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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189747 | Internet-based telephone call manager A method is provided that allows data access service provider subscribers to manage their telephone service through a data connection. The subscriber is enabled to obtain call data information and is provided real time control. During a data call, a visual incoming ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189748 | Method and system for sending short voice message Provided is a system and method for sending a “voice message” to a recipient without any intervention of a network. A user initiates a Short Voice Message (SVM) service (or short voice messaging) function and records a voice message within a device. The user sen... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8175230 | Method and apparatus for automatically building conversational systems A system and method provides a natural language interface to world-wide web content. Either in advance or dynamically, webpage content is parsed using a parsing algorithm. A person using a telephone interface can provide speech information, which is converted to tex... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8139728 | Method and apparatus for telephonically accessing and navigating the internet A method for accessing and browsing the internet through the use of a telephone and the associated DTMF signals is disclosed. The preferred embodiment provides a system that converts the information content of a web page from text to speech (voice signals), signals ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8126121 | Multi-modal communications method A method of collecting information includes sending a text markup programming language query script, using a session initiation protocol message, to a communications device. The query script includes at least one location query to determine a location of the communi... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8111814 | Extensible alert types A facility for providing extensible alert types is described. The facility includes an endpoint component that has an associated application, an alert handler component provided by the application for handling received messages and providing alerts to the applicatio... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107599 | Methods and apparatus for the composition and communication of digital composition coded multisensory messages (DCC MSMS) Disclosed are methods and apparatus for composing and communicating Digital Composition Coded Multisensory Messages (DCC MSMs). The present invention also relates to the design, composition, creation, and communication of the multisensory messages. Multisensory mess... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102975 | Voice business client The subject mater herein relates to computer software and client-server based applications and, more particularly, to a voice business client. Some embodiments include one or more device-agnostic application interaction models and one or more device specific transfo... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102976 | Systems and methods for trading track view Included are embodiments for providing communications data. At least one embodiment of a method receiving data associated with a communications session, the communications session including a first communications stream and a second communications stream, wherein th... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8090085 | Providing called number characteristics to click-to-dial customers A system and method to provide content and call attributes for a destination phone number using a click-to-dial connection includes accepting a query, retrieving links to a document, and searching through cached data using the query to identify relevant or destinati... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090084 | Automated call router for business directory using the world wide web The embodiments include a system and a method for establishing a communication connection after searching the World Wide Web. The system can include a first communication device for forming at least one communication connection between the first communication device... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8064577 | Method and apparatus for retrieving voicemail messages from a client/server network using a mobile device A method for retrieving a voicemail message from a client/server communication network using a mobile device includes: sending a voicemail retrieval request from the mobile device to the client/server communication network, generating an RSS feed at the client/serve... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059795 | Systems and methods for providing voicemail features in a VoIP system A distributed VoIP system includes a first switch coupled to a network and configured to provide voicemail features to a first group of one or more users. The system also includes a voicemail server coupled to the network. The voicemail server is configured to provi... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054950 | Network initiation and pull of media from mobile devices A messaging service node sends encoded messages to wireless devices prompting the devices to capture media (e.g., audio and/or image) and send the media file to a network address specified in the message. The service node may be managed by a wireless service provide... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8023625 | Communication system and voice mail apparatus According to one embodiment, a communication system includes a voice mail apparatus and a communication terminal which is connected to the voice mail apparatus through a data transmission path, wherein the communication terminal includes a creator which creates e-ma... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023624 | Service interfacing for telephony During a telephone call between a telephone user and an interactive response system, the user is enabled to use only his voice and key presses on a numeric keypad of his telephone to interactively specify information that can be used to control delivery of content t... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019055 | Media instant messaging for mobile device In an instant messaging system, message latency is reduced by initiating traffic channel set-up at a receiving device concurrently while a sending device is generating the instant message. When a user begins generating an instant message, the sending device transmit... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014499 | Arrangement in a local computer for sending voice messages to a unified communications system A user computer, for example a personal computer (PC), includes a recorder configured for generating an audio file having an identifier enabling a unified messaging system to identify the audio file as a voice message, and an e-mail client configured for sending the... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7995719 | Coordination of a voicemail response with calendar scheduling The present invention is directed to the coordination of a voicemail response (e.g., away message) with calendar scheduling. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: receiving a phone call; forwarding the phone call to a voicemail... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995718 | Methods and systems using a telephone number server (TNS) A telephone number server (TNS) of a first party maintains telephone numbers of third parties in association with respective Internet information of the third parties. Upon request from a second party, the request including information indicative of a third party's ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7986772 | Saving information from information retrieval systems A method and system for allowing a calling party to save information obtained from an information retrieval system. The caller may select options to save the information to a memory location, e.g., the caller's own network-based voice mail system or a temporary voic... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7970109 | Auto block and auto discovery in a distributed communication system A voicemail system enabling various components of the voicemail system to be distributed geographically yet operate as a seamlessly integrated system is disclosed. A signal gateway interfaces with a telephone network. In addition, one or more media servers interface... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965823 | Method and apparatus for a telephone user interface control for enabling and disabling a web interface The present invention provides a method and apparatus to activate or deactivate a web interface to a voicemail system through a telephone user interface to the voicemail system. During a setup procedure that runs on the first use of the telephone user interface, the... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961852 | Method and device for transmitting requests from a requesting machine to a domain name server A method and device for sending a request (R) from a requesting machine (H) to a domain name server (1, 2, 3). A prior test of the validity of the destination telephone number (NTEL) of the request (R) is executed automatically and locally to the requesting m... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7912188 | Centralized feature platform in a packetized network A packetized telecommunication network directs a call that is received at a gateway of the network to connect to a feature platform via the network, which performs a service related to the call, such as an authentication service. After the service is performed, the ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7907706 | Telephone network/computer network gateway Some embodiments provide a computer network, a computing device coupled to the computer network, and a telephone coupled to the computer network and to a telephone line. The telephone may receive telephone call signals from the telephone line and transmit informatio... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7903796 | Method and apparatus for unified communication management via instant messaging Methods and apparatus for a unified communications manager via instant messaging are provided. In particular, a user may interface with a user service center to use applications via an instant messaging service to manage various aspects of their communications such ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7876885 | Method and system for establishing a communication system A method for processing a request from a first terminal to establish a communication session between the first terminal and a second terminal, the first terminal and the second terminal being operable to communicate via a telecommunication network, the method compri... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7869579 | Selectable replay of buffered conversation in a VOIP session A system, method, and apparatus are directed to enabling a user to record VOIP conversations for selective instant replay. The VOIP conversation may be automatically recorded upon initiation of the conversation, or the user may select to record at least a portion of... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7860224 | Method and apparatus for providing a voicemail notification A method and apparatus for providing a voicemail notification to a subscriber or customer in a communication network are disclosed. For example, the present method uses a wireless integrated access device (WIAD) to interact with a voicemail server via the Internet. ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7852994 | Systems and methods for recording audio Systems and methods for recording audio are provided. In this regard, an representative method comprises: receiving audio information corresponding to an audio communication; receiving parameter information corresponding to a manner in which the audio communication ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7844037 | Method and device for enabling message responses to incoming phone calls A computing device is configured to receive an incoming communication from another computing device. The incoming communication may be for purpose of initiating a voice-exchange session. In response to receiving the incoming call, the computing device may identify o... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7796739 | Presence management system, presence notification method, server unit, and terminal device According to one embodiment, a presence management system comprises a server unit and a plurality of terminal devices. The server unit controls a plurality of presentities and a plurality of watchers. The terminal devices may be set to any of the presentities and th... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7792254 | System for distributing VXML capabilities for execution on client devices A system for interacting with voice extensible markup language application content includes a content source node connected to a network for rendering availability of voice extensible markup language content and code; a communication device connected to the network ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7769146 | Method and system for connecting calling and called parties when called party is leaving message for calling party A method and system for automatically connecting a calling party with a called party when the called party is leaving a message for the calling party. When first person is attempting to call a second person at the same time as the second person is leaving a voice ma... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7769145 | Telephone calling interface A telephone calling interface is disclosed. The telephone calling interface may be implemented as a toolbar within an Internet web browser. The toolbar may identify telephone numbers included in a web page requested by a user of the Internet web browser and conspicu... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7756257 | SIP enabled device identification An object of the invention is to associate a DID/public or non-DID/private telephone number and/or reachable location information with a SIP Enabled Device. More specifically, an embodiment of the invention is directed to providing an additional data parameter compr... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7751536 | Line appearance reservation for SIP endpoints In one embodiment, a communication device includes an outgoing call alerting agent 196 that (i) detects that a communication device has entered an off-hook state and that a first line appearance has been selected by a user for an outgoing call, (ii) forwards ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7751535 | Voice browser implemented as a distributable component A system for implementing voice services can include at least one virtual machine, such as a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) virtual machine. The virtual machine can include a bean container for handling software beans, such as Enterprise Java Beans. The bean conta... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7738638 | Voice over internet protocol call recording Disclosed is a method and apparatus for VoIP call recording. A call control network element monitors an existing telephone call for a call recording request from one of the parties. Upon receipt of the request, a determination is made as to whether recording is auth... | 06/15/2010 |
