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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189746 | Voice rendering of E-mail with tags for improved user experience Tags, such as XML tags, are inserted into email to separate email content from signature blocks, privacy notices and confidentiality notices, and to separate original email messages from replies and replies from further replies. The tags are detected by a system tha... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8144839 | Communication method and system for determining a sequence of services linked to a conversation The present invention concerns a method for determining a sequence of services linked to a conversation in which a user (12) takes part from a communication system (1), as well as the associated communication system (1). According to the inventi... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8130916 | Dynamically improving performance of an interactive voice response (IVR) system using a complex events processor (CEP) Problematic event data for problematic events that occur during interaction between an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system and a caller can be captured. The problematic event data can be analyzed for performance issues. A performance issue can represent an inter... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8116438 | System for providing telephonic voice response information related to items marked on physical documents A system to telephonically access information related with items printed on a physical document. Items marked on the physical document or on any other physical surface is touched with a finger. The system includes a touch foil placed over (or under) the document, fo... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116437 | Voice communications menu Methods and systems are described for providing a telecommunications services menu accessible via a voice interactive system, such as a voice services node. A subscriber accesses a voice communications menu by accessing a voice services node. The voice services node... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111812 | Technique for emulating an instruction set in providing electronic messaging service through an information assistance provider To facilitate managing his/her email through a Voice E-mail™ service, a user is allowed to select one or more sets of commands, with which he/she is familiar or prefers, to be emulated when the user interacts with the service. With this selection in place, when a ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8073112 | Method and system to manage multiple IVRs A method includes storing a profile associated with a user of a telephone and, based upon the profile, presenting the user with an option to search, browse, subscribe to, or bookmark content provided by a plurality of IVR content providers. ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8064573 | Computer generated prompting A method and apparatus for generating appropriate confirmatory prompts in a speech-enabled, interactive computer system. The method can be incorporated in an interactive voice response system that includes receiving an input audio stream over a voice channel from a ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8009811 | Testing and quality assurance of interactive voice response (IVR) applications A system receives a condition for an interactive voice response (IVR) application, automatically tests the IVR application based on the received condition, and generates a test result based on the automatic testing of the IVR application. ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7970107 | Method and system for automated and selective determination of call completion services A method and system for providing a call completion service for a call between a caller and a destination over a network. Outgoing and Incoming call profiles, identifying enabled call completion services, are associated with callers and destinations, and are retriev... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7912186 | Selectable state machine user interface system A system that concurrently provides multiple user interface (UI) mechanisms that facilitate control of an application state machine (e.g., unified message system). More particularly, the invention can create two relatively distinct user experiences, one via dual ton... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7864929 | Method and systems for accessing data from a network via telephone, using printed publication A method and systems to access information related to items printed on publications by voice commands generated by a user through a telephone. To access additional information, the user dials on a telephone the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) service identifier and... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7729478 | Change speed of voicemail playback depending on context A messaging system is provided that includes: (a) an interface 206 for receiving a request to play a message audibly to a subscriber; and (b) a message retrieval agent 224 for determining whether the ... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7672436 | Voice rendering of E-mail with tags for improved user experience Tags, such as XML tags, are inserted into email to separate email content from signature blocks, privacy notices and confidentiality notices, and to separate original email messages from replies and replies from further replies. The tags are detected by a system tha... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7620159 | System, method and software for transitioning between speech-enabled applications using action-object matrices A system, method and software are described for facilitating transitions between speech-enabled applications employing action-object matrices. In an exemplary embodiment, an automatic call router determines a service agent destination by identifying an action-object... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7570746 | Method and apparatus for voice interactive messaging A method comprising receiving a request to compose a message; outputting a first prompt requesting a recipient for the message; receiving a first audible response to the first prompt, the first audible response including a recipient of the message; outputting a seco... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7522711 | Delivery of audio driving directions via a telephone interface Methods for improving the delivery of audio driving directions from a voice portal to a caller via a telephone interface are described. These methods provide accurate and clear audio driving directions in a manner that is easy to use. Moreover, caller-provided input... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7443962 | System and process for speaking in a two-way voice communication without talking using a set of speech selection menus A system and process for enabling a communication device having computing capability, a user interface and display, to conduct two-way voice communications between a user and a remote party over a communication link in such a manner that the remote party speaks but ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7433818 | Subscriber terminal for providing speech-text encoding and telephony service A subscriber terminal is provided for speech-to-text translation. Speech packets are received at a broadband telephony interface and stored in a buffer. The speech packets are processed and textual representations thereof are displayed as words on a display device. ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430510 | System and method of using modular spoken-dialog components A system and method are disclosed for switching contexts within a spoken dialog between a user and a spoken dialog system. The spoken dialog system utilizes modular subdialogs that are invoked by at least one flow controller that is a finite state model and that ass... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7421393 | System for developing a dialog manager using modular spoken-dialog components A dialog manager and spoken dialog service having a dialog manager generated according to a method comprising selecting a top level flow controller based on application type, selecting available reusable subdialogs for each application part, developing a subdialog f... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415415 | Computer generated prompting A method and apparatus for generating appropriate confirmatory prompts in a speech-enabled, interactive computer system. The method can be incorporated in an interactive voice response system that includes receiving an input audio stream over a voice channel from a ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415101 | System, method and software for a speech-enabled call routing application using an action-object matrix A system, method and software for facilitating a speech-enabled call routing application using an action-object matrix is disclosed. In operation, a natural language user utterance may be evaluated to identify an action and object available in an action-object matri... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7400879 | Method for conducting mobile communications for a network A method for facilitating incoming and outgoing calls in a mobile communication system using a server or software located on a third-party server is provided. An electronic attendant allows users to perform various tasks using one or more speech terminals coupled to... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398212 | System and method for quality of service management with a call handling system A system and method for quality of service management within a call handling system is disclosed. The method discloses: initiating a dialog between a contact and an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) module; matching the contact with a predefined contact category; ret... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7382867 | Variable data voice survey and recipient voice message capture system Personalized voice survey delivery systems and methods in which a computer identifies a person to be surveyed, including his or her phone number or Internet login to a specific website, or email address, together with specific identifiers for the person, such as the... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7376220 | Automatically updating a voice mail greeting A method for preparing and automatically updating a greeting on a voice mail system comprising receiving a call to a voice mailbox, selecting a greeting template based on one or more conditions, identifying greeting parameters present within the greeting template, r... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372947 | Message exchange and method for distributing messages in telephone networks A voice-controlled message exchange apparatus and method for receiving spoken messages, from a plurality of subscribers in a public switched telephone network via the telephone network. The voice controlled message exchange is used for storing the received messages,... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372948 | Method and system for providing enhanced caller identification information A method and apparatus permit handling of unwanted calls from callers such as telemarketers, when caller identification is provided. In one embodiment, the called party adds the caller identification information for the telemarketer to a personal list after receivin... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366712 | Information retrieval center gateway A method, apparatus, and gateway allows a variety of client devices to access information from current information providers, and the information is adapted to accommodate the differing formats of the client devices. Speech processing, text-to-speech (TTS), speech f... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366499 | Announcement service for the visually impaired A visually-impaired person possessing a GPS-equipped cellular phone, or other mobile communications device, who wants to know their location, uses the cellular phone to call a location-announcement service. In response, the service queries the GPS receiver for the p... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362748 | Implementation method and system of the personal number service that syncretizes the phone network user and IP network user A One Number Link You ONLY number is assigned to each subscriber, which identifies the subscriber exclusively. The said subscriber can be an IP subscriber or an ordinary PSTN subscriber. An ONLY Service Server and an ONLY User Server are configured, any ONLY service... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363029 | Unified interface for voice, text or picture message authoring A unified messaging interface and associated methods that enables mobile communication device users to initiate the creation of a message for a recipient without being required to explicitly specify the type of message that is to be created. The mobile communication... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359502 | System for providing network information service using CID-type messages A network-based announcement and message delivery service for providing a landline customer with information of interest such as weather, financial market data, time/temperature, sporting event results, etc. The information is provided to the subscriber by way of in... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359858 | User interface for data access and entry Automatically searching for one or more matches to a search string includes accessing a first part and a second part of a search string. A first search space is searched for a match for the first part of the search string, and a second search space is limited based ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356356 | Telephone number retrieval system and method Methods and systems directed to telephone number retrieval are provided. A terminal requests a telephone number from a telephone number service. A voice response comprising the telephone number is received from the telephone number service. A feature vector sequence... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356130 | Method and system for selecting speech or DTMF interfaces or a mixture of both A wizard that from a fixed design can create various audio interfaces. The generated interfaces can be speech only, DTMF only, or various mixed speech and DTMF UIs. When specifying both speech and DTMF prompts, a number of combinations of these interfaces could be a... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356475 | System and method for providing access to an interactive service offering A system and method are disclosed for providing access to an interactive service offering. A method incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include receiving a first communication in a format that complies with a first protocol. The first communication... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349532 | Picture and video message center system A message originator sends a picture or video message to a message center along with caller identifying information. The message is stored in a memory and transmitted to a wireless picture phone, PDA or portable computing device, or stored at the message center in a... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349843 | Automatic call distributor with language based routing system and method A method and system for determining a language of a call handled by an automatic call distributor is disclosed. The method includes the steps of detecting the call, sampling an audio portion of the call, fitting a plurality of templates to the sampled portion of the... | 03/25/2008 |
