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7313387 Method for operating a telecommunication system and telecommunication arrangement  
The invention relates to a method for operating a telecommunication system, including in particular a mobile radio network (PLMN), to provide a service and to obtain information.
6873688 Method for carrying out questionnaire based survey in cellular radio system, a cellular radio system and a base station  
The invention relates to making a questionnaire-based survey in a cellular radio system including a central device and a number of independent terminal devices, where between the terminal devices...
6859524 System and method for automated third party verification  
A system and method for performing independent third party verification utilizes an automated system for posing questions to a customer and for recording and analyzing the customer's responses to...
6683943 Automated mass audience telecommunications database creation method  
A method for coordinating a generally publicly broadcast contest show with automatically dialed marketing telephone calls by which the recipients are first interrogated about their willingness to...
6631184 System for community generated feedback and/or rating  
A telecommunications network system and method enabling feedback and rating data corresponding to products, services, or product or service providers to be shared among users in real-time. Feedback...
6173323 Adaptive polling rate algorithm for SNMP-based network monitoring  
A rate adaptive polling method sensitive to network congestion is used to monitor network resources. Initially, a baseline rate constraint is set based on desirable engineering factors....
6064724 Modem with automatic callback provisions  
A modem is included in a television receiver for transferring data, such as "pay per view" billing information, to a modem in a billing station during periodic callback operations. The television...
6047052 Data collection method and system with shorter control interval  
A data collection method and system is provided, by which blank time due to a time lag is not generated and a call probability to be broadcast can be calculated based on the number of potentially...
6044134 Messaging system and method  
A method and apparatus used with an automatic voice messaging system to allow at least one user to formulate a plurality of questions to be posed to system users requiring specific response types,...
6038544 System and method for determining the performance of a user responding to a call  
A system for determining the performance of a user responding to a call includes a processor, a memory, and an interface. The system presents stored audible and textual information to a user to...
6026148 System and method for delivering expert information by computer  
A computer-based system facilitates exchange of information between users and expert respondents. The users post questions on a topic to a computer bulletin board or forum, using a telephone and...
5970121 Method and apparatus for obtaining feedback regarding data network services  
A method and apparatus for obtaining real-time call by call feedback from customers is to the perceived quality of network services may be accomplished after communication via network connection...
5956486 Method and apparatus for monitoring multiple electronic mail systems  
A method for monitoring multiple electronic mail systems includes the steps of: a) configuring an e-mail system polling process on a user's machine; b) polling a number of e-mail systems from the...
5915243 Method and apparatus for delivering consumer promotions  
A method and apparatus for offering promotions to a consumer on the basis of a dynamic information profile for that consumer. The dynamic information profile is formed by creating an initial...
5907715 Entertainment system for collecting user inputs by periodically interleaving game collection interrogations into series of system interrogations during interruption of system interrogations  
A hotel room entertainment system enables video games to be played in each room of a hotel without providing a video game generator in each room. The entertainment system includes at a head end...
5859899 Method and system for data collection using public network and broadcasting  
A data collection scheme with an improved data collection efficiency. In order to collect data from many terminals to a center having a plurality of center service ports through a public network,...
5838774 Telephone polling method  
In an intelligent switched telephone network, a telephone polling method is provided wherein a call made in response to a telephone based polling service is processed and disconnected without...
5818911 Information communication system and transmitting and terminal apparatus for the same  
An information communication system that includes a transmitter, a communication network and at least one terminal apparatus connected with the transmitter through the communication network. The...
5815559 Method for selecting AMA records using directory numbers  
In an automatic message accounting (AMA) record distribution network, a method and system for sorting AMA records by using an area code or numbering plan area (NPA) data array and directory number...
5812642 Audience response monitor and analysis system and method  
A system and method are provided for monitoring and analyzing audience response to a broadcast promotion. The specific embodiment for fund-raising campaigns for public television stations is...
5799077 Method of and apparatus for automatic dialing  
An automatic dialing apparatus includes a computer having a dialing control section. The computer issues an automatic dialing instruction to control the operation of the exchange. The dialing...
5778054 Communication apparatus and method for displaying on a screen a number of images corresponding to respective access information that is operative to initiate electronic communication  
A communication terminal apparatus receives and stores access information and video information corresponding to the access information, the video information is retrieved from storage for display...
5754628 Method of providing telecommunications network-based message services  
A method of operating a telecommunications network to provide network-based messaging services includes utilizing a communication link between the network and a telephone adjunct interface. The...
5619558 ATM segment of one marketing method  
A method for segment of one marketing to a customer utilizes an automated teller machine (ATM). The ATM dispenses to the customer a receipt containing a transaction record, a promotion, and a...
5519771 Called subscriber selecting system  
A system for selecting a called subscriber is provided in a telephone switching network for selecting a called subscriber from a plurality of called subscribers who desire to be selected and has a...
5473673 System for transmitting selection code signals to TV or radio stations  
System in which subscribers (2) are able to transmit, via the telephone network (1) and a processing system (7), selection codes to a TV or radio station (5) in response to a selection question...
5453015 Audience response system and method  
A system is provided for recording and evaluating audience responses, for example, answers given to questions posed in television quiz shows. Responses are sensed using, for example, a membrane...
5444769 Data communications system for establishing links between subscriber stations and broadcast stations  
An interactive data communications system comprises a plurality of subscriber stations each of which has an identification code associated therewith and an entry terminal for manually entering data...
5377258 Method and apparatus for an automated and interactive behavioral guidance system  
An automated and interactive positive motivation system (10) that allows a doctor or trainer to produce and send a series of motivational messages and/or questions to a client (50) to motivate or...
5311507 Automated interactive mass communications system  
A real time automated interactive mass communications system provides communications between a central communications processor and groups of subscribers. Typically, each group is associated with a...
5270809 Data return for a television transmission system  
A method for transmitting information over a communication network between a population of remote terminals and a central location having a capacity of simultaneously communicating with a...
5212727 Queuing trigger in call processing  
A telecommunications switching system is disclosed which integrates intelligent network (IN) services with regular telephone services. A service control processor, which implements the IN services...
5157716 Dynamic callback technique  
A dynamic global callback technique which is capable of maintaining a manageable number of incoming calls to a central location from a plurality of remote units. A plurality of remote units are...
5120076 Method of evaluating data relating to a common subject  
A method of determining the winners of, for example, a game of skill in conjunction with a football or baseball game without the input of all the scores is provided. By the use of statistical...
5097528 System for integrating telephony data with data processing systems  
A system is disclosed for providing an automatic interface between a host based, menu driven application program and a telephone network. The system includes a host access table stored in a memory...
5019899 Electronic data encoding and recognition system  
The disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for creating digital signatures from frames of selected video segments such as TV commercials by a digitizing, compression and selection process...
5012510 Dynamic callback technique  
A dynamic global callback technique which is capable of maintaining a manageable number of incoming calls to a central location from a plurality of remote units. A plurality of remote units are...
4974252 Interactive commercial/entertainment network  
A commerical/entertainment network provides interactive communications for patrons and comprises: a plurality of theaters; a plurality of node/filters, connected in tiers; and, a remote broadcast...
4926255 System for evaluation of response to broadcast transmissions  
A system and method for evaluating responses to broadcast programs, such as television programs, includes an instructional signal modulated onto a voice signal transmitted concurrently with the...
4912552 Distributed monitoring system  
A system is disclosed which may be used for collecting television channel tuning data, household purchase data, VCR channel usage data and the like; on site at a plurality of preselected...
4876592 System for merchandising and the evaluation of responses to broadcast transmissions  
A system and method for evaluating responses to broadcast programs, such as television programs, for the selling of merchandise includes a modifiable instructional signal modulated onto a voice...
4750199 Coordinated multiple telephone station system  
A system incorporating a cluster of several telephone stations or terminals to interface with one or more frequently called remote data stations for economy of dial-up connection in accommodating...
4584602 Polling system and method using nondedicated telephone lines  
An audience data rating collecting system and method which are capable of collecting television audience rating data automatically within a short period of time. A broadcasting station transmits...
4002837 Transceiver  
A data receiver for transmitting interrogating signals to activate in sequence a plurality of data transponders, receiving data from the transponders, processing the data, correcting the data,...
3906450 Electronic system for the recording of periodically sampled variables  
System for transmitting periodically pulsed variable information and forwarding it to a recorder for processing and reproduction, which recorder is activated only when a change occurs from the...
3794983 COMMUNICATION METHOD AND NETWORK SYSTEM  
Communication methods in networks arranged and interconnected so that each memory-logic module of the network system can initiate an information request that will be propagated to the remaining...
2923771 Television program rating and recording apparatus  
2833859 System for determining listening habits of wave signal receiver users  
2788392 Apparatus for indicating at a remote point the tuning conditions of wave signal receivers  
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