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7343008 Identity-based conferencing systems and methods  
Described in this paper are systems and methods of providing conferencing services where a conference participant is identified by the conferencing system when calling into the system. The system...
7336776 Method of establishing a multi-user call in a communication system  
The present invention provides a method for establishing a multi-user call in a communication system. The communication system receives a call request to establish a group call with a shared group...
7289620 Method and apparatus for managing incoming and outgoing calls at an endpoint placed on hold  
A method and apparatus for managing incoming and outgoing calls at an endpoint placed on hold are disclosed. A first call that includes an outbound media stream is established on a network between...
7269252 Method and apparatus for improving nuisance signals in audio/video conference  
A system to allow a conferee defined as a nuisance source to respond to an automatic nuisance decision of a Multipoint Control Unit is disclosed. For example, a conferee placing a conference on...
7245941 Mobile telecommunications device  
The present invention relates to a mobile telecommunications device such as a mobile telephone 1 . The device includes a display ( 5 ) and a control unit ( 4,10,11,12 ) configured to display a...
7231208 User interface-technique for managing an active call  
A portable electronic device includes a housing, a processor supported by the housing, a memory coupled to the processor, and a communications transceiver coupled to the processor. The transceiver...
7209947 Data network-assisted conference establishment  
A system and method for providing data network-assisted conference service to a wireless terminal. Conference-related information is received from a conference originator and stored. Prior to...
7200214 Method and system for participant control of privacy during multiparty communication sessions  
A method and system for participant control of privacy during a multiparty communication session includes receiving a request from a first participant to a multiparty communication connection for a...
7167552 Quorums in meet-me conference calls  
In one embodiment, a method for joining a meet-me conference call includes but is not limited to presenting an option to specify a quorum associated with a meet-me conference call, in response to...
7162025 Conference call dialing  
A communication device recognizes a first string of characters as a telephone number and a second string of characters as additional information related to the telephone number. A menu is then...
7133521 Method and apparatus for DTMF detection and voice mixing in the CELP parameter domain  
A method and apparatus for DTMF detection and voice mixing in the code-excited linear prediction (CELP) parameter space, without fully decoding and reconstructing the speech signal. The apparatus...
7133512 Conference call aggregation using an interactive voice response system  
Within an interactive voice response system, a method of aggregating conference calls can include registering a caller with the interactive voice response system, accessing a calendar system used...
7130643 Method and system for selectively paging a communication device based on self-detected position of the communication device  
A portable phone is equipped with a position detector that detects the geographical position of the portable phone, and a telephone system may ring one or more land-based phones or portable phones...
7058168 Method and system for participant control of privacy during multiparty communication sessions  
A method and system for participant control of privacy during a multiparty communication session includes receiving a request from a first participant to a multiparty communication connection for a...
7050861 Controlling a destination terminal from an originating terminal  
A caller associates computer software code with a signalling protocol messages such that when the messages are received at a destination processor the computer software code is executed. For...
7027836 Method and system for establishing a communication network  
A communication device is provided having a transceiver adapted to send and receive wireless communication signals and a contact surface. A contact circuit is adapted to detect contact of another...
7006617 Method of improving conferencing in telephony  
A conferencing method not requiring additional or dedicated hardware in a processor controlled telephone terminal, nor requiring an external conference bridge, is provided by one of the terminals...
6993497 Integrated, interactive telephone and computer network communications system  
A method comprising the steps of: receiving via internet a time, a date and a telephone number for a reminder telephone call (such as a wakeup call); storing in a database the time, date and...
6978001 Method and system for controlling audio content during multiparty communication sessions  
A method and system for controlling audio content during a multiparty communication session includes prompting active participants to the multiparty communication session to identify themselves....
6967957 Architecture for the rapid creation of telephony services in a next generation network  
A service architecture for the rapid development of next generation telephony services that overcomes the limitations of the current closed PSTN architecture and service model. In this architecture...
6961323 Guaranteed air connection  
A technique whereby a subscriber of a multiple access communication network such as a cellular communication system is permitted to make a reservation to guarantee availability of a shared physical...
6917675 Method and apparatus for providing telephone conference bridging within a residential gateway  
To set up a conference call which includes two, three or more participants, when the participating residential gateways (RGs) lack the necessary capability, a call agent designates a capable...
6856809 SMS conference  
A method, computer system, computer program product, and user interface for enabling SMS users to engage in many-to-many conversation, or an SMS conference, utilizing SMS services. Specifically, a...
6839417 Method and apparatus for improved conference call management  
A method and apparatus are disclosed to allow individuals to initiate, join, manage, and participant in a conference call. Members of a community can meet and collaborate over telephones,...
6831971 Fault-tolerant load balancing of conference call bridges  
A conference call system receiving calls through a common carrier switch, where the conference call system includes a plurality of multi-port conference bridges, is operated by accepting a bridge...
6792093 System and method for telephone call recording and recorded call retrieval  
A telephone call recording and recorded call retrieval system records telephone conversations and stores the recorded conversations for later retrieval. The system includes on one or more servers...
6771759 Method and apparatus for managing parties to a multipoint conference using digital techniques  
An improved technique of managing a multiparty conference of a digital domain such as the Internet is disclosed. A party may invite other party(ies) to split the conference into two conferences....
6760750 System and method of monitoring video and/or audio conferencing through a rapid-update web site  
The operation and status of a system, such as a video/audio conferencing system, is monitored through the use of a web-based system. The system includes multiple client computer devices that...
6760422 Apparatus and method for providing conference call service  
A telephone interface ( 110 ) that supports a first and a second conference call service is provided in a telephone-capable apparatus ( 102 ). An input device ( 122 ) is further provided, allowing...
6721412 Method of coordinating a call among multiple devices  
A method of coordinating an incoming call among a plurality of telephony devices includes generating an incoming call notification signal and a call status signal at each telephony device. In the...
6714635 Method for reservation-less instant group conferencing  
A conferencing method for providing reservation-less instant group conferencing. A subscriber dials in a conference code and a group code in his/her phone. The input signal is received in the...
6714634 Method and apparatus for selecting disabling music on hold in a telecommunication system  
A caller makes ( 302 ) a telephone call to a second telecommunication system ( 108 ) from a telephone port ( 202 ) in a first telecommunication system ( 104 ). The first telecommunication system...
6687358 Method and apparatus for joining a party to a multipoint conference using digital techniques  
An improved technique of managing a multiparty conference of a digital domain such as the Internet is disclosed. As parties are added to the conference, the original conference member adding such...
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...
6603965 Pervasive voice handset system  
A system (and method) for linking wireless and land line communications media, includes a connector for connecting a communications media, and an indicator for alerting a user of the state of a...
6577721 Conference call  
A telephone for setting up a conference call, the telephone comprising a memory for storing data relating to a first and second user; control means for retrieving said data from the memory and...
6563915 Method and apparatus for an automatic barge-in system  
The invention provides a system that includes a method and apparatus for automatically barging-in on telephone calls. When a first party is talking to a second party, a third party may be...
6556670 Method for solving the music-on-hold problem in an audio conference  
A solution to the music-on-hold problem associated with audio conference calls. The music on-hold-problem occurs when a conferee having music-on-hold puts the conference call on hold, resulting in...
6522733 Communication gateway system  
A service control system grants or denies a user's request for a communication session to a communications system. The service control system receives the request. The service control system...
6512823 Multiline telephone including interacting call appearances  
Interacting call appearances are realized by enabling voice input/output to be simultaneously available on any combination of call appearances at a given time on a given terminal. Consequently, a...
6418214 Network-based conference system  
A management and control unit for a network-based conferencing system has an interface for outputting control signals to a platform for establishing audio connections across a network between...
6404873 Subconference calling in a telephony-over-LAN environment  
A method and system for establishing and managing subconference calls within a main conference call includes a subconference call subsystem which responds to a subconference call request from a...
6349136 System and method for controlling a conference call  
A system and method that provides control of a conference call. A controlling party enters a code and is isolated from the conference. Each conference participant is sequentially connected to the...
6330321 Method for on-demand teleconferencing  
An on-demand teleconferencing system and method for setting up an on-demand conference call in a telecommunications system having the Advanced Information Network (AIN) architecture with system...
6310946 Method for interrupting a telephone call after receiving a busy signal  
A telephone subscriber placing a telephone call through a telecommunications network (10) to a telephone line carrying an existing call may interrupt that call by entering an interrupt code to the...
6307927 Method for operating a network with interconnected terminals  
The invention relates to a process for the operation of a network with terminals (EG1, . . . , EGm) that can be connected to each other via transmission nodes (K1, . . . , Km) of the network,...
6304648 Multimedia conference call participant identification system and method  
A telecommunication system for establishing a conference call between various participants to the call communicating via multimedia communication devices. A call participant identification system...
6298129 Teleconference recording and playback system and associated method  
A teleconference recording and marking system for use by a plurality of teleconference participants includes a plurality of telephones with each having a mechanism for transmitting a voice signal...
6275575 Method and system for coordinating and initiating cross-platform telephone conferences  
A method and system for remotely accessing a multi-point cross-platform telephone conferencing system for the purpose of coordinating and initiating multi-point telephone conference meetings...
6243454 Network-based caller speech muting  
A switch (26) in a telecommunications network (34) monitors a call placed by a calling party (12) to a called party (14) to detect the presence of prescribed condition, such as the entry by the...
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