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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8160208 | Systems and methods for monitoring telephone lines Systems and methods for monitoring a telephone line connected to a port of a voice gateway are described. In one embodiment, the method includes: obtaining a value representing an electrical characteristic of the port of the voice gateway; determining whether the va... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8107593 | Method and apparatus for testing new copper connections during migration from analog network elements to next generation network (NGN) elements This invention makes it possible to transparently test replacement functionality and optionally migrate subscribers on analog phone lines, served, for example, by PSTN Class 5 elements, to Next Generation Network (NGN) elements when copper co-termination is leverage... | 01/31/2012 |
| 7974385 | User interface and system to facilitate telephone circuit maintenance and testing An apparatus integrates disparate systems. The apparatus includes a platform that supports a control interface. The platform also supports a different user interface for each of the disparate systems. The platform enables the formatting and transfer of data from the... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7831025 | Method and system for administering subjective listening test to remote users A method and system for administering a subjective listening test to remote users. A user can participate in a subjective listening test, such as an MOS listening test, over a telephone call. The telephone call is received and audio recordings are sequentially playe... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7826597 | Methods and apparatus to handle customer support requests Methods and apparatus to handle support contacts in a call center are disclosed. An example method for handling a first contact to a support center includes receiving the first contact from a first person, receiving a first identifier associated with the first perso... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7738633 | Telecommunication diagnostic information management A diagnostic tool is adapted to include the capability of initiating one or more diagnostic tests, collecting the raw data from the diagnostic test(s) and transporting the raw diagnostic data to an OSS. The OSS interprets the raw diagnostic data and stores the resul... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7729476 | Line loss tester An apparatus and method for testing integrity of a wired communication link includes receiving a plurality of signals, sent by at least one transmitter over the wired communications link, at corresponding multiple receivers. The signals have corresponding frequencie... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7660394 | Close-out test system The invention is a method and system conducting a completion test on a communications line. The system includes a testing device coupled to a remote device by a network. Line-test results are received from the testing device and made available to various client devi... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657004 | System and method for detecting a connection condition of a phone jack A phone jack connection detection system and method of operating the same, including a phone jack circuit having a data access arrangement circuit in communication with at least two pins, a stimulus input in communication with the phone jack circuit, the stimulus in... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7471771 | Telecommunications diagnostic information management A diagnostic tool is adapted to include the capability of initiating one or more diagnostic tests, collecting the raw data from the diagnostic test(s) and transporting the raw diagnostic data to an OSS. The OSS interprets the raw diagnostic data and stores the resul... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7450692 | Conference call peer-driven degraded line detection and removal An embodiment of this invention is about a method of determining which line is causing noise based on peer feedback. Instead of relying on special monitors or algorithms to determine which line is causing the noise, the participants of the call are paired up and ask... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7424097 | Method of measuring and improving xDSL transmission characteristic A system for measuring the transmission characteristic of an xDSL system that implements high-speed data communication over existing copper telephone wires connecting an office and a subscriber includes a polling device included in the outside line of an xDSL circui... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7403771 | Telecom equipment with memory Embodiments of telecommunications equipment with a memory device are presented herein. ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400586 | Collaborative remote communication circuit diagnostic tool The invention is a diagnostic tool for collaboratively testing a T1 line from remote terminals. A Diagnostic Interface Unit (DIU) containing test and monitoring equipment is connected into a T1 line close to a demarcation point. Testing from that common point, to ei... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7372946 | Measurement deferral and aggregation for extensible test configuration A system having a diagnostic measurement system (DMS) and method include a multi-protocol application test identifying components corresponding to protocols mixed within the multi-protocol application test, executing the protocols to collect measurements of the comp... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369969 | Holding device for a sensor signal, method for forwarding a sensor signal and computer program A holding device for a sensor signal comprises a signal input receiving a sensor signal, a signal output and a storage device coupled to the signal input and output. The storage device is designed to store a signal value in a first state and to update it based on th... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369846 | Delivery of mobile station operational and self-performance test results to network in response to encrypted request message A set of performance-related data that represents both normal and abnormal conditions in the network is determined and stored in a mobile station MS. The set or a sub-set of this data is transmitted to a computer for analysis upon a triggering event, and the MS user... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365547 | Circuit arrangement for a corrosion protection current feed and for a line test for two-wire lines A circuit arrangement for a line test and for feeding a corrosion protection current into a two-wire line comprises a controllable ramp generator for producing a ramp voltage, at least one first test impedance to be connected to a first line of a two-wire line, at l... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366284 | Outage reporting for a telecommunications system An outage reporting method and system are disclosed for a telecommunications system. The outage reporting system includes a processor to record a data element value. The data element value indicates a type of outage that occurred in the telecommunications system, su... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362713 | System and method for accessing digital subscriber line data A system and method of accessing digital subscriber line data is provided. The system includes a first server having an input to receive a telephone number from a web browser interface and having an output to provide performance analysis data associated with at leas... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362850 | Method and arrangement for estimation of line properties The length and attenuation of a signal line between a transmitter and a customer premises equipment is to be estimated. A frequency dependent line input impedance (Zin(f)) as seen from the transmitter, is measured and an absolute impedance value (œ Z | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363529 | Automated DSL network testing software tool A DSL network testing tool [110] tests multiple elements 9141, 143] in a DSL circuit. The testing tool may operate in either a single circuit test mode or a batch mode. In batch test mode, the network testing tool receives multiple DSL phone numbers an... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356586 | Filtering system and method for voice protocol network analysis A system, method and computer program product are provided for filtering various voice protocols. A plurality of voice protocols is initially displayed. Next, an indication is received from a user as to the selection of the voice protocols. It is further determined ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356127 | Global digital measurement device A digital wideband node (DWN) (28, 48) is coupled to a remote terminal (RT) (22, 42) that in turn is coupled to a subscriber's telephone line (26, 46). The DWN (28, 48) is configured to (1) pass a subscriber's telephone number signal dire... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7336749 | Statistical margin test methods and circuits Margin-testing circuits and methods rely upon the statistics of sampled data to explore the margin characteristics of received data. One margining circuit samples an incoming data stream N times at each of many sample points, each sample point representing a unique ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7321766 | System and method for testing portable communication devices There are disclosed systems and methods for performing diagnostic testing on portable communication devices, such as cellular telephones. In one embodiment, diagnostic commands are generated internal to the communication device and processed within the device as tho... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7315849 | Enterprise-wide data-warehouse with integrated data aggregation engine An enterprise-wide data-warehouse comprising a database management system (DBMS) including a relational datastore storing data in tables. An aggregation module, operatively coupled to the relational datastore aggregates the data stored in the tables of the relationa... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313129 | Arrangement for sharing a single signaling point code between multiple hosts in an IP-based network A Voice over IP network having multiple signaling message transfer nodes (e.g., call agents, signaling gateways), communicate with switched circuit network nodes using a single point code. A signaling gateway, upon receiving an SS7 signaling message specifying a des... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7307428 | Method for single ended line testing and single ended line testing device A single ended line testing method for qualifying an electrically conducting line, including the steps of sending a plurality of randomized excitation signals from a first end of the line towards a second end of the line, subsequently taking measurements, at the fir... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7304563 | Alarm clock A mobile communication terminal comprising: a clock for maintaining an indication of the current time; a memory for storing a definition of an alert time; and an alerting unit configurable to issue an alert when the current time matches the alert time, the alerting ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305006 | System for allowing a single device to share multiple transmission lines A front end, such as can be used in a Home Phoneline Networking Alliance network, may connected to a plurality of transmission lines. Each of the plurality of transmission lines may connected to one or more devices, such as a plain old telephone service device or an... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305471 | Capacity planning for server resources Methods and systems for capacity planning of server resources are described wherein fixed resources of a server cluster are used in comparison to similar server cluster benchmarks to determine the maximum load—requests per second—that can be handled by the serve... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302046 | Method for the detection of impedances and for the qualification of the telephone lines The invention relates to a method for detection of impedances, in particular along inductances, in telephone lines of the type with two metal wires as signal conductors (twisted pair), having the following method steps: a test signal in the form of an A... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295655 | Systems and methods for determining the status of telephone lines Systems and methods for detecting a status of a telephone line. Some of the systems include a telecommunications system which comprises a dial tone tester integrated with a demarcation device. Such dial tone testers can include a visual device or an audible device i... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289604 | System and method for subscriber loop testing A method for testing subscriber loop conditions includes receiving test signal data from a test signal provider, receiving a request for transmitting a test signal described by the test signal data, and transmitting the test signal over a communication channel. The ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286048 | Supervised guard tour systems and methods The present invention comprises systems and methods for addressing exceptions (i.e., alarms) associated with a guard tour according to a predefined hierarchy. The exception is generated automatically based on data associated with the guard tour, as typicdally collec... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280641 | Communication terminal apparatus and transfer method therefor Messages from a remote telephone set are automatically recorded as automatically recorded data by an answering function. An e-mail transmission/reception unit stores e-mail received from an e-mail server in a received mail file. An automatically recorded message and... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7281151 | Method of stopping data communication of a communication apparatus based on a detection of a power supply voltage drop In data communication apparatus for communicating with another data communication apparatus via cables, when a power supply voltage applied to the data communication apparatus drops and the application of the power supply voltage is stopped, a power-supply-voltage-d... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7263174 | Predicting performance of telephone lines for data services A method characterizes a customer line for data transmission. The method includes measuring electrical properties of the customer line from a central location, identifying a line model from the measurements, and identifying a modem model for a modem selected for use... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260184 | Test system and method for scheduling and running multiple tests on a single system residing in a single test environment A test system and method for scheduling and running multiple tests on a single system residing in a single test environment. The test system comprises a processor operable to receive a request to run a selected test on the system at a selected start time, and determ... | 08/21/2007 |
