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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8150006 | Method and apparatus for performing call correlation across network elements Method and apparatus for performing call correlation across network elements are disclosed. For example, the method receives by a first correlation engine one or more Call Detail Records (CDRs) from one or more network elements at a completion of a call wherein each... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8140392 | Methods and apparatuses for pay for lead advertisements Methods and apparatuses for advertising where the performance is determined via tracking the communication leads generated from the advertisements. One embodiment includes: providing an advertisement on behalf of a specific party; and charging an advertisement fee r... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8036352 | Method and system for determining migration of ported telephone numbers between service providers A method and system include obtaining at a first time a first image of a database having number portability records for each telephone number which has been ported between service providers. The first image is indicative of the LNP records in the database at the fir... | 10/11/2011 |
| RE41472 | Communication method of supplying information in intelligent network and apparatus therefor A communication method for providing information in an intelligent network includes a step of entering by a user a connection number of the user terminal, a connection number of an information provider terminal and a time to receive the information providing service... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7711096 | Telecommunication server apparatus A storage unit manages a receiving order by storing a received call processing message. A retention unit retains key information, which is included in the call processing message, and element information, which is correlated to the key information and included in th... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7664240 | Method and apparatus for administration of circuit inventories in telecommunications networks Telecommunications customers must frequently utilize the facilities of many different telecommunications service providers in order to transmit data from one location to another. When a telecommunications customer encounters a network problem, that customer usually ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7649985 | Computerized system and method for displaying line unit performance details and load balance activity The present invention relates to a computer system and method for displaying line unit performance details of equipment in a telecommunications network. The system includes a report display component for displaying a line unit performance report. The system further ... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7620163 | Method and system for forecasting telephony traffic trends using number portability records A method and system for forecasting telephony traffic trends on a network of a given service provider includes storing number portability records in a database. Each record contains information regarding a corresponding telephone number having been ported between se... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7545920 | Call reporting A technique for near real-time reporting of telephone number usage to a computer is disclosed. According to the technique, signaling protocol data is collected for telephone calls that involve telephone numbers associated with the user. The signaling protocol data i... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7453995 | Sizing a communication link A method of sizing a communication link comprises: determining daily peak callers and daily calling time for plurality of days; determining a sizing factor that represents a slope of a line formed by plotting the daily peak callers against the daily calling time for... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7428497 | Methods and apparatuses for pay-per-call advertising in mobile/wireless applications Methods and apparatuses to connect telephone calls and track information about the telephone calls resulting from advertisements on mobile/wireless media channels. In one embodiment, a method includes: assigning a telephone number to an advertiser, one of the teleph... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424442 | Method and apparatus to allocate and recycle telephone numbers in a call-tracking system In one embodiment, the invention provides a method. The method includes dynamically allocating a telephone number to an advertisement on a just-in-time basis; and if the telephone number is not called for a predefined period of time then unallocating the telephone n... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424103 | Method of telecommunications call record correlation providing a basis for quantitative analysis of telecommunications call traffic routing A method of identifying arbitrage includes determining whether originating and terminating call detail records (CDRs) are correlated and obtaining correlated candidate pairs from the determined CDRs; establishing whether a correlated candidate pair of the obtained c... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424104 | Call detail record for internet call waiting A method, and a device are disclosed for logging management information during a call completion process in an Internet call-waiting environment The logging of information is performed by an ICW application server (4) that is connected to an ICW web server ( | 09/09/2008 |
| 7415266 | Method and apparatus for providing pre-pay and post-pay communication services using the same integrated system A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing pre-pay and post-pay calls. After receiving a pre-pay call, an integrated service platform obtains and transfers a pre-pay destination number and a pre-pay validation parameter to a switching system. The switching s... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7373136 | Method and system for data rating for wireless devices A method and system for rating a data communication session between a network and a wireless device is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, the method monitors a series of events, namely, a setup event, a begin event and an end event, which take place during a com... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366731 | Trouble ticket assignment A trouble ticket handling system is provided. The system typically includes a login logic, a monitoring device, and a user interface logic. The login logic typically operates to log a user into several trouble ticket systems. The monitoring device typically polls th... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366173 | Method for distributing calls to a group of end points A switching apparatus distributes incoming calls to end point terminals that belong to a service group and that interact with the switching apparatus via messages. The messages query the end point terminals by specifying a range and asking those end point terminals ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366493 | System and method for analyzing wireless communication data In general, a system and method for analyzing wireless communication records and for determining optimal wireless communication service plans is disclosed. A transceiver is configured to receive billing information associated with a subscriber of a telecommunication... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359402 | System and method for configuring bandwidth transmission rates for call connections A communication system comprises a signaling processor and an interworking unit. The signaling processor receives and processes signaling for a call to select a connection and a first bandwidth rate. The signaling processor transfers a first message indicating the c... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356487 | Efficient transportation of digital files in a peer-to-peer file delivery network A method and system for efficiently transporting digital files over a peer-to-peer network is disclosed, where the network includes at least one server node and multiple client nodes. According to the method and system when a digital file is to be transferred over t... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356474 | System and method for remotely enforcing operational protocols A system and method for remotely enforcing operational protocols is provided. In a remote environment, such as that found with a police environment, voice recognition technology is used to determine the situation and invoke actions according to an appropriate protoc... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7352852 | Method and system for determining a least cost path for routing international communications traffic A method, system, and medium for determining a least-cost, international-routing path to communicate data across a telecommunications network are provided. The path implementation variables can be presented on a user interface or used to automatically generate a swi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349862 | Business intelligence monitor method and system The present invention is directed to a business intelligence monitor method and system. Business intelligence indicators are monitored by generating a monitoring repository through selecting functions from a collection of functions, for receiving the business intell... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349118 | Confirmation of secure data file erasure A process that provides a status report following a request for the destruction of data files a user wishes to completely erase from a storage medium, such as a hard drive or removable disk. A system administrator can select a quantity of and pattern to be used in o... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340422 | Systems and method for managing and processing of telecommunications invoices A system and method for management and processing a plurality of types of telecommunication invoices at a user's site involving importing the plurality of types of telecommunication invoices to provide comparable telecommunication invoices and auditing the comparabl... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336950 | Communication address re-direction system for a mobile communication device A system and corresponding method supports voice communication using a mobile communication device employing a single user associated identification code in different relatively remote locations. A mobile communication device communicates a registration message to a... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336655 | System and method for recording call details and memory product The present invention provides a system, method and a memory product storing a computer program for recording call details that allows inexpensive recording of voice data of a phone call on the IP phone system, while easily maintaining high sound quality of the call... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330711 | Method for avoiding double charging of a service in a telecommunication system In a telecommunication system wherein both a first layer charging function and a second layer charging function are able to attend to the processing of the charging data of the first layer, there is a risk of the first twice. To ensure that a client is not unnecessa... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330536 | Message indexing and archiving A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for archiving auditory communications is disclosed. In an embodiment, this comprises receiving an auditory communication with keywords identified in the communication, storing the communication on a storage device, and... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327837 | Call routing method A call processing method is disclosed. A first station initiates a call to a second station. Call information associated with the initiated call is evaluated by comparing the call information with information in a fraud database. Completion of the call is prevented ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7317718 | Flexible counter update and retrieval A network device includes one or more processing units and an external memory. Each of the one or more processing units includes a centralized counter configured to perform accounting for the respective processing unit. The external memory is associated with at leas... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317915 | Method and apparatus for testing a radio network In a radio communication system that includes multiple service areas, each service area is associated with a predetermined number or amount of radio communication resources. Each radio communication resource can be used for a prescribed period of time corresponding ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7313232 | Monitoring for operator services The present invention provides for efficient monitoring of operator services calls. A packet gateway is provided in association with a telephony switch, such that circuit-switched connections through a switching fabric of the telephony switch are supported by the pa... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7304942 | Methods and apparatus for maintaining statistic counters and updating a secondary counter storage via a queue for reducing or eliminating overflow of the counters Methods and apparatus are disclosed for maintaining statistic counters and updating a secondary counter memory via a queue for reducing or eliminating overflow of the counters. Multiple counter values are stored in a primary counter storage. An indication of a parti... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295829 | System, apparatus and method for managing telephone call records A system, method and apparatus is disclosed for communicating one or more telecommunication call records associated with a telecommunication system, the one or more call records are transmitted from a remote telecommunication device. The system includes a telecommun... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295834 | Telephone number display method and set A telephone number display method for a portable telephone is disclosed, in which desired data can be readily found out from data extracted by retrieval of telephone numbers registered as telephone number diary data. In a portable telephone set, in which telephone n... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7290009 | System and method for allocating resources using spot market and derivative market techniques A network computer server system for controlling a plurality of network access lines to provide subscriber access to a computer network comprising an access line interface for partitioning the plurality of network access lines as first and second stage lines, includ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286524 | System and method for high capacity/failure tolerance telecommunications in a signaling network gateway A telepathy system provides for the transport of voice communication over a data centric network. Through use of the SS7 signaling network, an additional STP pair may be located between STP pairs in the SS7 network and a switch specially configured for converting vo... | 10/23/2007 |
