| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6154445 |
Telephony communication via varied redundant networks |
November 28, 2000 |
| A switched telephone network is arranged in a manner to enable packet voice communication between telephone teyminals via multiple redundant packet switched networks. The packet switched networks may utilize different protocols, be operated by different entities, and have primary functio |
| 6154207 |
Interactive language editing in a network based video on demand system |
November 28, 2000 |
| An authoring tool is utilized for authoring an interactive multimedia application which eliminates undesired language from an audio source. The application monitors either audio itself or text which accompanies the audio and temporarily stops the audio for a duration corresponding to tha |
| 6151491 |
Mobile voice message/electronic mail system |
November 21, 2000 |
| In an information distribution system having mobile users, a method of distributing communication channels to mobile users includes the steps of receiving information signals including at least one of voice, data, and electronic mail signals broadcast from an external source in the recei |
| 6147988 |
IP packet switching in a Telco switch |
November 14, 2000 |
| An assembly comprising a program controlled switch and (IP) Module providing signal compression and decompression and packet assembly and disassembly (PAD). The arrangement provides compression and packetizing of digitized voice and data signals between the conventional switch line i |
| 6137869 |
Network session management |
October 24, 2000 |
| An internetwork (such as the Internet) telephony system and method incorporating architecture and methodology which facilitates a high degree of scalability. The scalability provides improvement dealing with usage recording, usage pricing, billing account management, and fraud control. |
| 6130898 |
Simulcasting digital video programs for broadcast and interactive services |
October 10, 2000 |
| To provide interactivity, a public wireless packet data network is combined with a broadband digital broadcast network. In the preferred embodiment, the broadcast network utilizes multiple transmitters at separately located sites simultaneously broadcasting the same multi-channel, multi- |
| 6128489 |
Use of cellular digital packet data (CDPD) communications to convey system identification list d |
October 3, 2000 |
| An analog cellular voice telephone system and subscriber stations associated therewith are controlled to conserve power and to provide alternate service carriers. Acquisition of all of the service carriers is facilitated through the use of system identification numbers (SIDs) associa |
| 6125113 |
Internet telephone service |
September 26, 2000 |
| A public switched telephone network utilizing program controlled switching systems controlled by common channel interoffice signaling (CCIS) and preferably an advanced intelligent network (AIN) CCIS network is arranged in an architecture to provide a methodology for facilitating telephon |
| 6122357 |
Providing enhanced services through double SIV and personal dial tone |
September 19, 2000 |
| An intelligent telephone network provides personalized communication services based on subscriber prescribed double voice identification of the calling and answering parties on a subscriber line. Specifically, when a person requests a service, the network executes a double speaker id |
| 6122255 |
Internet telephone service with mediation |
September 19, 2000 |
| A communication network system comprising telephone networks concatenated with a packet switched data internetwork such as the Internet is provided. The network system transports voice signals therethrough while minimizing circuit overload in the telephone network circuits inputting sign |
| 6104913 |
Personal area network for personal telephone services |
August 15, 2000 |
| A personal area network (PAN) device enables the communication of data using galvanic properties of the skin. A person can wear a processor coupled to a PAN device. When the person touches a sensor capable of communicating with the PAN, the processor sends and receive data through th |
| 6104711 |
Enhanced internet domain name server |
August 15, 2000 |
| An enhanced name translation server, for use on a packet data network such as the Internet, executes a conditional analysis in response to at least some queries or requests for name translations. For example, the server may return a different destination address at different times or in |
| 6101242 |
Monitoring for key words with SIV to validate home incarceration |
August 8, 2000 |
| A telephone network provides personalized services based on voice identification of a person making or receiving a call. For example, when a person initiates a call, the network executes a speaker identification/verification procedure to identify the person as a subscriber. The ident |
| 6101182 |
Universal access multimedia data network |
August 8, 2000 |
| A system and method for providing Internet access via a Public Switched Telecommunications Network (PSTN) using full time asymmetric digital subscriber line connections between subscriber premises processor terminals and a local area network (LAN) node and router gateway on Telco pre |
| 6097798 |
Electronic surveillance in a public switched telephone network |
August 1, 2000 |
| Telephone network surveillance is provided for targeting subscriber terminals that receive service through an office lacking a switch with surveillance capability. A foreign exchange line is relied upon to connect the target's line to an office having that capability. Advanced Intell |
| 6097719 |
Public IP transport network |
August 1, 2000 |
| A system and method for providing IP transport and Internet services using a public switched telephone network (PSTN) and providing equal access. The system provides a wide area communications network serving a plurality of defined geographic areas such as LATAs, served by a switched tel |
| 6097515 |
Switchable optical network unit |
August 1, 2000 |
| A switch in an optical network unit selectively couples line side ports of the line cards of the unit to individual line circuits in drop cable wiring extending to the customer premises served by the unit. The switchable optical network unit (SONU) permits rapid automated upgrades of |
| 6084946 |
Qualifying a telephone line for digital transmission service |
July 4, 2000 |
| A telephone wire pair is qualified for digital signal transmission by central office testing. The tip-to-ring capacitance of the wire pair is measured while applying an test signal in the 20-30 Hz range to the wire pair. The tip-to-ring capacitance is used to compute a first length, and |
| 6078649 |
Remote subscriber loop terminal alarm monitoring |
June 20, 2000 |
| A centralized network total system maintenance facility is provided for processing alarm data received from a plurality of remote monitoring stations at remote terminals in a telephone network. The vast amount of incoming data are collected and logged into a file. The data is processed |
| 6078648 |
Advanced intelligent network (AIN) functionality for electronic surveillance |
June 20, 2000 |
| Following the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), the FBI developed a standard set of communication services and interfaces for lawfully authorized electronic surveillance. For telephone communications, the current industry implementation of compliance with thi |
| 6078582 |
Internet long distance telephone service |
June 20, 2000 |
| Long distance communications service between two communications systems is established by using a wide area packet switched network, for example the Internet, to transport signaling data and digitized communication traffic. Each communications system uses an interface server to encapsula |
| 6075783 |
Internet phone to PSTN cellular/PCS system |
June 13, 2000 |
| An Internet telecommunication system in accord with the invention combines the capabilities of the Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) with those of the internetwork commonly known as the Internet. Functions associated with the Internet Domain Name Server system are enhanced using AIN dat |
| 6069890 |
Internet telephone service |
May 30, 2000 |
| A system and method for providing telephone type services over the internetwork commonly known as the Internet. Public switched telephone networks utilizing program controlled switching systems are arranged in an architecture with the Internet to provide a methodology for facilitating |
| 6067347 |
Providing enhanced services through double SIV and personal dial tone |
May 23, 2000 |
| An intelligent telephone network provides personalized communication services based on subscriber prescribed double voice identification of the calling and answering parties on a subscriber line. Specifically, when a person requests a service, the network executes a double speaker id |
| 6064653 |
Internetwork gateway to gateway alternative communication |
May 16, 2000 |
| Voice calls between two end location gateway servers of a data internetwork are diverted, during periods of unacceptable network conditions, through the public switched telephone network (PSTN). A plurality of such diverted calls may be multiplexed into a single ISDN or T1 channel, there |
| 6061432 |
Voice mail system for obtaining routing information from signaling nodes |
May 9, 2000 |
| A voice mail system includes SS7 signaling capabilities to communicate on a telephone signaling network. The voice mail system uses those capabilities to obtain routing information, for sending a recorded message to a destination mail system, by sending a query message to either a de |
| 6041056 |
Full service network having distributed architecture |
March 21, 2000 |
| A video distribution network having an architecture that distributes video services over a greater serving area. The broadcast consolidation section receives broadband data from a plurality of information providers, preferably as compressed, digital signals using asynchronous transfer mo |
| 6038305 |
Personal dial tone service with personalized caller ID |
March 14, 2000 |
| A telephone network provides personalized calling services based on a voice identification of a calling subscriber. When a person initiates a call, the network executes a speaker identification/verification procedure to identify the person as a subscriber. For example, on an outgoing cal |
| 6038227 |
Preselection of service provider and functionality |
March 14, 2000 |
| A system and method for interposing in the feeder system of a switched telecommunications network an adjunct programmable program controlled switching system providing preselection of service providers and the functionalities provided. The adjunct switching system is preferably enclo |
| 6035029 |
System and method for subscriber line service control |
March 7, 2000 |
| A signal band width limiter is provided in a telecommunication path that includes a leased unbundled subscriber line. The limiter may be a low pass frequency filter having a band pass range set to the frequencies corresponding to subscribed services. If only POTS service is offered, the |
| 6029064 |
Mobile audio program selection system using public switched telephone network |
February 22, 2000 |
| A mobile audio program selection system includes a radio frequency based information distribution system having mobile users. The distribution system includes a mobile switching office selectively connecting the mobile users of the information distribution system, and information ser |
| 6021126 |
Telecommunication number portability |
February 1, 2000 |
| A telecommunications system wherein the dialing of a directory number which has been ported triggers an intelligent network signal which is directed to the Internet. The signal is transmitted through the Internet to a database in the Internet. The database returns call set up directions |
| 6018567 |
Maintenance operations console for an advanced intelligent network |
January 25, 2000 |
| An arrangement for monitoring operations of advanced intelligent network (AIN) elements of a public switched telephone network by transporting standardized network management messages across a data network. A maintenance and operations console (MOC) sends and receives Simplified Netw |
| 6014379 |
Telecommunications custom calling services |
January 11, 2000 |
| A telecommunications system wherein the dialing of a directory number which has been forwarded triggers an intelligent network signal which is directed to the Internet. The signal is transmitted through the Internet to a database in the Internet. The database returns call set up directio |
| 6011975 |
Method of personal communications service using wireline/wireless integration detecting a predet |
January 4, 2000 |
| The Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) wireline system connects to and controls processing of calls to a Personal Communication Service subscriber's wireless handset via a home base station or a wireless communication network. Depending on its current location, the subscriber's hands |
| 6005696 |
Backhauling test procedures for communications networks |
December 21, 1999 |
| A communications network having a plurality of distributed offices includes a test center at a central location for testing line and/or trunk circuits (`links`) throughout the communication network. The links are selectively coupled to a maintenance port of a selected office and are back |
| 6005605 |
Television distribution system and method |
December 21, 1999 |
| Within a desired service area, multiple transmitters at separately located sites simultaneously broadcast the same multi-channel, multi-program signal. Broadcast waves from the transmitters propagate substantially throughout the service area and overlap in a substantial portion of the |
| 6002502 |
Switchable optical network unit |
December 14, 1999 |
| A switch in an optical network unit selectively couples line side ports of the line cards of the unit to individual line circuits in drop cable wiring extending to the customer premises served by the unit. The switchable optical network unit (SONU) permits rapid automated upgrades of |
| 5991364 |
Phonetic voice activated dialing |
November 23, 1999 |
| A telephone communications system Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) platform provides a voice activated call dialing functionality through speaker independent phoneme speech recognition having a minimum volume of storage without requiring user template training. Speaker independent |
| 5982870 |
Method for concurrently establishing switch redirection for multiple lines of the public telepho |
November 9, 1999 |
| Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) platforms include data bases populated with information pertaining to all phone numbers within a communications network. A large number of telephone numbers may concurrently be prespecified in a data base by a subscriber, together with alternate tel |
| 5978855 |
Downloading applications software through a broadcast channel |
November 2, 1999 |
| Set-top terminals utilized in broadband broadcast networks are becoming increasingly intelligent (programmable). However, transmitting executable code, data and interactive audio/video materials through a selectively dedicated link requires an extensive, broadband point-to-point broadban |
| 5978450 |
Personal dial tone |
November 2, 1999 |
| A telephone network provides personalized communication services based on a voice identification of the subscriber. When a person requests a service, the network executes a speaker identification/verification procedure to identify the person as a subscriber. A switching office utilizes p |
| 5973684 |
Digital entertainment terminal providing dynamic execution in video dial tone networks |
October 26, 1999 |
| Apparatus and method for selectively executing a resident terminal application and an information provider-specific application stored in a digital entertainment terminal adapted to decode broadband data signals from a video dial tone network. The digital entertainment terminal stores |
| 5966387 |
Apparatus and method for correcting jitter in data packets |
October 12, 1999 |
| An arrangement (apparatus and method) for detecting jitter caused during transport of digitally-coded information, such as MPEG-encoded data packets, and for correcting time stamp reference values in accordance with the detected jitter. The disclosed arrangement detects program clock |
| 5958016 |
Internet-web link for access to intelligent network service control |
September 28, 1999 |
| A web page type interface is provided, which enables subscriber access to control and reporting functionalities of a communication network, such as the advanced intelligent telephone network, via a public packet data network, typically the network now commonly known as the Internet. The |
| 5958005 |
Electronic mail security |
September 28, 1999 |
| A method, system, and product for communicating data text messages, such as E-Mail, between computers connected to a network while providing selectable degrees of security for each message. The methodology comprises the procedure of creating in the originating computer a data message |
| 5953399 |
PBX selective caller identification authentication |
September 14, 1999 |
| The present invention uses capabilities of the advanced intelligent network (AIN) to control an authentication process of caller ID information data generated at a calling PBX system. The central office switching facility associated with the calling PBX system identifies calls therefrom |
| 5953389 |
Combination system for provisioning and maintaining telephone network facilities in a public swi |
September 14, 1999 |
| In an administration system for a public switched telephone network, a method of provisioning and maintaining the working status of customer network facilities is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving a service request from a customer at a living unit requesting service, a |
| 5940598 |
Telecommunications network to internetwork universal server |
August 17, 1999 |
| A universal or multi-purpose network server having enhanced processing functions which are performed in association with a telecommunicatons network to provide multi-mode communications via a combination of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and a public packet data network, |
| 5937048 |
Program controlled switch provisioning |
August 10, 1999 |
| A method and system for provisioning program controlled switches in a public switched telephone network using a Recent Change Memory Administration Center wherein verbal orders to a business office are translated to machine language, delivered to the Recent Change Memory Administrati |
