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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7221950 | Auto sensing home base station for mobile telephone with remote answering capabilities The present invention discloses in one embodiment a mobile telephone capable of communicating with a home base station through radio signals. The mobile telephone registers with a home base station before beginning to communicate with the home base station. The home... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7200170 | High speed I-O loopback testing with low speed DC test capability A loopback circuit for testing low and high frequency operation of integrated circuit transmitter and receiver components. First and second resistors forming a first branch of the circuit are series-connected between first and second circuit ports. Third and fourth ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7149514 | Cellular docking station A system for communicating with the user of a cellular telephone via the cellular mobile radio (CMR) system and the public switched telephone network (PSTN). A communications interface appends the telephone exchange number of an outgoing communication to include an ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7139374 | System and method for gathering information related to a geographical location of a callee in a public switched telephone network In a telecommunication system having at least two communicants (i.e., a caller and a callee), a system and method are presented for collecting information associated with the geographical location of either of the communicants. In one embodiment, the approach entail... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7130609 | Wireless backup telephone device and associated support system A wireless telephone backup device for landline telephone equipment that may be located on the customer side of the landline service connection, typically in a restricted access location, such as an attic, basement, or utility closet. An interconnection circuit in t... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127488 | System and method for gathering information related to a geographical location of a caller in an internet-based communication system In a telecommunication system having at least two communicants (i.e., a caller and a callee), a system and method are presented for collecting information associated with the geographical location of either of the communicants from a server. In one embodiment, the a... | 10/24/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6970546 | Intelligent remote caller ID An intelligent remote caller identification system is provided that typically includes a central office, a service control point, and an internet call routing system. The central office typically triggers a query responsive to receiving a call request. The service c... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6950512 | Circuit arrangement for forming the termination of an analogous subscriber line The invention relates to a circuit arrangement for forming the termination of an analogous subscriber line which comprises a first connection and a second connection for connecting a twin-wire analogous subscriber line. Said first connection is linked with said seco... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6263059 | Communication apparatus and storage medium A communication apparatus is provided for communicating with an external device. The communication apparatus may be a facsimile machine which includes a main phone, and a plurality of secondary handsets capable of communicating with the external device vi... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6222913 | Method and apparatus for displaying caller information during call switching in private branch exchange An exchange system displays caller information on the display of a subscriber terminal during call switching. The exchange system includes a plurality of extension terminals, each having a display, an operator for switching a call between a subscriber and... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6169792 | Method and apparatus for implementing automatic number identification system for DAA The present invention provides apparatus and method for automatic number identification (ANI) for a data access arrangement (DAA) of a modem. Modems or telephones equipped with an ANI system use the caller ID (ANI) signals to identify the calling telephon... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6038300 | Switching apparatus for use in telephone house wiring A controller for residential telephone wiring. Apparatus associated with the controller provides multiple communication channels on ordinary residential telephone wiring. The controller (1) routes incoming calls to a selected telephonic device within the ... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5905786 | Console and extension telephone system A system and method for altering an incoming ring signal to produce a selected ring signal on a telephone device. The incoming ring signal is accompanied by a caller ID packet and provided by a telephone utility provider responsive to a call made by a cal... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5901210 | Method and apparatus for implementing automatic number identification system for DAA The present invention provides apparatus and method for automatic number identification (ANI) for a data access arrangement (DAA) of a modem. Modems or telephones equipped with an ANI system use the caller ID (ANI) signals to identify the calling telephon... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5822417 | Phone control center for a life safety network There is provided a phone control system for a life safety network which comprises a panel arrangement, a control center module, a loop controller module, a transponder and a remote handset. The panel arrangement has a local rail for receiving a plurality... | 10/13/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5745557 | CIDCW primary/secondary arbitration A system is disclosed allowing a plurality of conforming customer premise equipment ("CCPEs") on a single telephone line to display a third party's caller information while users are communicating with a second party. Through a self-arbitration process, o... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5592540 | Method and apparatus for selectively delivering telephony signals on a hybrid coaxial cable network An interdiction device and method to jam or delete selected video and telephony signals. The interdiction device includes amplifiers and forward couplers to prevent the telephony signals from appearing at other undesired subscriber locations on the networ... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5425089 | Low cost telephone caller identification device and method The device and method of the present invention characterizes a telephone call by identifying a code, comparing the code to a predetermined access/ID code and generating a signal in response to the code. The device provides called party identification, cal... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5386463 | Low noise multi-elevator communication system and method A system is provided for connecting multiple elevator (700-703) speaker/microphone pairs (114a-114d) to a remote terminal (750) via a standard telephone channel (50). The system comprises generating means (116) for generating an in-use signal from within ... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5267306 | Telephone apparatus with conditional operation A dial controllable conditionally operative device which is directly connectable to the ring and tip lines of a subscriber loop. "On-hook" coupling is provided to allow the device to provide the conditional operation of one or more of the functional capab... | 11/30/1993 |
| 4958370 | Control system for a plurality of telephone sets A control system for a plurality of telephone sets connected as branched to a central office line allows extension calling, privacy function setting and hold releasing operations between the telephone sets. Each of the telephone sets in the branched conne... | 09/18/1990 |
| 4862495 | Telecommunications subscriber line interface circuit and party identification facility The invention provides a tip party identification facility in association with a subscriber line interface circuit. The tip party identification facility takes advantage of a shutdown feature and the output of a common mode error amplifier of the subscrib... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4741024 | Selective ringing circuit for a telephone A selective ringing circuit for a telephone line includes a rectifier which is normally connected to the telephone line for rectifying the AC ringing and other signals. The rectified ringing signals will not activate the ringing circuit of the telephone e... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4686700 | Telephone off-hook detector circuit A circuit for connection into a telephone line for detecting when a telephone instrument has gone off-hook and which is unaffected by the presence of a ringing signal on the telephone line. The circuit comprises a transistor switch, a first plurality of s... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4669112 | Automatic telephone number indicating device An automatic telephone number indicating device for connection within the tip or ring line of a telephone circuit of one party of a multi-party circuit for applying a ground mark in response to an interrogation signal from the telephone central office whe... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4653089 | Personal telephone adapter A personal telephone adapter is disclosed which may be connected as an extension on a telephone line and which permits a caller to reach any of several extension telephones within a home or office without a human operator. A ring detector detects an incom... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4645877 | Interface for connecting standard telephones to party lines A party line interface for permitting the connection of a standard telephone to a telephone central office which rings selected subscribers by applying a DC ringing potential of a selected polarity to a selected one of the tip and ring lines of the party ... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4528424 | Multiparty line adapter with privacy feature controlled by reversal of line polarity at a central power source A circuit for adapting a telephone subscriber line to operate as a multiparty line is described wherein a plurality of conventional single line subscriber subsets are provided telephone service on the subscriber line such that each subscriber has privacy ... | 07/09/1985 |
| 4459433 | Station identification circuit arrangement A universal station identification circuit arrangement for use with central office equipment that utilizes either differential or longitudinal detection methods is adapted to be connected to the tip party's subscriber drop in a two-party line without requ... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4445001 | Circuit arrangement for identifying telephone subscribers A request generator, when operated by a telephone subscriber or by a processor at an exchange, briefly interrupts an established talking connection to send a trigger signal toward a participating station for activating an identity transmitter associated t... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4403115 | Station identification circuit arrangement A universal station identification circuit arrangement for use with central office equipment that utilizes either differential or longitudinal detection methods is adapted to be connected to the tip party's subscribers drop in a two-party line without req... | 09/06/1983 |
| 4371755 | Bridge lifter circuit The tip and ring leads (15,17) of a tip party transmission facility are reversed before connecting the separate channel units for the tip and ring party channels to bridge lifters (16,18) at the central office, thus permitting selective ringing. Tip party... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4324953 | Four-party automatic number identification circuit arrangements A station identification circuit arrangement for use with central office equipment that utilizes automatic detection equipment for the detection of one of four parties on a four party-line where a call is initiated from a preselected party's telephone wit... | 04/13/1982 |
| 4209667 | Subscriber drop-connected circuits A unit adapted to be connected to the tip party's subscriber's drop in a two-party line without requiring access to or rewiring of the tip party's telephone and having interconnected ringer isolator and ANI mark circuits. The ringer isolator and the ANI m... | 06/24/1980 |
| 4149040 | Identifier circuit for identifying party line subscribers An identifier circuit for connection between a telephone system party line and a party line subscriber to permit identification of a calling party line subscriber with automatic number identifying equipment at a central office. The identifier circuit incl... | 04/10/1979 |
| 4099031 | Method and apparatus for automatically identifying an individual calling party on a multiparty telephone line After description of a number of prior art automatic telephone number identification systems and certain problems associated therewith, a new method and apparatus for use in such systems which overcomes the problems of the prior art is described. In its p... | 07/04/1978 |
| 4079205 | Automatic number identification device An automatic number identification device is used in a telephone system to enable a telephone central office to identify from which of two parties on a two party telephone service a call is originating and is coupled to a pair of telephone lines extended ... | 03/14/1978 |
| 4064372 | Systems for and methods for PBX toll restriction Centralized toll restriction for private branch exchanges (PBXs) is performed by providing first and second memory addresses in the number translator of a central office switching system. The first and second addresses are matched with restricted telephon... | 12/20/1977 |
