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7783020 |
Method for sending calling communication terminal location data to a call center
This method is used to send data representative of the location of communication terminals (T) to a call center (ECC) without using information processing means in the terminals and to send via...
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7567658 |
Method to verify designation of pay telephone with an interexchange carrier
The method to verify designation of pay telephone with an exchange carrier determines receipt of private pay telephone designation for a private pay telephone (PPT) by an interexchange carrier...
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7523073 |
Charging method and charging apparatus
A method of charging for use of a facsimile apparatus, using an information processing unit provided therein, is disclosed that includes the steps of (a) the information processing unit obtaining...
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7409049 |
Network-based securing of added-value services against automated connections
A network-based verification of call connections is provided between a telecommunications subscriber terminal and a telecommunications service device selected by a service call number. This...
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7397907 |
Multi-function general purpose transceiver
The present invention is generally directed to a system and associated method for communicating information to a predetermined location. The system includes a transmitter disposed at a first...
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7133509 |
Method and system for charging a set activation fee for pay telephone usage
A set activation fee pay telephone permits a telephone customer to place a telephone call from a pay telephone if the customer presents valid billing information, and charges the customer a fixed...
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7119517 |
Method for recycling secondary battery
A method features the steps of determining whether a secondary battery collected from a user is reusable when being handed over again to the user after being recharged, by performing a simple...
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7116768 |
Collect callback
In an implementation of collect callback, a call-in service establishes a communication link with a caller and initiates a collect callback option for the caller. A switch receives callback data...
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7110744 |
Communication and proximity authorization systems
A proximity service unit for providing at least one predetermined service for use with multiple types of wireless devices. The proximity service unit includes a multiple channel wireless...
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7088808 |
Network access pay telephone and conversion kit
A kit for converting an existing pay telephone to additionally provide computer network access includes an upper housing unit that latches to a lower housing of the existing telephone, and a...
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7050554 |
Payment to charities with prepaid card
The balance or a portion of the balance associated with a prepaid card with or without a microcircuit is paid into a balance portion collection server, as a donations to charities, after setting up...
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6850607 |
Intelligent vending system and method
An intelligent vending system such as a pay telephone provides local/remote diagnostics, fraud prevention, capability of facilitating local coin overtime operation, complete cash box accounting,...
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6822422 |
Battery recycle system
A battery recycle system includes a vending machine for vending secondary batteries. The vending machine has therein a telecommunication terminal connected to a server provided in a secondary...
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6775365 |
Directed call return service
A method of providing a call return service wherein a first party, at a first customer premises equipment device, requests a service session with a first party service provider and enters an...
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6721400 |
Power and telecommunications access vending machine
A vending machine for dispensing telecommunications access is disclosed. A customer interested in using the telecommunications access makes a payment into the payment processing unit which forwards...
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6707896 |
Public telephone with and method for cash payment function
A public telephone with a cash payment function is connected to a server of a banking agency through a telephone network and verifies whether a card, such as a credit card, inserted by a user is...
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6442260 |
Method and system for transmitting information to a telecommunication terminal
Method and system for presenting the price of a telecommunication connection on the telecommunication terminal of the committer of the telecommunication connection in a telecommunication system...
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6415025 |
Pay phone call completion method and apparatus
A method for permitting multiple calls in a toll telecommunications network from a pay telephone comprising the steps of 1) receiving a first call in said toll telecommunications network from said...
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6335970 |
Automatic coin collection device for a payphone provided with no coin collection signal
An automatic coin collection device for a payphone provided with no coin collection signal is disclosed, which has a solenoid to be activated to collect coins so as to start to count time and begin...
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6320945 |
Line-powered pay telephone
A pay telephone unit is disclosed that derives all operating power from the tip and ring conductors of the telephone line without the need for a battery. All data is stored in nonvolatile memory...
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6320946 |
Information payphone
A payphone or coin-operated telephone that functions as an information transmittal device that dispenses user-selected information audibly to the user via the speaker in the payphone handset. A...
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6317496 |
Telephone keypad guard
This invention is a guard for preventing the vandalism of the keypad of a telephone. If the telephone is a pay telephone, the invention further prevents, thus preventing entry into the telephone...
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6301344 |
Intelligent public telephone system and method
An intelligent pay telephone provides local/remote diagnostics, fraudulent call prevention, capability of facilitating local coin overtime operation, complete cash box accounting, and call detail...
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6278768 |
Portable fixture for simulating and testing payphones
Disclosed is a portable fixture which can be employed in simulating and testing the various functions of a conventional payphone. In general terms, the fixture includes an umbilical cord which can...
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6263058 |
Charge information method
The invention relates to a method of providing charge information and to a service control unit (SCP) for carrying out the method. During the establishment of a call from a calling subscriber (A)...
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6222915 |
Method for providing telecommunications-based services
One variant from a large number of possible services and/or service combinations is made available to the customer via a dialogue of human-machine interaction: a variant which the customer needs to...
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6163603 |
Coin escrow apparatus with relay switch contact simulator
A coin escrow apparatus for use with a pay telephone includes a housing defining a coin hopper, a coin acceptance chute, and a coin return chute. The apparatus also includes a door mounted within...
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6154532 |
Charge minimizing callback system
A device and method minimize telephone charges by not answering the destination telephone when an incoming call is detected. Preconnection information such as dialed number identification system...
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6104792 |
Method of providing call charge information as well as service control facility, subscriber terminal exchange, terminal, and communication network
The invention concerns a method of informing a subscriber in a communication network about the charge for a desired connection, and a service control facility (SCP), a subscriber switching...
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6097799 |
Pay phone box structure
A pay phone box structure includes a casing having a first side wall and a second side wall, a first supporting plate fixedly mounted on the first side wall of the casing and containing a plurality...
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6072863 |
Apparatus for conditioning automatic coin validation signals, and method-of-use therefor
An external plug-in module is inserted, or field retrofitted, between a validator and a phone chassis and incorporates circuitry to condition the coin signals generated by the validator. This...
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6044139 |
Plastic coin receptacle for pay telephones
A coin receptacle for use with a locking coin receptacle cover and for use within a pay telephone. The coin receptacle comprises a molded one-piece plastic (polycarbonate) receptacle body having a...
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6038298 |
Lower casing structure of payphone
A lower casing structure of a payphone is disclosed, including an outer casing member fit over the lower portion of the payphone and having threaded rods fixed thereon, a reinforcement plate having...
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5991413 |
Process for the acceptance of a virtual prepaid card use request permitting the reuse of its serial number
The present invention relates to a process for accepting a request for use of a virtual prepaid card involving the following stages: a user of a virtual prepaid card is connected to a server...
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5978458 |
Magnetic pay telephone cash box proximity switch
A cash box proximity switch arrangement is provided for public telephones and is mounted in an upper portion of a lower housing of the telephone above the vault area. The switch is contained in a...
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5949863 |
Coin operated telephone auditor
A low-power, integrated coin acceptor for a payphone containing audit circuitry is described. The integrated coin acceptor connects to the telephone tip, ring and ground lines and connects to a...
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5907606 |
Telephone-line powered coin telephone chassis
A telephone-line powered coin telephone chassis which operates on as little as 23 milliamperes of off-hook loop current and which shuts down on-hook. Capacitors power a microprocessor for a short...
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5835240 |
Facsimile communication supplementary service device
The object of this invention is to provide a facsimile communication supplementary service device that allows facsimile communication users to receive accurate service information from telephone...
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5793851 |
Pay telephone communication system
A telephone communication system having a plurality of pay telephones operatively connected to a local telephone carrier, which in turn, is connected to a long distance carrier. The pay telephones...
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5757896 |
Method and apparatus for preventing pin fraud on coin telephones that use battery reversal pulses to meter charges
Pin fraud of battery reversal pulse metered sophisticated coin telephones is detected and prevented by the method and apparatus of the invention. By carefully monitoring within the switch office...
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5748721 |
Handicap telephone with associated booth
A handicap telephone including a phone housing having a pair of speakers situated distant therefrom for emitting audio signals; and a phone panel positioned on the phone housing including a numeric...
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5727054 |
Anti-stuffing coin return assembly
An anti-stuffing device involves removing the floor at the end of the coin return chute to create a floor opening, placing a wall over the end of the chute to stop coins coming down the chute,...
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5563934 |
Pay phone call control apparatus for allowing calls using pre-paid cards
A call control apparatus for a pay phone includes a reading unit, a calculating unit, and a call enable unit. The reading unit reads out value information of an inserted card. The calculating unit...
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5526412 |
Dial assembly terminalgard
A telephone is secured against vandalism involving inserting a bare electrically conductive wire through the slot in the MEDECO lock securing the upper housing to the main housing. The free end of...
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5524143 |
Anti-stuffing coin realigner
A mechanism prevents explosion damage to coin pay telephones by providing an almost horizontal offset in the coin path so that a wad of paper cannot be moved by the weight of subsequently inserted...
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5509057 |
Telephone body guard armor
A telephone is secured against vandalism by a double layer face plate or assemblage of tough materials. The assemblage consists of an outer plate covering most of the front of a telephone upper...
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5448628 |
Public telephone system
A public telephone system includes a plurality of public telephone sets and a center apparatus. Each public telephone set includes a memory for storing a current tariff table used in the speech...
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5430797 |
Coin return cover
Pay telephone coin opening cover assemblies which include portions of the pay telephone and a mask fashioned to cover the coin return opening. The mask includes a structural element or elements...
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5425088 |
Face plate for coin operated telephone boxes
An improved outer face plate for the principal section of a coin operated telephone unit. The face plate includes at least one additional face plate opening located proximate a side of the dialing...
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5420915 |
Apparatus for instruction in use of telephone
A portable apparatus for demonstrating the operation of one or more telephones by simulating an active telephone line in which a ring tone generator (74), busy tone generator (72), dial tone...
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