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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7286649 | Telecommunications infrastructure for generating conversation utterances to a remote listener in response to a quiet selection A user to conducts a telephone conversation without speaking. It does this by moving the participant in the public situation to a quiet mode of communication (e.g., keyboard, buttons, touchscreen). All the other participants are allowed to continue using their usual... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7197461 | System and method for voice-enabled input for use in the creation and automatic deployment of personalized, dynamic, and interactive voice services The delivery of voice serve messages communicating financial, personal or other news telecasts may be customized according to the identity of the recipient and controlled by voice commands. A voice service bureau may generate voice messages for individual subscriber... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7171364 | Voice assistant apparatus inputting a key In a key-input voice assistant apparatus of the present invention, a mode switching key is used to switch the operation mode between a normal mode in which a function assigned to a key is executed when key input is detected and a voice guide mode in which a voice is... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7046785 | Unrecognized number identifier A method of obtaining subscriber identification information using a subscriber number input by a customer calling a subscriber identification information service is provided. A switch recognizes a shortened telephone number provided by the customer and connects the ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7039857 | Method and apparatus for building multimedia applications using interactive multimedia viewers A programming application for creating an Interactive Multimedia Application (IMA) which includes access to and rendering of multimedia files stored in a data repository has first selectable software modules providing functionality for an Interactive Multimedia Appl... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7020251 | System and method for the creation and automatic deployment of personalized, dynamic and interactive voice services, with real-time drilling via telephone A method and system for accomplishing real-time drilling in conjunction with interactive, real-time, voice transmission of information to a user is disclosed. A voice-based communication between a user and a first system is established and a report is transmitted to... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6981059 | Audible designation for a node on a communication network An audible designation for a node on a communication network A method is provided for allowing any of a plurality of first locations on a global communication network to access a specific and determinable second location on the global communication network. A unique... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6977992 | System and method for the creation and automatic deployment of personalized, dynamic and interactive voice services, with real-time database queries A method and system for accomplishing real-time queries in conjunction with interactive, real-time, voice transmission of information to a user is disclosed. A voice-based communication between a user and a first system is established and a report is transmitted to ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6959071 | Phone-call apparatus, phone-call method, communication control apparatus, communication control method, and program Disclosed herein are a phone-call apparatus, a phone-call method, a communication control apparatus, a communication control method, and a program. In a phone-integrated terminal, a CPU controls a communication unit to implement a phone conversation with a communica... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6954517 | Multiple service announcement method A method for providing multiple calling service announcements on a single circuit card within a telephone network. The method reduces the number of stored speech files necessary to generate announcements regarding a calling service such as Automatic Call Back or Enh... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6941269 | Method and system for providing automated audible backchannel responses A voice processing system comprises a processing device that processes and receives a stream of voice input as a user is speaking. A software program executes program steps for determining a predetermined pattern of speech and silence during processing of stream of ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6934378 | Technique for enhanced information assistance call routing In an information assistance service environment, after information assistance is provided to a caller, the caller may request to have the information assistance service provider complete the call. In the prior art, the call was routed back to the carrier switch fro... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6728343 | User appliance with voice help guide A user appliance incorporating the invention includes a non-volatile memory for storing (i) a series of queries regarding operating problems that may be encountered in operating the user appliance; and (ii) a series of instructions on how to overcome the operating p... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6625257 | Message processing system, method for processing messages and computer readable medium A message processing device is adapted to obtain text data and read aloud the text data aloud by using a voice synthesizer. A loudspeaker device is connected to the message processing device to output or read aloud the text data. The text data can be rece... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6611681 | Method and apparatus for an improved call interrupt feature in a cordless telephone answering device A telecommunication device comprising a base unit and a cordless handset, wherein said telecommunication device is operable in a plurality of modes of operation. The base unit includes: (1) a ring signal detection module communicatively coupled to a telep... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6570964 | Technique for recognizing telephone numbers and other spoken information embedded in voice messages stored in a voice messaging system A technique for recognizing telephone numbers and other information embedded in voice messages stored in a telephone voice messaging system. A voice recognition system is coupled to the telephone voice messaging system. A voice message stored in the voice... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6442246 | Multiple service announcement method A method for providing multiple calling service announcements on a single circuit card within a telephone network. The method reduces the number of stored speech files necessary to generate announcements regarding a calling service such as Automatic Call ... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6405171 | Dynamically loadable phrase book libraries for spoken language grammars in an interactive system A system comprises a voice application with which a user interacts, and at least one dynamically-loadable phrase book library, separate from the voice application, that comprises, for each of a plurality of different phrases of a particular language, a me... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6393117 | Telephoning method comprising novel subscriber service A telephoning method, intended to facilitate possibility to offer subscribers of a telephone network/telecommunication system a novel service for preferably incoming calls/communication. According to the invention, a subscriber can, preferably by means of... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6388560 | Messaging terminal with voice notification A method for receiving and processing an incoming message in a wireless messaging terminal is disclosed. In particular, the method includes providing a receiver which receives the message and a memory for storing the message. The method further includes m... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6370238 | System and method for improved user interface in prompting systems An improved prompting system for accessing specified functions. According to one embodiment, a particular user may identify himself to the system and thereafter preprogram one or more paths that lead directly to a desired function within the hierarchical ... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6184950 | Luminous structure for liquid crystal displays A LCD luminous structure comprises a LCD liquid crystal displaying plate which is connected with a circuit by a bus, a light guiding plate, a dispersing piece, etc., light emitting diodes or other light sources are installed on the sides of the light guid... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6016336 | Interactive voice response system with call trainable routing A voice response system that functions in a receiving telephone system and learns individual caller behavior. The voice response system stores the callers unique identifier and a menu option selected by the caller in response to a menu manuscript. For sub... | 01/18/2000 |
| 6011832 | Multiple service announcement system and method A method for providing multiple calling service announcements on a single circuit card within a telephone network. The method reduces the number of stored speech files necessary to generate announcements regarding a calling service such as Automatic Call ... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5995826 | Methods for conditional tone responsive reconnection to directory assistance center A cellular telephone subscriber who wishes directory assistance services is connected in the conventional manner to an operator who identifies a destination telephone number desired by the subscriber. As in the prior art, the operator then initiates a cal... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5926524 | Messaging system scratchpad facility An improved messaging system (100, 900) enables a message recipient to take notes electronically while retrieving messages, such as by electronically extracting and separately recording a portion of a received message in a scratchpad area (250, 1050) of h... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5758323 | System and Method for producing voice files for an automated concatenated voice system A method for producing a voice file for use in an automated concatenated voice system. The words and phrases to be used in the system are scripted in a staged script, and read by a voice talent. The recording of the staged script as read by the voice tale... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5751790 | Voice information service device and voice information service method When a request to record is received from an information provider by way of a telephone network, a storage area is secured for each information number of provided information, and index numbers designated by the information provider and voice file numbers... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5724406 | Call processing system and method for providing a variety of messaging services A flexible, object-oriented call processor is employed in a wide range of messaging environments (e.g. voice messaging, facsimile mail, notification and electronic mail) to provide any number and type of messaging service. Call processing procedures can b... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5721537 | Pager-recorder and methods A hand-held device contains a paging receiver and a microphone to accept dictation of messages. A common digital data store holds received transmissions and dictated messages.... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5655006 | Automated system and method for voice processing An automated method and system for voice processing is used with a plurality of voice mail boxes each of which is assigned to a corresponding one of a plurality of subscribers and is operative to receive and store a plurality of voice messages. After play... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5619554 | Distributed voice system and method A distributed voice system and method provides voice scripting and voice messaging to a call processing system. According to this system and method, audio voice is recorded in frames and the frames encapsulated into data packets. The data packets are stor... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5539809 | Location specific messaging in a telecommunications network When one party places a long distance call to another party through a telephone network, there is a delay in completing the call after the calling party enters the telephone number of the called party. During this holding time, a message specific to the g... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5530950 | Audio data processing Audio data processing apparatus connectable to a telephone network, the apparatus comprising a device (50) to receive from the network and record an audio signal comprising a sequence of audio segments separated by audio delimiters, characterised by a dev... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5434908 | Greeting and schedule integration arrangement An arrangement (FIG. 4 ) that automatically generates and manages a subscriber's personal greeting for a voice message system (1000), based upon information contained in the subscriber's electronic schedule database (1007), such as a calendar manager prog... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5307059 | Selective call receiver having customized voice alerts A selective call receiver comprises a receiver for receiving a signal, a processor for processing the received signal to detect an address code therein, a storage device for storing information representing at least one personalized alert signal, and a co... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5283731 | Computer-based classified ad system and method A computerized classified ad system and method. The system comprises a data processor including means for creating an ad database comprising a plurality of ads, each ad containing text data describing an item to be made available through the system. In a ... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5251251 | Telecommunications network-based greeting card method and system A subscriber's personalized voice message to be played out to a recipient is recorded by a central facility over a telecommunications network. The subscriber selects a prerecorded message from a library of messages, and is assigned an access code associat... | 10/05/1993 |
| 4866754 | Automatic telephone answering machine utilizing voice synthesis An automatic telephone answering and recording device, wherein if an incoming call is received when an incoming message tape is full or an owner fails to set the telephone answering device to an automatic answering mode prior to leaving, the telephone lin... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4805204 | Automatic telephone apparatus and set-up method therefor In an automatic telephone answering apparatus, an outgoing message tape is driven upon reception of an incoming call, and a first outgoing message and a specific signal are reproduced. When the specific signal is detected, a timer is started. While the ti... | 02/14/1989 |
