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7602770 Telecommunication terminal identification on a switching system  
A method and apparatus for identification of telephone numbers for IP telephones in offices to be assigned to different persons by (1) assigning one of the offices to one of the persons upon a...
7570751 System and method for real-time fraud detection within a telecommunication network  
Real time detection of the fraudulent use of a telecommunications network is accomplished by analyzing data for each call that is occurring within the network. A signal protocol receiver is used to...
7447301 Toll-free number blocking override indicator  
A menu routing service routes calls made to a customer's toll-free number according to customized routing instructions. A service provider establishes service parameters, which include the...
7440562 Phone line supervisory controls  
Controlling use of a telephone line includes receiving a specification from a first entity that defines one or more supervisory controls on use of a controlled telephone line by a second entity....
7418089 System and method for restricting and monitoring telephone calls  
A telecommunications service controls and monitors telephone calls by storing at a service control point (SCP) restricted telephone numbers and priority telephone numbers. Upon receiving call data...
7231026 Detection of carrier mis-routing in telephone systems  
Methods to identify inter-carrier telephone calls in a telephone system that are being mis-routed in such a way as to violate existing regulatory tariffs and/or established inter-carrier contracts....
7218718 Method to perform a telecommunication with dialing destination preview  
The present invention concerns a method to perform a telecommunication between a caller terminal and a callee terminal identified by an identification code, such as a phone number. Method wherein...
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...
6724874 Outgoing call screening  
A method and system include restricting destinations of a telephone call from a calling station, which has been assigned a privilege class. A service control point (SCP) stores blocking tables,...
6707898 Elapsed time reminder for telecommunication network  
An elapsed time reminder system for a telecommunication network provides elapsed time reminder service to a party participating in a call in the network. A call state processing component processes...
6654452 Method and apparatus in a communications system for dynamic call rejection  
A method and apparatus in a communications system for processing a call. An activation signal is received from a terminal. Responsive to receiving the activation signal, a directory number is...
6510217 Methods and systems for forwarding anonymous and unknown calls  
Methods and systems for forwarding anonymous and unknown calls include a call forwarder that receives call signaling messages from a calling party end office. The call forwarder determines whether...
6330317 Call blocking system  
The integration of various federally required and state mandated do-not-call lists for telemarketers into a system that automatically blocks outgoing calls from a number of companies ("Customer...
6208720 System, method and computer program product for a dynamic rules-based threshold engine  
A configurable and scalable rules-based thresholding system, method and computer program product for processing event records includes a core infrastructure and a configurable domain-specific...
6178231 Method and system for generating predetermined messages during selected calls-in-progress  
A method and system for generating a predetermined message during selected calls-in-progress utilizes a communication station to detect a connection being attempted between a subscriber telephony...
6160877 Method of screening and prioritizing an incoming call  
A subscriber interface operating as a Personal Agent is provided to simplify, enhance and integrate the currently fragmented telephone services. The Personal Agent enables the subscriber to access...
6084955 Communication network control method and apparatus  
A communication network includes a number of network nodes linked together by transmission paths. A network manager controls acceptance of calls onto transmission paths by classifying an incoming...
6026156 Enhanced call waiting  
A method of and apparatus for providing telecommunication services to a user. When the user is engaged in a first telephone call via a telephone switch with a first party and a second party...
5999611 Subscriber interface for accessing and operating personal communication services  
A subscriber interface operating as a Personal Agent is provided to simplify, enhance and integrate the currently fragmented telephone services. The Personal Agent enables the subscriber to access...
5956393 System and method for limiting call velocity attempts in a public switched telephone network  
The present invention relates to a system and a method for limiting call velocity attempts in the public switched telephone network. A central office of the network is provided with a program...
5943416 Automated survey control routine in a call center environment  
A call center is adapted to select calls on a preprogrammed basis for possible participation in a survey. Selected calls are transferred to an interrogation point, which may be by Interactive Voice...
5872840 Enhancement do not disturb subscriber feature within a telecommunications network  
An application module associated with a terminating telecommunication exchange serving a particular called party subscriber maintains data reflecting the number of call setups attempted by a...
5809126 Telephone bar device  
A stand-alone toll-barring device powered by the telephone line voltage or from an external supply. The device recognizes a user's personal identification number (PIN) as it is dialed in from a...
5793858 Method for improving call completion rates in telephony  
The method of in-session activation of the present invention gives Telcos the ability to offer callers a menu of call completion services when the call encounters a busy or no-answer condition. It...
5790645 Automatic design of fraud detection systems  
A technique for automatically designing a fraud detection system using a series of machine learning methods. Data mining and constructive induction are combined with more standard machine learning...
5751800 Screening of incoming telephone calls prior to call completion to the destination party  
A destination telecommunication switch receives a request to establish a call to a first party served by the switch. The request includes call type data that identifies the party originating the...
5729599 Method and system of forwarding calls in a remote access call forwarding service of a telephone system  
A remote access call forwarding method and system adapted for an Advanced Intelligent Network to forward a call incoming to a subscriber's telephone number in response to a routing destination...
5680446 Advanced intelligent network screening  
An network screening application is provided for use in an Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN). The network screening application may provide two screening features for a private telecommunications...
5675632 Telephone exchange network using telephone exchanges with speech recognition  
A telephone exchange enables subscribers to use voice dialing more easily with existing telephone systems. The voice dialing does not require special input operations or preregistration of called...
5659605 Method and apparatus for providing soft dial tone using office equipment designators  
An Advanced Intelligent Network is disclosed which permits even "disconnected" subscriber equipment to complete calls to the business office of the network operator or to 911 by providing soft dial...
5638431 Calling card validation system and method therefor  
The present invention telecommunications system provides validation of authorization codes input by a user for placing a call from a service area of a first telecommunications service provider with...
5602906 Toll fraud detection system  
In a telecommunications network, a toll fraud detection system analyzes call placement information concerning toll calls placed using billing numbers for unauthorized use of billing numbers. In the...
5596632 Message-based interface for phone fraud system  
Telephone fraud is monitored by effectively interfacing workstations with a fraud data server. Multiple customers may have their respective workstations coupled to the data server with attendant...
5588049 Method for the automatic insertion of removal of a calling number identification (CNID) blocking prefix from within a telephone number in a personal computer based telephone management system  
With Calling Number Identification (CNID) service, Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) data is sent over the telephone lines to the telephone service customer. A telephone subscriber may prevent their...
5535263 Method for recording subscriber specific messages in an advanced intelligent network  
A method for recording subscriber specific messages in a telephone call for use in telephone services, particularly, for use in cooperation with an AIN Service Switching Point (SSP), an AIN Service...
5524145 Incoming call completion threshold restriction  
In a telephone communications system an Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) platform is used to complete or block incoming calls to a subscriber in accordance with a threshold stored in the ISCP...
5521971 Communication network control method  
A communication network (1) comprises a number of network nodes (2, 3, 4 and 5) linked together by transmission paths (6, 7 and 8). A network manager (9) controls acceptance of calls onto...
5506893 Telecommunication network arrangement for providing real time access to call records  
A facility is provided in a telecommunications network so that a record containing details about an associated call may be delivered to a customer in real time during the progression of the call...
5436957 Subscriber control of access restrictions on a plurality of the subscriber's telephone lines  
A subscriber inputs data into a centralized database of the public switched telephone network to control communication services which the network provides via a number of telephone lines assigned...
5392335 Arrangement for preventing perpetration of toll fraud through an adjunct processor  
An adjunct processor (16) sends an end-of-address indication, such as a pound sign, along with the address, such as an extension number, to which a call is to be transferred, to a switching system...
5249219 Integration of voice store and forward facility  
Call completion apparatus is disclosed for enhancing the integration of voice store and forward facilities with calling parties attempting to complete telephone calls to a telephone switching...
5166894 Method and apparatus for cell loss rate estimation, call admission control, and buffer/link capacity designing in integrated network  
A method and an apparatus for the cell loss rate estimation in an integrated network, capable of highly accurate estimation which is not too small compared with the actual cell loss rate. In the...
5109408 Arrangement for intentionally blocking telephone calls to predefined destination numbers but allowing such blocking to be selectively overridden  
A call processing embodiment where customers are offered, in addition to the conventional office dialing plan, a special dialing plan where received numbers are processed such that a query of a...
5070525 Method for avoiding call blocking  
Methods for avoiding a call blocking feature. In a first method a list is kept for the trunks previously used to call a particular telephone number. Each time that particular telephone number is...
5065424 Apparatus for servicing telephones from a remote location  
A remote control telephone service apparatus, for connection into a telephone line between a customer's telephone and a telephone switching central office main distribution frame. One or two...
5060255 Telecommunications system with timed-do-not-disturb  
Disclosed in an apparatus and method for effecting timed-do-not-disturb services in telephone networks. An adjunct computer is associated with the Remote Memory Administration System (RMAS) for...
5033076 Enhanced privacy feature for telephone systems  
This invention relates to apparatus and a method for use in conjunction with a service wherein a called telephone customer receives a display of the number of a calling telephone customer. In...
5017917 Restriction of communication service accessibility among subscriber communities  
Subscribers (100-108) of an electronic mail system (1-2) service are divided into a plurality of subscriber communities (30-34). Subscribers in each community have common rights of access to one or...
4984264 Call admission control method and cell flow monitoring method in the same method  
In a network in which all information from terminals having various traffic characteristics is transmitted/switched by a fixed length block including a virtual channel id, a terminal requesting...
4969182 Method of telephone call wherein status data inhibits calls and indicates to the caller the reason the called subscriber is unavailable  
A method of telephone call, in which if a subscriber is unable to answer an expected call to this telephone due to a conference, business trip, vacation or temporary absence, the reason of not...
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