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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7916841 | Method and apparatus for joint detection A joint detection system and associated methods are provided. The joint detection system is configured to perform joint detection of received signals and includes a joint detector accelerator and a programmable digital signal processor (DSP). The joint detector acce... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7535996 | Method and system for recording audio onto a carrier using a personal computer An audio message recording and playback system including a recorder-imprinter device, a self-contained voice module for playback of an audio message and a number of input devices for initially recording the audio message to the recorder-imprinter device. An internet... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7421066 | Telephone call/voice processing system A telephone and voice mail (voice processing) system is implemented using only a single processing means for controlling operations of both the telephone system and the voice mail system. The single processing means communicates with a hard disk, which stores progra... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7359437 | Encoding method and system for reducing inter-symbol interference effects in transmission over a serial link A communication system including a transmitter, a receiver, and a serial link, in which encoded data (e.g., encoded video data and encoded auxiliary data) are transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver. The serial link can but need not be a TMDS or TMDS-like l... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352849 | SMS switching private branch exchange system and method An short message service switching private branch exchange system and a method can reduce costs. The method can include certifying whether a usable DSP exists or not when an office line and a speech path are connected to each other, and transmitting an short message... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349846 | Information processing apparatus, method, program, and storage medium for inputting a pronunciation symbol An information processing apparatus for inputting a pronunciation symbol corresponding to an English notation includes pronunciation symbol information holding means for holding pronunciation symbol information indicating a relationship between a predetermined alpha... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346507 | Method and apparatus for training an automated speech recognition-based system A method and apparatus for building a training set for an automated speech recognition-based system, which determines the statistically optimal number of frequently requested responses to automate in order to achieve a desired automation rate. The invention may be u... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7324632 | Distribution device in a data signal processing installation, and data signal processing installation The invention relates to a distribution device (2) in a data signal processing installation (1), and a data signal processing installation (1). The distribution device comprises a distribution block (3) which has a receiving device contai... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319741 | Media resource card with dynamically allocated resource points A system and method are disclosed for the licensing and managing media resources in a converged services platform. A novel central pool of resource points representing a licensed level of media resource capability is created, the central pool for the storage of all ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7292681 | Technique and an apparatus for producing postcards having an audio message for playback by recipient A system having a postcard having a thickness not to exceed 5.5 mm while containing an audio message for playback and a power supply, the system also having a base recording unit for recording a message to the postcard when the postcard is inserted into the base rec... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289791 | Methods of recording voice signals in a mobile set The present invention relates to a mobile set integrating a memory efficient data storage system for the real time recording of voice conversations, data transmission and the like. The data recorder has the capacity to selectively choose the most relevant time frame... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283566 | Method and circuit for generating time stamp data from an embedded-clock audio data stream and a video clock In preferred embodiments, a system including a transmitter, a receiver, and a serial link, in which the transmitter is configured to transmit video data, embedded-clock auxiliary data (or auxiliary data derived from embedded-clock auxiliary data), and a video clock ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7257163 | Method and system for reducing inter-symbol interference effects in transmission over a serial link with mapping of each word in a cluster of received words to a single transmitted word A system in which encoded data (e.g., encoded video and auxiliary data) are transmitted over a serial link. Other aspects of the invention are transmitters for use in encoding data for transmission over a serial link, receivers for receiving such data, and methods f... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7251477 | Method for storing and reproducing a voice message in a mobile telephone A method for managing voice messages in a mobile telephone, including a voice message store mode and a voice message reproduce mode. In the voice message store mode, the remaining memory capacity is calculated first, and, if there is sufficient memory, the voice mes... | 07/31/2007 |
| RE39722 | Telephone call/voice processing system A telephone and voice mail (voice processing) system is implemented using only a single processing means for controlling operations of both the telephone system and the voice mail system. The single processing means communicates with a hard disk, which stores progra... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7203287 | Audio recording system and method of use An audio message recording and playback system including a recorder-imprinter device, a self-contained voice module for playback of an audio message and a number of input devices for initially recording the audio message to the recorder-imprinter device. ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7190771 | Internet telephony devices with circuity to announce incoming calls A system detects an incoming telephone call and routes the ring signal to a loudspeaker so that it can be heard at a distance from the telephony device. Once the incoming call has been acknowledged the incoming signal is routed to the headset. New incoming calls are... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7190950 | Storage of voicemail messages at an alternate storage location A method and system are provided for storing received voicemail messages to alternate storage locations. A subscriber to voicemail services provides a voicemail system with an address or a number of addresses to which the subscriber may forward voicemail messages fo... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7188196 | Method and apparatus for playing analog audio to multiple codec outputs Method and apparatus for playing analog audio in an electronic audio system having multiple audio codecs, only one of which has a direct hardware connection to the analog audio source. First analog audio data is received from the analog audio source at a first audio... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7164755 | Voice storage device and voice coding device The voice storage device of the invention includes a storage means that stores a voice signal, and a voice compression means that compresses the voice signal requiring a re-coding compression, of the voice signal stored in the storage means, in accordance with a com... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7146319 | Phonetically based speech recognition system and method A speech recognition method includes a step of receiving a phonetic sequence output by a phonetic recognizer. The method also includes a step of matching the phonetic sequence with one of a plurality of reference phoneme sequences stored in a reference list that mat... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7136630 | Methods of recording voice signals in a mobile set The present invention relates to a mobile set integrating a memory efficient data storage system for the real time recording of voice conversations, data transmission and the like. The data recorder has the capacity to selectively choose the most relevant time frame... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7127393 | Dynamic semantic control of a speech recognition system A method and apparatus are provided for automatically recognizing words of spoken speech using a computer-based speech recognition system according to a dynamic semantic model. In an embodiment, the speech recognition system recognizes speech and generates one or mo... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7120143 | Voice-over Internet protocol processor The present invention is directed to audio processing including IP telephony audio processing. Voice-over-IP terminals used in phone terminal applications benefit from a low-power implementation suitable for the limited chassis area of these devices. According to an... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7103533 | Method for preserving contextual accuracy in an extendible speech recognition language model A method of generating language model statistics for a new word added to a language model incorporating at least one class file containing contextually related words. The method can include the following steps: First, language model statistics can be computed based ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103349 | Method, system and network entity for providing text telephone enhancement for voice, tone and sound-based network services The invention is a system, a method of transmitting messages selectively as text or non-text from an entity (104) in a network (100 and 102), and an entity in a network. A system in accordance with the invention includes at least one terminal ( | 09/05/2006 |
| 7088398 | Method and apparatus for regenerating a clock for auxiliary data transmitted over a serial link with video data A communication system including a transmitter, a receiver, and a serial link, in which encoded data (e.g., video, audio, and optionally also other auxiliary data) are transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver. The serial link can but need not be a TMDS or TM... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7039205 | Techniques for audio transducer switching under programmatic and off hook interrupt control Techniques for configuring multiple audio transducers, including telephony devices, are provided. Audio configurations for the multiple audio input and output transducers can be selected by the user. When it is determined that a telephony device has gone off hook, t... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7035252 | Cooperative media applications using packet network media redirection A system and method for a packet VRU which directly utilize packet network protocols, such as those of the H.323 standard, to provide enhanced services via a packet network, such as whisper mode communications, call recording, call broadcasting, advertisement broadc... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031442 | Methods and apparatus for personal routing in computer-simulated telephony A client-server telephone call router system as part of a customer premises system has a client-server router adapted to execute on a telephony switch, such as a public branch exchange (PBX) or other telephony switch, or on a processor connected by CTI link to a tel... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027568 | Personal message service with enhanced text to speech synthesis A server in a network gathers textual information, such as news items, E-mail and the like. From that information, the server develops or identifies messages for use by individual subscribers. The same server that accumulates the text messages or another server in t... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027565 | Voice control system notifying execution result including uttered speech content A voice recognition unit recognizes a recognition word code corresponding to a speech uttered by a user along with a command code for executing a function of a control object. A function execution unit executes a function corresponding to the command code from the v... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023968 | Message handling system A system for handling messages may be adapted to handle both electronic mail and telephonic messages in substantially the same fashion. For example, telephonic messages may be converted to a textual format including both the identity of the source of the call and th... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020262 | Web based personal directory A personal directory system 10 has a translation server 40 for verifying the identity of a subscriber and recognizing the name of one or more subscribers that are stored on a personal directory of another subscriber. A caller is connected by a public t... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016850 | Method and apparatus for reducing access delay in discontinuous transmission packet telephony systems Speech at the beginning of a talkspurt in a discontinuous transmission (DTX) packet telephony system is speeded up to help make up for an access delay incurred during channel allocation. Incoming speech frames are buffered, a pitch period for a current portion of th... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6999581 | Event detection circuit A network interface circuit that screens out transient signals and provides an indication to the line side that an actual event has occurred, so that appropriate discrimination circuitry is powered up to determine the exact nature of the actual event only when actua... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999563 | Enhanced directory assistance automation The present invention enhances directory assistance automation by searching traditional directory assistance databases with independent listing and locality queries. Initially, a caller's speech responses from a directory assistance inquiry are individually converte... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6993121 | Method and system for text-to-speech conversion of caller information A system (10) and method (40) for providing audible caller information to telephone service subscribers is presented. The system (10) includes a pre-processor (28) that converts textual caller information from a first data format to a sec... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6993321 | Wireless telephone system with mobile instruments for outgoing calls A telecommunication system incorporates individual station instruments simplified by wireless operation, voice dialing, prepaid accounting and out-call operation, all enabled by cooperative system operation including supporting central equipment. Wireless operation ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6990422 | Method of analyzing the time-varying electrical response of a stimulated target substance A time varying electrical excitation(s) is applied to a system containing biologic and/or non-biologic elements, whereupon the time-varying electrochemical or electrical response is detected and analyzed. For biologic specimens, the presence, activity, concentration... | 01/24/2006 |
