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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5127003 | Digital/audio interactive communication network A communication system includes a digital network and an audio network such as a telephone system. The digital network includes a digital network server that communicates with client work stations in the digital network, and the telephone system includes ... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5091931 | Facsimile-to-speech system Written material is read at low cost by a computer-based system which is designed to receive via a telephone line a facsimile of the written material submitted by a system user. Once the facsimile is received, the system performs an optical character reco... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5072309 | Information retrievel arrangement including facsimile apparatus An information retrieval system includes an interactive operating mode which enables a user at a facsimile machine to receive multiple facsimile messages, each in response to a separate user request, during a single communication connection to the system.... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5062133 | Multi-function telephone call management system The multi-function telephone call management system enables a user to recursively activate a plurality of voice communication features on a single call connection. The multi-function telephone call management system serves to interconnect a plurality of c... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5031204 | Interactive diagnostic system for cellular telephones A method and apparatus for an authorized user of a cellular mobile radiotelephone to easily obtain data and performance evaluation of the telephone, such as the electronic serial number (ESN), the mobile telephone number (MID), and transmitted audio infor... | 07/09/1991 |
| 5031206 | Method and apparatus for identifying words entered on DTMF pushbuttons The identity of a word entered on DTMF (Dual Tone Multi-Frequency) pushbuttons is determined by identifying letters according to their frequency in groups of 2s and 3s and up to n-letter groups. Initially, a sender will type a word on a DTMF pushbutton pa... | 07/09/1991 |
| 5018186 | Communicating apparatus providing discriminated voice and/or image communication There is provided a communicating apparatus such as a television telephone having the absence recording function which can communicate either one or both of an image signal and a voice signal. The apparatus comprises: a memory such as a disk-shaped record... | 05/21/1991 |
| 5018191 | Special service call routing This invention relates to methods of establishing facsimile (fax) connections. When it is determined that a call is a fax call, a fax indicator is sent with Common Channel Signaling (CCS) messages for that call. If a call with a fax indicator is received ... | 05/21/1991 |
| 5008930 | Customer definable integrated voice/data call transfer technique In the present invention, a first agent terminal, of a group of multi-windowing agent terminals, answers an integrated voice/data call by (i) directly receiving and displaying call-related information from a communication system in a "Phone" window, and (... | 04/16/1991 |
| 5003574 | Voice capture system A voice capture system for use with a telephone switching system and transcribing terminals to record calling party generated information in predefined formats. The system digitizes and records messages generated by calling parties served by the telephone... | 03/26/1991 |
| 5001710 | Customer programmable automated integrated voice/data technique for communication systems The present invention enables multi-windowing agent computer terminals, that answer a variety of, e.g., telemarketing calls, to (i) receive call-related information from a communication system at an agent terminal for automatic display in a "telephony" wi... | 03/19/1991 |
| 5001745 | Method and apparatus for programmed audio annotation An apparatus for programmed audio annotation comprises a user's computer system having a display and a modem associated therewith, and a host computer system having an audio synthesizer unit and a memory unit associated therewith. The modem of the user's ... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4998248 | Integrated services digital network (ISDN) system and multimedia data connection method in same system An integrated services digital network (ISDN) system has an ISDN; and a plurality of media equipments, including at least one media device, connected with the ISDN through subscriptor lines, at least one of the media equipments including a plurality of me... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4996707 | Text-to-speech converter of a facsimile graphic image A computer system is described that includes a capability to receive and store graphic images from remote facsimile machines. The system includes a software that can convert graphic images of textual material into an ASCII coded file so that either keywor... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4995073 | Communication apparatus and communication system having automatic attribution switching A communication system, and an apparatus therefor, are used in combination with an integrated service digital network. The proposed system, and the apparatus, can achieve a change of service from an equipment to another, for example from a telephone unit ... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4975896 | Communications network and method The network is particularly useful in office communications. The network includes a plurality of transceiver units, each of which can be used as a telephone, or as a dictation terminal, or optionally as an automatic telephone answering machine. The networ... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4974254 | Interactive data retrieval system for producing facsimile reports The interactive data retrieval system utilizes a computer system that has a telephone interface, a memory, and a facsimile transmission device. The telephone interface is connected to a telephone line and receives information request signals from the call... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4954958 | Directional information system The present invention relates to a method and system for enabling a user to determine a desired geographical route between supplied locations. To this end, a means is employed for supplying to a central processor information identifying geographic locatio... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4953159 | Audiographics conferencing arrangement An audiographics conferencing arrangement for use in a business communication system allows the conferees to exchange displayed text and/or graphics stored locally in their respective data terminals. The conferees may change the displayed text and/or grap... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4942602 | Coordinated transfer of voice and information through a network of digital switches In many business applications, data about a client is created and entered on an agent's data terminal during a teleconference with the client. Often, it is necessary to transfer the client to a specialist during the course of the conversation. This invent... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4931950 | Multimedia interface and method for computer system A multimedia interface presents information and receives user commands for a computer system. The multimedia interface operates in parallel with another application software module, such as an expert system. To add multimedia features to the application s... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4918722 | Control of electronic information delivery Delivery of binary encoded character data and facsimile encoded data to a specified recipient is controlled rapidly, simply, and with versatility, by, e.g., DTMF commands sent by a user.... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4914586 | Garbage collector for hypermedia systems A database of interests is maintained in a distributed computing system to register the individual interests of users in centrally stored non-textual media files, such as digital voice, music, scanned-in image, and video files. Uniquely named piece table ... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4907274 | Intelligent work station In an intelligent work station of this invention, map information for a target is stored in a database. Word speech data input through a telephone line is recognized and analyzed, and the database is retrieved accordingly, so that map information specifie... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4893326 | Video-telephone communications system An auxiliary unit is used in conjunction with a personal computer based work station for interconnecting the work station to an audio-visual communications network. The auxiliary unit includes a CRT, a camera, a speaker phone circuit, and a CPU for interf... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4878242 | Teleconferencing system The teleconferencing system includes three or more audiographic teleconferencing terminals where any one of the terminals can act as a sending terminal and/or a receiving terminal during a teleconferencing session. Each terminal includes means for establi... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4849811 | Simultaneous audio and video transmission with restricted bandwidth Method for simultaneously sending audio and video signals over standard telephone lines or other channels having a restricted bandwidth which comprises obtaining a video image, digitizing the image, modulating a signal with the digitized image, obtaining ... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4805205 | Method and device for establishing bidirectional communications between persons located at different geographically distant stations A method and a device for establishing communication between several persons distant from one another. The method allows, by means of an appropriate spatial multiplexing, speech signals and signalling signals to be transmitted simultaneously between at le... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4799144 | Multi-function communication board for expanding the versatility of a computer A single board multiple option card for expanding the versatility of a host computer includes an onboard microprocessor, a digital signal processor and a switched memory device. The switched memory is accessible by the onboard microprocessor and the digit... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4748662 | Apparatus having a dial calling function An apparatus having dial calling device which effects a call to an apparatus of a destination office by sending out a selection signal based on a telephone number to office lines. After a calling operation request is issued from the dial calling device, t... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4748618 | Telecommunications interface A telecommunications interface is disclosed. The inventive telecommunications interface is capable of collecting multiple asynchronous video, audio, graphic and data signals from a variety of different kinds of sources and retransmitting such signals in a... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4742516 | Method for transmitting voice information A system including a broadcasting station which transmits many independent information packets to many receiving sets in succession. An information packet consists of a text, a classification code and a distinction code. Text is a sequence of words and sy... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4672459 | Communication terminal apparatus with data format conversion capability A facsimile machine for use as a terminal in a communication network includes a scanner for optically reading an original document to produce graphic information and a keyboard for producing character information and control information as operated by an ... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4653086 | Communication terminal for processing voice and graphical information A communication terminal for processing voice and graphical information having a telephone set including a handset supported by a housing with an input device mounted within the housing for establishing communication with a distant terminal. The input dev... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4600808 | Print apparatus for videotex terminal The apparatus comprises a dot printer (24) and a control unit for the printer connected to the line in parallel with a video display, the control unit is capable of processing the data received and storing it temporarily in a page memory in transcoded for... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4518989 | Buffer memory dispersion type video/audio transmission system with spatially and timewise divided inter-office junction lines A video/audio transmission system for sending video and audio information from the video and audio files of a center to a subscriber through a subscriber's junction line is disclosed in which at least one subcenter is disposed near to the subscriber to re... | 05/21/1985 |
| 4485400 | Video telephone An apparatus and method are provided for transmitting video data over telephone lines. The apparatus is particularly applicable for transmitting and receiving images of persons speaking to each other. In one form, a portable self-contained unit is provide... | 11/27/1984 |
| 4375083 | Signal sequence editing method and apparatus with automatic time fitting of edited segments A voice message from a user telephone (11) is recorded (FIG. 3) by being converted to digitally coded form and processed through a computer memory (32) prior to placement in bulk storage (31) memory sectors of uniform size. The message is retrieved in a p... | 02/22/1983 |
| 4340783 | Voice frequency response system A voice frequency response system comprising a subscriber's terminal unit including both a functional part functioning as a telephone and a functional part functioning as a facsimile receiver, a voice frequency response device including a functional part ... | 07/20/1982 |
| 4304968 | Telephone electronic answering device A telephone electronic answering device (TEAD), interfaced to the standard telephone mechanism, resembles a pocket calculator in size and shape and receives and records messages sent to it from a caller's telephone. It receives either dual tone frequencie... | 12/08/1981 |
