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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8150024 | Methods and systems for setting a volume level of ringback media presented to a calling party Methods and systems are disclosed for setting a volume level of ringback media presented to a calling party. The method may include receiving at a ringback server an indication of ambient noise at a client device, using the received indication as a basis to set a vo... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139758 | Voice caller ID An apparatus and method for audibly annunciating at a device information transmitted over a telephone network. The information is transmitted in the form of a modulated signal to the device wherein the modulated signal is representative of the information. The appar... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8085929 | Method and apparatus for providing customized ringbacks An approach is provided for providing custom ringback services. The approach includes prompting a user for content as part of a managed ringback service. The content is received from the user, and is set as a ringback. An identifier corresponding to the ringback is ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081751 | Method for triggering content download during call setup A method for causing a calling client station to obtain content from a network server in response to a trigger signal received by the client during the ringback period for a call. The trigger signal is transmitted from a ringback server to a calling client station d... | 12/20/2011 |
| 7974403 | Method and system for called party to provide indication information to calling party The present invention discloses a method for a called party to provide indication information for a calling party. The method includes the steps of: presetting the indication information to be provided to the calling party at the called party; before the called part... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7864947 | Call notification system, method, computer program and advertising method A call notification system method, computer program and advertising method are disclosed. A call notification is generated at a recipient system (2) in response to receipt of initiation data on a call from an originating system (3). At least aspects of... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7764782 | Method and apparatus for routing telecommunication calls A method and apparatus route telecommunication calls depending on a detected approach of a user towards a telecommunication device. ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7602901 | System and method for providing calling-party identification and/or calling-party or called-party ringback services A method and system for providing an audible calling party identification and/or an audible calling/called party ringback services (“services”) is disclosed. The system may include (and the method may perform the services in) a network having source, network, an... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7436949 | Personal ring tone message indicator A system and method of message indicating that enable the sender of a message to chose the ringing tone of the receiver's cellular telephone upon arrival of the sender's message. The sender has the ability to either choose or create the ringing tone to be played on ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7426269 | System and method for identifying a caller using associated sounds A system (10) and method for identifying a caller using associated voice or sound announcements is disclosed. An associated voice announcement or announcements may be in calling party's own voice. The system (10) is capable of playing a different annou... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7418258 | Server-coordinated ringtones An apparatus and methods are disclosed for enabling multiple telecommunications terminals that are associated with a common user to notify their user of the arrival of an incoming message via a ringtone, where the ringtone is: (i) coordinated across the terminals, a... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418096 | Voice caller ID An apparatus and method for audibly annunciating at a device information transmitted over a telephone network. The information is transmitted in the form of a modulated signal to the device wherein the modulated signal is representative of the information. The appar... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415107 | Telephone call information delivery system A telephone call information delivery system includes answering circuitry to answer a telephone call incoming from a service provider and to attain information input by a caller. The system further includes an information signal provider to provide at least one sign... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7392066 | Volume control system and method for a mobile communication device In accordance with one or more embodiments, a method for adjusting volume of a mobile device in relationship to environment noise is provided. The method comprises sampling ambient noise around the mobile device to obtain at least one audio sample; measuring volume ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7379760 | Data transmission-reception system and data transmission-reception method A data communication system is disclosed which comprises: first terminal devices for transmitting contents and content provider identification data identifying the providers of the contents; a server device for receiving and storing the transmitted contents and cont... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376395 | Controlling a telecommunications device A telecommunications device comprises a communication alert system arranged to inform the user that a telecommunications signal has been received. The communication alert system uses one of a number of different indicators. The controller is arranged to control the ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7359737 | Data transmission-reception system and data transmission-reception method A data communication system is disclosed which comprises: first terminal devices for transmitting contents and content provider identification data identifying the providers of the contents; a server device for receiving and storing the transmitted contents and cont... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359373 | System, apparatus, and method for establishing circuit-switched communications via packet-switched network signaling A system, apparatus and method for establishing circuit-switched (CS) communications in packet-switched (PS) multimedia networks such as IMS, and providing services via the PS networks to CS domain users. A dialog is established between terminals through the PS mult... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356132 | Tune master telephone Systems for providing a tune master telephone includes a telecommunications network and a communications device that is operatively coupled to the telecommunications network. The telecommunications network is configured to provide caller identification information f... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353047 | Integrated mobile phone ring scheduler A mobile telephone comprises a ringer to provide an audible alert of an incoming telephone call. The mobile telephone has a ringer schedule interface to receive a ringer control schedule. The ringer control schedule indicates times at which a parameter of the ringer... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7343150 | Log-based ringtones A method is disclosed for determining properties of an output signal that notifies a user of an incoming message, based on information that is available to and associated with the user's telecommunications terminal. In particular, in the illustrative embodiment one ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340050 | Apparatus and method for controlling incoming melody In an apparatus and method for controlling an incoming melody, a receiver's telephone terminal allows a caller who transmits a call request signal to select a specific receiver with whom the caller wants to establish a voice call. The receiver's telephone terminal o... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340523 | High performance call distribution system using a dispatcher and multiple processors for processing session initiation dialogs A media server system includes a dispatcher and a set of processors either in the same physical system or in separate physical systems. The dispatcher receives the initial messages of respective session initiation dialogs from sources such as application servers. Fo... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333604 | Adaptive notification of an incoming call in a mobile phone A device and method for handling announcement of an incoming call in a telephone handset at least in part in accordance with a measured ambient noise level is provided. In some embodiments, the disclosed device includes an audio signaling mechanism such as a ringer ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7315618 | Voice caller ID An apparatus and method for audibly annunciating at a device information transmitted over a telephone network. The information is transmitted in the form of a modulated signal to the device wherein the modulated signal is representative of the information. The appar... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7305256 | Method, apparatus and program for providing user-selected alerting signals in telecommunications devices A method for operating a user communication device (18a, 18b, 19a, 19b), and a program and user communication device that operate in accordance with that method. An interface (2d, 2b, | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302253 | Coordination of ringtones by a telecommunications terminal across multiple terminals An apparatus and methods are disclosed for enabling multiple telecommunications terminals that are associated with a common user to notify their user of the arrival of an incoming message via a ringtone, where the ringtone is: (i) coordinated across the terminals, a... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295864 | Methods and apparatuses for programming user-defined information into electronic devices A device for programming user-defined information into an electronic device is provided. The programmer allows a user to program customized information, such as user-selected audio, video, or Internet access information into his or her programmable device. Such elec... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7286799 | Remote caller identification (ID) device The present invention provides technical advantages as systems, devices and methods that enable a person to remotely identify the origin of an incoming call. ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283829 | Management of call requests in multi-modal communication environments A communication system for providing multi-modal call management includes a communication manager, a notification database, and a personal assistant. The communication system can receive a call, collect caller identification information, generate a call notification... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7260421 | Communication device that communicates events using compressed audio information Compressed entertainment content such as audio or video or both includes additional aspects and operations associated their way. The compressed audio may be used to signal computers such as a telephone or reminder for an appointment. A melody line may be extracted f... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257221 | Method of calling up called party, communication equipment, calling party information server, and calling control device To make a call, a calling-end terminal station (3) notifies a call-up control unit (71) of a communications network (7) of the terminal station number of a called-end terminal station (5) so as to cause it to stand by for a connection. Th... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254408 | Apparatus and method for generating a calling tone of wire/wireless telephone In an apparatus and a method for processing a calling tone of a wire/wireless telephone, if an RF signal corresponding to a ring receiving generation control signal is transmitted to a portable device from a fixed device after a ring signal is received in the fixed ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251321 | Crescendo telephone ringer Crescendo telephone ringers and methods of providing a crescendo telephone ring signal. The crescendo telephone ringer provides a gradual increase in audible ringing volume as a sequence of incoming electrical ring signals is detected. According to one embodiment, u... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7242952 | Portable terminal device and method of generating call sound Bio-information sensors acquire bio-information about a user, and environmental condition sensors acquire environmental information about the user. A call-sound generating unit generates audio data from the bio-information and the environmental information, and the ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7241946 | Method and device for music format switching A method and device for music format switching. A tone editor is first selected to compose ring tones in accordance with a first music format. It is determined whether a switch operation has been executed. If the switch operation has been executed, the ring tones ar... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7233658 | Flexible ring-tone service A subscriber associates a ring-tone media selection based on a media genre, author, or title to a calling number. When an incoming call is detected, a particular ring-tone media selection, based on the subscriber's association, may be streamed from a central server ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7227929 | Telecommunication system using message presentation during a ringing signal period Marketing of goods and services on telephone lines and during a period from the commencement of a telephone call to the receipt and acceptance of that call (quiescent period) when the recipient of the call actuates his or her telephone. This quiescent period of time... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224792 | Personalized telephone announcement According to the invention, a method for alerting a user of an incoming phone call is disclosed. In one step, notification of the incoming phone call is received with an identifier that is associated with the incoming phone call. The identifier associated with the i... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7212840 | Cellular phone and incoming call reception informing method Incoming call tones and program numbers as numbers used to specify respective incoming call tones are stored in a memory of a cellular phone so as to be set in correspondence to each other. The program numbers are used to specify corresponding incoming call tone mel... | 05/01/2007 |
