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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8085925 | Data driven configuration of call management applications A call manager uses a call management application in conjunction with a live dial database to control routing of calls for managed devices. To generate the live dial database, the call management application accesses configured route patterns and enters these patter... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7792271 | Method and system for optimizing a configuration of central office mediation devices A method and system for optimizing a configuration of mediation devices in a telecommunications central office. Specifications associated with mediation devices are provided. A configuration of mediation devices and legacy devices in a central office is generated. A... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7463729 | Data driven configuration of call management applications A call manager uses a call management application in conjunction with a live dial database to control routing of calls for managed devices. To generate the live dial database, the call management application accesses configured route patterns and enters these patter... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7406167 | Exchange system and method using icons for controlling communications between plurality of terminals The present invention provides an exchange system which makes it possible to control connection and disconnection between terminals by an operation method which can be intuitively recognized. The exchange system includes display means for displaying icons of various... | 07/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7373309 | System and method for calculating and displaying estimated wait times for transaction request based on the skill required to process the transaction request A reception management system for handling transactions includes a plurality of ACMs (Automated Contract/Consulting Terminals) for receiving procedure requests for predetermined transactions from customers, a plurality of ROTs (Remote Operation Terminals) to be empl... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369654 | Efficiency report incorporating communication switch statistics Systems and methods for generating an efficiency report, which in one embodiment among many, can be broadly summarized by a representative method of obtaining a set of switching statistics from a database of a communication switch and integrating this set of switchi... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370102 | Managing recovery of service components and notification of service errors and failures A method and apparatus for providing management and maintenance to a node within a data communications network and to the composite data communications network. A network management application is started on a host which may be located at a network operation center.... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7359503 | Method of and system for providing services in a communications network A system for providing services in a communications network includes a service processing function, a universal directory function, and a nodal resource manager. The service processing function receives service requests, formulates requests for interworking function... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7360153 | Method and apparatus for importing digital switching system data into a spreadsheet program A method and apparatus for importing digital switching system data into a spreadsheet program. Via the switch data examiner of the present invention, raw data from a digital switch/switching system such as the 5ESS® is converted by the switch data examiner to a for... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356607 | Method and system for routing data repository messages between computing devices A message router for routing data repository messages between a plurality of computer systems, wherein the computer systems include data repositories having disparate syntaxes. The message router can include a conversion engine for translating content in a received ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352703 | Protection scheme for a communications network under multiple failures A system and method for implementing a shared protection scheme under a scenario of multiple failures in an optical network. In one embodiment of the invention, a working path between an ingress node and an egress node is computed responsive to a connection request ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350098 | Detecting events of interest for managing components on a high availability framework Events of interest are detected in order to manage a high availability framework. In a framework in which a plurality of components are executing, the components are periodically polled to detect occurrence of the event of interest. A monitor is also established for... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350202 | Method for re-programming a firmware state machine during execution A method of reprogramming classification data in a packet classification state machine without interrupting the operation of the state machine is disclosed. Data relating to a plurality of new nodes from a starting node of the classification tree within a classifica... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342874 | High-availability packet forwarding apparatus and method Failover protection is provided on the same facilities for a network connection passing through a high-availability router having shared resources managed by two control processors that respectively maintain a forwarding information bases (FIB). The two processors r... | 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 |
| 7343541 | Data integrity in protocol offloading A method for data verification is provided. An input block of data is received together with a modulo-based input error detection code associated with the input block, the input block comprising a plurality of sub-blocks. A subset of the sub-blocks is selected to be... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7330721 | Method and system for supporting non-intrusive and effective voice communication among mobile users A system and related method for supporting non-intrusive and effective voice communication among mobile users in which voice calls between mobile users are managed based on callee availability, caller-callee relationships, and non-intrusive information exchange, inc... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328005 | Information storage system Method and customer information system with a processor and memory, from which information is retrievable, whereby such system: can communicate with several remote data sources; can import from those several data s... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328291 | System and method for controlling the service engagement in a data bus system Data bus system and method are provided for controlling service engagements for bus users. At least one bus user provides services and other bus users use these services. A resource manager stores information about the available services and information about the se... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7319692 | Subscriber mobility in telephony systems The present invention is directed to a telecommunications system 100 for routing a contact to a selected address, comprising (a) an input for receiving a contact message comprising a source address and a destination address of a subscriber communication devic... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315616 | System and method for maintaining real-time agent information for multi-channel communication queuing An apparatus and method for maintaining data for multi-channel communication queuing associated with different media formats such as telephone, email, and fax. A list of agent data includes information related to types of communication media an agent can access. The... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7305233 | Method and apparatus for image distribution using a cellular phone A method and apparatus for controlling the distribution, including printing, of digital images using a wireless enhanced, digital imaging device, such as a cellular phone equipped with a digital camera. A picture created using the digital camera is uploaded to a rem... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7286661 | Systems and methods for scalable hunt-group management The present invention provides systems, methods, and apparatus for semi-stateless scalable and distributed management of telephone hunt group features in a PBX. In particular, the invention conducts an auction-like phone call handling process in which phone handling... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280532 | Call set-up method using SIP-T overlap signaling In a call set-up method using SIP-T overlap signaling, rather than waiting for receiving every digit of a called number dialed by a caller, when digits capable of a number translation are received, a bearer channel connection is immediately performed so that a delay... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7274332 | Multiple evaluators for evaluation of a purality of conditions A system and method is disclosed for locating people or objects. In particular, a system and method for locating a wireless mobile station using a plurality of mobile station location estimators is disclosed. The system is useful for 911 emergency calls, tracking, r... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272649 | Automatic hardware failure detection and recovery for distributed max sessions server A Max Sessions Server (MSS) automatically detects hardware and communications failures. Upon detection, counters are adjusted accordingly to maintain an accurate count of users or groups of users on a system. A database of unique identifiers for each connection is m... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7260191 | System and method for interactive voice response call processing with external routing and application flow control A method and system are provided for processing an incoming call and providing an interactive voice response unit with application flow control and call arrival and departure control. The system includes a call router including rules for handling call arrival and ca... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260631 | System and method for receiving iSCSI protocol data units An Internet small computer system interface (iSCSI) system, method and associated data structure are provided for receiving data in protocol data units. After a protocol data unit is received, a data list is identified that describes how the data contained in the pr... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260064 | Method and apparatus for performing network routing based on queue lengths A method and apparatus for network routing in packet-based networks which advantageously takes traffic conditions into account dynamically in determining the “best route” for routing a packet to its intended destination. Illustratively, a potential function is e... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7251681 | Content routing services protocol Layer 7 switching may be accomplished using one or more caches placed throughout a computer network. Changes to a file on a server may be detected and propagated throughout the network. At the switch or router level, once notification of changes to a file is receive... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7249306 | System and method for generating 128-bit cyclic redundancy check values with 32-bit granularity A System and Method for generating Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) values in a system adapted simultaneously handling a plurality of blocks in parallel is described. Included is a memory or other storage device for storing data blocks, wherein the memory or storage de... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7218726 | Coordinated network-wide administration of exchanges This invention relates to an administration device (1) for administering and modifying operating functions of exchanges (6a . . . 6n) in a telephone network. The operating functions are administered and modified by means of adminis... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7218723 | Next-generation network that reduces the effect of a service failure A next-generation network utilizes a three-tier, cascading fault approach to providing emergency stand-alone (ESA) switching in a circuit-to-packet (C2P) network. Calls that are placed to destination numbers which are connected to the same local network device are c... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215756 | Utilization of a local exchange network by a plurality of local network operators The invention relates to an exchange for connecting telecommunications terminals of subscribers to a telecommunications network, comprising subscriber lines via which the respective telecommunications terminals are linked with the exchange. Said exchange is operated... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7206309 | High availability packet forward apparatus and method A high availability packet forwarding router for an internet protocol (IP) network, includes two control processors, one or more service termination cards (STCs) with forwarding information bases (FIBs), and a packet forwarding engine. The two processors run asynchr... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206872 | System and method for insertion of markers into a data stream A system and method are provided for inserting Interval Markers in a data stream comprising data blocks. Included is a Buffer having a predetermined number of registers for temporarily and storing data blocks read from a Target System, wherein the Buffer temporarily... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7200150 | System and method for bypassing data from egress facilities An open architecture platform bypasses data from the facilities of a telecommunications carrier, e.g. an incumbent local exchange carrier, by distinguishing between voice and data traffic, and handling voice and data traffic separately. An SS7 gateway receives and t... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197549 | On-demand address pools A method for on-demand management of Internet Protocol (IP) address pools includes allocating an unused IP address from a local IP address pool designated for a remote domain if a request to connect to the remote domain is received and deallocating an IP address bac... | 03/27/2007 |
| 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 |
