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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7894586 | Multiple routing options in a telecommunications service platform A platform provides access to multiple telecommunications services via a single telephone number. These services may include call routing options. In a first call routing option, calls are routed to each phone number in a sequence of phone numbers until a live answe... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7848504 | Method and apparatus to validate a subscriber line A method is described of providing validation data associated with a subscriber line of a telecommunication network using a validation system. The method includes obtaining line data of the subscriber line wherein the line data is suitable for interrogating a line i... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7447303 | System for validating phone numbers to prevent affiliate fraud A fraud prevention system has a customer sign-up program accessible via a computer network that functions to receive an inquiry from a customer. A phone number database enables confirmation of a phone number provided by the customer. A validation program generates a... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7447302 | System for validating phone numbers to prevent affiliate fraud A fraud prevention system has a customer sign-up program accessible via a computer network which functions to receive an inquiry from a customer referred by an affiliate, provide a customer sign-up page, and receive sign-up information from the customer, including a... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7409049 | Network-based securing of added-value services against automated connections A network-based verification of call connections is provided between a telecommunications subscriber terminal and a telecommunications service device selected by a service call number. This verification provides a way of enabling secure protection against an undesir... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7394895 | Methods and systems for 1+ prepaid routing service The present invention provides methods and systems for automatically routing a long distance call placed by a subscriber to a prepaid service provider. Six exemplary methods are discussed for allowing the prepaid subscriber to directly dial a called party's long dis... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7379455 | Systems and methods for providing configurable caller ID information Systems and methods for providing configurable caller ID information are disclosed. A communications service includes a caller ID configuration function. The communications service controls packetized call data, and outbound caller ID options are configurable via th... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379544 | Comprehensive telephone call screening system A dynamic telephone-call screening system detects indications of the character for incoming calls as a basis to determine acceptance. Calls that are identified and indicated to be undesirable, as from a facsimile machine, may be categorically screened on the basis o... | 05/27/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7324635 | Branch calling and caller ID based call routing telephone features A caller ID based call routing feature is described for blocked and non-blocked caller ID's. A processing system in the public switched telephone network (PSTN) receives first identifying information for identify the source of a telephone call and associates additio... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7281046 | Application program interface for automating high speed network access ordering and provisioning processes An application program interface system and method for automating high speed network access ordering and provisioning processes, particularly involving business to business interactions, such as automating interactions between ISPs and ILEC/CLECs for xDSL service or... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277691 | Method and system for management of call tones A method for management of call tones (tones that a caller hears when they call a party) is described which is particularly suitable for use by wireless telephones. The management of call tones can by performed off line. The method includes a step of: a) downloading... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274686 | Method and apparatus for establishing communications with a remote node on a switched network based on hypertext calling received from a packet network Disclosed is a system and a methodology enabling a first provider party to provide to a second recipient party software and services to enable the recipient party to embed in an Internet e-mail of the recipient party directed to an addressee, an HTML hyperlink file ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272219 | Method and system for providing enhanced caller identification information for subscribers that interface via private trunk groups A system and method deliver audible caller identification information when standard Caller ID information is invalid or can not be provided, even when the called party connects to the network by private trunk group facilities. In one disclosed embodiment, a trunk gr... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266188 | Apparatus and method for securing a conference call via personal user ID and passcode The present invention is a method of providing security for a conference call. The invention identifies a conference call participant as opposed to identifying a caller's telephone. The invention allows the host to selectively include or exclude specific conference ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260537 | Disambiguating results within a speech based IVR session Within an interactive voice response system, a method of automatically disambiguating results presented to a user can include determining the identity of a user within an interactive voice response session, receiving user inputs specifying selections in an interacti... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7218912 | Method and system for providing supervisory control over wireless phone usage A system for controlling wireless phone usage enables a supervisor to establish user profiles for supervised users of wireless phones across a range of parameters which are stored in a user profile database. Such parameters may include one or more locations at which... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7213058 | Systems and methods for processing and managing collocation application over a computer network The invention includes methods and systems of processing and managing applications for collocation space. In a computer network including a workstation, a web server, an application server, and a database, the invention assists users in completing applications for c... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209437 | Computer communication providing quality of service A method is provided for more efficiently transmitting data from a server computer to a client computer over a communications network, the nodes of which are capable of providing two classes of transmission quality. Data is transmitted using the high priority class ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206569 | Method and system for providing supervisory control over wireless phone usage A system for controlling wireless phone usage enables a supervisor to establish user profiles for supervised users of wireless phones across a range of parameters which are stored in a user profile database. Such parameters may include one or more locations at which... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7200215 | Time based regulation of access to callees A method, system, and program for time based regulation of access to callees are provided. An authenticated identity of a caller placing a call is preferably detected. Then, a communication link from the caller to a callee is only attempted if the authenticated iden... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197127 | Method and system for priority based telephone call screening Method and system for managing incoming telephone calls in which each incoming call is associated with a telephone number. A time constraint, a telephone use status, and a treatment option to associate with a priority code of a selected telephone number are selected... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197321 | Method and system for providing supervisory control over wireless phone usage A system for controlling wireless phone usage enables a supervisor to establish user profiles for supervised users of wireless phones across a range of parameters which are stored in a user profile database. Such parameters may include one or more locations at which... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7162022 | Method for signaling an incoming call received at a telecommunications terminal, a telecommunications terminal and a network unit A method for signaling an incoming call received at a telecommunications terminal, a telecommunications terminal and a network unit that signals an incoming call at the telecommunications terminal depending on the urgency of the incoming call. The incoming call is s... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7154997 | Subscription-based billing methods and systems for shared network modem pools Methods of billing telephone calls in networks that utilize shared modem pools. A request from a user of the network is received along with user identifying data. The user identifying data is correlated with records in a database of user identifying data and if a ma... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7139382 | System and method for restricting incoming calls A method for restricting the completion of a call made to a subscriber is disclosed. The method includes activating a termination attempt trigger, requesting call-processing instructions in response to detection of the activated termination attempt trigger, receivin... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7130336 | Apparatus and method for provision of a back-up connection in a telecommunication system The present invention relates to an apparatus in a telecommunication system for providing access to telecommunication services to subscribers at user terminals, each of which is separately connected to at least one access point via high speed modems and a communicat... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7113504 | Advanced voice communication feature transparency in a telecommunications network An auxiliary communication network is introduced into a virtual private network for passing signaling messages that present features not supported by the public, primary communication network portion of the virtual private network. Protocol converters are positioned... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110395 | Method and apparatus for network telephony A method for converting a public switched telephone network call to a data network call. In one approach, the method includes receiving the public switched telephone network call from an origination phone at a destination phone and then identifying a caller identifi... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106847 | Telecommunication network that provides caller-entered information to a call destination In a telecommunication network, a switching system routes a call to a service platform. The service platform transfers a prompt message over the call, collects caller-entered information from a caller over the call in response to the prompt message, and transfers th... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103037 | Method and system for the management of signaling gateways and signaling gateway processes in transport of SCN signaling over data networks Method and system to manage the state maintenance and the traffic maintenance of a Signalling Gateway Process (SGP), and of the corresponding Signalling Gateway (SG) or SGs served by such SGP, in scenarios where traditional Switched Circuit Network (SCN) signalling ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103165 | Profile management system including user interface for accessing and maintaining profile data of user subscribed telephony services A profile management system is provided for accessing and maintaining profile data associated with a telecommunications service subscribed to by a user. The profile data is stored on a telecommunications network which executes the telecommunications service subscrib... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099455 | Managing variable data through line information database (LIDB) access in a public switched telephone network (PSTN) A method, system and apparatus for managing variable information in a line information database (LIDB). In summary, a LIDB which has been configured in accordance with the present invention and which further has been disposed within a public switched telephone netwo... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7085262 | Telecommunication system A client receives a menu from a web server in a corporation and specifies a post of a corporation through which the client wishes to consult the corporation. The web server transfers information of the specified post to a switching system disposed in the corporation... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7046781 | Adaptive feature behavior The present invention provides a system, implemented within a private branch exchange (PBX) telephone system, which cancels or modifies a PBX feature for a telecommunication endpoint, based on activity associated with the telecommunication endpoint. The system compr... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7027579 | System and method for managing incoming telephone calls A method for managing telephone calls including the steps of obtaining from a subscriber of a telephone line an authorization to activate a quiet time period, receiving an incoming call for a telephone number associated with the telephone line, determining whether t... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7020250 | System and method for providing visual indication of caller and telephony platform information on customer premises equipment A system and method for receiving information regarding a telephony platform and for retrieving the object of the services provided by the telephony platform corresponding to the information received. Customer premises equipment is connected to the general switched ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6965880 | Transaction number management method in network commodity sales A cart ID according to the present invention is an identification code including receipt information containing at least a receipt number (serial number) indicating a receipt number of the transaction, and further unmeaning password information. Furthermore, it is p... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6950508 | System and method for providing an away-from-home calling service An away from home calling service allows users to use telephones other than their home telephone as if they were using their home telephone. When traveling away from home, subscribers access the service and are prompted to provide authentication and validation infor... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6940846 | Method and apparatus for implementing feature assist on a telecommunication network A system for the handling of calls by a packet-based telephony system by which calls invoking features not implemented on the packet-based system are handed off to an existing legacy circuit-switched telephony system for further processing. Initial address messages ... | 09/06/2005 |
