchical data is stored for an individual or a group of individual... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7372949 | System and method for call redirect detection and treatment Disclosed are systems and methods in which call intelligence, such as may be disposed in communication with signaling systems utilized in controlling calls, is used to provide information for making determinations with respect to the treatment of calls. Call intelli... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7350184 | System and method for enterprise application interactions An application view control can allow users of a software tool to interact with Enterprise applications using simple Java APIs. This can allow a user who is not an expert in the use of a given Enterprise system to utilize its capabilities in a manner a Java programm... | 03/25/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7317792 | Integrated disparate intelligent peripherals A method for providing a service over a communications network includes interacting, by a first networked communications apparatus, over the communications network with a remote requesting party according to a script. The method also includes interacting, by the fir... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7292869 | Telephone equipment including a line holding system, an extension communication detecting system, and a notification system A telephone equipment having a main apparatus and a plurality of cordless handsets, which can perform an extension communication with being relayed by the main apparatus. Such a telephone equipment includes a line holding system that holds a connection between the m... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7272382 | Communication device operation management A communication group is activated within a communication system (100) including an administrator device (125) and at least one subordinate device (130,135). Each subordinate device (130,135) is programmed with a set of operation rules de... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7248685 | Three-way call detection using steganography Three-way call detection is an important component of correctional facility telephone equipment because it helps restrict calling access by certain persons to certain restricted telephone numbers. Various three-way call detection methods exist, but all of these impl... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7236773 | Conference call method and apparatus therefor A conference call facility is described in which one (2a) of a group of communication devices (2a,2b,2c,2d) connected to a low power radio frequency network (9) is able to set up a call to ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7227931 | Method and system for providing enhanced caller identification screening using audible caller name announcement A method and system provide enhanced caller identification information to a called party. The system determines whether or not standard caller identification information associated with a calling party can be provided to the called party. The system preferably deter... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7215755 | Integrated disparate intelligent peripherals A telecommunications system provides a telecommunications service to a calling party. The telecommunications system includes a first intelligent peripheral that receives a call from the calling party. The first intelligent peripheral interacts with the calling party... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7154999 | Sending identification information of a plurality of communication devices that are active on a communication session to information receiving component An apparatus in one example comprises one or more information sender components that upon engagement of a communication device with a communication session that involves a plurality of communication devices, send to one or more information receiver components identi... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151825 | Desk sharing with automatic device relocation A system and method for integrating a desk sharing application with a PBX telephonic user identity and feature transfer function is described. The system and method of the invention utilizes the PBX's administrative interface to transfer attributes from a dedicated ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149297 | Networkwide desk sharing with automatic device relocation A system and method for integrating a desk sharing application with a PBX telephonic user identity and feature transfer function is described. The system and method of the invention utilizes the CSTA protocol to transfer the Personal Identification Number and call f... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7139249 | Method and apparatus for an audio bridge A method and apparatus to form an audio bridge session are described. ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136471 | Method and apparatus for detecting a secondary destination of a telephone call based on changes in the telephone signal path A method and apparatus for detecting whether a remote party has added a secondary telephone destination to a telephone call, for example through the activation of three-way calling service, conference calling or two lining bridging, by identifying an echo characteri... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7123704 | 3-Way call detection system Disclosed herein is a three-way call detection system and method for detecting the addition of a third party to a pre-existing telephonic connection between a first party and a second party. The system comprises: a meter for measuring the amplitude of a line voltage... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7099454 | Caller identification in a communication system A communication system for providing caller identification services comprises a processing system configured to store a data structure having a plurality of codes associated with a plurality of caller numbers, and to translate one of the codes into one of the caller... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099451 | Call management using call routing engine A call management technique implemented using a call routing engine is disclosed. In the technique, local (e.g., ACD) switching resources and a public network are controlled as a single virtual switch for purposes of implementing call processing features. ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7095834 | Methods and systems for 1+ prepaid routing service The present invention provides methods and systems for automatically routing a long distance call placed by a subscriber to a prepaid service provider. Six exemplary methods are discussed for allowing the prepaid subscriber to directly dial a called party's long dis... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7079637 | System and method for detecting unauthorized call activity Disclosed are systems and methods which detect unauthorized, impermissible, or otherwise undesired call activity through a silence detection technique employing multiple samples. One embodiment monitors a call in progress to detect an event such as might be indicati... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079636 | Three-way telephone call prevention system and method Discloses are systems and methods for detecting undesired call activity. Preferred embodiment systems and methods comprise detecting a call signal level, determining if the call signal level is below a predetermined silence level threshold, and measuring a duration ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7050565 | Multimedia augmented call coverage A technique for sharing multimedia sessions between users that share a directory number allows incoming calls to be routed to both phones. Once one party picks up, the other party is alerted to this fact. Both parties may then exchange multimedia information to help... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7039019 | Telephone exchanging apparatus and telephone system A telephone exchanging apparatus 30 comprises a joined terminal table 341, a joined terminal table operating portion 352, and a reception side designating portion 355. The joined terminal table 341 stores terminal identification in... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7027575 | Method and apparatus for assigning telephone numbers Telephone numbers are omitted from a communications device (200) or line (110b), thereby inhibiting incoming calls. Outgoing calls are permitted on the line or communications device and are facilitated in part by an equipment identifier (122 | 04/11/2006 |
| 6947759 | Communication terminal and channel connection The communication terminal comprises a first radio unit for making radio communication with a base station over a first radio channel having a first radio frequency band, and a second radio unit for making radio communication with another communication terminal by u... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6907046 | Communication system and device that provides service independent communication bridging A communication device automatically transfers a software application to a bridge agent in response to an operational control channel between the communication device and the bridge agent. The bridge agent executes the software application to translate a bridge requ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6904027 | System and method for call transfer in packet switched local area networks A telecommunications system and method is disclosed for providing call transfer services within H.323 networks, in which the transferring end-point that invokes call transfer relays the media packets received from the transferred end-point to the transferred-to end-... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6898273 | Method for local exchange subscriber line conferencing A local conferencing exchange subscriber line conferencing system and method using a series of input signals from the phone of a subscriber, such as a dual-tone multifrequency (DTMF) sequence of key inputs starting with a star key input, to initiate the conference. ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6895086 | 3-Way call detection system and method Disclosed herein is a three-way call detection system and method for detecting the addition of a third party to a pre-existing telephonic connection between a first party and a second party. The system comprises a meter for measuring the amplitude of a line voltage ... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6879673 | Remote setup of third party telephone calls A method of establishing a third party call can include, responsive to a call initiated by a third party to a directory number of a called party, determining that the called party is engaged in an existing telephone call with one or more parties. The telephone call ... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6870917 | Methods and systems for call interruption services Methods and systems are provided that can automatically facilitate busy line validation (BLV) and emergency interrupt (EI) services with the aid of various sensors and systems that can automatically determine the status of a given phone-line, and further provide a m... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6850604 | Method and system for sending a data message to a calling phone while communicating with a first phone The present invention provides a method and communication system for sending a data message from a called phone to a calling phone while maintaining an active communication between the called phone and a first phone. The calling phone sends a call request to the cal... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6826159 | System and method for providing speaker identification in a conference call A system and method for speaker identification in a conference calling unit. The method identifies the speaker, locates the speaker identifier, transfers the speaker identifier to an outgoing path and sends the speaker identifier to endpoints participating in the co... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6816469 | IP conference call waiting An Internet Protocol Telephony Network and public switched telephone network that allows one or more call waiting callers to dynamically join in an existing and to establish a multiple-party conference call including the call waiting call. A call waiting call may al... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6804340 | Teleconferencing system A system and method for encoding the speech of multiple speakers for transmission on a limited medium such as ISDN or ADSL. The system and method encode one or more “dominant” speakers on a first channel, and merges all other speakers into a second channel. A ... | 10/12/2004 |
