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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7738652 | System and method for preventing telephone line blocking by a modem A modem includes modem circuitry and modem software that is executed by a processor. When the modem circuitry detects that the modem software is nonfunctional, it enters an on-hook state to prevent blocking of a coupled telephone line. A nonfunctional state of the m... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7373120 | Mobile communication terminal A mobile communication terminal which includes a plurality of lights, apparatus for controlling the activation of the lights, apparatus for storing a number of sequences of activation of the lights, and apparatus for assigning one of the stored sequences of the acti... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7336980 | Outer decorative cover for attachment to a wireless communication device including a printed circuit board and an associated light source mounted in an interior of the wireless device An illuminated decorative cover for a device, and a cellular telephone having such a cover. The illuminated decorative cover includes a cover member having an inner surface and an outer surface, an optical fiber member having an input end and having a side surface a... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7269412 | Caller identification device and method of operation thereof A self powered caller identification device (CID) for a cellular telephone system (CTS) includes a receiver, a transmitter and a processor, all of which being adapted to provide access to the content of a data channel and to deny access to the voice services of a vo... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266397 | Portable terminal apparatus Disclosed herein is a portable terminal apparatus having a novel surface lighting portion which can appeal to user's vision intensively and variously and can effectively make the notification of incoming calls or the like by means of light. The portable terminal app... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7224945 | Mobile station having overlapping translucent material layers and method of forming the same A mobile station for receiving and generating wireless communications signals. The mobile station includes layers of translucent materials each having a visual characteristic and overlapping portions that define another visual characteristic. The layers can be used ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7103390 | Method and system for transferring data in a hand-held electronic device A method and system for transferring data between a phone body and a phone cover having a functionality. The data can be divided into a sequence of bit patterns which can be assigned to different frequency ranges. By arranging the frequencies in a ringing tone accor... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099457 | 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 ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7088815 | True alert indication An end user terminal (EUT), e.g., such as mobile terminal (MT) (20), is provided for connecting with an incoming call received over a communications network (A). Suitably, the EUT includes an alerting function and/or equipment that provides perceivable alerti... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085358 | Visual caller identification A visual caller identification system and method are provided. A caller identification device of a called party's telephone, whether integrated with the telephone or stand-alone, includes a series of colored lights for visually alerting the called party to an incomi... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7076276 | Mobile terminal device comprising vibrating component having light effects Mobile phones use light signaling or vibrational effects to silently indicate to a user that e.g. a telephone call is incoming. The present invention provides a method, a component for generating vibrational effects combined with light effects and a mobile device im... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7046791 | Facsimile apparatus for outputting a melody when receiving a call from a specific party A facsimile apparatus can notify a user of the fact that facsimile data being received is sent from a specific party. A communication control part receives facsimile data and party information from a remote facsimile apparatus, the party information identifying the ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7024229 | Mobile terminal device to controlling incoming call notifying method When there is an incoming call, a mobile terminal device detects ambient sounds by a microphone. A filter separates the detected ambient sounds into a speech component and a non-speech component. An analysis section analyzes which one of the speech component and the... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020271 | Ring control device A system and method that allows a ringer of a telephone to be silenced on demand without preventing outgoing calls to be placed. In an embodiment of the invention, there is a ring control device comprising a switch, a voltage control device in electrical series with... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7013007 | Computer telephony power supply method and apparatus A method for generating power signals within a telephone server coupled to a computer system via an interface bus or in-house power connector, to a maximum number of telephones, and to a telephone trunk, the computer system providing a primary voltage signal and a s... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7010100 | Intelligent voicemail message waiting system and method An intelligent voice message status indication device for a single line of a telephone network includes a controller that responds to caller-ID signals to detect whether a mailbox contains a message, responds to a call-waiting signal to break communication with the ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6914899 | Caller identification and voice/data synchronization for internet telephony and related applications An data packet network telephony system provides identification information of an end user terminal making an Internet telephone call to a call center terminal and provides a call center agent with the ability to cause an end user terminal making an Internet telepho... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6868155 | Off-hook visual message waiting indicator In a first embodiment of the invention, a method of providing a visual message waiting indicator signal to an off-hook telephone includes the step of receiving a voicemail message at a central location, and also includes the step of sending a visual message waiting ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6823200 | Information processing terminal and method A user interface by which contents of what is being processed can be confirmed with the sense of touch is provided. On a first surface of a portable phone, first piezoelectric devices are arranged, and on a second surface of the portable phone, second piezoelectric ... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6771938 | Handset A communications terminal handset having a translucent outer casing and a light source arranged for illumination of a substantial area of the casing. ... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6711257 | Telephone indicator system and method A telephone indicator system includes a telephone having a base and a handset. The telephone includes a cradle disposed on the base configured to receive the handset. The system also includes an indicator disposed on an least two elevated surfaces of the telephone t... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6415020 | Call on-hold improvements In a communication system wherein a communication connection is established between a communication apparatus of a first subscriber and a communication apparatus of a second subscriber, a method of terminating the communication connection by a subscriber ... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6288628 | Display unit for selective calling receiver A selective calling receiver display unit having a displaying function, which including a photo-detecting section for detecting the quantity of light of an incident light beam, and a display control section for processing the display action of a display s... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6263072 | Computer telephony integrated network The invention concerns an integrated computer and telephony system and a method of integrated computer telephony in which at least one main is switch is capable of receiving incoming telephone calls and of dialling outgoing calls. A computer terminal is a... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6208731 | Multisensing circuitry for class signals and stutter dial tone in visual message waiting indicator A VMWI (Visual Message Waiting Indicator) multisense detection device solves both the problem of long CLASS VMWI signal retransmission delays and unreliable CLASS VMWI signal transmission by simultaneously enabling both stutter dial tone detection and CLA... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6002944 | Vehicular telephone and method including an improved user interface A vehicular passenger telephone 37 according to the present invention includes an improved passenger call notification mechanism 154, 534 and user interface. A passenger telephone 37 is provided which includes a handset 506, a credit card reader 508 and a... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5937058 | Coordinating telephones or adjuncts on the same loop When two or more telephone sets are in use on the same subscriber's loop, their activities may not be properly detected or monitored by the central office switch. The present invention provides a method of and an apparatus for coordinating activities so t... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5907605 | Dual format caller ID for both FSK and DTMF caller ID formats The dual equipment for identification of telephone calls is a terminal electronic device that meets the telephone specifications for the service of Caller Identification. It is an intelligent electronic equipment that is connected to the telephone line of... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5877676 | Apparatus for generating alerts of varying degrees An alerting device generates a variable alert that is varied to indicate the amount of time that has elapsed since the alert began. The alerting device has an alert signal detector, a timing unit, an alert signal generator and an alert unit. The alert sig... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5825852 | Multisensing circuitry for class signals and stutter dial tone in visual message waiting indicator A VMWI (Visual Message Waiting Indicator) multisense detection device solves both the problem of long CLASS VMWI signal retransmission delays and unreliable CLASS VMWI signal transmission by simultaneously enabling both stutter dial tone detection and CLA... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5745562 | Telephone station voice announce device and method The invention provides a telephone station having a voice announce device. The telephone station includes user interface devices and a telephone station controller coupled to the user interface devices. The telephone station controller selects one of the ... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5729589 | Apparatus and method for incoming call detection and alarm circuitry for cellular telephones An apparatus for use with cellular telephone to indicate an incoming telephone call to a user includes a cellular telephone battery pack having a circuit that generates a voltage signal with a value representative of the current being drawn from the batte... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5686881 | Automatic phone light The present invention relates to a first automatic phone light system (110) functioning to turn a light (14) ON, in response to a telephone call received by a telephone line (16A), for a preset period of time predetermined by a timer (24) when a photocell... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5661788 | Method and system for selectively alerting user and answering preferred telephone calls A method and telephone system for selectively answering incoming telephone calls by enabling user selection of a receiving mode that designates telephone numbers and an alert mode that designates how the user will be notified of incoming calls from the de... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5640441 | Apparatus and method for incoming call detection and alarm circuitry for cellular telephones An apparatus for use with a cellular telephone to indicate an incoming telephone call to a user includes a cellular telephone battery pack has a circuit that generates a voltage signal with a value representative of the current being drawn from the batter... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5638421 | Apparatus and method for incoming call detection and alarm circuitry for cellular telephones An apparatus and method for indicating an incoming call that generates a voltage signal with a value representative of the current drawn by operation of the device. A circuit monitors the voltage signal and generates a waiting for call state signal whenev... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5570421 | Method and apparatus for controlling the drive frequency of a LED A drive frequency control method and apparatus for use in a radio receiver, such as a paging unit. The paging unit includes an LED for informing a user of an incoming call, and a drive frequency controller coupled to the LED for controlling the luminance ... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5491746 | Unique ringing on a prime telephone A telephone switching system is comprised of a main controller, switching circuits controlled by the main controller, a peripheral controller for controlling the seizing of subscriber lines for calls routed through the switching circuits, and further comp... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5404399 | Telephone visual signaling device A telephone visual signaling device is provided which consists of a telephone connected to an incoming signal line and a mechanism for producing an identifiable beam of light when the telephone receives a telephone call on the incoming signal line.... | 04/04/1995 |
| 5280523 | Telephone line message waiting and ring indicator A visual indicator circuit is provided for visually indicating that a telephone is ringing or that a message is waiting. The circuit includes a visual indicator such as a light emitting diode (LED), a voltage triggering circuit for triggering when a minim... | 01/18/1994 |
