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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7899164 | Convergence of circuit-switched voice and packet-based media services In one embodiment, a service node will recognize an attempt to initiate a call from a first terminal to a second terminal, and automatically provide information to media clients associated with the first and second terminals such that a media session can be readily ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7831026 | Call progress information in cable telephony An apparatus for obtaining and displaying call progress information of a telephone call on the monitor of the television, including means for communicating control signals that flow in either direction between the apparatus and a set top box that controls the televi... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7787603 | Telephone apparatus and program product A telephone apparatus includes: a call signal detecting unit that detects a call signal transmitted via a public telephone line; an identification information detecting unit that detects source identification information transmitted via the public telephone line; an... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7783016 | Apparatus and method for pre-call notification A telephony provider apparatus comprising: a pre-call information receiver, for receiving pre-call information transmitted through a first path and associated with a phone call transmitted through a second path; and a network component, associated with the pre-call ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7716195 | Search methods Search methods. A string is first received. The string is divided to generate at least one string fragment set, comprising of at least a first and a second fragments. A record conforming to the string fragment set is searched for and retrieved. A first data block of... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7657012 | Telephone terminal and method for controlling display of the telephone terminal A telephone terminal is connected to a communication network that transmits voice packets and connected to a terminal control unit. The telephone terminal includes a display, an input buffer, an acquisition unit, and a controller. The input buffer temporarily stores... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7593514 | Methods and apparatuses for communicating between messaging and telephony systems In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses receive a telephone number from an originating device; match the telephone number to an IM identifier; associate the IM identifier to a receiving device; and establish a telephone call between the originating device and... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7551730 | TV set with a telephone calls-rejecting function A TV set (20) with a function of rejecting telephone calls is provided. The TV set includes a first communication port (201) and a second communication port (210) respectively connected with a telephone network (30) and a telephone (40... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7450701 | Method and system for presenting customized call alerts in a service for internet caller identification An advanced intelligent network (AIN) based system and method that allows a subscriber connected to the Internet to receive customized call alerts and caller identification information concerning an incoming telephone call. Using client software, the subscriber asso... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7441205 | Displaying and activating telephone numbers There are disclosed methods and apparatus for displaying telephone numbers included in data units. The data units are scanned for telephone numbers. The telephone numbers are automatically identified within the data units. When the telephone numbers are displayed as... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7434175 | Displaying telephone numbers as active objects There are disclosed methods and apparatus for displaying telephone numbers. Before displaying data units, the data units are scanned for telephone numbers. The telephone numbers are automatically identified within the data units. When the telephone numbers are displ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7423774 | Communication system A communication system includes a communication terminal, a computer transmitting addressee identification information to the communication terminal, a computer-side fetching unit fetching the addressee identification information from a computer-side store unit, a c... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7376222 | Phone appliance with display screen and methods of using the same A phone appliance and method of use are provided where the phone appliance can be used to make VoIP communications calls. In a preferred embodiment, the phone appliance includes an RF connection for connecting to a computer or other computing device for facilitating... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7366548 | Method for alerting a mobile unit of a missed call upon movement of the mobile unit The present invention provides a method for alerting a mobile unit of a missed call. A mobile unit receives a call request. If the mobile unit does not answer the call request and the mobile unit is stationary, the mobile unit waits for the mobile unit to move. Upon... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363345 | Electronic notification delivery mechanism selection based on recipient presence information and notification content Delivering an electronic notification to an intended recipient may include communicating an electronic notification directed to an intended recipient, and determining presence information associated with the intended recipient before attempting to deliver the notifi... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7353022 | Wireless mobile call location and delivery for non-geographic numbers A system and method is provided for establishing a call to a wireless directory number (982) which is either a non-geographic directory number or a non-dialable directory number. A call is initiated from a wireline telephone (155) to a geographic-based... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353046 | Portable telephone A portable telephone has a phone-book capability of storing and searching plural pieces of receiver information including character information and image information and comprises phone-book memory means for registering plural pieces of receiver information includin... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352848 | Personal address updates using directory assistance data Methods and systems are provided for storing directory assistance information in a subscriber's electronic address book for future use. If a directory number associated with the desired called party is not in the subscriber's address book, a voice services node init... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349716 | Mobile terminal device, and method and computer program for information processing thereof A mobile terminal device, an information processing method and an information processing program make it possible to select an optional function process during execution of a specific function process, such as a dictionary function process during a call, and execute... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7333820 | System and method for providing routing, mapping, and relative position information to users of a communication network The present invention is directed to a system and method for providing real-time position information of one party to another party by utilizing a conventional telecommunication network system such as the convention telephone network, a mobile telecommunications net... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333597 | Telephone synchronization with software applications and documents A method and system are provided for locating and retrieving stored computer files that are related to an incoming telephone call directed to a computer user. A called party receives a telephone call while the called party is operating her computer. A computer telep... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7334024 | System for transmission of voice and data over the same communications line A data transaction processing system in which transaction data is entered by the user in response to prompts in a template which is tailored to each user application. The template and entered data are accumulated into data transactions which are immediately transmit... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330713 | Handportable cellular telephone adapted to receive messages and a method for processing messages A method for processing an incoming message in a handportable cellular telephone comprises looking up an identification of a sender of the message in a user-defined white list or black list before making the message available to the user of the telephone. The method... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327720 | Integrated telephone central office systems for integrating the internet with the public switched telephone network Telephone central office-switching system integrated interface devices such as those for DSL, Voice over IP, cable-TV, fixed wireless, and Internet capable wireless cellular are further integrated into integrated interface device systems. Such systems share common f... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7317791 | Apparatus and method for controlling conference call participants The present invention, which meets the needs identified above, is an apparatus and method of controlling a conference call using an improvement on the conference calling center's computer software. The control program allows the host of a conference call to selectiv... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7313228 | Dynamic call processing control The present invention allows a subscriber to dynamically select one or more call processing options while an attempt to terminate an incoming call to an associated terminal is being made. As such, the terminal is either ringing or providing some other indication tha... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313227 | Animated/digitally depicted interactive voice session services over an IP network A telecommunications service application. The application includes associating, each of a plurality of subscribers with at least one respective avatar, where the at least one avatar includes at least one of a visual avatar and an audible avatar. In response to a fir... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7305550 | System and method for providing authentication and verification services in an enhanced media gateway A system and method for facilitating authentication or identification services including an authentication server configured to provide an authentication certificate to a user of a first client device for authentication or identification of a user of a second client... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305068 | Telephone communication with silent response feature A telephone call may be received or made by the user of telephony-enabled apparatus in circumstances, such as during a meeting, where spoken responses by the user to what the other party to the call has said are unacceptable. A telephony method and arrangement are d... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302473 | Internet information displaying apparatus and internet information displaying method An Internet information displaying apparatus comprising character signal generating means for generating a character signal and displaying it on the screen of the displaying means, and character signal generation controlling means for detecting the state of transmis... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295669 | Call center telephone and data flow connection system A method and system for transferring telephone calls and data between computer programs in a call center. Flow connection modules associated with call center application programs allow data and telephone calls to be transferred from one computer program to another i... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295836 | Advanced voice and data operations in a mobile data communication device A system and method for integrating voice and data operations into a single mobile device capable of simultaneously performing data and voice actions. The mobile device working in a network capable of exchanging both cell phone calls and data items to the mobile dev... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295663 | Network communication system The present invention is directed to a network communication system that provides textual communication and call transferring between nodes. The system further allows simultaneous notification of multiple nodes of an incoming call. The system includes a local comput... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295656 | Audio caller identification An audio caller identification system and method are provided. A caller identification device of a called party's telephone, whether integrated with the telephone or stand-alone, includes a speaker for audibly alerting the called party to the nature of an incoming c... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295864 | Methods and apparatuses for programming user-defined information into electronic devices A device for programming user-defined information into an electronic device is provided. The programmer allows a user to program customized information, such as user-selected audio, video, or Internet access information into his or her programmable device. Such elec... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289614 | Making a call from an address list or a call history list A method and apparatus of managing a phone device of a personal digital assistant (PDA) is provided. In one example of the present invention, the PDA retrieves a call history list from a stored memory location, the call history list including a call history list rec... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286649 | Telecommunications infrastructure for generating conversation utterances to a remote listener in response to a quiet selection A user to conducts a telephone conversation without speaking. It does this by moving the participant in the public situation to a quiet mode of communication (e.g., keyboard, buttons, touchscreen). All the other participants are allowed to continue using their usual... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283625 | Caller ID messaging telecommunications services Methods, systems, and apparatuses for caller identification messaging are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a calling party uses a Caller ID Messaging Device that supplants the incoming calling line identification (ICLID) signal with a Caller ID Messaging Sign... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283829 | Management of call requests in multi-modal communication environments A communication system for providing multi-modal call management includes a communication manager, a notification database, and a personal assistant. The communication system can receive a call, collect caller identification information, generate a call notification... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280647 | Dynamic photo caller identification A method for implementing self-chosen caller identification and instantaneous transmission of caller identification information before communications have been established is described. Aspects of the invention improve upon modem methods and bridge the gap between c... | 10/09/2007 |
