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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7978844 | Selective telephone ringing-signal interruption Systems and methods are disclosed which allow a person to pre-set preferred calling times for receiving incoming calls. During these pre-set times (which could vary from day to day) calls that arrive are interrupted such that ringing tone is not applied to at least ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7940920 | Telecommunication capable of silent operation and the related method therof Disclosed is a telecommunication system including a main telecommunication apparatus, at least one slave telecommunication apparatus and a virtual signal circuit. The slave telecommunication apparatus is coupled to the main telecommunication apparatus. The virtual s... | 05/10/2011 |
| 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 |
| 7239693 | Network-based timed ring suppression Systems and methods for timed ring suppression are disclosed. After a communications device receives an incoming call and the ringer is activated to produce an initial audible alert, the ringer of the communications device may be silenced for subsequent audible aler... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7180639 | Image communication apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide an image communication apparatus which can improve the noise-reducing effect when a ringing tone has been set to non-ringing or when an operation mode at a start time of recording is for recording at a fax receive tim... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7162026 | Alert muting method through indirect contact for portable devices The invention generally relates to a method for muting an alerting portable device such as a ringing cell phone or alarming PDA. Specifically where muting is activated in a means not requiring direct contact with the keys of the device. The indirect contact such as ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162027 | Voice messaging system caller ring bypass control A voice messaging system such as a telephone answering device which allows a calling party to bypass the ring signal and substantially immediately allow the calling party to leave a voice message. To activate the no ring signal access to the telephone answering devi... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7113586 | Caller controlled network-based timed ring suppression Systems and methods for timed ring suppression are disclosed. After a communications device receives an incoming call and the ringer is activated to produce an initial audible alert, the ringer of the communications device may be silenced for subsequent audible aler... | 09/26/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7027840 | Method and apparatus of muting an alert A wireless communication device (100, 800) is provided with a movement sensor (802), and circuitry for controlling the operation of the wireless communication device. In operation in response to detecting predetermined movement of the wireless communic... | 04/11/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6950511 | Detection of both voice and tones using Goertzel filters A plurality of Goertzel filters whose operating frequencies are distributed across the voice baseband are used to detect voice and control tones in a signal. Filters operating at frequencies of control tones and detecting that most of the signal energy occurs at tho... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6903835 | Communication apparatus A low power dissipation facsimile apparatus is capable of accommodating a plurality of lines. This apparatus is arranged to reduce the power consumption still more. The apparatus comprises a first control unit having a low power dissipation mode, which controls a fi... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6594354 | Method and apparatus for alert control on a communications system A switching system in which telecommunications features are improved by the proximity status of a predetermined user to a communications terminal. Proximity status information deduces a predetermined user's presence or absence to answer incoming calls on ... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6480602 | Ring-detect interface circuitry and method for a communication system Ring-detect interface circuit is disclosed for digital DAA circuitry to provide a plurality of selectable signals, including a ring monitor signal, on a ring-detect output pin. The interface circuitry allows the digital DAA circuitry to interface with adv... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6442256 | System and method for establishing a call path through a private network A system and method for utilizing suppressed ringing with a plurality of communication devices. The system creates a suppressed ringing signal, at a remote computer, for at least one of the plurality of communication devices, implements a protocol to dire... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6400814 | Telephone with ringer silencer screening feature A telephone with a ringer silencer call screening feature includes a ringer for indicating the receipt of an incoming call. A ringer control unit deactivates the ringer while the telephone is in a continuous on-hook state and reactivates the ringer upon t... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6278778 | System and method of power limiting call processing in telecommunications equipment A system and method of limiting power consumption in a telecommunications equipment coupled between a plurality of far end subscriber lines and a plurality of near end subscriber lines are provided. The method includes monitoring and determining a number ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6044148 | Pre-ring caller identification apparatus and method and call screening therefrom A telephone apparatus for screening calls on the basis of messages containing message data, the messages being transmitted by a central office before a first ring burst is transmitted by the central office. The apparatus includes a message receiver, a dec... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6002763 | Telephone with a mute ringer function having an automatic ringer reactivation capability A telephone with a mute ringer function having an automatic disabling feature includes multiple call indicators including a ringer. A power output reducing device is connected to the ringer to reduce the ringer volume prior to a connection between the tel... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5991604 | Ring detecting circuit and method for wireless/wired composite telephone In a circuit for notifying ring signal reception to a wireless telephone in a wireless/wired composite telephone system having a direct-current (DC) blocking circuit for blocking a DC component from a ring signal input through a ring terminal and a tip te... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5930351 | Remote telephone ringer controller A device (FIG. 1, item 110), which may be remotely controlled, inserted between a telephone (FIG. 1, item 100) and a telephone line (FIG. 1, item 120) that controls the telephone's ringer to silence it or not, to cause it to ring in a different manner to ... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5909488 | Communication apparatus having a non-ringing call receiving mode and an energy-saving stand-by mode A communication apparatus has a power saving stand-by mode for reducing power consumption during stand-by and a non-ringing call receiving mode for communication without ringing an attached telephone set at the arrival of a call. In the power saving stand... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5907613 | Telephone silencing system A telephone silencing system is provided for use with at least one telephone receiver and an external telephone line electrically connected with the telephone receiver. This system includes a switch electrically connected in series between the telephone l... | 05/25/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5604797 | Ring-tone muting device and processing method A device for muting a ringer of a telephone, the device being placed in series with a telephone ringer and having a gate alterable between a non-conductive state and a conductive state whereby a ring signal is selectively passed to the ringer. A remote ca... | 02/18/1997 |
| 4932050 | Proximity detection for telecommunications features A switching system in which telecommunications features are improved by the use of the proximity status of a telephone station set user. The status is transmitted to the switching system over the same telephone line used for the station set. The proximity... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4644106 | Apparatus for timely controlling the sound characteristic of a signaling means of a voice communication device An automatic telephone silencer and volume controller having a microprocessor for storing time and volume information and for timely controlling the sound characteristics of a telephone ringer in accordance with the time and volume information stored. The... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4480154 | Automatic telephone silencer Apparatus is provided for automatically silencing a telephone ringer. In accordance with one aspect, the apparatus places the telephone's ringer under the control of a 24-hour timer so that once the timer is set, the ringer will automatically be silenced ... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4453041 | Method and apparatus for processing coded information received through a telephone line during the non-active intervals of a ringing period A method and apparatus for screening unwanted calls by processing coded information received through a telephone line during the non-active intervals of a ringing period. Once the ringing loop has been established, a calling party "dials" a pre-establishe... | 06/05/1984 |
| 4446339 | Rotary dial decoder A telephone system for actuating a function-generating device such as ringing a telephone bell, lighting a lamp, reading a meter, and the like, the system being adapted to be directly operated by a pulse-generating means such as a rotary telephone dial.... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4405839 | Timed telephone ring silencer device A timed telephone ring silencer device for selectively disabling the ringer mechanism of an attached telephone for a predetermined timed interval during a time when the user does not wish to be disturbed by telephone calls. The silencer device contains a ... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4384171 | Automatic telephone silencer Electrically operated apparatus silences a telephone ringer in a modular jack telephone system. The apparatus, by means of a photoresistor, or a triac-photoresistor combination, interrupts the conductive path to the telephone ringer while maintaining elec... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383138 | Method and apparatus for processing coded information received through a telephone line during the inter-ringing periods A method for processing coded information received through a telephone line during the inter-ringing periods. A calling party dials a desired phone number and, once he recognizes the signals indicating that the ringing circuit has been established, he dia... | 05/10/1983 |
| 4152549 | Suppressor of spurious ringing currents for telephone apparatus A subscriber's telephone set, provided with a ringer connected in series with a capacitor across a line loop, is provided with a unit for the suppression of spurious ringing currents including an antiparallel connection of a diode and a transistor in seri... | 05/01/1979 |
