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"The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys."
Sir William Preece, chief engineer, British Post Office ; 1878
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5485507 | Integrated commissary system A commissary system for receiving and processing commissary orders using a premise-based telephone system of an institution such as a jail or correctional facility without accessing a PSTN. User-provided identifier information and item selection informati... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5481589 | Detection of TDD signals in an automated telephone system An automatic telephone answering system employs a switch activated by any of several techniques to select a language for communication with a caller. A single matrix determines the content of a message to be generated in response to input from the caller.... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479488 | Method and apparatus for automation of directory assistance using speech recognition In a telecommunications system, automatic directory assistance uses a voice processing unit comprising a lexicon of lexemes and data representing a predetermined relationship between each lexeme and calling numbers in a locality served by the automated di... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5440615 | Language selection for voice messaging system A voice messaging system is designed to select an announcement for a caller based on source information associated with a call initiated by that caller. The voice messaging system a) compares at least a portion of the source information to a stored langua... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5412712 | Multiple language capability in an interactive system Announcements from a voice messaging system that either prompt a user for action or provide information to a user are constructed independent of the language in which the announcement is provided to the user. In particular, each announcement is treated as... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5388146 | Automated telephone system using multiple languages An automatic telephone answering system employs a switch activated by any of several techniques to select a language for communication with a caller. A single matrix determines the content of a message to be generated in response to input from the caller.... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5384831 | System for providing personalized telephone calling features A common adjunct switch in association with a communications network provides a number of functionalities, one of which allows associated subscribers to customize the way in which they receive telephone calls and access enhanced services, such as a facsim... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5375164 | Multiple language capability in an interactive system The data entry portion of a voice messaging system is constructed to be language, culture, or market segment independent. In particular, the design of the voice messaging system is based upon "semantic expressions," which are used to evaluate any language... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5353335 | Multilingual prepaid telephone system A prepaid telephone system having multilingual capabilities is provided in a public switched telephone network. A telephone user buys a predetermined amount of service beforehand and receives a card imprinted with a unique account number. A plurality of t... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5333180 | Call message delivery system and method utilizing caller-selected system announcements A Call Message Delivery System (CDS) in response to a request from a caller to deliver an international voice call message, uses the country code digits of the called station number to select the language to be used in the system announcement which preced... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5305374 | Enhanced terminal telecommunications system Telephone communication apparatus permits an individual, while using a telephone, to select the language which both will be utilized in all messages given to the individual by the telephone and will be utilized by an operator, reservation clerk, or other ... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5222125 | System for providing personalized telephone calling features A common adjunct switch integrated with a telecommunications network and associated with a plurality of predetermined telephone numbers prefixed by a common code is provided with a facility which allows telephone subscribers that are assigned respective o... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5014301 | International speaker telephone The invention enhances a payphone by providing multilingual instructions to the user on how to complete a phone call. This is accomplished by providing a language directory listing at the payphone. Upon actuating the proper code for the language desired o... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4958366 | Telephone answering method and device providing outgoing message in a selected language A telephone answering device wherein an outgoing message translated from an original language into each of several different foreign languages is sent out in a predetermined order to a calling party of any foreign country when he pushes ten-keys on a push... | 09/18/1990 |
| 4866755 | Multiple language telephone answering machine In response to a first outgoing message from a telephone answering device in an original language, such as English, if a calling party from a country speaks in doubt or he cannot answer it quickly, his voice is analyzed to determine what language it is in... | 09/12/1989 |
