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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7860722 | System and method for keyword detection in a controlled-environment facility using a hybrid application A method for keyword detection in a controlled-environment facility comprises capturing a conversation within the controlled-environment facility and executing a hybrid keyword detection application for detecting a keyword spoken during the conversation. A system co... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7380180 | Method, system, and apparatus for tracking defective cache lines To facilitate a processor during a reset operation, a linked list of pointers to a list of defective cache lines is created. The good data bits in defective cache lines are used for creating a linked list or other data structure for storing relevant information rega... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7349682 | Home gateway system for automation and security The home gateway system (60) for home automation and security has a wireless local loop transceiver (62). A home automation controller (64) is capable of sending and receiving a message with the wireless local loop transceiver (62). A hom... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343151 | Cellular phone having mail and schedule functions A cellular phone which is capable of receiving/transmitting an e-mail detects whether or not the e-mail received includes a predetermined e-mail allotted to an inquiry sent from a sender prior to a telephone call. Responsive to the predetermined e-mail, the cellular... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7304585 | Initiation of actions with compressed action language representations A device stores one or more compression rules for an action language. Upon receipt of a signal from a tag (such as an RFID tag, a visual tag, or an audio tag), a compressed data stream corresponding to the tag is decoded from the signal. Based on the one or more com... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7283963 | System, method and computer program product for transferring unregistered callers to a registration process A system, method and computer program product are provided for handling unregistered callers in a voice recognition framework. Initially, it is determined whether a user is registered. If it is determined that the user is not registered, a registration process is ex... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280641 | Communication terminal apparatus and transfer method therefor Messages from a remote telephone set are automatically recorded as automatically recorded data by an answering function. An e-mail transmission/reception unit stores e-mail received from an e-mail server in a received mail file. An automatically recorded message and... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280133 | System and method for queuing and presenting audio messages A system and method is disclosed for queuing and presenting audio messages in a communication system comprising an audio controller and audio message computer software. The audio controller receives overlapping audio messages that have portions that have been simult... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277734 | Device, system and method for augmenting cellular telephone audio signals A device, system and method is described for augmenting cellular telephone signals for a cellular telephone. In an exemplary embodiment, an audio signal device cellular is provided with a sound generating device that stores one or more audio signals that are activat... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7278013 | Apparatus having a cache and a loop buffer Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a processor has a loop buffer and a cache that provides requested information to a processor core. ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7272153 | System and method for distributed processing of packet data containing audio information The present invention pertains to a system and corresponding method for distributed processing of packet data containing audio information. The system includes a host processing module for exchanging packet data containing audio information with a data packet networ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272214 | Flexible distributed/centralized architecture for voice/unified messaging system There is provided a messaging system comprising at least one distributed front-end messaging system and a centralized data store associated with said at least one distributed front-end messaging system, in which system the centralized data store includes means for s... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7257621 | Managing transiently connected network clients A method of delivering data over a computer network in which a CORBA name service runs on a first computer connected to a computer network at a kiosk station, and a subscription agent runs on a second computer connected to the computer network at a user's station. A... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257528 | Method and apparatus for Chinese character text input A method and apparatus for inputting Chinese character text into a machine such as a word processor or personal computer. The system consists of an apparatus which forms a closed feedback loop with the operator. The operator supplies stroke selections and other data... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7248663 | Apparatus and method for transforming data transmission speed Disclosed is an apparatus and method for transforming data transmission speed that transforms data transmission speeds of data transmitting apparatuses that have different data transmission speeds using a DPRAM. By using a DPRAM to transform transmission speeds, the... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245716 | Controlling hold queue position adjustment A method, system, and program for allowing callers to adjust in position within a hold queue are provided. An advancement token earned by a caller while waiting in a hold queue is detected. The advancement token is stored for redemption in a future call by the calle... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7243132 | Apparatus and method for controlling a device in a home network based upon a batch command that is generated when a name of the batch command, a name of the device, a service of the device and details related to the service are sequentially selected Apparatus and method for controlling devices within a home network, and a home network system employing the same. The apparatus for controlling a plurality of devices connected in the home network includes a batch processing portion for generating a batch command fo... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7233650 | Managing caller identifiers at a communication device Managing caller identifiers includes communicating calls at a communication device, where each call is associated with a caller identifier. The caller identifiers for the calls are stored in response to the communication. A sort command is accessed, and the caller i... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7228346 | IDL event and request formatting for corba gateway A CORBA Gateway between CORBA-based applications and an enterprise manager may be configurable to manage various networked objects, such as printers, scanners, copiers, telephone systems, etc., which may be interconnected via networks. CORBA-based manager applicatio... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224961 | Data transmission-reception system and data transmission-reception method Disclosed are data transmission-reception system and data transmission method, in which a communication system includes: a first communication device for transmitting outgoing data including content identification data, transmitting party identification data, receiv... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7218721 | Virtual telephone extension The present invention is directed to a method and system for routing communications. A plurality of communication devices are coupled to a communications network. Each communication device has a device identifier. A user-programmable database associates each of a pl... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7203643 | Method and apparatus for transmitting speech activity in distributed voice recognition systems A system and method for transmitting speech activity in a distributed voice recognition system. The distributed voice recognition system includes a local VR engine in a subscriber unit and a server VR engine on a server. The local VR engine comprises an advanced fea... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200425 | Device and method for augmenting cellular telephone audio signals A system and method is described for augmenting cellular telephone signals for a cellular telephone. In an exemplary embodiment, a cellular battery is equipped with a sound generating device that stores one or more audio signals that are activated upon receipt of a ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7181410 | Goal oriented travel planning system A travel system for processing travel requests based on a user's travel destination goal such as a meeting place and time. The travel system selects a destination terminal, if one is not provided, and estimates a travel time between the destination terminal and the ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7174009 | Elimination of inoperable service node during call set up In a service control point (SCP) having logic normally dictating that a call destined to a called party should be routed instead to a service node for handling, a method includes making a determination that the service node has become unavailable. The method thereaf... | 02/06/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7151822 | Method and system for releasing a voice response unit from a protocol session An approach for processing voice calls over a packet switched network as to efficiently utilize the functionalities of a Voice Response Unit (VRU). According to one embodiment, a call originator, acting as a User Agent Client in accordance with the Session Initiatio... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149788 | Method and system for providing access to captured multimedia data from a multimedia player A multimedia player is provided access to recorded multimedia data including data of a first media type, e.g., voice, and at least a second media type, e.g., text, exchanged between at least one user and at least one server. The recorded multimedia data of the first... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146320 | Electronic mail replies with speech recognition A method for responding to an electronic mail message with a limited input device such as a phone includes audibly rendering the question and a set of proposed answers typically provided in the electronic mail message by the sender of the electronic mail message. A ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7136901 | Electronic mail server An electronic mail server is provided to facilitate e-mail communication over a network. The electronic mail server includes an account name database and an account name processor in communication with the account name database for providing a response to a message ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7133899 | Method and apparatus for providing interactive text messages during a voice call Embodiments of the present information relate to a method and apparatus for providing interactive text messages to a user's device during a voice call. In one embodiment, information is received from a client and at least a portion of the received information is con... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7123712 | Computer telephony server with improved flexibility An improved computer telephony (CT) server which utilizes a standard message structure to communicate with applications, but may interface such applications to a variety of different telephony environments by translating the standard message structure used by such a... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7082119 | Full PBX telephony feature preservation across a voice over packet network A method for providing supplementary services in a packet voice network. The method includes the steps of receiving a list of information elements from a sending station and then inserting the list into a call control message. The message is inserted in such a manne... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7076032 | Method and system for processing telephone calls by IVR The present invention relates generally to voice response systems. Specifically, this invention relates to an interactive voice response client using script engines to control various voice processing systems. In a preferred embodiment, a customer dials a designated... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076051 | Promoting caller voice browsing in a hold queue A method, system, and program for promoting caller voice browsing while a caller is waiting in a hold queue are provided. At least one web page is selected for voice browsing by a particular caller waiting in a hold queue. The particular caller may be offered an inc... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7062033 | DTMF signal transmission method and communication apparatus A communication apparatus connected to a PBX and an ATM network is provided with a DTMF signal detecting portion for detecting whether or not a DTMF signal is contained in a voice signal from the PBX, a DTMF signal monitoring portion, a DTMF cell generating portion ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062544 | Provisioning of locally-generated prompts from a central source A method and system for providing locally generated prompts/announcements from a centralized source is presented in which voice and text files can be downloaded from a centralized server to a client device. The client device can include a telecommunications gateway ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062019 | Method of providing speech recognition for IVR and voice mail systems The present invention is directed to a speech enabling gateway system that can provide a speech recognition capability to signal-based adjunct processors, such as DTMF-based adjunct processors. The gateway, in one configuration, conferences two or more channels toge... | 06/13/2006 |
