Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7333597 | Telephone synchronization with software applications and documents A method and system are provided for locating and retrieving stored computer files that are related to an incoming telephone call directed to a computer user. A called party receives a telephone call while the called party is operating her computer. A computer telep... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327835 | Methods and systems for enabling return to same position in a review of messages in a voice mail system using tag or identifier stored in the voice mail system Methods and systems for enabling a subscriber to interrupt a review of messages in a voice mail system (VMS), to make a call or take some other action, and to return to the same position as occupied at the time of interruption in the review of messages in the VMS. I... | 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 |
| 7283619 | System and method for end-to-end communications tracing A method for tracing communications includes receiving trace criteria from a first remote element and determining whether a call signaling message matches the trace criteria. The method includes attaching a trace tag to the call signaling message, if the call signal... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7246145 | Fully distributed, scalable infrastructure, communication system A fully distributed, scalable infrastructure, communication system. The system comprises at least on Space, at least one double agent and at least one non-space specific double agent. Devices and applications that wish to communicate with other members of the Commun... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7231211 | Apparatus and method for monitoring a trunked radio communications system The present invention provides a method and apparatus for monitoring a trunked radio communications system by using some type of radio scanning receiver that is not designed for that purpose. In addition, the invention provides a method for automatically determining... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7203295 | Virtual telecommunication messaging service system and method This invention relates a system, wherein virtual numbers are provided to users through Telecom or computer networks, and one-way or two-way message transmission (texts, images, music or multimedia) are achieved under the situation that message senders do not know th... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7187928 | Call delivery systems for roaming prepaid subscribers The invention provides systems and methods that operate to provide seamless roaming to a prepaid subscriber in as many markets as possible. To that end, the systems of the invention include a location register (LR) that can determine the type, or class, of serving m... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7180889 | Personal control of address assignment and greeting options for multiple BRG ports A method and apparatus for providing multiple telephone lines using a single directory number. A method and apparatus for associating multiple directory numbers with multiple telephone lines. A broadband residential gateway (BRG) is a user interface to a broadband c... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177395 | Electronic looping systems for telecommunications system central offices A telecommunications system central office includes a piece of central office equipment and a cross-connect frame that is configured to provide a connection point to the piece of central office electronic equipment. An electronic looping system is connected between ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7143182 | Smart secretary for routing call objects in a telephony network A message-processing agent receives an object from a space in a Scalable Infrastructure system. The message-processing agent determines the destination of the object and checks a preference setting for the destination. The message-processing agent then routes the ob... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139378 | Method for signaling an incoming call According to the inventive method, an incoming call that is directed to a subscriber terminal (Tln 1) allocated to a subscriber group (Tln1 to Tln n) is signaled to the subscriber terminal (Tln 1) called and additionally to at least one subscrib... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7127052 | Implementation of additional functions for user connections having individually configured performance criteria At least one part of at least two user connections (TA1 . . . 6) having configured performance criteria and being allocated to at least two network devices (LE1 . . . 3) is assigned to at least one group (NWHG), to which group-specific performance crit... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7120243 | Switch buttons activated from an external network A communication system for use in accessing switch functionality from an external endpoint is provided. The system includes: (a) a switch 104; and (b) an internal endpoint 106 and an external endpoint 116. Each of the internal and ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7103162 | 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... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7088996 | Tracing in mobile communications system A tracing facility is used for tracing the activities of various entities in the network when specific events occur within the system. The problem with prior art tracing is that activation as well as deactivation of this facility is done manually at the switching ce... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7065181 | System and method for improving the automated loop makeup process Automatic generation of loop make-up eliminates the need to match terminal names. A furthest feature from the origination of a particular pair range is determined. Using the determined furthest feature, one or more loop make-ups is generated by running the loop make... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7010101 | Method and system for termination blocking of message delivery service A method (20) and system (50) is provided that permits a telephone caller to leave a message for a called party that does not have a conventional answering service, such as voice mail, an answering machine, a third-party operator-assisted answering ser... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6970552 | Web-based network monitoring tool A monitoring tool for use with one or more automatic call distributors (ACD) which automatically and continuously polls or queries the ACDs to monitor not only alarm conditions but other conditions, such as agent staffing levels, call answering time, call routing an... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6968214 | Phone number replace code system and method A processor-implemented method of placing telephone calls includes inputting a toll-free number to initiate a phone call, determining whether the mobile device is within a North American Numbering Plan (NANP) service area, upon determining that the mobile device is ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6947542 | Carrier identification codes (CIC) transport A private communications network and method of private communications network operation. One or more communications servers each have connected communications devices. From communications devices users enter called party numbers that may include a carrier access cod... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6920211 | System and method for providing network information service using CID-type messages A network-based announcement and message delivery service for providing a landline customer with information of interest such as weather, financial market data, time/temperature, sporting event results, etc. The information is provided to the subscriber by way of in... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6751309 | Method and apparatus for extending calls to internal switch extensions out to external network endpoints A private branch exchange (PBX) or other communication system switch processes a call to determine if an identifier associated with the call has a corresponding entry in a stored list of external endpoints registered with the switch. The switch directs the call to a... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6748071 | Method and apparatus for treating externally-originated calls as coming from internal switch extensions An incoming call received in a private branch exchange (PBX) or other communication system switch at an external port of the switch is processed by the switch so as to appear to a destination terminal as if it were originated by an internal extension associated with... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6675017 | Location blocking service for wireless networks The invention disclosed is a location blocking service for use in a wireless network that tracks the location and identity of network users, such as networks complying with enhanced 911 standards. The service provides a network user with the ability to pr... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6650746 | Urgency of call indication to called party through distinctive notification An indication of urgency of a call is received from a caller. The urgency indication is communicated to the called party through a distinctive notification, such as distinctive ringing. The urgency indication may be obtained from a caller via a personal a... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6633638 | Method and apparatus for a customer self-provisioning of outpulsed digits in a telecommunication network The invention allows a customer to self-provision the routing of non-geographic calls along a communication network. The customer is allowed to interface a computer with terminating switches and network control point databases so that routing information ... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6539090 | Generalized arrangement for routing telecommunications calls Apparatus and a method for controlling the establishment of telecommunications calls. In response to a service request from a calling party, a switch serving the calling party transmits a query identifying the called party to a shared database. The databa... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6501738 | Multipoint/multichannel connection device in integrated services digital network The invention supposes the use of an integrated services digital network (102) which has a function of communicating the number of a source communications terminal (101) as source number information. A source number information identifying section (104) i... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6396813 | ISDN terminal equipment-resident mechanism for determining service profile identifiers and associated telecommunication switch protocol The inability of an ISDN equipment user to properly configure ISDN terminal equipment, even when provided with correctly assigned switch protocol, SPID and LDN parameters by a telephone service provider, is successfully remedied by a SPID/switch protocol ... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6393009 | Method for managing trunk status of a CDMA mobile communication exchange This present invention relates to a method for managing trunk status of a CDMA mobile communication exchange. A CDMA mobile communication exchange according to the present invention has the logical trunk and physical trunks relation to the trunk status, w... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6349131 | Apparatus and method for graphically outputting status of trunk in switching system In an apparatus and method for graphically outputting the status of a trunk in a switching system, if a trunk status graphics mode is selected, trunk installation information is received and displayed on a main window. If a specific trunk is selected amon... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6320955 | Remote activation of call trace A method for identifying a route of a call in a telecommunication system (10) comprises the steps of routing the call from a telephonic calling device (12) via a telephonic switch (14) to a telephonic terminating device (56) and disconnecting the telephon... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6266404 | Method and apparatus for controlling characteristics of distributed telephone sets from a central telephone switch The present invention allows characteristics of individual distributed telephone sets to be controlled by a central telephone switch. In one embodiment, configuration files are stored locally on the phone set, but control of the configuration files is pro... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6215865 | System, method and user interface for data announced call transfer A system and method for use in call center operations enables a customer service representative (CSR) to transfer a customer to a receiving CSR with selected data that describes the reason for the transfer. The receiving CSR receives the transferred custo... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6160877 | Method of screening and prioritizing an incoming call A subscriber interface operating as a Personal Agent is provided to simplify, enhance and integrate the currently fragmented telephone services. The Personal Agent enables the subscriber to access and activate telephone network services using voice recogn... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6154532 | Charge minimizing callback system A device and method minimize telephone charges by not answering the destination telephone when an incoming call is detected. Preconnection information such as dialed number identification system (DNIS) information, phone type information digits, and autom... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6137876 | Network call trace A Network Call Trace (NCT) method and system enables a call path route to be traced in a telecommunications network. A Type of Digit (TOD) in the Generic Digits Parameter (GDP) for an Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) User Part (ISUP) command can... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6046986 | ISDN terminal equipment-resident mechanism for determining service profile identifiers and associated telecommunication switch protocol The inability of an ISDN equipment user to properly configure ISDN terminal equipment, even when provided with correctly assigned switch protocol, SPID and LDN parameters by a telephone service provider, is successfully remedied by a SPID/switch protocol ... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6026156 | Enhanced call waiting A method of and apparatus for providing telecommunication services to a user. When the user is engaged in a first telephone call via a telephone switch with a first party and a second party attempts to place a second telephone call to the user via the swi... | 02/15/2000 |
