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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7688967 | Dynamic speed dial number mapping A method of facilitating a telephonic response to an electronic message is described. The method includes determining at least one telephone number from a received electronic message, and assigning the determined telephone number dynamically to a button on the telep... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7333817 | Data terminal having a telephone function A CPU in a cellular phone counts the number of calling times in each area in which the cellular phone resides, and stores the number of calling times for each area. The telephone numbers stored in the telephone directory file are affixed by priority orders based on ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324638 | System and method for managing communications A communications network-based system and service is disclosed. The service permits subscribers to control and manage incoming telephone calls. Subscribers can establish preferences for how calls will be handled by a communications network if the calls are received ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7323959 | Trackball device A trackball device of the present invention includes an operating ball, multiple rollers which rotate by contacting the ball while it is rotated, multipole permanent magnets which co-rotate with these rollers, and a reed switch disposed in a position where it turns ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7272384 | Communication device including phonebook and communication method therefor A communication device comprises a first memory which stores telephone books, each including identification information and a name of a communication party, a second memory which stores communication histories, each including a communication time and identification ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7260588 | Location-based operations for information handling systems A location-aware product includes a location information resource for providing the present location of the location-aware product to within some margin of error, and such present location information is included by the location-aware product in various outputs, inc... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7218727 | Apparatus and method for inputting alphabet characters on small keypad User can input characters and numerals without mode transition on a keypad using Part-Whole Selection (PWSM). Moreover, by allocating characters having higher use frequency to lattice elements on each button in the Order of Proximity to Base Lattice Element (OPBLE),... | 05/15/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7162275 | Apparatus and method for performing a dialing operation using a phone book of a mobile communication terminal An apparatus and method for performing a dialing operation using a phone book of a mobile communication terminal, and an apparatus and method capable of displaying all telephone numbers of persons registered in a phone book when a dial history information is display... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7139369 | Interface and method of designing an interface A method of designing an interface system that allows users to map the representation of their task directly to the interface. There are three major phases to the Customer-Centric Approach to Interface Design (C-CAID). End-users' tasks are categorized to determine t... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7123713 | Communication device A communication device making a call origination in accordance with a predetermined operation is provided with a one-touch dial storage that stores telephone numbers in association with one-touch dial keys, a telephone directory data storage that stores telephone nu... | 10/17/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7113585 | Method and apparatus for an intelligent telephone prefix dialer Method and apparatus for an Intelligent Prefix Dialer, eliminating the necessity for manually dialing a local area code as a prefix to a call within the same area code in telephone systems in which such action is a requirement. An Intelligent Prefix Dialer is quiesc... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110529 | Bookmarking method and apparatus for an electronic phone book A method and an apparatus for using an electronic phone book in a communication terminal are provided. If a user manually requests a phone number to be registered as a bookmark, or the number of calls to the phone number exceeds a predetermined first threshold, the ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7092947 | Browser on test equipment A portable telecommunication test set, such as a telephone line butt set, with a web browser incorporated therein. A standard HTML (Hyper Text Mark-up Language) or WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) browser may be incorporated within the portable test set, allowing... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7076049 | Method of designing a telecommunications call center interface A method is provided for designing an interface system. The method includes receiving a call from a customer at a call center, and logging a reason the customer is calling the call center. Subsequently, reasons from multiple customers are collected and categorized i... | 07/11/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7072643 | Communication assistance system and method The present invention is directed to a communication assistance system comprised of a first database (18) having a plurality of listings where each of the listings has at least one contact name and a corresponding contact number. A telephony hardware (12 | 07/04/2006 |
| 7062034 | International call prefix identification and formatting An international telephone number is displayed by automatically inserting at least one space after the country code portion of the telephone number. In particular, when a telephone number having an International Direct Dialing (IDD) prefix, such as “00”, “011... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7042991 | Method and apparatus for extending a telephone's capabilities An application programming interface (API) enables a telephone to utilize the hardware resources of a computer that is connected to the telephone in a master/slave relationship that causes the computer to function in the manner of a peripheral to the telephone. Spec... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7031452 | Automatic phone dialer with heuristic algorithm A repertory dialer for managing commonly used phone numbers. The system manages memorized phone numbers automatically without direct user intervention. It is particularly useful when the phone company changes area codes. The system can make area code changes transpa... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7006621 | Portable telephone terminal with toll number retrieval function A portable telephone terminal with toll number retrieval function which enable either corresponding name of municipalities or toll number to be retrieved to telephone number or to name of municipalities respectively. The portable telephone terminal is provided with ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7007239 | Method and apparatus for accessing a contacts database and telephone services Sophisticated computer-enhanced mobile telephones require intuitive user interfaces in order to allow a user to take advantage of all the available features. The present invention discloses an intuitive telephone system user interface that provides both simple famil... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6961424 | Protected mechanism for DTMF relay There is provided methods and devices for relaying tone events in a communication system. A first tone data indicative of a first tone is received and buffered. Following, a second tone data indicative of a second tone is received and buffered. The first and second ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6941181 | Voice activated portable audio/video request, play and record system An audio/video control device for providing audio and/or video signals to a user. The audio/video control device includes a base unit and a portable unit. The base unit includes a housing having a recess extending therein and a first processor for controlling operat... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6862347 | Method and apparatus for extending a telephone's capabilities An application programming interface (API) enables a telephone to utilize the hardware resources of a computer that is connected to the telephone in a master/slave relationship that causes the computer to function in the manner of a peripheral to the telephone. Spec... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6826277 | Method for registering and searching dialing information in a communication apparatus A method for registering dialing information contemplates the steps of: inputting dialing information for storage in a dial buffer; registering in memory the dialing information stored in the dial buffer; sorting the dialing information registered in memory in an or... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6760432 | Auto name lookup A telephone has several lists of phone numbers. Each phone number within a list has a number of digits which is not less than a predetermined minimum number, and not more than a predetermined maximum number. The maximum number is the “size” of the list. When a d... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6757376 | Method for registering phone number in telephone A method is provided for registering a dialed phone number in a telephone having a speed dial list and a redial list. The method includes the step of determining whether the dialed phone number is registered in the speed dial list, upon receipt of the dialed phone n... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6731746 | Automatic sorting system and method for electronic telephone directory An automatic sorting system for an electronic telephone directory to sort telephone numbers in the electronic telephone directory prepares a calling information list which indicates an expected calling frequency in each day of the week and time period on the basis o... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6687362 | Automatic address book update system The automatic address book update system which automates the data collection and maintenance tasks for computerized address book systems. The automatic address book update system is architected to automatically update the data contained therein, by automa... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6678373 | Shortcut dialing apparatus for telephone set A shortcut dialing apparatus for a telephone set is disclosed. The apparatus includes a plurality of ROMs for storing telephone numbers therein, a plurality of ROM cards including a corresponding ROM among the ROMs and electrically and detachably being en... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6678372 | Telephone terminal capable of effectively making use of a communication history A telephone terminal is connected to a line network and has an individual terminal number. The telephone terminal comprises a clock section for measuring date and hour. A memory section is for memorizing a call telephone number as a communication telephon... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6661890 | Apparatus for prestored bypass dialing A telecommunication method and apparatus includes at least one bypass carrier code for completing a telecommunication connection between a telecommunication device and a communication network. The bypass carrier code is automatically entered for each outg... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6608895 | Method of anticipatory dialing A method of anticipating an access code such as a telephone number. A database of reference access codes is provided. As each character of a new access code is dialed, the database is searched for reference access codes that have the same leading digits. ... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6606381 | Dynamic ordering of an electronic phonebook A method and apparatus that orders or re-orders the entries in an electronic phonebook based on the number of calls made to and/or received from the phone numbers in the phonebook. The dynamic ordering permits the most frequently called and/or received ph... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6519479 | Spoken user interface for speech-enabled devices A spoken user interface for speech-enabled devices includes a processor and a set of software instructions that are executable by the processor and stored in nonvolatile memory. A user of the speech-enabled device is prompted to enter a voice tag associat... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6408068 | Modular telephone An electronic system such as a modular telephone which includes one or more module slots used to add features. The module slots are configured to receive modules adding the software and hardware necessary to provide the desired features.... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6275579 | Network number management system and switch Disclosed is a network number management system constructed so as not to reduce the number of subscriber telephone numbers registrable in a switch even if any number of network numbers are registered in this switch. One local switch is registered with a t... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6249579 | Apparatus, method and system for personal telecommunication speed calling utilizing an affinity database An apparatus, method and system are provided for personal telecommunication speed calling. The system includes a line unit couplable to customer premise equipment; a network signaling interface for receiving network signaling information; a network trunk ... | 06/19/2001 |
