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A resilient headband in a shape for being mounted on the head of the user. The headband is equipped with a longitudinal slotted member for holding a placard.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7356135 | Telephone usage control A device and method for controlling the use of a communication device make a determination as to whether a communication may proceed. The determination may be based upon a time reference, such as a total amount of time that the communication may proceed or an interv... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7324638 | System and method for managing communications A communications network-based system and service is disclosed. The service permits subscribers to control and manage incoming telephone calls. Subscribers can establish preferences for how calls will be handled by a communications network if the calls are received ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7245713 | Call monitoring Methods and systems are provided for monitoring calls routed to a telephone network-based voice mail system. When a subscriber receives a telephone call, a determination is made as to whether the call should be routed to the voice mail system. If call monitoring ser... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7158619 | Remote call monitoring Methods and systems are provided for monitoring calls routed to a telephone network voice mail system from a variety of remote telephone locations. When a subscriber receives a telephone call, a determination is made as to whether the subscriber's line is busy or wh... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7110512 | Method and apparatus for providing prepaid local telephone services A system and method for providing prepaid dialtone services. The system includes a prepaid dialtone service center having an applications server that maintains a prepaid dialtone subscriber database including subscriber identification and service period information.... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7082191 | Telephone usage control A device and method for controlling the use of a telephone make a determination as to whether a telephone call may proceed. The determination may be based upon a time reference, such as a total amount of time that a call may proceed or an interval of time when a cal... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7058165 | Charging in a communication system A method for charging for services in a communication system comprising a charging entity and at least two connection support entities for providing resources to support connection in the communication system. the method comprising: detecting initiation of a connect... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7057871 | Actuation circuit for an electromagnetic actuator The actuation circuit for an actuator (10) includes an energy store (11) arranged near the actuator (10). The energy store (11) is configured such that it instantaneously discharges in response to a trigger signal, wherein the discharge c... | 06/06/2006 |
| 6996645 | Method and apparatus for spawning multiple requests from a single entry of a queue Coded requests are received from Memory Port Interfaces (608 and 612) and stored into Outgoing Queue (604). Coded requests are also received from Transaction Pipeline (610), some of which may be linked requests. In response to each linked... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6959001 | Method and apparatus for providing multi-service package priced according to bandwidth and distance The present invention provides a method and apparatus for providing telecommunications service to a customer while charging the customer based on one rate or tariff. The rate is set by the Telephone Company based on the distance between the endpoints of the services... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6917671 | Network-based method for notification of the best time to call A method for processing a telephone call within a telecommunication network for notifying a calling party while making a telephone call of a minimum cost calling plan or period for completing the telephone call. During telephone service connection invocation but bef... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6829596 | Account/asset activation device and method An asset/account activation device and method are provided. According to a first preferred method, an asset may be activated by a point of sale device utilizing multiple security mechanisms. Activation codes are sent by secure electronic transmission from an activat... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6535594 | Printing caller ID A printing caller ID device includes an audio recording device for recording incoming telephone messages and telephone numbers, and also includes a printer for printing telephone numbers received by a caller ID system associated with the device. The prese... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6442106 | Curfew timer apparatus A curfew timer apparatus for selectively disconnecting a signal line from an appliance. The apparatus includes a base and a timer coupled to the base. The timer is preferably a seven day timer configured to disconnect the signal line from the appliance du... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6240164 | Method and apparatus for providing call detail records at subscriber premises An apparatus and method for automatically monitoring and recording incoming and outgoing telephone call parameters and forming a call record in response thereto. The apparatus has a signal conditioning device connected to the telephone line; incoming and ... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6169790 | Method of restricting the duration of telephone calls and telephone implementing such a method A telephone and a method of controlling thereof for cost control are disclosed. The telephone includes a processor that controls operation of the telephone, and a memory which stores user defined parameters used to control this operation. The parameters i... | 01/02/2001 |
| 5987108 | Telephone billing with customer-defined budgeting A method and system of telephone call processing that provides direct control of telephone usage based on customer established budgets. According to one aspect of the present invention, customer specific information including pricing data and budget param... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5978456 | Charging unit price determination/information apparatus and communication system having charging unit price information function A calling location and a receiving location are analyzed by called party number analysis means by processing a called party number for specifying a communication terminal at the receiving side transmitted by a communication terminal at the calling side is... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5862203 | Telecommunications call management system A call management system is disclosed for choosing the optimum telecommunications carrier for telephone calls made by a user. The system can interface with an existing PBX or with ordinary analog telephone lines. The system intercepts digits dialed by the... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5825859 | Display control device allowing information transmission to both display and dialer The present invention is related to a display control device adapted to be used in a communication apparatus providing an information for transmitting the information to a display and transmitting the information to a second device when the information is... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5748718 | Telephone monitoring system to reduce consumer payments of telephone bill The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for a telephone management system having a CPU, rate data storage, random access memory, program storage, telephoe interface, memory bus, printer, numeric and functinal keypads, speaker and at least... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5673256 | Apparatus and method for sending data messages at an optimum time Subscriber units (26) in a satellite communication system (10) send and receive data messages at optimum times. Each subscriber unit (26) has a pre-programmed database that includes a collection of messages (302), such as data (314), fax (316), pre-record... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5668955 | Controller for accessing services from multiple providers of services An access controller is placed in series with a subscriber's telephone set and includes an off hook detector, a ring detector, a central office simulator and DTMF circuitry which cooperate with a microcontroller or microprocessor suitably programmed to se... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5642410 | Call processor for a computer telephone integration system A rule-based computer-telephone integration system including a telephone system for transmitting call information, a computer in communication with the telephone system including a plurality of application programs having data retrievable in response to c... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5615252 | System and apparatus for recording and displaying received information at a remote location An system and apparatus records and displays information received from a premises such as ambient temperature or information received over a telephone network. A wireless transmitter generates and transmits a packet of telephone information received from ... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5606593 | Apparatus and method for automatically returning a telephone set to an on-hook condition An apparatus that after a time period settable by the user automatically returns an off-hook telephone to an on-hook condition. This apparatus thus electrically hangs up a telephone handset that is inadvertently left off-hook and allows normal handling of... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5590180 | Communication method of supplying information in intelligent network and apparatus therefor A communication method and apparatus which provides information in an intelligent network. The communication method and apparatus allows a user to enter a connection number of the user terminal, a connection number of an information provider terminal and ... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5559872 | Telephone time recording system A telephone time recording system is provided in which the opening part only of the voice communication that takes place during a telephone conversation is recorded, along with, amongst others, information relating to the total time of the call. The latte... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5555297 | Automatic call distributor reporting system and method therefor An automatic call distributor reporting system (100) and method is provided wherein data reports representative of operation of an automatic call distributor (ACD) (102) are transmitted to a remote electronic display device, such as a pager (120) or telep... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5553131 | Providing the most cost-effective long-distance telephone service based on milage band rates The present invention is directed to a billing system which provides the most cost-effective long-distance telephone service for long-distance telephone calls made by an account by analyzing long-distance telephone calls in the aggregate, comparing the co... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5519769 | Method and system for updating a call rating database A method and system for updating a database stores billing rate parameters for call rating devices associated with a calling station. The calling station calls at a predetermined date and time a rate provider, which includes billing rate parameters for a ... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5469501 | Communication exchange apparatus with switching of communication terminal information A telephone exchange apparatus for plural extension telephone units is capable of interchanging, in response to a predetermined operation from one of the extension telephone units, the extension numbers of two extension telephone units and the associated ... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5440621 | Apparatus for prepayment of telecommunication connections in a telecommunication switching network without utilization of rate schedules and call cost computations The present invention provides a method and apparatus for prepayment of telecommunication connections between first and second telecommunication devices operably associatable with the telecommunication lines of a telecommunication switching network. In ge... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5438612 | Radio telephone apparatus having call limiting function A radio telephone apparatus having a time specifying unit, a time measuring unit, a call controller, and an auxiliary power supply. The time measuring unit measures an elapsed period of time to detect the lapse of a specified period of time previously inp... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5425085 | Least cost routing device for separate connection into phone line A device interconnects within the phone line coming from a first phone and routes telephone calls along a least cost route originating from the first telephone to a second telephone via the network. A housing forms an enclosure and has a first jack for in... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5420914 | System and method for real time carrier selection A method and system for real time selection of an inter-exchange telephone carrier for a telephone call. The system includes a processing, storage and routing equipment capable of performing the method steps of generating a call information signal, storin... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5392340 | Telephone exchange apparatus A telephone exchange apparatus for plural extension telephone units is capable of interchanging, in response to a predetermined operation from one of the extension telephone units the extension numbers of two extension telephone units and the associated i... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5265155 | Method and apparatus for prepayment of telecommunication connections in a telecommunication switching network The present invention provides a method and apparatus for prepayment of telecommunication connections between first and second telecommunication devices operably associatable with the telecommunication lines of a telecommunication switching network. In ge... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5222127 | Portable telephone A portable telephone of a type to which a plurality of subscriber numbers are registered comprises an air timer for measuring a calling period of time from start of calling and end of calling and a memory device for saving and integrating results of measu... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5187710 | Method and apparatus for the billing of value-added communications calls A call billing method and apparatus establishes an ISDN connection between the network and a called location which enables the called location to specify call billing information to the network, via the ISDN connection, on a call-by-call basis. The method... | 02/16/1993 |
