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6636590 Apparatus and method for specifying and obtaining services through voice commands  
The present invention overcomes the problems in the existing art described above by providing a method and apparatus for specifying and obtaining services through voice commands, via a voice...
6636733 Wireless messaging method  
A messaging system for selectively performing an action on information, for remote retrieval of messages, for performing action on information at different times, for selective paging, for...
6631133 Broadband telecommunications system  
The invention is a system for providing virtual connections through an ATM interworking multiplexer on a call-by-call basis. A signaling processor receives signaling for a call and selects the...
6631180 System and method for transferring a message responding to an answer phone through a packet network  
A telephone 24 1 transmits an answer-phone-startup request to a portable telephone position storing unit 25 . Then the portable telephone position storing unit 25 turns on an...
6628760 Method and apparatus for selecting an internet/PSTN changeover server for a packet based phone call  
A method and apparatus for establishing a voice call to a PSTN extension on behalf of a networked client computer, and routing the voice call off of the network, is provided. In a first embodiment,...
6625258 System and method for providing unified communication services support  
A virtual assistant system (VAS) ( 102 ) supports call services ( 104 ), message services ( 106 ) and profile services ( 108 ) and interfaces to both a telephone network ( 114 ) and to a data...
6625259 Packet telephony gateway for hearing impaired relay services  
A method and apparatus are provided for relaying text between a hearing impaired person and a third party through the public switched telephone network. The method includes the steps of converting...
6621892 System and method for converting electronic mail text to audio for telephonic delivery  
A system and method are provided for converting a textual portion of an electronic mail message into audio and delivering the audio through a telephone call to a recipient. An electronic mail...
6621899 Method and system for establishing voice communications using a computer network  
A method and system ( 100 ) establishes voice communications between a computer operator ( 102 ) and an agent ( 104 ) of a business over a computer network, such as the Internet ( 108 ). Using an...
6614780 Internet calling apparatus and method  
An Internet call connection method comprises the steps of (a) an Internet Telephony Server (ITS) receiving a dialed special services number of an originated call; (b) mapping the dialed special...
6614783 Multimedia telecommunication automatic call distribution system using internet/PSTN call routing  
A multimedia telecommunication automatic call distribution center which allows access to the call center via a plurality of access means, including telephone and data networks to provide...
6606374 System and method for recording and playing audio descriptions  
A system for recording an audio description of an item that may be offered for sale over the Internet makes use of an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system. A user wishing to make an audio...
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...
6603774 Signaling and handling method for proxy transcoding of encoded voice packets in packet telephony applications  
Voice packets are redirected in packet telephony applications to a codec proxy system that makes voice endpoints involved in an end-to-end call appear to be using the voice codec required of it by...
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...
6600750 Email to fax processing when no secondary storage is available  
An email communication system employed in a packet switching network environment for transmission of an email message including at least one fax message for use by fax recipient(s), through the...
6594269 Interactive information transaction processing system on IP telephony platform  
A system and method to enable a wide user community to be universally networked in voice communication. Server/IVR 100 receives voice communications from users employing a variety of device...
6594257 Network-based method and apparatus for initiating and completing a telephone call via the internet  
A network-based method for initiating and completing a voice telephony call via the Internet comprises the steps of receiving call completion data at a voice/data network gateway of the public...
6580786 Message store architecture  
A unified, intelligent message store is scalable and is optimized to provide both streaming and non-streaming data, as required, to telephony and web-based applications. A message application...
6581035 System and method for voice-enabled transactions  
A server for processing voice-enabled transactions from a communication device including a communications interface in communication with the communications device for receiving a voice transaction...
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...
6577637 Method, switching means and telecommunication systems for performing data communications between subscriber stations  
A switching means (BSC/MSC/VLR) of a mobile radio communication network (PLMN) contains a subscriber type determining means (SSTDM) which determines on the basis of call set-up messages whether in...
6577712 Distributed voice mail system  
A distributed voice mail system in a network includes a server in a control layer of the network and one or more media gateways in a connectivity layer of the network, wherein the server controls...
6577713 Method of creating a telephone data capturing system  
A customer survey design system that allows survey organizations to easily design and modify the survey, and to do so in a shorter period of time. In particular, there is a telephone survey...
6567398 Distributed call system  
Telephone service is supplied using a distributed architecture that employs a collection of resources each of which exposes a hierarchical namespace. The architecture includes two fundamental...
6563913 Selective sending of portions of electronic content  
A user of a handheld communication device selects in a foreground process portions of an electronic document. In a background process a new document is prepared that comprises the selected...
6563912 System and method for providing integrated messaging  
A voice server and method for providing integrated voice mail and email messaging for use with an email server and an email client. The voice server includes a telephone interface means for...
6563914 Personal web-based teleconferencing method and system  
A method and system which utilize a graphical user interface to identify potential participants in a teleconference, specify a user-controlled dial-up/hang-up order, and monitor the status of...
6560328 Voice extensions in a call-in center employing virtual restructuring for computer telephony integrated functionality  
An agent station for a call-in center has a telephone for an agent's use connected by a communication link with a computer workstation adapted for providing voice extensions, including one or more...
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...
6556564 Scheduled internet protocol telephone instrument system  
A LAN telephone which makes voice telephone calls over a local area network (LAN) data network. Acoustic voice sounds are digitally encoded and transmitted as data, over the LAN. The disclosed...
6549612 Unified communication services via e-mail  
A method and system for providing unified messages services to a subscriber. The subscriber utilizes an active interface embedded in an e-mail notification to control delivery of a non-literal,...
6546003 Telecommunications system  
A public switched telephone network utilizing program controlled switching systems controlled by common channel interoffice signaling (CCIS) and preferably an advanced intelligent network (AIN)...
6546086 Process for placing and reading an advertisement  
The invention concerns a process and a system for placing and reading an advertisement. In order to place and read advertisements without undue delay and to reach the largest possible group of...
6529501 Method and apparatus for internet telephony  
A telephony method and apparatus for communicating over a network. The apparatus has a device for receiving a signal representing a telephone number from a digital network. In addition, the...
6529500 Unified messaging notification  
Method and apparatus for unified messaging is described. More particularly, a visual or audible indication is provided to a served party that one or more messages are waiting on a network based...
6529586 System and method for gathering, personalized rendering, and secure telephonic transmission of audio data  
An audio information delivery system collects electronic data via Internet or other conveyance, and responsive to customer inquiries, selectively retrieves data from local stores in areas of...
6526043 Method and apparatus for charging for an outgoing voice call performed during an internet session  
A method and an apparatus solve the problem of how to be able to charge for an outgoing voice call placed by a subscriber who is simultaneously performing an internet session. The problem is solved...
6526042 System for initiating a call utilizing java-embedded email  
A system for permitting a first party to initiate a call from a second party to the first party, comprising a network for providing communication between the first party and the second party; web...
6522724 Apparatus and method that allow telephone callers to leave longer messages  
A messaging system allows a message recipient to assign different message lengths to different messages. In one embodiment, the recipient sets the length of time per message. In another embodiment,...
6519232 Method for implementing services of an intelligent network using a data network  
A method for implementing an intelligent service includes the step of offering the intelligent service with an intelligent network of a telephone system. Messages are exchanged interactively...
6512762 System and method for communicating telecommunication information between customer premises equipment and network equipment  
An apparatus for communicating telecommunication information between customer premises equipment and network equipment includes a subscriber line interface, a processing module, and a bypass...
6512764 Method and apparatus for providing voice signals to and from a telecommunications switch  
A voice gateway ( 64 ) includes an input port ( 70 ) that receives a voice signal from an unbundled analog line ( 62 ) coupled to a Class 5 switch ( 52 ). The voice signal is converted to a...
6510209 Telephone enabling remote programming of a video recording device  
A user can program the user's VCR when away from home by calling the user's home telephone number and remotely interacting with the user's telephone which is adapted for programming the VCR in...
6510417 System and method for voice access to internet-based information  
A method of providing voice access to Internet-based information and services includes receiving a signal indicating a communication connection request in which the communication connection request...
6504914 Method for dialog control of voice-operated information and call information services incorporating computer-supported telephony  
A method provides customer with simple and flexible dialog control and faster access to the desired information. In response to a customer call, a control program for dialog control created with...
6504913 Call handling mechanism  
A call handling mechanism provides a resource manager for controlling the allocation of functional modules to process a received call. Each of the functional modules can be implemented as a...
6501750 Method and device for device-to-device enablement of camp-on capability  
A notification method for providing camp-on capability includes utilizing device-to-device signal exchanges via a data network. As a result, the camp-on capability may be enabled at a called...
6501832 Voice code registration system and method for registering voice codes for voice pages in a voice network access provider system  
A system and method for registering voice codes (“VCodes”) associated with stored content corresponding to the VCodes, wherein the VCode may be used to access the stored content via telephone...
6501834 Message sender status monitor  
A message sender status monitor is used to determine the communication status of the sender of an electronic message. In the case of email, upon the recipient opening an email, a query is launched...