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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8160220 | Request to block use of remotely selected ring tone A request is received from a user of a communication device to block a use of a ring tone remotely selected by another user for an incoming call to the communication device. The ring tone remotely selected by the other user is blocked from being played to the user o... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8144851 | Communication apparatus, and method and program for controlling the same To update phone book data (identification information necessary for connection to one's own apparatus stored in communication partner information storing means of a communication partner) of a communication apparatus easily, inexpensively, quickly, and reliably.... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139737 | Call-initiated social information acquisition and exchange To simplify the acquisition and exchange of social information, a social information acquisition application could be triggered when the calling party initiates a call to a called party. The application adds a request to the called dialing sequence for a list of all... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8094796 | Customer responding system, computer terminal, customer responding method and recording medium When a call from external telephone network can not be forwarded to a telephone terminal used by a requested communicator, a client PC of the communicator who took the call, accepts an inputting of call back data, displaying the call back message, to communicate to ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8073120 | Relating to telephone communications According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method, in a telecommunication system, of establishing a connection between a calling terminal and a called terminal, the called terminal having an associated presence status, the connection estab... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073121 | Caller ID messaging 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... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068591 | Method, system and apparatus for announcing caller information over a television link A method, system and apparatus for announcing caller information to users over a television link. The method comprises receiving signalling information associated with an incoming call destined for a destination party, the signalling information comprising a portion... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8045688 | Method and system for presenting customized caller options via a communication device A method and a system for presenting customized caller options via a communication device (104) are disclosed. The method includes receiving (404) an incoming call from a calling party at the second communication device. The method further includes com... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7995726 | System and method for monitoring incoming communications to a telecommunications device A system for notifying an Internet-accessible device of a communication placed from a first telecommunications device to a second telecommunications device by a calling party is disclosed. The system includes a switch and a node in communication with the switch. The... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991134 | Intelligent telephone set An intelligent telephone set is disclosed that includes a caller-ID circuit that extracts a call identifier from an incoming call. A call processing circuit in communication with the caller-ID circuit assigns the incoming call to a caller category associated with th... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7983403 | Communication apparatus for providing presence information A communication apparatus according to the present invention includes a presence information setting unit that sets presence information including a user display name and its apparatus state, and a presence information notification unit that that notifies an opposin... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7940905 | Method and system for providing calling name identification Systems and methods for identifying a name associated with a calling party's telephone number are disclosed. Generally, a first network element determines whether there are any restrictions on the disclosure of a name associated with a calling party's telephone numb... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7839986 | Procedure and system for processing identification numbers in telecommunication networks A process that can be used to process the calling line presentation supplied to a called user following a call made by a calling user in a fixed and/or mobile communications network (for example, GSM, GPRS or UMTS in the latter case). A corresponding code for identi... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7804946 | Method and system for providing enhanced caller identification A system (100) and method deliver audible caller identification information when standard Caller ID information can not be provided, even when a subscriber to the service has per line blocking. A service control point (106) detects the directory number... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7778400 | Centralized personal directory scheme for communications networks An apparatus and method for personalized calling party number determination and identification. The apparatus includes an interface for receiving a calling party number corresponding to a calling party, a memory for storing an alpha tag corresponding to the calling ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7778399 | System and method for real-time call log status A system and method for real-time call log status includes a call log database of call records representing transpired communication events. The call log is displayed for the user and includes a status indicator for each of the events. The status indicator may be an... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7660404 | System and mobile terminal for displaying caller information and method thereof Caller information display system includes a caller terminal, a service system and a receiver terminal. The caller terminal stores caller information and transmits data including the caller information during a call. The service system receives the data including th... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7639789 | Contacting identity sharing The present invention simplifies the setting up of a connection to a candidate party from a first portable communication device (10) associated with a first party in relation to a session between the first and a second party (12). As the first and the ... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7634072 | Integrated instant messaging, routing and telephone services billing system Techniques for using billing services to manage a personal address book are provided. The techniques comprise receiving a call detail record (CDR) for a plain old telephone system (POTS) or a voice-over-IP (VOIP) call by a user. The CDR is created by a telecommunica... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7623638 | Method and system for providing enhanced caller identification information including screening invalid calling party numbers A system and method deliver audible caller identification information when standard Caller ID information is invalid or can not be provided. In one disclosed embodiment, the Caller ID information must include a valid number of digits and a valid area code. If the Ca... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7599480 | Exempting certain incoming callers from screening by a privacy system A privacy system determines in connection with a call from a particular calling party whether a name identification thereof is available, and if so allows the call to be put through to the called party with the name identification. The called party thus can review t... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7567657 | Changing presentation of items of information based on message reception frequency The present invention is directed towards a method, devices, a computer program product and a computer program element for changing the appearance of an item displayed to a user. A first set of electronic messages related to at least one first sender are received an... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7564960 | Methods, systems and computer program products for dynamic caller ID messaging Methods, systems, and computer program products for caller identification messaging are disclosed. A calling party uses a Caller ID Messaging Device that supplants the incoming calling line identification (ICLID) signal with a Caller ID Messaging Signal and transmit... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7463727 | Caller ID messaging device 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... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7440778 | Methods and apparatus for providing restrictions on long distance calls from a wireless communication device Methods and apparatus for providing restrictions on long distance calls from wireless communication devices which operate in a wireless communication network are described. The wireless devices are preferably combined voice and data communication devices. In one ill... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433454 | Method for displaying calling party information in network telephone system, and network telephone system, gateway apparatus, and information terminal An object of the invention is to enable the user, in the case of a wired telephone, to check an incoming call even when the user is not present near the telephone and, regardless of the type of the telephone, enable the user to check calling party information when a... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430285 | Methods, systems, and products for providing communications services Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for providing communications services. A communication is received from an originating party and destined for a receiving party. A profile is queried to determine whether the originating party matches an entry in a list. ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7409046 | Method and system for providing enhanced call waiting with verification and name change service A method and apparatus for verifying call waiting information in a communication system is particularly well suited for correcting mispronunciation of caller identification information provided for a call waiting call. A current pronunciation of the call waiting inf... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409050 | Method and apparatus for managing missed-call lists A method and apparatus for managing a missed-call list in a telephone device by flagging a missed-call entry as “called-back” when a telephone call is placed to or received from the party listed in a missed-call list. The telephone device may still maintain the ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7401172 | Apparatus and method for quickly connecting network real-time communication system An apparatus and a method for quickly connecting a real-time communication system. The apparatus includes a communication control device that can be inserted into a signal receiving device. The communication control device includes an initiation button, a hot key an... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7385992 | Internet caller-ID integration One preferred embodiment of the present invention provides systems and methods for supplying calling party information to a receiving party having an Internet-connected device. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment, among others, includes an Internet ca... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7376386 | Systems and methods for distributing content objects in a telecommunication system The present invention provides systems and methods for distributing content objects to a requester. Some of the systems include at least one content object origination, and two or more content object destinations. The two or more content object destinations are asso... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372948 | Method and system for providing enhanced caller identification information A method and apparatus permit handling of unwanted calls from callers such as telemarketers, when caller identification is provided. In one embodiment, the called party adds the caller identification information for the telemarketer to a personal list after receivin... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7359373 | System, apparatus, and method for establishing circuit-switched communications via packet-switched network signaling A system, apparatus and method for establishing circuit-switched (CS) communications in packet-switched (PS) multimedia networks such as IMS, and providing services via the PS networks to CS domain users. A dialog is established between terminals through the PS mult... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359491 | Saving information from information retrieval systems A method and system for allowing a calling party to save information obtained from an information retrieval system. The caller may select options to save the information to a memory location, e.g., the caller's own network-based voice mail system or a temporary voic... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356132 | Tune master telephone Systems for providing a tune master telephone includes a telecommunications network and a communications device that is operatively coupled to the telecommunications network. The telecommunications network is configured to provide caller identification information f... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349532 | Picture and video message center system A message originator sends a picture or video message to a message center along with caller identifying information. The message is stored in a memory and transmitted to a wireless picture phone, PDA or portable computing device, or stored at the message center in a... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349531 | Exempting certain incoming callers from screening by a privacy system A privacy system determines in connection with a call from a particular calling party whether a name identification thereof is available, and if so allows the call to be put through to the called party with the name identification. The called party thus can review t... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343008 | Identity-based conferencing systems and methods Described in this paper are systems and methods of providing conferencing services where a conference participant is identified by the conferencing system when calling into the system. The system and methods focus on individual users instead of groups of participant... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343007 | Method and system for providing calling name identification with advanced intelligent network An advanced intelligent network (AIN) for providing the name and telephone number of a calling party to a called party comprising a plurality of central offices and a service control point (SCP). The central offices are equipped with AIN software which enables them ... | 03/11/2008 |
