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7391858 System and method for mapping a voice identity across multiple telephony networks with time attributes  
A system and method for routing voice communication to an end user across multiple telephony networks are disclosed. In one embodiment of the present invention, when a caller dials a voice identity...
7336777 Method and apparatus for managing presenting and changing ring-back sounds in subscriber-based ring-back sound service  
Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for managing ring-back sounds in a subscriber-based ring-back sound service. The method includes the first step of storing common ring-back sounds and...
7333773 Coordination of cellular telephones in a residential area to obviate need for wired residential service  
A comprehensive method for coordinating cellular phones in a residential area to obviate the need for wired residential service. The present invention includes coordinating a set of wireless...
7295665 Method and system for routing a communication through an alternate carrier  
A method and system for routing a communication through an alternate carrier. The A method includes recognizing an input number upon which a call is based, assigning primary, alternate and...
7295661 Enhanced telecommunications alerting  
A method and apparatus for providing a calling customer with arrangements for enhanced alerting of called numbers. A customer defines an alerting list which is entered by the telephone company and...
7274782 Method and apparatus for selectively establishing communication with one of plural devices associated with a single telephone number  
A system for (and a method of) selectively establishing communication with one of plural devices associated with a single telephone number is provided. In a preferred embodiment, the system...
7194080 Automatically sequentially ringing alternative telephone numbers  
A Service Control Point (SCP) has a call list associated with the main telephone number of a called party. When a calling party attempts to contact the called party by calling the main number, but...
7139378 Method for signaling an incoming call  
According to the inventive method, an incoming call that is directed to a subscriber terminal (Tln 1 ) allocated to a subscriber group (Tln 1 to Tln n) is signaled to the subscriber terminal (Tln...
7133506 Message delivery systems and methods  
An apparatus for allowing a calling party to transmit a message for scheduled delivery from a network-enabled device. The apparatus includes a server for receiving a message request in response to...
7068771 Method and network for routing a communication through an alternate carrier  
A method and system for routing a communication through an alternate carrier. The A method includes recognizing an input number upon which a call is based, assigning primary, alternate and...
7016483 Call programming apparatus and method  
A method of routing incoming telephone calls and programming routing options and apparatus that allows incoming calls to be routed according to various criteria programmed by a subscriber.
6993122 System and method for consumer-initiated business solicitation calling system  
The present invention discloses a telecommunications system initiating telephone connections between, for example, a consumer and a service provider based on the criteria provided by the consumer...
6950650 System and method for call forwarding synchronization in a communication system  
In one aspect of the invention, a method for call forwarding synchronization includes allowing a telephone subsystem to forward calls for a telephonic device to a first call forwarding destination....
6931116 Multiple routing options in a telecommunications service platform  
A platform provides access to multiple telecommunications services via a single telephone number. These services may include call routing options. In a first call routing option, calls are routed...
6917673 Communication control apparatus and communication control method  
Communication control apparatus is provided for implementing a call relay service that makes it possible to construct and utilize a call relay network easily and reliably without relying upon...
6904141 Method and device for remotely routing a voice call  
A device for implementing a method of remotely routing a voice call forward to a telematic device is disclosed. The device first maintains a call state of the voice call in response to an answering...
6898274 Method and apparatus for adaptive time-based call routing in a communications system  
A method and apparatus in a communications system for routing a call. A call to a subscriber is received. Call routing information is identified for the subscriber. Responsive to identifying call...
6868268 Audio calling name and number delivery  
An audio calling name and calling number delivery method is disclosed. When a call is made from a calling party telephone to a called party telephone, a message is sent from an originating service...
6819758 Method, system, and computer-readable media for performing speech recognition of indicator tones  
An automated method for conducting an outdial telephone campaign, with the method comprising at least the following. At least one target telephone number is selected from a plurality of target...
6728357 Centralized communication control center and methods therefor  
A computer-implemented control center for permitting a subscriber of a plurality of communication services of a unified mess aging system to customize communication options pertaining to the...
6697480 Method and network for routing a communication through an alternate carrier  
Method and network for routing a communication through an alternate carrier. The network routes a communication based on a dedicated identifier through a plurality of interexchange carriers upon...
6678366 System and method for locating subscribers using a best guess location algorithm  
A system and method for locating the subscriber of a telephony product in which a best guess location is assigned to each subscriber of the telephony product. Under certain predetermined...
6600819 Method for implementing call acceptance groups in a communication network  
A method is provided for implementing call acceptance groups extending between network nodes in a communications network having a plurality of network nodes. An arrival of a call for a terminal...
6574325 Apparatus method and system for providing call progress information for multiple leg telecommunication sessions for intelligent network services  
An apparatus, method and system are disclosed for providing call progress and status information for multiple leg telecommunication sessions, such as for flexible alerting, for intelligent network...
6556666 Notification system for multimedia messaging systems  
A system and method within a multimedia messaging system for automatically enabling the system to notify a user that his or her mailbox is full and therefore no longer accepting messages for...
6519334 Method for processing incoming call in exchange system  
An exchange system minimizing ring noises generated when processing an incoming call. Upon receipt of an incoming call from a central office line, the exchange system generates a ring to a called...
6516060 Advanced call sequencing service  
A communications system is designed to prevent premature termination of the sequencing process for sequencing calls by a) disabling voice mail features for all calls in the sequence, except for the...
6453023 Voice mail intervention  
A system, method, and apparatus for retrieving a telephone call that has been diverted from an originally called user telephone to an alternative destination, such as a voice mail system or another...
6400816 Network-independent communications system  
A communications system is designed to receive programmed instructions from an end-user device, invoke within the system the necessary processes needed to execute these instructions, and to marshal...
6366652 Method and apparatus for using a VM tone to prevent a voice announcement in a group call  
A technique for preventing voice announcements in a group call is provided. A VM tone begins a voice announcement of a voice mail system. Parties that cause the VM tone to be transmitted are not...
5905789 Call-forwarding system using adaptive model of user behavior  
Subscribers to a personal telephone number service can receive calls placed to telephone numbers associated with an individual rather than a physical location or telephone line. A subscriber...
5898767 Casual agent pool  
A casual agent pool is provided to facilitate the management of a light load of inbound calls to a calling center where many employees (agents) may optionally answer those calls as part of their...
5793859 Adaptive telephone number selection method and system  
A method and system for directing a telephone call to an intended call recipient. The method and system may be used to place both inbound calls to and outbound calls from a user. The method and...
5787148 Enhanced telecommunications relay service  
In a telephone network, a platform is coupled to a profile database and a telecommunications relay center. A voice telephone or text telephone caller dials a telephone number for a text telephone...
5764747 Personal number communication system  
A personal number communications system assigns a personal number to each subscriber, and receives from each subscriber communication routing information in the form of one or more hierarchical...
5754630 System and associated method for multiple extension routing via an advanced intelligent network (AIN)  
A multiple extension routing via AIN system and method is disclosed. The method and system concerns rerouting an incoming call from an incoming caller to a single telephone number to at least one...
5724411 Method for selectively alerting multiple telephones of an incoming call  
A method and system for selectively routing incoming calls to a requested called party wherein the requested called party is at least one of a group of individuals associated with a plurality of...
5706339 Technique for use in processing personal telephone calls  
In a personal communication service (PCS) environment, where a call to a personal telephone number may be routed to a sequence of telephone numbers until the call is answered or abandoned, and...
5644629 Automatic routing of incoming telephone calls to a plurality of receiving devices based on caller identification  
Apparatus for routing incoming telephone calls to a telephone or an automatic answering device, wherein caller identification numbers are received, compared to stored caller identification numbers,...
5600704 Systems and methods for prioritized routing of telephone calls to a subscriber  
A cellular radio communications system maintains a prioritized routing list of several telephone numbers associated with a predetermined subscriber for efficiently establishing a communications...
5598465 Exchange controlling system for managing terminal groups  
An exchanging and controlling system which manages terminal groups, has a plurality of terminals. Terminal numbers of the terminals used as a group are registered in the system. A group number...
5598464 Method and apparatus for providing local number portability  
A system (10) includes a calling party (12) that initiates a call to a ported customer (14). Upon receiving the call from calling party (12), switch (16) generates a trigger indicating that ported...
5586169 Method of ringing a call responsive apparatus which answered an immediately preceding incoming call  
A method of connecting an incoming call to one of a plurality of call responsive apparatus all of which are associated with a single directory number, comprised of determining which one of the call...
5581611 Method for controlling advanced-function universal personal telecommunication services  
An exchange control portion and a service control portion are provided on the exchange network side. The service control portion is provided with a PTN management table. When a subscriber dials a...
5537468 Method for the non-hierarchical routing of traffic in a communications network  
A non-hierarchical method for routing traffic to achieve optimum throughput values under all traffic load states by modifying the number of alternate routes available for overflow traffic in...
5530931 Method and apparatus for providing a look ahead feature for enhanced call forwarding in a telecommunications system  
A method and apparatus for providing an enhanced Call Forwarding Don't Answer feature is disclosed. When an originating address calls a base address assigned the Call forwarding Don't Answer...
5487111 Telecommunications system sequence calling  
A method for use in a telecommunications system in which a call sequencing facility allows a caller who is trying to reach a called subscriber to be routed to each of a sequence of telephone...
5475748 Automatic telephone system with function for multiple out-dialed calls per caller  
Equipment providing information services, whether installed near a central office or provided as part of a PBX includes a search service for generating a number of outdialing operations in an...
5430791 Technique for administering personal telephone numbers  
A method of administering a sequence of locations to which calls placed to a subscriber's personal telephone number may be routed for personal communication service by a) storing pre-defined...
5394464 Progressive automatic activation and automatic resetting of call coverage  
An automatically progressively-activated and reset "send-all-calls" (SAC) feature provides the following functionality. In response to receipt at a switching system of each call for a destination...
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