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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8121282 | Call park/retrieve using SIP In one embodiment, a method can include: when performing a park operation: (i) receiving a first message from a park call phone; (ii) providing a second message having a park code to the park call phone; and (iii) receiving a third message having call information fr... | 02/21/2012 |
| 7706524 | Signal line routing to reduce crosstalk effects Described herein is a technique for reducing the effects of crosstalk between adjacent signal lines of a data path. The data path is formed by multiple signal lines arranged adjacent each other and traversing multiple segments. The signal lines are transposed betwee... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7318030 | Method and apparatus to perform voice activity detection A method and apparatus to perform voice detection are described. ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7310412 | Personalized recorded message via message delivery system Message delivery system primarily for answering machines which provides a realistic sounding recorded message containing an individualized personal greeting which can be delivered onto one or more answering machines. This automated method of delivering a recorded pe... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7230927 | Non-blocking expandable call center architecture An improved call center architecture includes a switch which communicates with agents either over a broadband network or through a conventional legacy PBX. The hybrid configuration also includes N+1 fault tolerance and the ability to linearly expand the capacity of ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7161931 | Voice and data exchange over a packet based network A signal processing system which discriminates between voice signals and data signals modulated by a voiceband carrier. The signal processing system includes a voice exchange, a data exchange and a call discriminator. The voice exchange is capable of exchanging voic... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7151821 | Realcall message delivery system with echo cancellation Interactive system for responding to conditions after an answering machine has been detected in an automatic telephone number dialing and announcing system so that realistic sounding recorded messages can be delivered without truncation. The system starts by: placin... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7127229 | Emergency report cellular phone, cellular connection switching method and GPS positioning method The object of the present invention is to provide a cellular phone to be used for emergency reports that performs GPS positioning by means of remote control from an emergency report center, and transmits positional information to the emergency report center. The eme... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7120234 | Integrated tone-based and voice-based telephone user interface An integrated telephone user interface (TUI) system permitting switching between Dual Tone Multi-Frequency and voice operating command modes. This system provides the user with access to either command mode and allows the user to toggle among the two command modes w... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7110530 | System and method for providing universal access to voice response systems A present invention comprises a device and method for monitoring dial pulse (DP) signals on a line and recognizing a digit pattern comprising at least one digit on the line. In response to the recognized digit pattern, the invention determines when to initiate trans... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110801 | Voice activated wireless phone headset A voice activated wireless phone headset whereby power control, timer and noise level recognition circuits sample ambient noise/voice levels and at predetermined levels provide an “off-hook” telephone condition. The light weight headset fastens around the ear wi... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7103674 | Apparatus and method of reducing dataflow distruption when detecting path maximum transmission unit (PMTU) A method, system and apparatus for reducing dataflow disruption when increases in path maximum transmission unit (PMTU) are being detected are provided. Conventionally, when increases in PMTU are being detected, an increased-in-size data packet is sent by a transmit... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7085370 | Ringback detection circuit A ringback detector determines whether ringback by comparing measurements of a characteristic of the received signal, such as the energy of the received signal, to a threshold. The threshold is set initially to a low value and then updated based on the measurements ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7082143 | Voice and data exchange over a packet based network with DTMF A method and system for detecting a dual tone in a composite signal having first and second components including means for separating the composite signal into its first and second components, means for estimating power of the separated first and second components, ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7076031 | System and method for telephone signal collection and analysis An apparatus, system, and method for telephone signal collection, processing, and analysis is provided. The apparatus includes a portable field unit for capturing telephone signal data including (a) a connection interface for connecting to the telephone line and rec... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7035394 | Tone detector judging a detection of a predetermined tone signal by comparing a characteristic quantity of the tone signal with characteristic quantities of other signals A tone transmission part transmits a tone signal. A tone signal detection part detects data representing an echo signal of the tone signal transmitted by the tone transmission part, and detects data representing a predetermined tone signal targeted to be detected. T... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031454 | Method and apparatus for interfacing telephone apparatus to a digital, analog or hybrid telephone switching system An adaptive interface method and apparatus for interfacing a telephony appliance such as an analog telephone, modem, fax modem, facsimile machine teleconferencing device, headset, VoIP telephone or non-compatible digital telephone to a digital, analog or hybrid tele... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7003093 | Tone detection for integrated telecommunications processing Disclosed is an integrated tone detection processor for discriminating between tone and voice signals and determining the tones. The tone detection processor performs Automatic Gain Control (AGC) to normalize the power of the tone or voice signal. Further, the energ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6967946 | Voice and data exchange over a packet based network with precise tone plan A signal processing system which discriminates between voice signals and data signals modulated by a voiceband carrier. The signal processing system includes a voice exchange, a data exchange and a call discriminator. The voice exchange is capable of exchanging voic... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6950511 | Detection of both voice and tones using Goertzel filters A plurality of Goertzel filters whose operating frequencies are distributed across the voice baseband are used to detect voice and control tones in a signal. Filters operating at frequencies of control tones and detecting that most of the signal energy occurs at tho... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6944290 | Echo cancellation through auxiliary-vector filtering A digit signal processing system may include a near end and a far end connected by a pair of signal transmission paths. A signal processing may be located at the near end through which signal commands are transmitted to the far end. A signal transducing device may b... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6940966 | Method and apparatus for detection of a telephone CPE alerting signal A method and apparatus for detecting a signaling tone within a communications channel, such as a telephone line, is presented. The energy level of the communications channel signal is measured at the frequency of the signaling tone and at one or more frequencies tha... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6920204 | Thundercall, the call before the storm ThunderCall is a computer based system for delivering NWS(National Weather Service) severe weather warnings as a message (personalized information, if desired) via an automated dialing system to live persons and to automated recorders comprising the steps of: formin... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6920220 | Pre-zero crossing signal generator for sinusoidal voltages with DC offsets such as telephone ring voltages A circuit for closing a relay when an active AC voltage connected to one of the contacts of the relay is approximately zero volts includes a monitoring circuit that monitors the active AC voltage and outputs a phase-shifted voltage that crosses zero volts at predete... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6912271 | Personalized recorded message via message delivery system Message delivery system primarily for answering machines which provides a realistic sounding recorded message containing an individualized personal greeting which can be delivered onto one or more answering machines. This automated method of delivering a recorded pe... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6693993 | Emergency notification and rescue request system In an emergency notification and rescue request system having an answer detector for detecting a call receiving party's answer to a telephone call, the answer detector comprises a level detector for outputting a first signal when a level of an audio signa... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6671252 | Robust signaling tone duration measurement Apparatus and methods for adaptively, reliably, and accurately measuring the duration of an alerting or other signaling tone. A tone detector in accordance with the principles of the present invention accurately measures a duration of a tone burst (i.e., ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6584194 | Telephone or communication terminal with improved calling alert signal detection by using an activity detector A communication terminal comprising a receiving path and a sending path linked to the communication line, the receiving path being connected to a system able to detect, during a communication, an alert signal (e.g., a CAS signal) sent by a station (e.g., ... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6584195 | Telephone apparatus A telephone set, where the state of an own-telephone-set is on-hook, the off-hook state of a parallel-telephone-set is detected by comparing telephone-line voltage value with a first standard voltage value. In the state where the own-telephone-set is off-... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6563926 | Resetting surge protection in telephone line interface circuits A surge reset circuit used to automatically reset a surge protection circuit within a telephone line interface circuit. A sensor (e.g., a zenering device) advantageously generates a voltage level representing current draining out of the transient voltage ... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6381330 | False tone detect suppression using multiple frame sweeping harmonic analysis Detection of alerting or other tone signals in a composite signal are reliably detected with an improved false tone detect suppression technique which employs the use of a moving window analysis on a subset of frequencies detected within an underlying spe... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6229889 | Robust signaling tone frequency measurement Apparatus and methods for adaptively, reliably, and accurately measuring the frequency of an alerting or other signaling tone. A tone detector measures the frequency of a tone (continuous or pulsed) with a high degree of accuracy (e.g., to within 1 part i... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6212275 | Telephone with automatic pause responsive, noise reduction muting and method A telephone with an automatic muting circuit that mutes the microphone in response to detection of speaking pauses of the local user to reduce noise due to acoustical feedback that are detected by comparing the waveforms from the microphone and the audio ... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6122353 | Method and apparatus for detecting a telephone CPE alerting signal A method and apparatus for verifying that a CAS (Customer Premises Equipment Alerting Signal) detect signal, which indicates the presence of a CAS on a transmission channel, is a valid detect signal, includes structure and process steps for suppressing a ... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6115465 | System and method for modifying voice signals to avoid triggering tone detectors A system and method for modifying voice signals to avoid triggering tone detectors in a telephone network. The system includes a voice processor coupled between the handset and station set of a conventional telephone unit. The voice processor modifies the... | 09/05/2000 |
| 5960075 | Switchmode power converters for telephone subscriber line interface circuits A power converter forming part of a telephone subscriber line interface circuit selectively generates a ringing signal waveform, for supply to the line, or a supply voltage for a driver circuit for providing loop current on the line. First and second fixe... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5913189 | Voice compression system having robust in-band tone signaling and related method A communication system, and related method, for reliably transmitting DTMF code signals through a low-bit rate channel employing a VSELP speech compression algorithm. The system adds relatively low-level noise to the analog DTMF signals before encoding by... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5889851 | DTMF signal detection/removal using adaptive filters An input digital sample containing voice and DTMF signal is used as an input to an adaptive filter. The output signal of the adaptive filter is used to generate a residue from the difference between the input sample and the output signal. The residue sign... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5862212 | Method and structure for detecting a customer premises equipment alerting signal A method and device for detecting a customer premises equipment alerting signal (CAS) tone in a telephone system which has both caller identification and call waiting. The present invention distinguishes between valid CAS tones transmitted by the telephon... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5850437 | Transmission system with improved tone detection In a transmission system, a signalling tone is transmitted by a transmitter to a receiver via a transmission channel. In the receiver, a tone detector detects the presence of a signalling tone. In order to improve a reliability of the tone detector, a num... | 12/15/1998 |
