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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8077847 | DTMF lockout utility using epoch time stamp A method for converting a first time and a first date in a first format to a second time in a second format includes determining a number of seconds that have elapsed between a predetermined date and a beginning of a current year of the first date. The method furthe... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8064579 | Prepaid services accounts with multi-user customers and individualized quotas Prepaid services include a multi-user prepaid services account as well as a prepaid balance associated with the account. A plurality of user records associated with the account each includes a quota. A service monitoring component may be configured to repeatedly dra... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8036351 | Methods, systems and computer program products for monitoring service usage Monitoring criteria is received that corresponds to a usage quantity for a plurality of services. Each of the plurality of services is provided over ones of a plurality of different communication systems. Actual service usage information is received for the pluralit... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7933392 | Method and system for measuring market-share for an entire telecommunication market A method for collecting data to measure market-share for a defined telecommunication market. A market of interest is defined and a random panel of numbers is created. A call set-up is initiated to the created random panels by generating signaling messages wherein th... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7620162 | Methods, systems and computer program products for monitoring service usage Monitoring criteria is received that corresponds to a usage quantity for a plurality of services. Each of the plurality of services is provided over ones of a plurality of different communication systems. Actual service usage information is received for the pluralit... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7564959 | Billable activity processing A system is disclosed for processing billable activities. The system includes a scheduling component configured to support creation of a plurality of activity records. A sub-set of the activity records are designated as being associated with billable activity. The s... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7433855 | System and method for detecting and managing fraud A system, method and computer program product for processing event records. The present invention includes a detection layer, an analysis layer, an expert systems layer and a presentation layer. The layered system includes a core infrastructure and a configurable, d... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7403901 | Error and load summary reporting in a health care solution environment A system, method and computer program are provided for generating error and summary reports for a data load. A plurality of records to be loaded in a database are received. The records may include medical records. A data management template corresponding to the reco... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7383191 | Method and system for predicting causes of network service outages using time domain correlation Methods and systems are described for predicting the likely causes of service outages using only time information, and for predicting and the likely costs of service outages. The likely causes are found by defining a narrow likely cause window around an outage based... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7376415 | System and method for offering portable language interpretation services Language interpretation for users includes a portable system for providing access to interpretation services, such as a prepaid, debit or credit card for the user. The prepaid card has a number of minutes of language interpretation service associated with it in addi... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372950 | Method for supporting the communication of information via a communications system The invention concerns a method for supporting the communication of information via a communications system, as well as a service unit, an electronic agent, software products and servers for supporting the communication of information via a communications system whi... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366287 | DTMF lockout utility epoch time stamp A current time and a current Gregorian date are converted into an epoch time stamp. A number of seconds that have elapsed since a predetermined date up until the current year is determined. A number of seconds that have elapsed since the beginning of the current yea... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366108 | Network topologies The present invention provides a method for optimization of the configuration of a hierarchical network having a first hierarchy level (LEVEL(j−1)), a second hierarchy level (LEVEL(j)) next below the first level, and a third hierarchy level (LEVEL(j+1)) next below... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366495 | Prepaid reservation-based rating system A billing system comprising servers, routers, and processors programmed to provide reservation based prepaid billing is disclosed. The billing system is also programmed to concurrently process multiple billing events on a single, prepaid subscriber account. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7367014 | System and method for XML data representation of portlets An Extensible Markup Language (XML) document adapted to describe a portlet, comprising a name element including a name tag, a description element including a description tag, and a content resource element including a content tag. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363650 | System and method for incrementally distributing a security policy in a computer network A system and method for generating an updated version of, or reconstructing a previously enforced version of, a local client security policy stored in an application guard. A policy manager distributes a change (or an accumulation of changes) to the currently enforc... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362853 | Cost negotiation for communication sessions A method of negotiating the sharing of a cost associated with a communication service between a plurality of participants. The method comprises sending a cost sharing request from a terminal 1 used by a first of the participants to the terminal 12,13 u... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7352851 | Exchange and computer readable medium storing exchange control program An exchange is provided, the exchange receiving a number of a telephone terminal of a called party, selecting a network from a plurality of connectable networks including the Internet with the number and connecting to the network. In addition, the exchange calls the... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350226 | System and method for analyzing security policies in a distributed computer network A system and method for analyzing a global security policy in a distributed computing environment. In one embodiment the security policy is a global security policy which is stored in, and managed by, a policy manager located on a server. In another embodiment the s... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343334 | Method and system for providing a financial analysis of an enhanced wireless communications service A method and system for providing a financial analysis for enhanced wireless communication services provides a financial analysis for a service provider or another user interested in the provision of enhanced wireless communications services. The method includes acc... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340744 | System and method for optimizing sessions and network resources in a loadbalancing environment A method for loadbalancing in a network environment is provided that includes receiving a create request from an end user for a communications link provided by a network node and communicating a response to the end user in order to establish a communication session.... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340506 | Value-added network switching and object routing The present invention provides a method and apparatus for providing real-time, two-way transactional capabilities on the network. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention discloses a configurable value-added network switch for enabling real-time transac... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336639 | Method and system for providing service request notifications related to a communications network A trunk-group request tool automates the process of manually receiving and analyzing trunk-group circuits pertaining to switch circuits located within a switch facility of a communications network. An embodiment of the computer-implemented method includes receiving ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7318015 | Method, system and program product for generating scenarios utilizing graphical objects representing hierarchically arranged elements of a modeled environment A data model of a modeled environment is maintained within a database. The data model includes data defining a plurality of hierarchically arranged subsets of space within the modeled environment and data defining a plurality of items populating the modeled environm... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318237 | System and method for maintaining security in a distributed computer network A system and method for maintaining security in a distributed computing environment comprises a policy manager located on a server for managing and distributing a security policy, and an application guard located on a client for managing access to securable componen... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7313545 | System and method for detecting fraudulent calls Systems and methods for evaluating transactions to determine if suspicious activities are possibly present. Various methods include providing a reference designator list with information associated with one or more suspicious activities. Using the reference designat... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7305364 | Methods and systems for supplying customer leads to dealers A method is disclosed for generating customer leads for use by dealers attempting to sell a product, for example a loan product. The method is implemented on a system and includes providing a database of customer information, predicting a propensity for one or more ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305352 | System for and method of facilitating sales activities, and program generator for generating a program for realizing the same In response to a request from a terminal, a sales-force server creates a page for providing information regarding sales activities, and sends the created page to the terminal. An e-mail server sends an e-mail including a word(s) registered in a first word table to a... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7287104 | Interface circuit for card-type memory, ASIC including interface circuit, and image forming apparatus including ASIC An interface circuit reads data for a few sectors from a card-type memory and stores the data in a buffer. When a receiving unit receives a read-access from an image forming apparatus, a data checker decides whether data corresponding to the read-access exists in th... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286661 | Systems and methods for scalable hunt-group management The present invention provides systems, methods, and apparatus for semi-stateless scalable and distributed management of telephone hunt group features in a PBX. In particular, the invention conducts an auction-like phone call handling process in which phone handling... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286660 | Method and system for selectively performing call information query A system and method for providing call information query stores modified call information associated with a telephone number within the local databases of a service provider's local network. The modified call information enables a service provider to unilaterally al... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7281051 | Apparatus, method, and computer program for managing resources in a communication system An apparatus, method, and computer program manage resources in a communication system. The apparatus, method, and computer program determine an amount of resources provided by at least one central processing unit and a present communication session load placed on th... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7281046 | Application program interface for automating high speed network access ordering and provisioning processes An application program interface system and method for automating high speed network access ordering and provisioning processes, particularly involving business to business interactions, such as automating interactions between ISPs and ILEC/CLECs for xDSL service or... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277532 | Call monitoring apparatus and method therefor In a signalling network employing the SS7 signalling protocol, it is known to use masks to mine CDR stores in order to obtain data for analysis in respect of a particular customer of a communications network associated with the signalling network. However, the use o... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274925 | Methods and apparatus for flexible communication device usage attribution A technique for providing flexible communication device usage attribution is provided. Identification information of a user of a communication device is received from the communication device at a primary service provider. It is determined if the user of the communi... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272216 | Incomplete call notification A method and apparatus for providing a telephone subscriber with data of uncompleted calls. A determination unit detects an uncompleted call by receiving a signal from a telephone switch or by monitoring the operation of the network exchange switch. The switch is th... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272855 | Unified monitoring and detection of intrusion attacks in an electronic system An inventive monitor monitors accesses to a resource in an electronic system, such that access to the resource is based on payments in electronic security value units. The monitor detects patterns of payments for the resource in electronic security value units, and ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7263558 | Method and apparatus for providing additional information in response to an application server request A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing additional information, such as advertisements, to a client device via the response signal to an application (or web) server request. A client device is in communication with a server device, and sends a request for... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263626 | Method for synchronizing computer clocks in networks used for information transmission, device for carrying out said method and data packet suitable for the synchronization of computer clocks The invention relates to a method for synchronizing computer clocks in networks used for the transmission of information according to which information is dispatched with a time stamp when being dispatched and which is re-transmitted with a time stamp in a confirmat... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260089 | Remote worker access on networked PBX systems using a VoIP platform A Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) feature server provides a remote worker feature over a VoIP platform of an IP network. The remote worker feature facilitates an individual, who is assigned a telephone number at his/her home PBX, to receive telephone service fro... | 08/21/2007 |
