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...that the Band-Aid Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson's wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band Aid bandage was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7373345 | Additional hash functions in content-based addressing A hash function used for content addressing is different from the hash function used for content verification. Adding a file to a database involves storing both hash function values in a table as pair. Verifying the integrity of a file believed to be a duplicate in ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7280653 | Telephone system for making call to telephone number read from a sheet There is provided a telephone system, which can surely read a telephone number written on a sheet such as a name card and make a call to the telephone number. OCR reader 3, key input section 4 and calling control section 5 are connected to CPU | 10/09/2007 |
| 7177415 | Telephone number searching system supporting automatic telephone connection and method therefor A telephone number searching system supporting an automatic telephone connection in which a telephone number is searched for through the internet and automatically dialed, and a method therefor. A web server is connected to a telephone number database for storing mu... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7142662 | Method and system for distributing outbound telephone calls A method and system is provided for the distribution of outbound telephone calls. This method and system includes dialing devices receiving call records and providing telephone calls to one or more agents. Interfaced with the dialing device is a distribution module ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7072461 | Merging various request methods into a single unified user interface Methods and systems for allowing a user to enter a request, such as dialing input, without having to specify, or otherwise commit to, a particular request method. Upon detecting a user input that represents a user request for service, response data is retrieved that... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7054434 | System and method for common account based routing of contact records A method and system is provided for common account based distribution of contact records. A comparison engine analyzes call record accounts to identify and tag related call records, such as call record accounts related to the same individual. A common account tag de... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6870927 | Automatic area code detector and dialer for automatically selecting, preparing and entering supplemental information to complete an address The present invention comprises four principal elements: (1) a telephone instrument; (2) a computer; (3) an automatic dialer; and (4) a telephone line. These elements allow for automatic dialing of local and long distance calls in the United States, as well as autom... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6643370 | Communication terminal Destination party information related to a call history is stored and destination party information frequently used among destination party information related to the call history is set as erase inhibited, so that a call is placed by displaying the desti... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6603846 | Methods and devices for selecting preferred call back numbers using CID data A telephone or similar device/system may be equipped or used to select preferred call back numbers. These preferred numbers may be programmed into a device by a user. When an incoming call comprising caller identity ("CID") data is received, preferred cal... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6487284 | Card pay telephone with speed dialing A pay telephone includes a keypad, a card reader, and a processor. The keypad receives input signals from a caller. The card reader reads identification data and speed dial numbers from a card received from the caller. The processor receives the input sig... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6442270 | Telephone number lookup with reduced scrolling A telephone (202) includes a microphone (204), earphone (206), keypad (208), and display unit (210). The keypad (208) is the preferred user interface for entry of a telephone number into the telephone so that the telephone may call it. However, a voice re... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6385313 | Communication terminal control A method for controlling a communications terminal in which control instructions can be called from an instruction memory wherein, the control instructions have, at least to a certain extent, individually callable control instruction components such that ... | 05/07/2002 |
| 5912947 | Public notification system and method A public notification system includes a first database comprising phone numbers and one or more data fields associated with each phone number. Phone numbers (callees) in the first database are selected based on the data fields associated therewith. A reco... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5799077 | Method of and apparatus for automatic dialing An automatic dialing apparatus includes a computer having a dialing control section. The computer issues an automatic dialing instruction to control the operation of the exchange. The dialing control section extracts the customer telephone number from the... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5594790 | Method for selecting and controlling the automatic dialing of a call record campaign A method for controlling the flow of a first call record campaign to a second call record campaign, by a telephony system. Wherein after determining that a first call record campaign is not being driven to its maximum capacity and there are no more call r... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5559867 | Automated calling system with database updating An automated phone calling system includes a database comprising phone numbers and one or more data fields associated with each phone number. Phone numbers (callees) in the database are selected based on the data fields associated therewith. A recorded vo... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5535258 | Radio telephone interface apparatus for speed-dialing of telephone numbers A radio telephone interface apparatus for speed dialing any of a plurality of stored sequences of digits forming telephone numbers. Pre-stored telephone numbers are stored in an electronic memory. Actuation of switches permits either sequential access to ... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5343518 | System and method for controlling the dialing order of call record lists in an automated dialing system A system and method for controlling the dialing order of a plurality of call record lists by a predictive dialing system are disclosed. The system includes a flow controller and a list controller. The list controller receives a number of call records from... | 08/30/1994 |
| 4975841 | Method and apparatus for reporting customer data Method and an apparatus are provided for automatically contacting customers and reporting customer order status data. A memory is provided for receiving and storing the customer order status information. The customer order status data includes product ord... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4805205 | Method and device for establishing bidirectional communications between persons located at different geographically distant stations A method and a device for establishing communication between several persons distant from one another. The method allows, by means of an appropriate spatial multiplexing, speech signals and signalling signals to be transmitted simultaneously between at le... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4741028 | Method of randomizing telephone numbers Pseudorandom numbers are generated for telephone dialing in telephone call management systems by selecting a range of numbers to be dialed, successively randomly generating numbers within that range, comparing each randomly generated number as it is gener... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4600814 | Automated system for establishing telephone voice connections A computer inputed with a data base of potential call recipients and having an EIA RS-232 Data Communication Equipment interface drives an auto-call unit or dialer through a format conversion device to be compatible with the dialer EIA RS-366 automatic ca... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4503288 | Intelligent telephone A microprocessor based telephone like device which includes all of the functions of any ordinary telephone, the functions of a data terminal and many additional functions to provide a highly useful voice and data communications and control device for both... | 03/05/1985 |
| 3989899 | Telephone scheduling system A system is disclosed for use in cooperation with a telephone network to schedule and control telephonic contacts, as from a plurality of calling stations to a number of parties at individual remote stations. Storage means are provided for registering cod... | 11/02/1976 |
| 3943289 | Automatic telephone caller A prerecorded message is supplied to a plurality of telephone subscriber numbers automatically called in sequence from a local station. Upon placing the call to the first number, another second number is established by changing the first called number by ... | 03/09/1976 |
