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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7864717 | Modem for communicating data over a voice channel of a communications system A modem used for communicating data. The modem may include a packet generator and modulator. The modulator may include an electronic device configured to select at least one frequency from at least three or more candidate frequencies. At least one oscillator may be ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7483400 | Managing a packet switched conference call The invention relates to a method for managing a packet switched, centralized conference call between a plurality of terminals 13. In order to enable an enhancement of the user comfort, it is proposed that the method comprises at a conference call server 1... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7460495 | Serverless peer-to-peer multi-party real-time audio communication system and method A serverless peer-to-peer (P2P) multi-party real-time audio communication system and method in which each of the peers takes a turn mixing and compressing the audio and redelivering the compressed audio. An input audio stream is divided or split into frames. At each... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7428223 | Method for background noise reduction and performance improvement in voice conferencing over packetized networks The present invention is directed to a system and method for background noise reduction and performance improvement in conferencing. A method for providing a conferencing session may include receiving inputs from a number of participants in a conferencing session. A... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7420935 | Teleconferencing arrangement A method and an apparatus for controlling a conference call is a system which comprises a conference bridge for combining several audio signals arriving from terminals and for transmitting the combined signal further to at least one of the terminals using at least o... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415499 | Method and apparatus for listening for incoming calls on multiple port/socket combinations In one embodiment, the invention provides a method comprising loading a set of transport components into a memory; initializing each transport component of the set of transport components to listen on a particular conferencing interface using a listen string to asso... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7385940 | System and method for using a plurality of processors to support a media conference A system for using a plurality of processors to support a media conference includes a mixing processor and a first media transformation processor coupled to the mixing processor. The mixing processor mixes input media information associated with two or more first pa... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7369652 | Combining signals at a conference bridge Combining signals includes receiving signals from communication devices, where each signal is associated with a content describing the signal. The following is repeated for each signal: the content associated with a signal is examined, whether the signal is a voice ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366151 | Hierarchical data collection network supporting packetized voice communications among wireless terminals and telephones A packet-based, hierarchical communication system, arranged in a spanning tree configuration, is described in which wired and wireless communication networks exhibiting substantially different characteristics are employed in an overall scheme to link portable or mob... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359812 | Automation device The invention relates to an automation device (100, 100′), in which a multiplicity of physically distributed functional units communicate with each other by means of a common transmission protocol. The device has a microcontroller (110), which is ass... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7342875 | Space-time coded OFDM system for MMDS applications A communications system includes a base station that is configured to transmit a signal that is modulated according to a predetermined modulation scheme and an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing scheme, wherein the signal is encoded using space-frequency cod... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337211 | Network conference system and method for using the same In a network conference system, a promoter terminal 10 has: a speaker selecting section 12 which selects the promoter terminal 10 itself or one of participant terminals 20 and 30, as a speaker terminal which is used by a speaker wh... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333485 | Network communication device including bonded ports for increased bandwidth A network communication device including port control circuitry for controlling packet flow between the ports of the device, where the port control circuitry includes a port manager that directs packets between the ports and port bonding circuitry that bonds two or ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327719 | Managing internet protocol unicast and multicast communications A system for managing internet protocol of at least unicast and/or multicast communications over a network has a network interface 20 for interfacing between the network 10 and other parts of the system. An audio compression/decompression and packetisi... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7280650 | Method and apparatus to manage a conference A method and apparatus to manage delay in a multimedia conference session is described. ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7187673 | Technique for creating a machine to route non-packetized digital signals using distributed RAM A signal router routes N inputs to M outputs. All inputs signals are ultimately applied to a data buss by spreading across multiple buss lines and time multiplexing. The data are read from the buss and written in identical images to K random access memories. The mem... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7184791 | Methods, receivers, and computer program products for determining transmission power control commands using biased interpretation Methods, receivers, and computer program products for defining asymmetric decision regions of a symbol space to interpret transmitted power control commands are disclosed. A method of determining transmitted power control commands at a receiver can include defining ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184427 | System and method for communicating telecommunication information from a broadband network to a telecommunication network A system for communicating telecommunication information includes a memory, packetization modules, and a telecommunication interface module. The memory stores subscriber profiles associating each of several subscribers with a telecommunication interface. The packeti... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7170854 | System and method using switch fabric to support redundant network ports In a method for providing protection switching in a voice-over-broadband (VOB) gateway, egress traffic is multicast from a switch fabric to a working port and to a protection port. The working port forwards the egress traffic to a network in a working mode of operat... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7155622 | System and method for the management of power supplied over data lines A system for providing power over data lines, particularly Ethernet data lines, comprises a network switch including a multiplicity of ports each of which is capable of supplying power in addition to data packets, a controllable power source which is coupled to said... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7106696 | Systems and methods for limiting the rates of data to/from a buffer A system controls the transfer of data. The system receives a request to transfer data and determines whether a counter value equals or exceeds a threshold. The counter value represents an amount of time since a previous data transfer. When the counter value equals ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103062 | Intercom system having unified control and audio data transport An intercom system utilizing peer-to-peer computer network hardware that shares bandwidth between digital audio transport and inter-processor data communications on a common time-division-multiplexed (TDM) parallel bus. The system hardware automates symmetric, simul... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099281 | Passive system and method for measuring the subjective quality of real-time media streams in a packet-switching network In accordance with the present invention, a portion of a packetized data stream is copied from a data network without interfering with the flow of the data in the network. A known test signal is then substituted for the information contained in each copied packet to... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099310 | Method and apparatus for providing voice signals to and from a telecommunications switch A voice gateway (64) includes an input port (70) that receives a voice signal from an unbundled analog line (62) coupled to a Class 5 switch (52). The voice signal is converted to a digital format by an analog-to-digital and digita... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7096180 | Method and apparatuses for improving quality of digitally encoded speech in the presence of interference Methods and apparatuses for encoding speech signals in the presence of interference that accurately establishes a speech signal value subsequent to lost transmission packets. For one embodiment of the present invention, the initial bits of a speech transmission pack... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092365 | Voice and data exchange over a packet based network with AGC A signal processing system which discriminates between voice signals and data signals modulated by a voiceband carrier. The signal processing system includes a voice exchange, a data exchange and a call discriminator. The voice exchange is capable of exchanging voic... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7085710 | Vehicle computer system audio entertainment system A vehicle computer system has an audio entertainment system implemented in a logic unit and audio digital signal processor (DSP) independent from the host CPU. The audio entertainment system employs a set of ping/pong buffers and direct memory access (DMA) circuits ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085364 | Advanced conference drop A network telephone system is provided with a distributed network, a network call processor, with the call processor connected to the network. A telephone line network interface is connected to a telephone line and is connected to the network for receiving packets f... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7061880 | Systems and methods for multicast communications Systems and methods are provided to establish multicast capabilities for communication systems including wireless communication and internet protocol (IP). An exemplary communication system may include one or more content servers (CSs), IP network, packet data servi... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7046780 | Efficient buffer allocation for current and predicted active speakers in voice conferencing systems A method and computer program product allows for the efficient allocation of buffers (e.g., first-in first-out (FIFO) queues) for current and predicted active speakers in voice conferencing systems. The method and computer program product, implemented by a server ho... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042874 | Digital switching system and method of switching data of same A digital switching system includes a multiplexer for multiplexing time slots from a plurality of circuits, a switching memory for storing and switching the multiplexed data for one frame period, switching control equipment for directing the interchange of the time ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7023965 | Apparatus and method for displaying a name of a speaker on a telecommunication conference call During a telecommunication conference call, the name of the current speaker on the conference call is displayed on all telecommunication units that are utilized by the participants in the conference call. ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020110 | Resource allocation for MIMO-OFDM communication systems Techniques to schedule terminals for data transmission on the downlink and/or uplink in a MIMO-OFDM system based on the spatial and/or frequency “signatures” of the terminals. A scheduler forms one or more sets of terminals for possible (downlink or uplink) data... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6961312 | Hierarchical data collection network supporting packetized voice communications among wireless terminals and telephones A packet-based, hierarchical communication system, arranged in a spanning tree configuration, is described in which wired and wireless communication networks exhibiting substantially different characteristics are employed in an overall scheme to link portable or mob... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6956828 | Apparatus and method for packet-based media communications The performance of a voice conference using a packet-based conference bridge can be improved with a number of modifications. In one modification, the conference bridge receives speech indication signals from the individual packet-based terminals within the voice con... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6950414 | Cable carrying communications data and timing data to radio heads A method and apparatus for providing timing information to radio heads in a wireless communications system. One or more radio heads are connected to a central unit by a respective cable. This cable includes at least two sets of conductors. The first set carries comm... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6944137 | Method and apparatus for a talkgroup call in a wireless communication system In a wireless code-division multiple access (CDMA) system (100), a talkgroup (101) of subscriber units is provided. A sub-talkgroup (102) of subscriber units, forming a part of the talkgroup is assigned at least one inbound channel (416-417 | 09/13/2005 |
| 6937713 | IP call forward profile A method and system for providing call forwarding in an IP telephone network is disclosed. First, when a telephone number for a first telephone from a second telephone is dialed, the call is routing to a call manager. Call setup procedures with a BRG responsible for... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6931001 | System for interconnecting packet-switched and circuit-switched voice communications A system and method for establishing voice communication between a packet-switched network and a circuit-switched network includes a network interface unit for coupling to the packet-switched network, a phone interface unit for coupling to the circuit-switched netwo... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6918068 | Fault-tolerant communications system and associated methods A communications system may include a plurality of communications buses, at least one bus device connected to the plurality of communications buses, and a plurality of bus controllers for sending a plurality of bus enable signals to the at least one bus device. The ... | 07/12/2005 |
