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"The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys."
Sir William Preece, chief engineer, British Post Office ; 1878
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7324635 | Branch calling and caller ID based call routing telephone features A caller ID based call routing feature is described for blocked and non-blocked caller ID's. A processing system in the public switched telephone network (PSTN) receives first identifying information for identify the source of a telephone call and associates additio... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7283625 | Caller ID messaging telecommunications services Methods, systems, and apparatuses for caller identification messaging are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a calling party uses a Caller ID Messaging Device that supplants the incoming calling line identification (ICLID) signal with a Caller ID Messaging Sign... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7218712 | Method and system for accounting of services Method and system for handling a service request from an originating station (ST-A) to a terminating station (ST-B) in a telecommunications system managing service logic for accounting information for payment of services. A service request is received from an... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7206400 | Method and system for data field reuse An automatic call distribution system is adapted to connect a telephone call of a caller to an agent station through a public switched telephone network (PSTN) where call information identifiers received from the PSTN are repopulated. The method includes the steps o... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7177897 | Method and system for automatically configuring a client-server network A system for automatically configuring server daemons in a client-server network for delivering services to a client is provided. The system comprises an interactive server in communication with a database server. The interactive server runs a server daemon to make ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7085358 | Visual caller identification A visual caller identification system and method are provided. A caller identification device of a called party's telephone, whether integrated with the telephone or stand-alone, includes a series of colored lights for visually alerting the called party to an incomi... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7013335 | Intelligent call platform for an intelligent distributed network architecture The present invention provides an intelligent call processor, an intelligent switching node and an intelligent communications network for use in a communications system. The intelligent call processor comprises a logical platform having a plurality of functions wher... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6977996 | Fee collection system and method for call completion Methods and systems for administering calls on a voice network allow a user to selectively determine which calls will be accepted. The methods and systems may provide unwanted callers with an option to speak with the user for a fee. The methods and systems may provi... | 12/20/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6434378 | Pre-paid cellular telephone system A pre-pay service unit uses pseudo-numbers to identify subscribers and substitutes actual numbers to complete a call after verification of authenticity and verification of a positive balance in a subscriber's account. The service unit and the cellular tel... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6157823 | Security cellular telecommunications system A cellular telecommunications system having a security feature which allows only pre-authorized users to complete cellular telephone calls. The system and method recognizes a cellular radiotelephone's pre-programmed a pre-selected telephone number and a a... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6137870 | System for providing caller information to called party via call standard data field A system is described in which a standard data field in a telephone system call format, such as ASI and/or dials number is changed to reflect caller and/or call specific information. The caller and/or calls specific information is made available to a call... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6130935 | Virtual networking work at home system and method A system and method for virtual networking work at home provides the capability to bill business calls from an employee's home telephone to the business and to bill personal calls from the same telephone to the employee. Upon entry of an access code by a ... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6115457 | Marking and screening telephone calls A system and method that controls calls, such as telephone solicitations, by a calling party to a called party. A switch receives a call from the calling party and marks the call to identify it as a telephone solicitation. Such marking can be performed in... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6097792 | Interactive method and apparatus for the generation of leads An interactive method and apparatus for the generation of leads is provided that stores a plurality of prerecorded messages. The system accepts user's phone calls and captures the user's phone number, combines it with additional information and tracks use... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6052450 | Billing for communications usage A method and apparatus produce a bill for usage of a telecommunications network. The system obtains from the telecommunications network a set of events on the network; provides a set of schema applicable to a set of products available to the user, the sch... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5982866 | Method and apparatus for forwarding caller identification for a credit card or calling card call to an automatic number identification system of a telephone network A telecommunication system enables a called party having a caller identification device to learn the identity of a calling party although the calling party is a credit card caller, a calling card caller, a caller using an Intelligent/Agent service, a call... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5859902 | Method for processing collect calls When a collect call is initiated by a calling party, and the call is routed to an operator services position, an automated attendant, or other system in the telephone network. In addition to playing an announcement to the called party to determine if he o... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5805680 | Method and apparatus for telephone call sub-billing A "breakout" of telecommunications toll calls on a per-station basis is provided to households or other telecommunications endpoints which have subscribed to only a single analog telephone line. Subscribers wishing to avail themselves of such "station set... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5805683 | System and method for routing ground-to-air telephone calls A system for completing calls to a passenger aboard an aircraft. The passenger activates ground-to-air service by accessing a ground-to-air database subsystem that is located on the ground. The passenger gains access to the ground-to-air database by diali... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5761286 | Method for enabling communications between calling an called multmedia terminals Communications across a network (16) between a calling multimedia terminal (10) and at least one called multimedia terminal (12) is readily facilitated by assigning each terminal an endpoint identifier that establishes its communications path requirements... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5621787 | Prepaid cash card A system is provided which uses a pre-purchased card having an identity number to make long distance telephone calls or to order services over a landline telephone system. When long distance telephone calls are being purchased, the agent selling the card ... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5610976 | Dual channel ISDN terminal call identification and switching system A connection control equipment can connect a plurality of calls originating from a terminal to a private side terminal by identifying the calling terminal. Each of the user terminals sets a calling number and a calling sub-address or a user-to-user inform... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5606602 | Bidding for telecommunications traffic Telecommunication switches (e.g., PBX's or local exchange carrier's switches) route calls in accordance with economic incentives (e.g., least cost routing) resulting from a bidding process between participating interexchange telecommunication carriers (Ca... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5570417 | System for automatically providing customer access to alternative telephony service providers A telecommunications network including a plurality of local exchanges or switching systems, each local switch supporting at least one customer line accessed by customer premise equipment (CPE) such as telephone station sets or multimedia stations. The loc... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5553124 | Computer-controlled telecommunications system A method and apparatus for providing the lowest available telecommunications charge to a user is described. The lowest available charge is provided by locating switches in different telecommunications charge zones, determining which switch will provide th... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5299258 | Information input/output controller for telephone lines The invention converts information input from either a charge line or a non-charge line to data form and then stores it in a memory device along with identification data specifying the type of line on which the information was received. It also reads info... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5003584 | Method and apparatus for the billing of value-added communication calls A call billing method and apparatus specifies, on a call-by-call basis, the calling charges incurred by a caller during a call to a sponsor-provided value-added service. The method provides the sponsor real time access to rate tables to specify call billi... | 03/26/1991 |
