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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7609823 | High capacity advanced 8YY mass calling event network architecture A telephone network voting system is configured to process a large number of calls. The system receives telephone ballots cast by voters by dialing an 8YY telephone number. The telephone ballots are received by network edge switch (NES) from a local exchange carrier... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7469041 | Intelligent delayed broadcast method and apparatus A method, system, and article of manufacture that improves the chance of getting an answer to a broadcast chat by sending the messages in subscribers in periodically delayed groups. If a group of subscribers does not produce enough suitable answers, the present inve... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7373372 | Method for accrediting event participants The present invention relates to the accreditation of participants to an event. Participants are invited to register, allowing an accreditation system (300) to collect information (325 and 320) from each of the participants. The accreditation sy... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370285 | Receiving and reporting page-specific user feedback concerning one or more particular web pages of a website In one embodiment, a method for receiving page-specific user feedback concerning a particular web page of a website includes using a comment icon viewable on the page to solicit one or more page-specific open-ended comments concerning the page from a user. The metho... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7359723 | Systems, devices and methods for providing a reward based upon use of a mobile communications device The disclosed embodiments provide systems, devices and methods for providing a reward to a user of a mobile communications device. The described embodiments, for example, may include a mobile communications device that exchanges query data and response data with a c... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7340503 | Interactive messaging system The interactive messaging system of the present invention provides for an interactive communication process between users, both senders and recipients. The sender composes a message by filling in a template stored in data services. Once completed, the sender pushes ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7331057 | Grouping advertisement subavails Method and system for creating one or more advertising avail sections (subavails) and thereupon aggregating the subavails to form one or more groups of subavails. The advertisement opportunities (avails) may be divided into sections (subavails) with each section bei... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7313387 | Method for operating a telecommunication system and telecommunication arrangement The invention relates to a method for operating a telecommunication system, including in particular a mobile radio network (PLMN), to provide a service and to obtain information. ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7304984 | Methods and systems for creating, distributing and executing multimedia telecommunications applications over circuit and packet switched networks A service creation switch (114) supports both tightly coupled and loosely distributed application server (AS) (126) functions, with the tightly coupled AS (126) functions residing in the switch (114), and the loosely coupled AS (126 | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295993 | ATM customer marketing system A marketing system includes a plurality of automated transaction machines (74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86). The automated transaction machines operate to carry out financial transactions with associated host computers (90, 94, 100, 104). Marketing presenta... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289963 | Sound-reproducing apparatus and high frequency interpolation-processing method The invention provides a sound-reproducing apparatus and a high frequency interpolation-processing method in each of which high frequency interpolation processing having a light burden imposed thereon can be executed. Compressed audio data is decoded by a decoder ( | 10/30/2007 |
| 7281652 | Point-of-sale provider evaluation A system provides information indicative of customer satisfaction respecting at least one service or sales provider, the system including at least one customer information entry component that provides customer input to a database supported by a financial service pr... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280979 | Methods and apparatus for intelligent, purpose-based selection of goods and services in telephonic and electronic commerce Apparatus and methods are provided for effecting remote commerce, such as in telemarketing (either inbound or outbound) and in electronic commerce, which are particularly adapted for the intelligent selection and proffer of products, services or information to a use... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7260829 | Terminal with multiple audio and video A novel advanced set top terminal capable of digital decompression, displaying picture-on-picture, outputting multiple video channels, outputting multiple audio signals, outputting multiple audio channels corresponding to a single video channel, and other advanced f... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257774 | Systems and methods for filtering and/or viewing collaborative indexes of recorded media Systems and methods for filtering and viewing collaborative indexes of annotations of multimedia or video streams can include obtaining a multimedia or video stream, obtaining user indexes of annotations of the multimedia or video stream, merging the indexes, associ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7218921 | Method and system for inviting and creating accounts for prospective users of an instant messaging system A system and method for assigning a unique identifier to a prospective user of an instant messaging system. The IM system comprises a plurality of clients (111) having IM applications of the same or different types, selectively interconnected to an IM server ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7212988 | Test screening of videos The present invention is directed to methods for facilitating video test screening on an electronic visual communications network. One step is to establish a database for a video test screening audience. The database contains audience member information and ID numbe... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7197542 | System and method for signaling quality and integrity of data content A method and system for communicating data inspecting, monitoring and analysis information by signaling between digital devices is described. A process analyzes the data, which is then subjected to a variety of inspection and validation methods and systems. The resu... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194511 | System and method to manage participant input for an interactive show Participant input for an interactive show, such as input submitted by the show's viewers or listeners, is managed. The received participant input is stored in a server. Software or other techniques/tools processes the participant input stored in the server to sort, ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7133662 | Methods and apparatus for restricting access of a user using a cellular telephone A method and apparatus are disclosed for preventing unauthorized access to a restricted item using a cellular telephone that has been previously associated with a user, for example, during a registration process. The user is initially identified, for example, by ent... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7085820 | System and method for reporting to a website owner user reactions to particular web pages of a website A system (10) for reporting to a website owner (12) user reactions to one or more particular web pages (28) of a website (26) includes a database (36) containing user reaction information for each page (28). The user reactio... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7062222 | Initiating a wireless connection to a broadcast program A method and system for users to select and participate in call-in broadcast programs are disclosed. A user speaks a station name into a mobile device, providing an indication that the request is for a broadcast channel, to tune the mobile device to that channel. Th... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7054827 | Method and apparatus for validating a survey database A method and apparatus for validating a survey database, preferably before any user requests are submitted to the survey database. This may be accomplished by analyzing the survey database and identifying those portions of the survey database that are potentially pr... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7046777 | IVR customer address acquisition method A method of automatically acquiring and/or updating a customer address within an interactive voice response system including establishing a telephony connection with a customer and identifying a telephone number associated with the customer. A directory assistance d... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7027175 | Print processing system and method with print job reprocessing A system and method of reprocessing a print job of a user includes processing of the print job by a print provider based on a job ticket and a data file for the print job, soliciting and receiving an offer by at least one print provider, including the print provider... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7020251 | System and method for the creation and automatic deployment of personalized, dynamic and interactive voice services, with real-time drilling via telephone A method and system for accomplishing real-time drilling in conjunction with interactive, real-time, voice transmission of information to a user is disclosed. A voice-based communication between a user and a first system is established and a report is transmitted to... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016843 | System method and computer program product for transferring unregistered callers to a registration process A system, method and computer program product are provided for handling unregistered callers in a voice recognition framework. Initially, it is determined whether a user is registered. If it is determined that the user is not registered, a registration process is ex... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6977992 | System and method for the creation and automatic deployment of personalized, dynamic and interactive voice services, with real-time database queries A method and system for accomplishing real-time queries in conjunction with interactive, real-time, voice transmission of information to a user is disclosed. A voice-based communication between a user and a first system is established and a report is transmitted to ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6961756 | Innovation management network An application allows employees to submit suggestions and ideas for improving how a company does business. A presently preferred embodiment of the invention supports multiple points of entry, which can include an entry portal, which is a single point of entry to a W... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6928392 | Collecting a user response to an explicit question specifically concerning a particular web page of a website In one embodiment, a system is provided for collecting a user response to an explicit question specifically concerning a particular web page of a website. An icon viewable on the particular web page the explicit question specifically concerns is operable to present ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6873688 | Method for carrying out questionnaire based survey in cellular radio system, a cellular radio system and a base station The invention relates to making a questionnaire-based survey in a cellular radio system including a central device and a number of independent terminal devices, where between the terminal devices and the central device, data transmission connections can be made. In ... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6859524 | System and method for automated third party verification A system and method for performing independent third party verification utilizes an automated system for posing questions to a customer and for recording and analyzing the customer's responses to those questions. The system could include a voice synthesizer or an au... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6683943 | Automated mass audience telecommunications database creation method A method for coordinating a generally publicly broadcast contest show with automatically dialed marketing telephone calls by which the recipients are first interrogated about their willingness to participate in the contest, and if so, they each disclose f... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6650736 | System and method for automated third party verification A system and method for performing independent third party verification utilizes an automated system for posing questions to a customer and for recording and analyzing the customer's responses to those questions. The system could include a voice synthesiz... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6631184 | System for community generated feedback and/or rating A telecommunications network system and method enabling feedback and rating data corresponding to products, services, or product or service providers to be shared among users in real-time. Feedback and rating data can be entered into a database using a te... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6349134 | Telephonic-interface statistical analysis system A system D interfaces with a multiplicity of individual terminals T1-Tn of a telephone network facility C, at the terminals callers are prompted by voice-generated instructions to provide digital data that is identified for positive association with a cal... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6173323 | Adaptive polling rate algorithm for SNMP-based network monitoring A rate adaptive polling method sensitive to network congestion is used to monitor network resources. Initially, a baseline rate constraint is set based on desirable engineering factors. Unacknowledged polls are retransmitted with timeouts, successively in... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6064724 | Modem with automatic callback provisions A modem is included in a television receiver for transferring data, such as "pay per view" billing information, to a modem in a billing station during periodic callback operations. The television receiver modem monitors the telephone line for predetermine... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6047052 | Data collection method and system with shorter control interval A data collection method and system is provided, by which blank time due to a time lag is not generated and a call probability to be broadcast can be calculated based on the number of potentially calling terminals which was counted as recently as possible... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6044134 | Messaging system and method A method and apparatus used with an automatic voice messaging system to allow at least one user to formulate a plurality of questions to be posed to system users requiring specific response types, as questions are posed, a response table for subsequently ... | 03/28/2000 |
