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6711240 Systems and methods for per use message delivery  
A calling party dials a called party, leaves a message on a voice messaging system after either receiving a busy status or a no-answer status, and the messaging system dials the called party at...
6704395 System and method for reducing call interruptions on a telephone  
The present invention comprises an improved telephone system and method that reduce call interruptions to a telephone, i.e., reduce interruptions caused by a caller placing a call to the telephone....
6704394 System and method for accessing voice mail from a remote server  
The invention is directed towards an automated system for extracting voice messages from a voice mail system and for providing unified access to voice mail and electronic mail or voice mail and the...
6697340 System and method for providing enhanced services for a telecommunication call  
A system and method provide enhanced services for a call that is transported from a communication device through an asynchronous transfer mode system. The call has user communications in...
6693995 Personal caller I. D.  
This invention can state a Client's question or request for information, answer the question and give the requested information and get a response on the question answered and a response on the...
6694132 Method for telephone broadcasting voice messages or the like into defined geographical areas  
A method is described for telephone broadcasting warnings, information or the like into defined geographical areas. The method provides for: dividing the interested area into geographic zones;...
6693994 Master system for accessing multiple telephony messaging systems  
A “master” telephony message system (TMS) application has been developed to allow an individual to access multiple message services (such as voice mail, telephone-accessed email, unified...
6690771 System and method for answering machine call screening in a cordless digital system  
A system and method for call screening in a wireless telephone system. When a call is received on an answering machine ( 17 ) associated with a base part ( 11 ), the user at a portable part ( 12 )...
6683940 Transferring voice mail messages to a data network  
The invention contemplates a device, system, and method of transferring a voice mail message. The inventive method includes receiving a voice mail message directed to a telephone number,...
6683938 Method and system for transmitting background audio during a telephone call  
A voice processing system provides background audio during a telephone call between a caller and a callee telephony device. A storage system contains digital audio data and a database includes a...
6680999 Interactive telephony system  
Interactive medication data systems and methods are provided which include automated means for providing information pursuant to telephonic and electronic requests from callers. The system includes...
6681006 Service activation upon automatic callback and automatic recall expiration  
The present invention addresses the current limitations of the automatic callback and automatic recall (AC/AR) features. Upon activation of AC/AR and subsequent timeout, the calling party receives...
6681004 Telephone memory aid  
The telephone memory aid provides a database to a primary party for storing and retrieving personal information about a secondary party, including summary information related to communication...
6674841 Method and apparatus in a data processing system for an asynchronous context switching mechanism  
A method and apparatus in a data processing system for asynchronous context switching. Requests of graphics processes are received to process graphics data for display in a queue in the graphics...
6671352 Automatic voice announcement apparatus and control method therefor  
An automatic voice announcement apparatus for sending an automatic voice announcement message to a subscriber connected to an exchange from the beginning of the message includes: a message...
6671353 Method for recording and reproducing a short voice memo in portable telephone  
A portable telephone records a short voice memo during a call and reproduces the recorded short voice memo later. Upon detection of a voice record key input during a call, the portable telephone...
6671356 Multi-media communication management system with subscriber messaging integration services  
The multi-media communication management system comprises a controller that interfaces with a subscriber station that includes an interface for coupling to a subscriber device. The subscriber...
6668045 Message screening, delivery and billing system  
The invention is a computerized system that allows inmates of a correctional institution to communicate with parties outside the facilities via telephonic or electronic messaging events. The system...
6665380 Inmate messaging system and method  
An inmate messaging system and method for notifying an inmate in a prison facility of messages received from a caller outside the prison facility. The caller dials into the inmate messaging system...
6661877 System and method for providing access to a unified message store logically storing computer telephony messages  
A system and method for providing access to a unified message store logically storing computer telephony messages is disclosed. A multiplicity of heterogeneous storage objects corresponding to...
6662248 Recording/reproducing apparatus using an IC memory  
A recording/reproducing apparatus using an IC memory, comprising: an IC memory to/from which writing/reading of an audio signal is performed; and a control circuit for controlling writing/reading...
6658092 Method, apparatus and computer program product for authorizing re-recording  
In one form of the invention, a method for authorizing distribution of a telephone recording includes announcing for a first message-recording apparatus that a telephone caller can record a...
6650735 Integrated voice access to a variety of personal information services  
Facilitating voice access to personal information in a manner that the caller may voice command an action to be performed in response to hearing a particular personal information item. The voice...
6650734 System and method for automatic collect messaging on collect call restricted telephone numbers  
In a telephone network for use in placing telephone calls to a destination number associated with a called party, the destination number having restricted access for collect telephone calls, a...
6647272 Apparatus, and associated method, for automatically notifying a mobile station of occurrence of a triggering event  
Apparatus, and an associated method, automatically notifies a mobile station operable in a radio communication system of the occurrence of a triggering event. Responsive thereto, the mobile station...
6639973 Mobile originator call control  
An originating party ( 10 ) places a call through an originating party called control ( 30 ), through a network ( 40 ), through a terminating party call control ( 50 ) to a terminating subscriber (...
6636586 Telephone set device capable of vocalizing a telephone number being called  
A telephone set device capable of vocalizing a telephone number being called. A line interface circuit serves as an interface between the tip and ring wires of a standard telephone circuit and the...
6628757 Fingerprint-ID-activated message playback apparatus and method  
A telephone answering device uses capacitive fingerprint minutia analysis to provide individualized user access to messages stored by the device. The capacitive sensor provides inputs to an...
6628758 System for item selection in a telephony auto-attendant  
An automated telephone directory system allows a caller to select an item from a list in a telephony interface by assigning predetermined navigational functions to respective caller keypad entries...
6628759 Alert signal during telephone conversation  
An audible signal associated with an event is provided as part of the audio path of a telephone. In particular, a telephone according to one embodiment of the invention includes a microphone...
6625441 Telephony system with a key for accessing multiple answering machines or mailboxes  
A telephone communicates with a base station and a network, each having an answering machine. The telephone has a key and a controller which connects the telephone to the base answering machine of...
6621800 Message monitor application concept and implementation  
A voice messaging system allowing the monitoring of telephone calls is provided. The system permits subscribers to monitor incoming calls handled by voice messaging systems, and to selectively...
6614887 Caller-controlled voice mail sub-mailboxes  
A voice mail system employs caller-specific sub-mailboxes that are created within a voice mail account owner's mailbox so that a caller designates an access pincode for the sub-mailbox and then has...
6608887 Voice messaging system with ability to prevent hung calls  
A method and system for preventing hung calls on a channel of a network interface device of a voice messaging system is described. A channel of the network interface device receives a new incoming...
6609089 Method and apparatus for providing interactive services with multiple interfaces  
Interactive services with multiple interfaces are realized by employing a modular approach to their implementation. Such an approach facilitates supporting natural language understanding...
6603844 Advertised ring back in a telecommunication switching system  
Transmitting by a public service provider an audio message to the calling party instead normal ring back tones when a call is placed by a calling party to a called party. This audio message is an...
6603837 Method and system to provide a global integrated messaging services distributed network with personalized international roaming  
Systems and methods of cooperating with a telephone exchange to provide a user with centralized access to messages are presented. In accordance with the method, telephone numbers of users are...
6597279 Portable information terminal and method of setting the same  
In a pager which can select and set an incoming tone to be outputted from a speaker from patterns of a plurality of incoming tones when a signal is received by the operation of a jog dial, the tone...
6597765 System and method for multiple language access in a telephone network  
A telecommunications system including a public telephonic switching network interconnected with a telephonic network switch for routing calls from an initial telephonic unit to a destination...
6594484 Automated access by mobile device to automated telephone information services  
A method and system for automated navigation through voice menu information systems for mobile devices are disclosed. Navigation of the voice menu information systems is accomplished using a stored...
6590964 Automatic answering telephone set  
An automatic answering telephone set which eliminates cumbersome operations when a user tries to listen to a recorded business message from a remote place. The automatic answering telephone set...
6580787 Integration of voice mail, email, fax and personal calendar systems to automatically update messages  
Voice mail, email, fax and personal calendar systems are integrated allowing for the automatic updating of voice mail and email responses to received telephone calls and emails indicating that the...
6574329 Incoming call processing method, incoming call processing apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium having an incoming call processing program recorded thereon  
The present invention relates to an incoming call processing method for enabling immediate answering of the greatest possible number of incoming calls without generating unserviced phone calls, by...
6570964 Technique for recognizing telephone numbers and other spoken information embedded in voice messages stored in a voice messaging system  
A technique for recognizing telephone numbers and other information embedded in voice messages stored in a telephone voice messaging system. A voice recognition system is coupled to the telephone...
6560318 Arrangement for managing notification preferences for notification delivery messages in an IP-based notification architecture  
A notification architecture utilizes multiple processes configured for managing notification operations based on reception of SMTP-based messages within IMAP based message stores. The notification...
6556662 Method and apparatus for providing dialed number verification  
A method and apparatus to verify a dialed number is described. A request is received from a calling party to send a first call station a number sent from the first call station and associated with...
6556663 Guestroom telephone having single action message retrieval  
A telephone system is operatively coupled to a private automatic branch exchange (PABX) system and to a voice mail system, where the telephone system permits a user to retrieve recorded voice...
6556665 Portable telephone set  
In a portable telephone set, an input audio signal such as an audio signal is received through a microphone ( 111 ), and is then amplified by an amplifier ( 112 ). The output of the latter ( 112 )...
6553099 Device for indirectly forwarding messages in data and/or communications networks  
In order to satisfy the legal requirements which are made of the monitoring of telecommunications traffic, means for storing monitoring data (subscribers to be monitored, monitoring users, etc.)...
6553101 DOS-based card-type voice mail system  
A card-type voice mail system, connected to a key telephone system, includes: a key telephone system interface connected to a universal slot of the key telephone system for interfacing with the key...