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Neuroimaging as a Marketing Tool
Neuroimaging as a means for validating whether a stimulus such as advertisement, communication, or product evokes a certain mental response such as emotion, preference, or memory, or to predict the consequences of the stimulus on later behavior such as consumption or purchasing.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7702083 | Method and apparatus for providing default media content to a calling party Methods and apparatus are provided for presenting default content to a caller when a media stream of the specified type is not available. If it is determined that a destination endpoint is not providing a media stream of a first media type to an originating endpoint... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7702084 | Toll-free directory assistance with preferred advertisement listing The current invention is a system for providing telephone directory assistance service in which a telephone user calls to the system and the system will, based on the requested number or type of service, hear a recorded advertisement. An advertiser may target its ow... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7606352 | Method and system of processing messages The invention provides a method of processing messages. The method includes the step of obtaining a subscriber message, from a subscriber communication device over a telecommunications network, the subscriber message representing a voice message from a subscriber. T... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7596210 | Presence enhanced outcalling An outcalling system considers subscriber presence information in determining when to initiate attempts to deliver messages to the subscriber. The subscriber presence state may provide insight into the likelihood of successful message delivery. The outcalling system... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7577239 | Tracking and controlling the impact of unwanted messages A system and method track short term and long term intervals to assess whether a voice message source is a likely source of voice spam. Upon detection of a spamming threshold, calls from the source are blocked until detection that a sufficient time interval has elap... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7567655 | System and method for accessing a messaging service using a short dialing sequence A system and method for providing easy access to messaging services in a telecommunications network having office switches that are used by different providers of telephone and messaging services. The system uses a supplementary services database to maintain custome... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7561679 | Message delivery using a voice mail system Voicemail systems and methods can provide a user with means for receiving categorized messages from parties. The categories can be independent of the intended recipients of the messages, such that multiple users can receive the same message. A user can subscribe to ... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7555105 | Mail exchange apparatus, mail exchange system, storage medium and mail exchange method The memory cartridge which has identification data corresponding to its appearance is inserted to the mail exchange apparatus. The mail exchange apparatus displays a content of mail read from the inserted memory cartridge and an animal image corresponding to its ide... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7545918 | Call ticker Methods, systems, and apparatuses for call ticker messaging are disclosed. In various embodiments, a Call Ticker Signal may be generated by a communications device that communicates with a communications network to activate Call Ticker Services, to create and/or acc... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7512218 | Method and apparatus for negotiated message delivery A method of message delivery can include registering a plurality of reception states for a receiving party. The reception states can specify conditions for establishing communications links with receiving party addresses. A receiving party address can be identified ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7505571 | Communications systems and methods for exchanging messages between users A communications system exchanges messages between users. A messaging store stores the messages. A messaging server accesses and manages messages of the message store. A plurality of servers interface between the messaging server and different networks of the users.... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7499529 | Systems and methods for providing filtered message delivery A system (140) that delivers messages receives a message intended for the receiving party. The system (140) determines whether the message should be delivered to the receiving party and converts the message to an audible message when the message should... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7483522 | Sponsored information distribution method and apparatus A database having information sought by a consumer, a database containing consumer attributes, and a database of advertising messages are made responsive to telephone calls placed to an interactive voice response (IVR) system. Alternatively, the databases can be lin... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7443970 | Logging calls according to call context A method, system, and program for logging calls according to call context are provided. A context for a call is detected, where the context include information such as the parties to a call, whether a backup party is accessed, where the call is on behalf of another,... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440887 | Method and apparatus for causing one messaging service to migrate towards another In the migration method of the invention, for each migration request (MR) recorded in a migration control server (MCS), the following steps are performed in succession: a second mailbox (BOX2) is created in an electronic messaging service system (S2), ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433680 | Incoming call management in a push-to-talk communication system A push-to-talk (PTT) communication system provides a destination subscriber (called party) with a flexible incoming call management feature in which an initial voice message associated with the initial PTT incoming call to the called party is temporarily stored at t... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7421066 | Telephone call/voice processing system A telephone and voice mail (voice processing) system is implemented using only a single processing means for controlling operations of both the telephone system and the voice mail system. The single processing means communicates with a hard disk, which stores progra... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415007 | Method and system of screening and control of telephone calls while using a packet-switched data network A Call Alerting and Control System is provided in a communication environment to allow an Internet user (“user”) approximately real-time monitoring of information about an incoming call from a calling party while maintaining a connection with the Internet. The m... | 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 |
| 7406330 | Method and system for extending IP PBX services to cellular wireless communication devices An IP PBX system that serves enterprise telephones via a landline IP network connection is be expanded to serve cellular wireless communication devices (WCD) via a cellular wireless carrier's radio access network (RAN). Calls to and from the cellular WCD are connect... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403601 | Closed-loop command and response system for automatic communications between interacting computer systems over an audio communications channel A system and method for enabling two computer systems to communicate over an audio communications channel, such as a voice telephony connection. Such a system includes a software application that enables a user's computer to call, interrogate, download, and manage a... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7391857 | Methods and apparatus for forwarding caller ID data from a call answering device utilizing a call control system Methods and apparatus for forwarding Caller ID data on demand when retrieving messages from an answering device using an endpoint telecommunications device and an associated call control system (such as the central office of the calling phone, a PBX, ToL Gatekeeper,... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389236 | Navigation and data entry for open interaction elements Techniques for using open interaction elements (OIEs) in voice-enabled systems are described. OIEs include multi-select and dictation fields of a user interface, into which a user may enter multiple selections or free-form information. To allow the user to exit from... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386590 | System and method for improved synchronization between a server and a client A system and method for improved client and server communications, more particularly, an improved protocol that may be used for communication between a client and a server, such as in an email environment. Many features are provided for improved communications. An e... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7379537 | Method and system for automating the creation of customer-centric interfaces A method and system for automating the creation of customer-centric interfaces includes a customer-centric interface system automatically creating a customer-centric interface, a collection engine, a customer language engine, a task frequency engine, a customer stru... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379539 | Dynamically reconfigurable distributed interactive voice response system The present invention is a computer system and method that manages connections between one or more data network interfaces and one or more phone interfaces. A manager process, running on a computer system having both data and phone network interfaces, receives one o... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376570 | System and method for customer satisfaction survey and analysis for off-site customer service A system and method for customer satisfaction survey for a customer service provided over a telephone network. A customer initiates a telephone call to a customer service number provided by a company. The company's PBX receives the call and transfers it to a compute... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372826 | Providing advanced communications features Advanced communications features are provided in a mobile communications network having at least one mobile switching center and at least one mobile station subsystem. The mobile switching center and mobile station subsystem each communicate signaling messages accor... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373179 | Call queue in a wireless device A wireless phone includes a memory, a processor, and a call queue function, the call queue function to enable the configuration and storage in the memory of a call queue, the call queue comprising an ordered list of entries to dial, wherein the processor and the mem... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370086 | Web-based speech recognition with scripting and semantic objects The present invention is a system and method for creating and implementing transactional speech applications (SAs) using Web technologies, without reliance on server-side standard or custom services. A transactional speech application may be any application that req... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369647 | Voice mail notification using instant messaging A system and method that notifies a voice mailbox subscriber of the receipt of a message at a voicemail server using instant messaging. A preferred embodiment of the invention includes an enhanced notification server that receives a notification of the message from ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369649 | System and method for caller initiated voicemail annotation and its transmission over IP/SIP for flexible and efficient voice mail retrieval A voice-mail annotation system and method that enables callers to annotate the messages they leave at the time they leave them. Annotation may be performed using a touch screen or a telephone key-pad. In addition to allowing the caller to more clearly specify the in... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366766 | Web-based speech recognition with scripting and semantic objects The present invention is a system and method for creating and implementing transactional speech applications (SAs) using Web technologies, without reliance on server-side standard or custom services. A transactional speech application may be any application that req... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363029 | Unified interface for voice, text or picture message authoring A unified messaging interface and associated methods that enables mobile communication device users to initiate the creation of a message for a recipient without being required to explicitly specify the type of message that is to be created. The mobile communication... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362746 | Provision of IVR resources in BICC networks The invention relates to a method for providing IVR (interactive voice response) resources using the BICC protocol. In the method according to the invention, the provision of IVR resources is triggered in a CMN (call mediation node). The CMN brings about the executi... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362748 | Implementation method and system of the personal number service that syncretizes the phone network user and IP network user A One Number Link You ONLY number is assigned to each subscriber, which identifies the subscriber exclusively. The said subscriber can be an IP subscriber or an ordinary PSTN subscriber. An ONLY Service Server and an ONLY User Server are configured, any ONLY service... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359948 | Automated bulk communication responder The invention relates to processing similar electronic text communication. In one step, a first electronic and a second electronic submission, that are part of a plurality of electronic submissions, are received. A first portion is extracted from the first electroni... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359491 | Saving information from information retrieval systems A method and system for allowing a calling party to save information obtained from an information retrieval system. The caller may select options to save the information to a memory location, e.g., the caller's own network-based voice mail system or a temporary voic... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359737 | Data transmission-reception system and data transmission-reception method A data communication system is disclosed which comprises: first terminal devices for transmitting contents and content provider identification data identifying the providers of the contents; a server device for receiving and storing the transmitted contents and cont... | 04/15/2008 |
| RE40243 | Method of wireless retrieval of information A mobile station subscriber can access data from an informational database and have it forwarded to a desired destination. A database associated with the informational database maintains subscriber profiles. When the informational database receives a data request, i... | 04/15/2008 |
