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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6996407 | Shared-use portable telephone and method of sharing portable telephone A shared-use portable telephone has a ROM, RAM and control sections. The ROM section comprises a password area for holding passwords and a personal information area for holding personal information. The password and personal information areas include respective sub-... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6963910 | Graphical user interface for creating assets A process is provided for managing operations including encoding operations in a network system including an administrator terminal, at least one server communicatively coupled to the administrator terminal via a computer network, and at least one multimedia device ... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6914891 | Method of remote management of mobile communication terminal data A method of entering and modifying user data of a mobile communication terminal in a physically remote manner is provided A call is made from a mobile communication terminal to a computer or from a computer to a mobile communication terminal. Here, if a typical voic... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6813347 | Selective call waiting A method and system of processing a call from a calling party to a called party are provided to enable selective call waiting which involves determining whether the called party is busy on another call; receiving a password from the calling party; and providing a ca... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6751305 | System and method for defining access rights in a telecommunications switching system Method and system for defining access rights in a telephone switching system comprising functions for controlling the operating system of the telephone switching system on the basis of commands entered. In the method, the right of access to the operating system is d... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6665392 | Associating data connections with conference call telephone A method operationally associates a participant's telephone connection to a conference call system with a data connection via the Internet world wide web from the participant's computer screen to the conference call system. The conference call system esta... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6594357 | System and method of registering the identity of a telephone terminal in association with the identity of a computer terminal In a Computer Telephony Integration environment, to reduce the risk of inadvertent or fraudulent registration of the association of a user's computer terminal with the wrong telephone, i.e. one other than the telephone adjacent to the computer terminal or... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6516058 | Voice network access system An authentication system is applied for a voice network in order to provide the same security as that attained by a data network. Provided is a voice network access system wherein a one-time password system, which is used as an access authentication syste... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6208726 | System and method for automated emergency call breakthrough An emergency breakthrough system allows users to break through a busy signal, using an automated rather than operator assisted technique. Upon receipt of a busy signal, rather than hanging up and dialing an operator to gain a manual assistance for third p... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6195568 | Radiotelephone adapted to the identity of its user A method and apparatus for automatically tailoring a communication device to suit the user's preferences based on the user's identity includes storing a plurality reference signatures and associated operational profiles. When a user supplies a proffered s... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6049601 | Method of and apparatus for establishing call forwarding service for subscriber's telephone terminal in switching system with verification function A verification code from a telephone terminal which requests a call forwarding service is registered into a switching system. When a call forwarding service establishing number is dialed from an arbitrary telephone terminal, the arbitrary telephone termin... | 04/11/2000 |
| 5617470 | Apparatus and method for preventing unauthorized access to a system Apparatus and methods for preventing access to a telephone service by unauthorized users employ an access code preferably having a fixed component which identifies an authorized user, and having a plurality of variable components associated with the fixed... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5581700 | Hierarchical multiple password acceptance system A computer has user IDs stored in a ROM, and user passwords associated with each stored user ID. A command from the CPU directs a coprocessor in the computer to read a password for a first ID. The coprocessor compares the password entered by the user with... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5561706 | System for managing access by mobile users to an interconnected communications network where a billing authority is identified by a billing code from the user A method and apparatus for managing a communications network for mobile users, each of which has a personal identification number, includes a network of communications switches for connecting calls between mobile users using the personal identification nu... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5557654 | System and method for authenticating subscribers of a transmission network and subscription, having differing authentication procedures, using a common authentication center A telecommunication system and a method for authenticating a subscriber in a telecommunication system. The system includes a transmission network having subscriber identity codes of a first format and a first subscriber authentication procedure. An exchan... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5515426 | Telephone communication system having a locator A telephone communication system having a locator system for locating telephone users and generating location information. The telephone communication system includes a plurality of telephone functions which are user accessible for usage in conjunction wi... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5513250 | Telephone based credit card protection A system and method for enhancing the security of use of a transaction device such as a credit card through a telephone system wherein the subscriber may establish through the telephone network a series of parameters which must be satisfied in order to ac... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5485505 | Apparatus and method for remotely initiating operation of a cellular telephone An apparatus for activating a cellular telephone (10) within a cellular telecommunications network. A PCMCIA card (62) interacts with a controller (50) to display required programming information and questions. A user of the cellular telephone (10) inputs... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5483588 | Voice processing interface for a teleconference system A teleconferencing system having screened introductions, named introductions, roll call, talker identification, and subconferencing, scheduling, and recording options. A caller attempting to join a teleconference is prompted to enter identification inform... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5479496 | Personal communication system having options and notifications In a personal communication system in which a call is originated from a calling side terminal equipment using number information allocated to a called person and the call is processed on the called side terminal equipment as a personal call, the system co... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5479494 | Virtual calling card system A calling card subscriber is allowed to choose at least some of the digits of his or her calling card number to form a virtual card number. Associated with the virtual card number is a standardized card number i.e., a number conforming to the Bellcore cal... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5467388 | Method and apparatus for selectively blocking incoming telephone calls A system for allowing a telephone subscriber to selectively block incoming calls for selected time periods or during programmed time intervals. A subscriber may pre-program a time interval in minutes, or a time period (start time and end time) for which s... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5442692 | Telecommunication system having a capability of changing the alerting tone A telecommunication system comprises a network for transmitting information, a plurality of terminals connected to the network for communicating to each other, a data base provided in the network and having a plurality of storage areas corresponding to th... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5438616 | Method and apparatus for storing telephone numbers and for automatically calling the stored numbers Techniques for establishing a connection with a calling party and a called party using the processing of an intermediary serving arrangement so as to minimize telephone costs and preserve privacy. During a first established telephony connection, the inter... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5384833 | Voice-operated service In a system for allocating a user identifier to a user of a voice-operated service, the user is requested (20) to utter words in a set of requested words. A speech recognizer (2) compares (24) each received word with a set of speech recognition templates,... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5377258 | Method and apparatus for an automated and interactive behavioral guidance system An automated and interactive positive motivation system (10) that allows a doctor or trainer to produce and send a series of motivational messages and/or questions to a client (50) to motivate or reinforce a specific behavioral problem. The system (2) con... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5367560 | Telephone answering device with a plurality of passwords An information reproducing apparatus includes reproduction device for reproducing information recorded on a medium, and a controller for starting the reproduction of information by the reproduction device from a position indicated by data showing a predet... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5367609 | Editing compressed and decompressed voice information simultaneously A method and apparatus for editing the displayed voice wave form by marking the portion of interest on the screen is disclosed. Marked segment may then be deleted, for example, or copied into another segment in second voice editing window. In either case,... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5365580 | System and method of detecting unauthorized use of identifiers A system detects unauthorized use of an identifier in a communication system which includes at least one terminal coupled to a communication center via a communication network. The system includes a first part provided in the communication center for mana... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5365575 | Telephonic-interface lottery system A telephonic-interface lottery system D interfaces with a multiplicity of individual terminals T1-Tn of a telephone network facility C to enable lottery players to call and play for at least one additional chance to possibly win by dialing a pay-to-dial t... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5357245 | Communicant verifier An ID memory part memorizes an ID such as a telephone number that identifies a communicant, and a use frequency memory part memorizes a corresponding use frequency. When a communication apparatus takes a sending action, a writing part receives the ID from... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5345549 | Multimedia based security systems A computer-utilizing security system and method involving a collection of personally selected strong-reaction sensory and/or historical multimedia-type cues in combination with a related set of structured information. The cue combination is submitted by o... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5343519 | Autodialer with pin feature An autodialer with code feature, has a credit card sized carrier which contains; an audio transducer mounted to the carrier and activatable to produce tones that are comprehensible as discreet numerals and symbols by a touch-tone dialing system. A memory ... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5327485 | Telephone lottery play system Playslip booklets are printed with bar code and numeric identification plus individual ticket identification numbers on each playslip. At purchase, the booklet is authorized for play through the telephone lottery computer, which provides a PIN for the boo... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5315638 | Method for programming of installation data in a mobile telephone In the method according to the invention, the initialization data of a mobile telephone are installed directly in the rapid dialing memory or by using the rapid dialing memory, in which case the installation program transfers to the nonvolatile memory the... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5311594 | Fraud protection for card transactions The problems of fraud in card transactions can be reduced by, after requiring the person engaged in the card transaction to initially identify himself, such as by supplying a card number, a) requesting, the person to supply as authentication information e... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5255183 | Telephone-based personnel tracking system A computer system includes hardware for interfacing with the public telephone network and for accepting incoming telephone calls. The computer system detects from the incoming telephone calls automatic number identification data (ANI) data which identifie... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5251248 | Telephone network having personal numbers for position-independent This invention allows a subscriber of a telephone network to receive a call by a telephone registered under his/her personal telephone number no matter where he/she carries the telephone with him/her by maintaining a reference table of a personal telephon... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5247497 | Security systems based on recording unique identifier for subsequent playback In order to enable an authorized user of a secured system to detect unauthorized use of that system, the system records identifying information about the user (e.g., a sample of the user's voice) each time the user uses the system. The system also plays b... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5239577 | Network and method for providing cross-media connections A network (10) for providing cross-context connections between subscribers comprises a plurality of directory databases for storing mappings between individual names, addresses and personal identification numbers of network subscribers in a plurality of t... | 08/24/1993 |
