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7392066 Volume control system and method for a mobile communication device  
In accordance with one or more embodiments, a method for adjusting volume of a mobile device in relationship to environment noise is provided. The method comprises sampling ambient noise around the...
7379760 Data transmission-reception system and data transmission-reception method  
A data communication system is disclosed which comprises: first terminal devices for transmitting contents and content provider identification data identifying the providers of the contents; a...
7376395 Controlling a telecommunications device  
A telecommunications device comprises a communication alert system arranged to inform the user that a telecommunications signal has been received. The communication alert system uses one of a...
7353047 Integrated mobile phone ring scheduler  
A mobile telephone comprises a ringer to provide an audible alert of an incoming telephone call. The mobile telephone has a ringer schedule interface to receive a ringer control schedule. The...
7340050 Apparatus and method for controlling incoming melody  
In an apparatus and method for controlling an incoming melody, a receiver's telephone terminal allows a caller who transmits a call request signal to select a specific receiver with whom the caller...
7305256 Method, apparatus and program for providing user-selected alerting signals in telecommunications devices  
A method for operating a user communication device ( 18 a, 18 b, 19 a, 19 b ), and a program and user communication device that operate in accordance with that method. An interface ( 2 d, 2 b, ...
7286799 Remote caller identification (ID) device  
The present invention provides technical advantages as systems, devices and methods that enable a person to remotely identify the origin of an incoming call.
7260421 Communication device that communicates events using compressed audio information  
Compressed entertainment content such as audio or video or both includes additional aspects and operations associated their way. The compressed audio may be used to signal computers such as a...
7251321 Crescendo telephone ringer  
Crescendo telephone ringers and methods of providing a crescendo telephone ring signal. The crescendo telephone ringer provides a gradual increase in audible ringing volume as a sequence of...
7233658 Flexible ring-tone service  
A subscriber associates a ring-tone media selection based on a media genre, author, or title to a calling number. When an incoming call is detected, a particular ring-tone media selection, based on...
7224792 Personalized telephone announcement  
According to the invention, a method for alerting a user of an incoming phone call is disclosed. In one step, notification of the incoming phone call is received with an identifier that is...
7212840 Cellular phone and incoming call reception informing method  
Incoming call tones and program numbers as numbers used to specify respective incoming call tones are stored in a memory of a cellular phone so as to be set in correspondence to each other. The...
7170994 Method and apparatus for selecting an alert mode based on user biometrics  
A communication apparatus includes a communication device ( 130 ) and an activity monitoring device ( 120 ). The communication device ( 130 ) includes an alert device ( 275 ) for notifying a user (...
7162223 System and method for notifying users of an event using alerts  
An alert engine module receives an alert for an event in a generic communications format and delivers an alert for the event to a target address in a communications format that is preferred by a...
7162027 Voice messaging system caller ring bypass control  
A voice messaging system such as a telephone answering device which allows a calling party to bypass the ring signal and substantially immediately allow the calling party to leave a voice message....
7162026 Alert muting method through indirect contact for portable devices  
The invention generally relates to a method for muting an alerting portable device such as a ringing cell phone or alarming PDA. Specifically where muting is activated in a means not requiring...
7142664 Intelligent multimode message alerts  
An apparatus that intelligently determines how to alert a user to the arrival of an incoming message at a telecommunications terminal, and what information is imparted to the user via the alert, is...
RE39406 Telephone line coupler  
The telephone line coupler circuit has a single transmit opto-coupler whose output includes a DC bias component connected to a gate of a line seize switch for connecting a DC line seize load across...
7136482 Progressive alert indications in a communication device  
A communication device and method for providing progressive alert indications includes a first step of storing at least one alert indication in the communication device. The alert indication can...
7113586 Caller controlled network-based timed ring suppression  
Systems and methods for timed ring suppression are disclosed. After a communications device receives an incoming call and the ringer is activated to produce an initial audible alert, the ringer of...
7110529 Bookmarking method and apparatus for an electronic phone book  
A method and an apparatus for using an electronic phone book in a communication terminal are provided. If a user manually requests a phone number to be registered as a bookmark, or the number of...
7106846 System and method for caller control of a distinctive ring  
A system for a caller to control a distinctive ring for a telephone call includes a service switching point and a service control point. The service switching point is operable to receive a feature...
7103390 Method and system for transferring data in a hand-held electronic device  
A method and system for transferring data between a phone body and a phone cover having a functionality. The data can be divided into a sequence of bit patterns which can be assigned to different...
7099457 Personal ring tone message indicator  
A system and method of message indicating that enable the sender of a message to chose the ringing tone of the receiver's cellular telephone upon arrival of the sender's message. The sender has the...
7088991 Portable telephone system  
A portable telephone terminal 1 has a built-in memory 18, in which either the content of a new call arrived is recorded while continuing prevailing communication or recording of the content of...
7088816 System and method for customising call alerts  
A computerized system and method for selecting the nature and/or form of an alert used to announce a call made by a user participating in a customized alter service. The method includes...
7088815 True alert indication  
An end user terminal (EUT), e.g., such as mobile terminal (MT) ( 20 ), is provided for connecting with an incoming call received over a communications network (A). Suitably, the EUT includes an...
RE39231 Communication terminal equipment and call incoming control method  
In a communication terminal equipment and in a method of controlling call incoming, unnecessary noises in a period from the start of an alert sound to carrying out of the next operation can be...
7076276 Mobile terminal device comprising vibrating component having light effects  
Mobile phones use light signaling or vibrational effects to silently indicate to a user that e.g. a telephone call is incoming. The present invention provides a method, a component for generating...
7076052 Telephone terminal  
A telephone terminal device such as a portable telephone performs music playback processes with respect to use-specified music data in which tempos, tone colors, and pitches are specifically...
7050573 Method of generating ring tones using melody and communication terminal apparatus  
In a communication terminal apparatus such as a portable telephone, it is made possible to sound ring tones of good tone quality simply by using arbitrary music or the like. In a communication...
7050572 Telephone set and response method to incoming call  
A telephone set is provided that includes a control section that, when detecting an off-hook operation, instructs a tone generator and a codec to stop a transmission of an incoming call and...
7043012 Method and apparatus for ring again feature for a telephone system  
A method and apparatus for an automatic ring again feature on a telephone set for a user that answers a telephone call not intended for that user is disclosed. If a user has answered an incoming...
7035675 Method for storing and reproducing ring tone melodies of mobile phones and system thereof  
A server for storing data of a ring tone melody downloaded from a ring tone melody distribution server through a network is disposed. A mobile phone has a memory for storing only one ring tone...
7023985 Circuit for electronically generating a call impedance  
The present invention relates to a circuit for electronically generating a call impedance in telephone terminals, comprising a call alternating voltage that may be tapped between a first and a...
7020271 Ring control device  
A system and method that allows a ringer of a telephone to be silenced on demand without preventing outgoing calls to be placed. In an embodiment of the invention, there is a ring control device...
7020266 Simultaneous transmission of an analog pots signal and a digital signal on a subscriber line  
Apparatus and method for simultaneously providing multiple telephone-type services to any/all POTS-type devices on a single wire pair at a user premises. The present invention provides for the...
7006622 Method and apparatus for producing ringing tones in a communication device  
A method and apparatus for producing a ringing tone in a communication device, such as a mobile phone, an electronic organizer or a personal digital assistant, to signal an event in the...
7003089 Splitter for analog telephone signal and digital data  
In a telephone system where frequency multiplexed analog telephone signals and digital data signals are transmitted over a line, incoming calls are announced to the customer installation by a...
6996228 Motor for generating vibrational signal  
A vibrator mechanism is constructed with a permanently magnetized rotor having an eccentrically positioned center of mass and a flat profile. The magnetized rotor is magnetically coupled to a...
6963761 System and method for sounding a music accompanied by light or vibration  
Disclosed is a system for sounding a music accompanied by light including: a speaker for sounding a music including plural parts; a light emitter for emitting light; a driver for having the speaker...
6944285 Communication terminal device, holds melody sensing method, incoming melody playing and information storing medium  
A control block recognizes the other party of the telephone call when both calling and called case. When the user operates the reservation melody key of the key input block while talking over the...
6937724 Apparatus and method for delivery of ringing and voice calls through a workstation  
A data processing system comprises an audio processing means receiving data within said data processing system for converting the data into an analog signal with a first and a second analog channel...
6937716 Method of automatically changing a calling mode of telephone as timer setting changes  
A primary object of the present invention is to provide a method of automatically changing a calling mode of a telephone having a program timer installed therein as a timer setting changes, wherein...
6937712 Network-based intercom system and method for simulating a hardware based dedicated intercom system  
A network-based intercom system and method comprises software and the necessary portions of a computer network on which it is implemented. The software includes a dispatcher module to be installed...
6934565 Apparatus and method for controlling multi-function device of mobile terminal  
An apparatus and method for controlling a Multi-Function Device (MFD) of a mobile terminal has a filter circuit converted according to operation modes of the MFD and the apparatus includes a...
6917680 Apparatus for disabling a telephone ringer  
An apparatus for disabling a telephone ringer includes a light sensing device operable to produce a signal indicative of a level of ambient light; and a controller operable to receive the signal...
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...
6882860 Method for issuing a incoming call alert according to service options in a composite cellular terminal  
A composite cellular terminal providing various service options issues different call termination alert tones and different call termination display messages according to types of terminated calls....
6859528 Telephone call blocking system  
An accessory for association with a telephone answering machine, which blocks unwanted telephone calls. The “ringer” of the answering machine is de-activated: an incoming “ring” signal...
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