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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7940918 | Unified method and apparatus to simplify telephone area code dialing A computerized method and related system and software for simplifying telephonic calling, comprising: designating a destination area code; the user specifying a destination telephone number; and causing the call to be signaled using the designated destination area c... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7697678 | Unified method and apparatus to simplify telephone area code dialing A method and apparatus for unified overlay dialing enables simplified telephone dialing to occur within a standard overlay area and eliminates disruption dealing with area code saturation. Each three-digit area code within an overlay area is associated with a single... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7362854 | Portable electronic device having integrated telephony and calendar functions The phone number or other identifying information of an incoming phone call or other network communication is optionally stored, and a call-back is optionally scheduled. The user is prompted whether to schedule a call back, and if so, a call-back sequence is initiat... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7340041 | Telephone device having operation function by voice input When a hook detection unit (18) detects the off-hook of a handset (8), voice (e.g., “telephone book”, the other party's name) sent from a user is input via the handset (8), and a voice recognition unit (110) recognizes the voice, the ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7260419 | Method for displaying call record list in wireless telecommunication terminal A method for displaying a call record list in a wireless telecommunication terminal is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: reading a stored call record in response to a call record list searching request; collecting call records having identical caller info... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260187 | Voice response apparatus and method of providing automated voice responses with silent prompting A voice response unit (VRU) includes a silent prompt feature in the form of an intentional delay inserted after a message is given to a caller, during which delay the caller may invoke alternative processing or interrupt current processing. If appropriate alternativ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7203296 | Method, system, and article for placing a telephone call to a previously-called party Upon receiving a service code from a calling party, a list of parties previously called by the calling party is retrieved. An audio message is generated based on the list, and communicated to the calling party. A dialed input indicating a selected party from the lis... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7155002 | Call-to-make reminder system A system to remind a user of calls he should make, to prevent protracted negligence, comprises a telephone service server that generates a call-to-make reminder page based on the urgency of reminder identified by multiplying a non-contact period from the last call m... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7113583 | Telephone and private branch exchange A telephone of the present invention is a push button type telephone whereby a DTMF signal of a first one-touch dial table is sent out in accordance with operation keys input in the general line mode and a DTMF signal of a second one-touch dial table is sent out in ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7092695 | Emergency phone with alternate number calling capability An emergency-use-only cellular phone provides for contacting and establishing full-duplex voice communication with emergency personnel at either a public emergency response service or a private roadside assistance service. The phone automatically places a cellular c... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7079643 | Automatic determination of dialing methods for stored uniformly formatted phone numbers The invention is a method for automatically determining the dialing sequence that is required for local, local long distance, ten digit local and long distance, long distance, and international dialing from an initial dialing database that contains no information ab... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7072460 | System and method for retrieving telephone numbers A system and method for quickly retrieving a telephone number is disclosed. The system includes an input device for inputting a dial string from a user, a storage device for storing a plurality of telephone numbers, a display device for displaying the dial string, a... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7062026 | Telephone apparatus and start control method An alert control method in telephone equipment allowing communication with a certain person to be ensured is disclosed. A last-communication time of day related to a name of a person to communicate with is stored in a phonebook database. It is determined whether a p... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7020269 | Speed dialing method using symbols in communication terminal having touch pad A method for performing speed dialing using symbols in a communication terminal having a touch pad is disclosed. The method comprises registering a symbol in association with a phone number; comparing a symbol input by a user from the touch pad with the registered s... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7017125 | Portable terminal system, portable terminal, method of controlling portable terminal, and storage medium storing program for controlling portable terminal A portable terminal provided with a text browser for perusing text contents which are supposed to be displayed on a display of the portable terminal, and a help browser for perusing help contents showing methods of utilizing the text contents. When a certain message... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6980641 | Method and apparatus for controlling a computer to implement telephone functions with an enhanced minidialer function An enhanced telephone emulation computer system including a minidialer program for controlling a computer to add telephony functions which can be invoked from whatever active program is currently controlling the computer. The minidialer program controls the computer... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6961425 | Socket/plug in DTMF tone dialer A system for generating number tones for dialing a telephone device. The system comprises a socket assembly, at least one button assembly, and a converter. The socket assembly defines at least one socket. Each button assembly comprises a memory device for storing a ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6928305 | Systems and methods for establishing communication links between computing devices Communication systems for establishing communication links between first and second computing devices are provided. A representative system includes a second computing device that incorporates a speed-dial system, a first actuator and a menu. The speed-dial system i... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6914977 | Method and apparatus for programming guestroom telephones A programmable telephone system includes a guestroom telephone, where each guestroom telephone includes at least one speed-dial key, a memory corresponding to the at least one speed key for storing data corresponding to speed-dial telephone numbers, a controller and... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6912399 | Cellular telephone with programmable authorized telephone number A cellular telephone having restricted dialing authority and a simplified keypad. The keypad includes a plurality of preprogrammed hot keys. Incoming telephone calls from authorized telephone numbers are answerable and incoming telephone calls from other numbers do ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6829337 | Telephone apparatus with capability of adding, deleting and comparing telephone numbers A telephone apparatus of the present invention comprises a telephone number comparator for comparing a telephone number included in caller information delivered from caller identification delivery service with a telephone number registered in an electronic telephone... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6721418 | Automatic dialing method in telephone terminal An automatic dialing method in a telephone terminal. In the method, digit keys are entered from a user, the call type and digit number requirement for a telephone number that the input digit keys represent are determined upon absence of input of a SEND key, and the ... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6705521 | Automatic car toll computing and charging method An automatic car toll computing and charging method is provided. The method includes steps of employing a cellular phone to process a log in and a log out of a car toll computing; previously storing the connection between a cellular phone number and a vehicle identi... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6608889 | Telephone having convenience feature data transfer capability A method and apparatus for transferring convenience feature data (e.g., speed dial numbers, etc.) from one telephone to another local telephone within the same home or small office. In particular, the telephone includes a memory located within a corded or... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6597772 | Method of programming telephone numbers and identifiers in multiple databases A method and apparatus for automatically updating a group of databases when new information is entered into any one of the databases in the group is disclosed. When a first database is updated with new information, a phone call, page or email is sent to t... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6567512 | Electronic programmer for telephones with auto-dial An electronic programmer for the auto-dial functions of a telephone comprises an apparatus which electrically connects the rows and columns lines on the keyboard of a telephone so as to mimic the pressing the buttons on the telephone keypad.... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6553116 | System and method for early detection of area code changes A telecommunications device able to automatically detect a pending change in an area code or numbering plan area (NPA) during the period when either the new area code or the existing area code may be used to dial a particular number. Such a telecommunicat... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6449360 | Cleaning method for telephone number list and system implemented therefor A cleaning system retrieves a telephone number from a telephone number list to regard as a called party number and sends a SETUP message to the network, in which a SPEECH or an AUDIO is designated as a bearer capability. In case that an ALERTING or CONNEC... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6393304 | Method for supporting numeric voice dialing A method is provided for enabling a user of a cellular radiotelephone (10) having a keypad (22) to assign selected speech utterances to keys 22a, 22b of the keypad 22. The method comprises the steps of: (a) prompting the user to depress at least one of th... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6298131 | Automatic speed dial updating A telephone according to the invention provides a memory adapted to hold a speed dial number, a calling mechanism adapted to place an outgoing call to the speed dial number based on user input, an input unit adapted to receive updating information, and a ... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6285753 | System and method for locally intelligent and adaptive dialing of telephone and other network access numbers Errors in dialing or otherwise entering network access codes such as telephone numbers are identified by comparing each entered code with a set of stored codes. Each entered code is also stored. For each stored code, statistics are compiled that reflect t... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6243459 | Telephone with adaptive speed dial mechanism A telephone adaptively updates its speed dial memory. For example, the telephone updates the speed dial memory based on a calling history. An example of a calling history based update according to the invention is to add frequently called telephone number... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6084949 | Telephone system with automatic dialing using infrared transmission from electronic pocket book An automatic dialing method of a telephone system including an optical reception unit sensitive to infrared reception from an electronic pocketbook including an optical transmission unit for infrared transmission of a telephone number of an interested per... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6067349 | Dialing using caller ID A telephone and voice mail (voice processing) system, which is implemented using only a single processing system for controlling operation of both the telephone system and the voice mail system, permits a user to call back a party using caller ID data sto... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6047062 | Automatic speed call updating A method of updating speedcall numbers stored in a database comprises the steps of receiving an incoming call at a local telephone station, extracting data representing the calling party's name and telephone number from the incoming call, and comparing th... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6018568 | Voice dialing system A voice dialing system that includes a voice dialing device and a terminal. The voice dialing device is coupled to the terminal through a network. The voice dialing device stores a telephone directory that includes text-based and voice entries. The termin... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5963623 | Method of storing telephone numbers scanned from facsimile document in telephone directory of a facsimile system A method of storing telephone number information written on a document in a memory of a facsimile system which determines whether an input key from a keypad corresponds to a key requesting storage of telephone number information in the memory; determines ... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5930350 | System, method and computer program for automated speed dialing A system and method for automatically configuring speed dial settings on a telephone system. The system receives distributions, such as phone calls, phone messages, E-mail messages, soft facsimiles and print jobs, and determines an identifier (id) corresp... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5930703 | Methods and systems for programming a cellular radiotelephone A directory of telephone numbers is entered into a cellular radiotelephone by entering the directory into a terminal, transferring the directory from the terminal to the radiotelephone via a wireless coupling, and programming the directory into a memory o... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5838783 | Smart directory management This invention provides a smart directory manager for deleting directory entries. The smart directory manager includes a directory memory, user interface devices and a directory management device. The directory management device generates a recommended de... | 11/17/1998 |
