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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8150001 | Methods for voice activated dialing Methods for routing a call based on voice activated dialing (VAD). A VAD device module may respond to a VAD instruction, or to a call received with a VAD instruction with a corresponding call destination number obtained from a personal VAD directory. If the personal... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8081739 | Methods and systems for voice activated dialing Methods for routing a call based on voice activated dialing (VAD). A VAD device module may respond to a VAD instruction, or to a call received with a VAD instruction with a corresponding call destination number obtained from a personal VAD directory. If the personal... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077835 | Method and system of providing interactive speech recognition based on call routing A speech recognition process and system are used for interactive telecommunication. A caller is prompted for input. Each of the phrases represents a destination for routing the call. The response utterance is matched by the system to one of the phrases and the call ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077836 | Transparent voice registration and verification method and system Transparent voice registration of a party is provided in order to provide voice verification for communications with a service center. Verbal communication spoken by a party during interaction between the party and an agent of the service center is captured. A voice... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8000453 | Personal virtual assistant A computer-based virtual assistant includes a virtual assistant application running on a computer capable of receiving human voice communications from a user of a remote user interface and transmitting a vocalization to the remote user interface, the virtual assista... | 08/16/2011 |
| RE42539 | Network and method for providing a calling name telecommunications service with automatic speech recognition capability A network for providing a telecommunications service with automatic speech recognition to a telecommunications user, including a switch in communication with a telecommunications device associated with the telecommunications user for detecting a terminating trigger ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7965822 | Telephony dialing using speech recognition A system and method of dialing a telephone number included in a voice mail or telephone conversation, including recognizing a telephone number present in the speech received by a telephone apparatus from a stored message, an automated voice response system, or a liv... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7957509 | Voice enhancing for advance intelligent network services A method for updating communications service parameters includes receiving, at a platform configured for speech recognition functionality and corresponding to a communications address associated with verbally updating communications service parameters, a voice instr... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7801283 | Method of operating vehicular, hands-free telephone system A hands-free, Bluetooth™ enabled telephone system for a vehicle is configured to enable an operator such as the driver of the vehicle to say multiple voice commands at one time in order to control the operation of the telephone system. Such multiple commands inclu... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7801284 | Voice terminal for dialing by name with presence A voice terminal provides an enhanced dial-by-name feature using presence information indicating availability of subscribers. The voice terminal includes an input device configured to receive input from a user indicating directory search criteria for searching a dir... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7738635 | Correlating call data and speech recognition information in a telephony application A method for improving the recognition confidence of alphanumeric spoken input, suitable for use in a speech recognition telephony application such as a voice response system. An alphanumeric candidate is determined from the spoken input, which may be the best avail... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7720203 | System and method for processing speech Systems and methods for processing speech are provided. A system may include an acoustic model to transform speech input into one or more word strings. The system may also include a semantic model to convert each of the one or more word strings into a detected objec... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7627096 | System and method for independently recognizing and selecting actions and objects in a speech recognition system A method for processing a call is disclosed. The method receives a speech input via a call and transforms at the speech input into a textual format. The method also creates a list of salient terms of actions and objects from the text, adjusts the confidence level of... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7561672 | Automatic voice call connection service method using personal phone book database constructed through voice recognition Disclosed is an automatic voice call connection service method using a personal phone book database constructed through voice recognition, which includes the steps of allocating personal databases corresponding to phone number to each service user; storing name text... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7561673 | Integration of speech services with telecommunications A system for controlling a telephone infrastructure device or other network traffic service model based device includes an object oriented based application including a device object adapted for storing information pertaining to a physical or logical device, a call ... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7529353 | Using a voice extensible markup language browser to implement an advanced intelligent network intelligent peripheral A method and structure for providing a voice dialogue in a telephone network that includes initiating a telephone call, routing the telephone call to a voice processor based upon a call control protocol, and converting the call control protocol to a voice extensible... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7483520 | Method and apparatus for prompting a cellular telephone user with instructions According to a disclosed embodiment, an incoming call from a first telephone number is received (310). A variable indicating the number of calls received from the first telephone number is incremented (312). The variable is compared to a threshold vari... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7477728 | Fast voice dialing apparatus and method In a fast, convenient voice dialing apparatus and method, users efficiently and conveniently apply a telephone number digit recognition engine to number dialing. By voicing only a subset of a telephone number among telephone numbers pre-registered in a telephone num... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7466800 | Method and system of voice activated dialing using an intelligent peripheral in an advance intelligent network A system and method for voice activated dialing (VAD) using an intelligent peripheral (IP), such as a service circuit node (SCN) in an Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN). This invention preserves subscriber preferences for certain attributes including preferred inte... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7460650 | Method for designing an automated speech recognition (ASR) interface for a customer call center A method of designing a customer interface for a service center, such as an automated speech recognition (ASR) self-service center. Customer activity to an existing service center is monitored, providing customer model, which includes a collection of customer tasks.... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7457396 | Automated call management A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for automated processing of an auditory communication is disclosed. In an embodiment, this comprises receiving the auditory communication with call transport information, triggering a first policy based on the data, an... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7415413 | Methods for conveying synthetic speech style from a text-to-speech system A technique for producing speech output in a text-to-speech system is provided. A message is created for communication to a user in a natural language generator of the text-to-speech system. The message is annotated in the natural language generator with a synthetic... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412036 | Method for establishing a telephone connection by voice control and corresponding voice server Voice-activated telephone call connection method and corresponding voice server. According to the invention, the voice server (SV) comprises customised directories (A1, A2, A3, . . . ) associated with voice recognition pattern... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409047 | Personalized telephone directory and calling system An embodiment of this invention provides a secure, integrated and hierarchical database to store phone numbers of services, along with personal protected information required by the service. This hierarchical data is stored for an individual or a group of individual... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409344 | XML based architecture for controlling user interfaces with contextual voice commands A voice-enabled user interface includes a first user interface. A voice extension module is associated with the first user interface and is configured to voice-enable the first user interface. The voice extension module includes a speech recognition engine, an XML c... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7369996 | System and method for voice based network management The present invention provides a system and method for voice based network management. A network management system uses voice based scripts that allow network management operations to be performed over a phone. In one embodiment, the voice based scripts use a Voice ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369862 | Method and system for providing data services to mobile communication terminals and mobile communication terminal therefor A method, a system and a mobile terminal for providing data services, whereby specific data services according to a zone of a precinct wireless network are conveniently provided to mobile terminal subscribers in the precinct wireless network, while preventing the ma... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363228 | Speech recognition system and method A computer system and method is disclosed that includes a telephony server that receives a spoken dialing command, sends the command to a speech recognition server, and dials a command based on the result. A computer system and method is disclosed that improves audi... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359500 | Method for carrying out predetermined actions by a receiving telecom device using an answer prefix A method for carrying out predetermined actions by a telecom receiving device. A predetermined answer string is entered and stored in a memory portion of a receiving telecom device. Incoming calls are checked for appropriateness. Accepted incoming calls are monitore... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356131 | Methods and systems for voice activated dialing Methods and systems for routing a call based on voice activated dialing (VAD). A VAD device module may respond to a VAD instruction, or to a call received with a VAD instruction with a corresponding call destination number obtained from a personal VAD directory. If ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352855 | Method and system for providing a privacy management service A method for providing a privacy management service in a telephone system including initiating a telephone call from a subscriber telephone number to a called party telephone number. The initiating is performed by a subscriber. It is determined if the called party t... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352848 | Personal address updates using directory assistance data Methods and systems are provided for storing directory assistance information in a subscriber's electronic address book for future use. If a directory number associated with the desired called party is not in the subscriber's address book, a voice services node init... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7343009 | System access modules for use with a telecommunications switch, a telephony server system and a method of enabling a communications session. System access modules and a method of enabling a communication session. In one embodiment, a system access module includes a call manager that establishes a communications path through the system access module from a telecommunications switch and maintains the commu... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343005 | Method and apparatus for voice-over IP services triggered by off-hook event The present invention is drawn to a method and apparatus for taking advantage of the always-on nature of a broadband VoIP network connection to provide enhanced services triggered by the off-hook event, bypassing a dial tone. In use, a caller triggers a network base... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340041 | Telephone device having operation function by voice input When a hook detection unit (18) detects the off-hook of a handset (8), voice (e.g., “telephone book”, the other party's name) sent from a user is input via the handset (8), and a voice recognition unit (110) recognizes the voice, the ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336649 | Hybrid packet-switched and circuit-switched telephony system A hybrid telephony system with packet switching as well as circuit switching optimizes utilization of transport networks, and is accessible from any conventional telephone set. A call originating from a circuit-switched network is passed through a gateway computer t... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336772 | Methods and systems for connecting a call using a name or series of characters Methods and systems for connecting a call using a name or series of characters are disclosed. A user provides data pertaining to a call from the user to a called party. The data includes name information that corresponds to the called party. A query may be sent to a... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336771 | Voice extensible markup language enhancements of intelligent network services A call is processed in a public switched telephone network (PSTN), in accordance with at least one advanced intelligent network (AIN) telephony service associated with one of a calling party number and a called party number. The call is initially connected to a voic... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333933 | Speech based status and control user interface customisable by the user The present invention provides a means for an end user to customize a speech-based user interface, such as those used in status and control for such applications as messaging, unified communications, automobile control, and many others. The invention consists of two... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7317787 | Voice enhancing for advance intelligent network services A service includes verbally editing at least one parameter of a subscriber's advanced intelligent network (AIN) service using speech recognition functionality of an intelligent peripheral. A call is received from the subscriber at a switch, including a dialed number... | 01/08/2008 |
