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| 8116434 | Telecommunications patching system that facilitates detection and identification of patch cords A telecommunications patching system includes a patch panel comprising a plurality of connector ports and a plurality of patch cords configured to selectively interconnect pairs of the connector ports. Each patch cord has opposite ends and a respective connector sec... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8102971 | Monitoring a call forwarded to a network-based voice mail system An apparatus, system and method for monitoring calls that have been forwarded to a network-based voice mail system (VMS). The VMS receives the forwarded call and sends a start of greeting signal at the beginning and an end of greeting signal at the completion of the... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094786 | Method and system for monitoring and recording voice from circuit-switched switches via a packet-switched network Some embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and system for monitoring and recording voice from circuit-switched switches via a packet-switched network. A circuit-switched or VoIP recording system may record and/or live-monitor telephone calls ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8081737 | Systems and methods for providing call monitoring service for multiple telecommunications units Systems and methods provide a call monitoring service for multiple telecommunications units. When an incoming communication directed to a subscriber's simultaneous ring number is received, outgoing communications are placed to each of the telecommunications units as... | 12/20/2011 |
| 7970106 | Employing VXML to provide enhanced voicemail system An enhanced Voice eXtensible Markup Language (VXML) based voicemail system that has a distributed architecture and methods for implementing enhanced VXML based voicemail systems are disclosed. The voicemail system includes a media server, which is in communication w... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7961847 | Method and apparatus for gradual application of a hitless monitoring access to a communications circuit employing a guided transmission media A monitor access is gradually applied an removed from a communications circuit, including a digital subscriber line (DSL), by a gradual monitor access (GMA) technique, in which a variable impedance element is gradually applied to the communications circuit until the... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7860222 | Systems and methods for acquiring, accessing, and analyzing investigative information Disclosed are systems and methods which provide availability of information on a network wide basis, with the network or information technology (IT) fabric spanning a wide range of institutions and other sources of information, including correctional facilities, wit... | 12/28/2010 |
| RE41164 | Impedance blocking filter circuit An impedance blocking filter circuit is provided for use in telecommunication systems for interconnecting between incoming telephone lines and customer's terminal equipment so as to unconditionally block impedances above 20 KHz a desired frequency range due to the ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7551725 | Systems and methods for providing call monitoring service for multiple telecommunications units Systems and methods provide a call monitoring service for multiple telecommunications units. When an incoming communication directed to a subscriber's simultaneous ring number is received, outgoing communications are placed to each of the telecommunications units as... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7502447 | Call failure recording A method and device for recording call failure information in a data transmission system is provided. The failure logs generated in response to a failure event include a failure type and a first timestamp. A log record is created for a first failure log based on the... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7444145 | Automated real-time site survey in a shared frequency band environment An intelligent spectrum management (ISM) system and method that includes sophisticated features to detect, classify, and locate sources of RF activity. The system comprises one or more radio sensor devices positioned at various locations in a region where activity i... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7428233 | IP voice call surveillance through use of non-dedicated IP phone with signal alert provided to indicate content of incoming call prior to an answer as being a monitored call Surveillance of IP telephony may be performed through the use of conventional telephone equipment, according to principles of the invention while preventing giving indication to the monitored phone by alerting the user of the monitoring phone to such surveillance us... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7418084 | Systems and methods for third-party call control The present invention may include a call controller for initiating third-party call control requests. The invention may also include an endpoint control manager for determining whether a remote endpoint is a simple endpoint or intelligent endpoint. The invention may... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415099 | Method and devices for monitoring subscribers of a telecommunications network during participation in group call connections The invention relates to a gas-insulated bus bar component comprising a grounded housing that is filled with protective gas and at least one bus bar conductor, which extends in the longitudinal direction of the housing and is supported on said housing by means of in... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7403771 | Telecom equipment with memory Embodiments of telecommunications equipment with a memory device are presented herein. ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7388947 | Controllable telecommunications switch reporting compatible with voice grade lines Data generated at a telecommunications network switching node is selectively delivered to one or more data receiving device (e.g., data “collection box”) connected to the network, and command and control signaling is transmitted from the data receiving device to... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386114 | Distributed session-based data Session-based data, such as call detail accounting information, is tracked and distributed to a plurality of servers in a distributed telephony environment. One type of session is a telephone call between participants. Session-based data includes information about a... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382735 | System and method for monitoring a packet network A method and system is provided for monitoring the quality of signal transmissions in a communications network by calculating Quality of Services (QoS) scores and corresponding Transmission Impairment Test (TIT) scores, and then monitoring a QoS score to predict a c... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379536 | System and method for detecting SS7 messaging inefficiency The present invention uses a software program to analyze all of the SS7 message traffic in a telephone network. By comparing point codes in the message data, the present invention can detect invalid and undesirable network inefficiencies in different types of teleph... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7366731 | Trouble ticket assignment A trouble ticket handling system is provided. The system typically includes a login logic, a monitoring device, and a user interface logic. The login logic typically operates to log a user into several trouble ticket systems. The monitoring device typically polls th... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366730 | Registration of solved cubes within a relational database management system Performing operations on multidimensional data managed by a relational database system is facilitated by registration of solved cubes with a RDBMS. A solved cube is an abstract construct likened to a view or a table on relational data and contains not only base data... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366284 | Outage reporting for a telecommunications system An outage reporting method and system are disclosed for a telecommunications system. The outage reporting system includes a processor to record a data element value. The data element value indicates a type of outage that occurred in the telecommunications system, su... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356586 | Filtering system and method for voice protocol network analysis A system, method and computer program product are provided for filtering various voice protocols. A plurality of voice protocols is initially displayed. Next, an indication is received from a user as to the selection of the voice protocols. It is further determined ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353533 | Administration of protection of data accessible by a mobile device The administration of protection of data on a client mobile computing device by a server computer system such as within an enterprise network or on a separate mobile computing device is described. Security tools are described that provide different security policies... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7340040 | System and method for real-time, personalized, dynamic, interactive voice services for corporate-analysis related information A system and method for creation and automatic deployment of personalized, dynamic and interactive voice services relating to subscriber corporate analysis related information, including information derived from on-line analytical processing (OLAP) systems. More spe... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336435 | Method and system for collecting servo field data from programmable devices in embedded disk controllers A servo controller for an embedded disk controller comprises a read channel interface that includes a programmable control logic that receives a servo field detected signal from a module that detects a servo field start bit. A memory in the read channel interface is... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333794 | Real-time network analysis and performance management Disclosed embodiments include a method for analyzing the performance of a wireless communications network and adjusting parameters in the wireless communications network. In one embodiment, the specific location of a mobile unit is linked with performance data obtai... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324634 | Telecommunications systems A telecommunications network includes a management system for analyzing call detail records (CDR's) from terminating switches. The management system recovers CDR's by polling through switch managers which poll dependent exchanges. CDR's indicating a call clear occur... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324963 | Methods and systems for offering bundled goods and services A method and system implementing a variable pricing structure that applies to goods and services available from a vendor, and rewards customers who spend more is described. Customers can select a combination of the offered goods and services offered by a vendor, rat... | 01/29/2008 |
| RE40020 | Impedance blocking filter circuit An impedance blocking filter circuit is provided for use in telecommunication systems for interconnecting between incoming telephone lines and customer's terminal equipment so as to unconditionally block impedances above 20 KHz due to the customer's terminal equipme... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7317915 | Method and apparatus for testing a radio network In a radio communication system that includes multiple service areas, each service area is associated with a predetermined number or amount of radio communication resources. Each radio communication resource can be used for a prescribed period of time corresponding ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315849 | Enterprise-wide data-warehouse with integrated data aggregation engine An enterprise-wide data-warehouse comprising a database management system (DBMS) including a relational datastore storing data in tables. An aggregation module, operatively coupled to the relational datastore aggregates the data stored in the tables of the relationa... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7305236 | Method of cellular connectivity reporting The invention provides a method of reporting connectivity of a mobile vehicle. A call request fails, a failure type of the failed call request is determined, a time of the failed call request is determined, a location of the vehicle when the failed call request occu... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302178 | System and method for measuring power of optical signals carried over a fiber optic link A pilot tone generator receives optical energy from an optical communication medium carrying a plurality of optical signals. Each optical signal carries data modulated at a unique wavelength and further modulated with a unique identification signal. The identificati... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301910 | Methods and systems for automated analysis of signaling link utilization Methods and systems for automated analysis of signaling link utilization are disclosed. A method for automatically analyzing signaling link utilization includes displaying signaling link utilization data to a user via a computer display device. User input regarding ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295655 | Systems and methods for determining the status of telephone lines Systems and methods for detecting a status of a telephone line. Some of the systems include a telecommunications system which comprises a dial tone tester integrated with a demarcation device. Such dial tone testers can include a visual device or an audible device i... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295603 | Method and system for virtual exchange reference impact (VERI) for use in mixed spectrum management in DSL A method and apparatus implements a Virtual Exchange Reference Impact (VERI) technique to define a pattern to shape the spectrum of a cabinet deployed system to minimize its impact, e.g., FEXT, into an exchange deployed system while achieving effective cabinet syste... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295924 | Methods and systems for routing travel between origin and destination service locations using global satellite positioning Methods and systems are provided for obtaining information related to a customer service location and directions for routing a service technician from one customer service location to another. One embodiment includes requesting at least one set of coordinates associ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289605 | Processes and systems for creating and for managing trouble tickets and work orders Processes and systems are disclosed for creating and for managing trouble tickets and work orders. One embodiment includes communicating with a communications network and receiving a request to create a trouble ticket. The trouble ticket is created to investigate a ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286524 | System and method for high capacity/failure tolerance telecommunications in a signaling network gateway A telepathy system provides for the transport of voice communication over a data centric network. Through use of the SS7 signaling network, an additional STP pair may be located between STP pairs in the SS7 network and a switch specially configured for converting vo... | 10/23/2007 |
