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...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7398084 | Method and system of correlating dissimilar call records to a high level aggregated view A method of monitoring, and a system to perform the method of monitoring, a mobile network, the method including generating detail records of information transactions in the mobile network; correlating dissimilar detail records from different ones of the monitoring ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7379536 | System and method for detecting SS7 messaging inefficiency The present invention uses a software program to analyze all of the SS7 message traffic in a telephone network. By comparing point codes in the message data, the present invention can detect invalid and undesirable network inefficiencies in different types of teleph... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376224 | Pay-per-use communication node capabilities A system and method are provided for enabling additional capacity or features on telecommunication nodes without requiring replacement of hardware. Service providers purchase hardware which is fully capable of providing a full suite of features and providing a large... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7356335 | Wireless communication apparatus A wireless communication apparatus coordinates communication among a set of mobile stations by giving the mobile stations permission to transmit packets. The mobile stations divide comparatively long packets into shorter fragment packets. When the wireless communica... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349836 | Method and process to generate real time input/output in a voice XML run-time simulation environment A method and system for testing voice applications, such as VoiceXML applications, is provided. The system provides a run-time simulation environment for voice applications that simulates and automates user interaction. A user simulation script is provided in a cust... | 03/25/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7304984 | Methods and systems for creating, distributing and executing multimedia telecommunications applications over circuit and packet switched networks A service creation switch (114) supports both tightly coupled and loosely distributed application server (AS) (126) functions, with the tightly coupled AS (126) functions residing in the switch (114), and the loosely coupled AS (126 | 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 |
| 7295577 | System and method for correlation and real-time display of mapped PSTN trunk identifiers and gateway control protocol endpoints A system for correlating and displaying dissimilar communication protocols is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises user communication information that spans at least two dissimilar communication networks, a first communication protocol associated with ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293086 | Traffic matrix estimation method and apparatus A method and apparatus for the estimation of traffic matrices in a network are disclosed. Mechanisms are disclosed for measuring traffic volume from a plurality of ingress points to a plurality of egress points in a large scanl network, such as an IP backbone networ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286647 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing configurable telecommunications detail record adapter Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a configurable telecommunications detail record adapter are disclosed. In one method, a user defines input data formats and output data formats via a graphical user interface. The text entered by the user... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283969 | Methods and systems for automatically registering complaints against calling parties Disclosed is a communication system that is adapted to notify a calling party that no further call attempts should be made and to automatically register a complaint with a calling party complaint registration database. The calling party complaint database is further... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283619 | System and method for end-to-end communications tracing A method for tracing communications includes receiving trace criteria from a first remote element and determining whether a call signaling message matches the trace criteria. The method includes attaching a trace tag to the call signaling message, if the call signal... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7260192 | Internet user finder Specialized telecom network users who burden the network, such as high-volume users of Internet services, are identified by analysis of network traffic data to identify addresses (e.g. telephone numbers) for callers to destinations associated with the particular cal... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7243143 | Flow probe connectivity determination An accounting system inserts flow probes into various locations within a network to measure certain parameters. The flow probes capture Internet Protocol (IP) packets and determines if the captured IP packets contain messages relating to error reporting. If the IP p... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239692 | Method and system for distributing outbound telephone calls A method and system is provided for the distribution of outbound telephone calls. This method and system includes dialing devices receiving call records and providing telephone calls to one or more agents. Interfaced with the dialing device is a distribution module ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7219034 | System and methods for display of time-series data distribution A system and methods for displaying data distribution information for time-series data is described. The methods include computing a condensed quantile function that may be used to generate approximate histograms for the time-series data, while decreasing the data s... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215748 | Methods and systems for defining and distributing data collection rule sets and for filtering messages using same Methods and systems for defining and distributing network data collection rule sets and for filtering messages using the rule sets are disclosed. Message-based filter criteria are automatically deduced from CDR-based filter criteria and downloaded to site collectors... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212620 | System and method for providing an anti-telemarketing feature in a telephony network An anti-telemarketing program uses the calling party identification of an incoming call to determine if the call is a telemarketing call by accessing a telemarketing database. The incoming call can be identified as a telemarketing call by direct correlation with a k... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209447 | Method and apparatus for measuring packet connection quality of service Telephone conversations carried over an internet protocol network or other asynchronous network can be monitored for quality and rerouted if the error rate of data transmission through the network exceeds some predetermined threshold value. One or more counters in a... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209548 | System and method for end-to-end communications tracing A method for tracing communications includes receiving trace criteria from a first remote element and determining whether a call signaling message matches the trace criteria. The method includes attaching a trace tag to the call signaling message, if the call signal... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206385 | System and method for end-to-end communications tracing A method for tracing communications includes receiving trace criteria from a first remote element and determining whether a call signaling message matches the trace criteria. The method includes attaching a trace tag to the call signaling message, if the call signal... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203180 | Initiating service logic A method, telecommunication system, and a service control point is provided for monitoring the load situation of the service control point during the initiation of a service logic controlling the connection, particularly when the control point cannot restrict the se... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203290 | Monitoring usage of telecommunications services Call detail records are generated for usage of a telecommunications service established in a telecommunications network, by monitoring messages in a signalling system for co-ordinating operation of the network and carried over signalling links in the signalling syst... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200408 | Selective blocking in a communication network A selective blocking request is sent from a requesting network element to an SCF (system control function component), where the request identifies a targeted network element. The SCF may then block communications from the targeted network element to the requesting n... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7194075 | System and process for automatic storage, enforcement and override of consumer do-not-call requests A method of implementing call compliance at a central facility, the method involving: receiving a call from a caller on an incoming connection; enabling the caller on the incoming connection to initiate an outgoing call on an outgoing connection; receiving over the ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7180991 | Dynamic, interactive call notification A system and method that provides a dialog with the called party when a call is received, a process is initiated to communicate with the calling party and a process is initiated to communicate with the called party. The processes communicate with each other to provi... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7174297 | System, method and computer program product for a dynamically configurable voice portal A system, method and computer program product are disclosed for dynamically configuring a speech recognition portal. A session with a user is conducted utilizing a speech recognition portal which provides access to a network during the session. Utterances are receiv... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7170637 | Method of reproducing color in recorded material In a method of reproducing colors in a recorded material, a profile creation tool is sent from a printing side to a customer, and a profile of a device for forming the image at the customer is created by using the profile creation tool. The profile and image data ar... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167860 | Fault tolerance for network accounting architecture A system for collecting and aggregating data from network entities for a data consuming application is described. The system includes a data collector layer to receive network flow information from the network entities and to produce records based on the information... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7158629 | System and method for preemptive goals based routing of contact records A method and system is provided for the preemptive goals based distribution of contact records. This method and system includes devices receiving contact records and providing customer contacts to one or more agents. Interfaced with the device is a distribution modu... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7142662 | Method and system for distributing outbound telephone calls A method and system is provided for the distribution of outbound telephone calls. This method and system includes dialing devices receiving call records and providing telephone calls to one or more agents. Interfaced with the dialing device is a distribution module ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7136679 | Call category for a call that terminates at announcement server component An apparatus in one example comprises a call control component that sets a call category for a call to indicate that the call terminates at an announcement server component prior to connection with a called communication device. Upon receipt of an answer message fro... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133500 | Method and apparatus for intercept of wireline communications Method and apparatus for conducting surveillance in a SS7 Intelligent Network (IN) or Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) provides in the case of AIN that an Info Analyzed trigger is armed in an end office switch and notifies a delivery function when a call is proces... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7127058 | Managing communications in a call center A communications management tool for a call center maintains a record of threads of communications of diverse media types (e.g. voice calls, emails and faxes) relating to particular issues, and analyses new communications to automatically identify possible matches w... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7120239 | System and method for providing no answer detail service for telephone calls that are not completed Call detail service is provided using a trigger that only activates after the disposition of a telephone call is known, for example, a T-Busy and/or a T_NoAnswer. When a telephone call encounters the T-Busy or T_NoAnswer trigger a terminating central office switch a... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7103173 | System and method for preemptive goals based routing of contact records A method and system is provided for the preemptive goals based distribution of contact records. This method and system includes devices receiving contact records and providing customer contacts to one or more agents. Interfaced with the device is a distribution modu... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099454 | Caller identification in a communication system A communication system for providing caller identification services comprises a processing system configured to store a data structure having a plurality of codes associated with a plurality of caller numbers, and to translate one of the codes into one of the caller... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7092398 | System, method and computer program product for charging for competitive IP-over-wireless service A system, method and computer program product are provided for charging for Internet Protocol (IP) usage utilizing a wireless network. Initially, call description record information is received from a wireless network in real-time. Such call description record infor... | 08/15/2006 |
