Did You Know...
...Chester Carlson was a patent agent who tired of having to make multiple copies of patent applications using the only duplication method available at the time: carbon paper. In 1959 he came up with a new copying system and took it to IBM for evaluation. The "experts" at IBM determined potential sales to be only 5,000 units because people wouldn't want to use a bulky machine when they had carbon paper. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, the company founded on the system is Xerox.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7403771 | Telecom equipment with memory Embodiments of telecommunications equipment with a memory device are presented herein. ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7333593 | Digital loop carrier module for proactive maintenance application Methods and systems for proactively maintaining Digital Loop Carriers and a telephone system local loop. One embodiment for proactively maintaining a Digital Loop Carrier in a telephone system local loop includes communicating with a communications network and acqui... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328255 | Communication system, and connection setting method and connection setting program of exchange and terminal A communication system for connecting a terminal connected to an exchange, to an outside communication network, through the exchange for connecting with the communication network, in which the terminal sends the transmission data including the information of the ter... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7319747 | Method and system for combining an emergency standalone switching device with a switching system interface The present invention is a system and method of combining an emergency standalone switching device with a switching system interface used to bypass the common control and switch matrix of a class 5 digital switch. The emergency standalone switching device pro... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7313324 | SONET outage impact measurement technique An accurate method of reporting “minutes of outage” for a SONET facility applies a set of business rules and hierarchical definitions to delete certain minutes that would otherwise be counted as “outages”. In particular, any outage minutes reported for a net... | 12/25/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7286253 | Data processing apparatus capable of viewing and printing a plurality of screens A communication apparatus is provided which makes it possible to print out all data larger than a display screen in one operation. In addition, the communication apparatus reduces time required for print processing and eases a user's stress due to print waiting by d... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7257205 | Method and apparatus for communicating with one of plural devices associated with a single telephone number during a disaster and disaster recovery A system for (and a method of) selectively establishing communication with one of plural devices associated with a single telephone number during a disaster or disaster recovery period. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes two wireless connection units, ea... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257198 | Method, system, and article for informing a telecommunication customer of a future performance estimate for a telecommunication feature A performance of a telecommunication feature for a telecommunication customer is monitored. Based on the monitored performance, if an estimate of future performance of the telecommunication feature for the telecommunication customer is determined to be unfavorable, ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7225139 | Trouble tracking system and method A trouble ticket tracking system and method including a server in communication with an electronic network and a database for storing trouble tickets in communication with the server. A user computer is in communication with the network and has access, via a graphic... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7215742 | Troubleshooting interface for client-routed toll-free telephone calls A remote processor (RP) adapted for use with a telephone system is provided according to one embodiment of the invention. The RP includes a communication interface capable of communicating with a service control point (SCP) of the telephone system and a processing s... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215747 | Method and apparatus for producing information regarding the operation of a networked system A method and apparatus for producing operational information regarding a networked system. System configuration information regarding the configuration of the system is obtained. Activity of the system is continuously monitored to obtain system activity information.... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7164758 | System, evaluation device and method for verifying connection-related communication data determined by a digital exchange A system and method for ensuring that a digital switching exchange is able to properly collect data on the charges incurred for pay connections by providing a verification of the accuracy of the communications data records generated by the digital switching exchange... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7162220 | Prepay telecommunications system The prepay telecommunications system (60) includes a prepay call, management, platform (50) which is directly coupled to a telecommunications carrier switch (24). A customer database (116) is coupled to the prepay call management platform... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7155205 | System and method for verifying subscriber data records in a telephone system A consistency verification tool performs a consistency check on subscriber data records stored in the cellular telephone system. One such consistency check analyzes subscriber data records in a home location register (HLR) and a billing system to determine the prese... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7142820 | Network monitoring method for telecommunications network The present invention relates to monitoring and maintaining a network in telecommunications networks which comprise a large number of network elements. The network elements are presented as a hierarchical diagram or as a map display on a graphical user interface. In... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7127054 | 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... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7096023 | Number portability service in a telecommunication system The present invention relates to a method and a network element in a telecommunications system. The telecommunications system comprises at least two telecommunications networks and means for providing number portability service between the networks and also suppleme... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7050561 | Restoration scheme for mesh-based switching networks A method and apparatus are provided for the management of multiple-node networks to provide for efficient and rapid determination of an alternative connection path through the network to avoid a fault in the connection path. The present invention seeks to minimize t... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050549 | Real time call trace capable of use with multiple elements A system for testing and monitoring the operation of telephone systems uses a call trace method for capturing messages associated with a phone call. The system can provide an indication as to the time a particular triggering signaling message (e.g., IAM or RLC messa... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7013467 | System and method for managing computer system resources using command control vectors A system, method and computer program product for processing multiple tasks using a single copy of a data object employs command control vectors (CCVs) for representing tasks. A CCV includes pointers to method objects that store instructions for processing tasks and... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6987837 | Close-out test system The invention is a method and system conducting a completion test on a communications line. The system includes a testing device coupled to a remote device by a network. Line-test results are received from the testing device and made available to various client devi... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6970540 | Detection of common information elements in PSTN call processing patterns A system and method for detection of invalid and undesirable conditions associated with a telephone network. The invalid and undesirable conditions can include, for example, call looping, misrouting, mass calling, and excessive redialing. Initial Address Messages as... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6963927 | Method and apparatus for computing the shortest path between nodes based on the bandwidth utilization link level A method and apparatus for determining a circuit path between a source node and a destination node within a network comprising a plurality of nodes by iteratively selecting appropriate next nodes using a shortest path algorithm and accepting or rejecting the selecte... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6954520 | Method for determining concurrrent voice over IP calls A method employs call detail records for developing a report on the usage of VoIP calling along a network path or through a network location. By utilizing, for example, a call-beginning record and a call-ending record for each connection, a report is created of the ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6951009 | System and method for generating computer code to facilitate development of CDR management tools A computer code generation tool generates computer code to facilitate development of call detail record (CDR) management tools. The computer code generation tool inputs one or more raw CDR structures and creates a generic CDR structure therefrom. Given a generic CDR... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6931564 | Failure isolation in a distributed processing system employing relative location information Failure isolation in a distributed processing system of processor nodes coupled by a multi-drop bus network. The processor nodes have information of relative locations of the processor nodes on the network, and have an associated local error indicator, such as a cha... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6856672 | Graphic user interface method and apparatus for testing a customer services terminal and a plurality of telephone lines that are connected thereto A telecommunications system includes a customer services terminal that is connected intermediate a telephone exchange and a user location that has a plurality of telephone lines. The customer services terminal and/or the telephone lines are tested by providing a web... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6826260 | Method and apparatus for an MLSC state machine The present invention provides for a method and an apparatus that implements the Bell Communications Research (now Telcordia) Specification of Signaling System No. 7, chapter T1.111.3 algorithm requirements in hardware in a manner that significantly improves through... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6792079 | Remote access for cable locator system A system for transmitting operational control messages to a plurality of remotely-disposed cable-locating transmitters uses a spare communication line associated with each transmitter to carry the control messages from unit to unit. In the case of a fiber optic cabl... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6711243 | System and method for routing a call to a voice mail system Routing a call to a voice mail system using subscriber information maintained in a database associated with a service control point. Once a call is received by the service node and the service node determines that a voice mail call should be originated, the service ... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6687335 | User interface and system to facilitate telephone circuit maintenance and testing An apparatus that integrates a plurality of disparate systems. a common control interface is presented to a user of the apparatus. The user employs an inputting device to enter data required by the plurality of disparate systems. The inputted data is inpu... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6674839 | Method, system, and article for informing a telecommunication customer of a future performance estimate for a telecommunication feature A performance of a telecommunication feature for a telecommunication customer is monitored. Based on the monitored performance, if an estimate of future performance of the telecommunication feature for the telecommunication customer is determined to be un... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6665299 | Method and system for telephony and high speed data access on a broadband access network A system and method for providing telephony and high speed data access over a broadband access network, comprising a network interface unit (NIU) coupled to a backup local exchange carrier (LEC) line, the broadband access network coupled to the NIU, an in... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6535578 | Fault control and restoration in a data communication system A method of controlling a multi-channel processor board (1a) in a telecommunications system comprises monitoring the fault status of a multiplicity of processor cores (3), each arranged to process one or more speech channels, distributed amongst a plurali... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6496577 | Signal transmission for transmitting message to destination A signal transmission system includes a plurality of long distance signaling transfer point (L-STP) stations, each of which includes a plurality of regional signaling transfer point (R-STP) stations, each of which includes a plurality of signaling end poi... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6487404 | Automated radio network trend detection A system and method of detecting radio network trends in a telecommunications network. A data mining tool (52) is provided and adapted to search through the various operations and maintenance database systems belonging to one or more communications networ... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6480469 | Dial-up access response testing method and system therefor The present invention system automates the process of testing the integrity of the components residing at each node of a data network. After automatically dial connecting to a site of the network by selecting a telephone number from a retrieved list of te... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6466648 | Repetitive call control method, switch using the method, and recording medium storing repetitive call control program A switch includes a repetitive call detection unit which detects a repetitive call which occupies channels in an identical channel group. A release unit releases the channels occupied by the repetitive call when the repetitive call is detected. A restrict... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6421725 | Method and apparatus for providing automatic notification A system receives information from users relating to activities that may impact a network. The system then automatically generates a ticket to track the activity. The system also automatically selects a recipient(s) for a notification message relating to ... | 07/16/2002 |
