| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 5666293 |
Downloading operating system software through a broadcast channel |
September 9, 1997 |
| Set-top terminals utilized in broadband broadcast networks are becoming increasingly intelligent. Upgrading the operation of such terminals periodically requires upgrading the software, particularly the operating system, of the programmable processor which controls the terminal opera |
| 5664005 |
Personal communications service using wireline/wireless integration |
September 2, 1997 |
| 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 |
| 5661791 |
Method and apparatus for enhanced distinctive call redirection |
August 26, 1997 |
| Telephone communications systems and methods are provided enabling subscribers to establish an easily changed plan for call completion, over an Advanced Intelligent Network to any of several alternative locations, of calls dialed to a single directory number. A call to the same directory |
| 5661782 |
Voice mail communication with call blocking |
August 26, 1997 |
| A system and method of effecting transfer of a message such as a voice message from one centralized messaging system to multiple centralized messaging systems in a switched communications network having a plurality of central offices connected to subscriber terminals and connected to |
| 5659605 |
Method and apparatus for providing soft dial tone using office equipment designators |
August 19, 1997 |
| An Advanced Intelligent Network is disclosed which permits even "disconnected" subscriber equipment to complete calls to the business office of the network operator or to 911 by providing soft dial tone to such users for access to only a limited sub-set of network capabilities. In ad |
| 5659353 |
Television distribution system and method |
August 19, 1997 |
| 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 |
| 5655007 |
Telephone based credit card protection |
August 5, 1997 |
| A system and method for enhancing the security of use of a transaction device such as a transaction card through a telephone system wherein subscribers to the service may require voice authentication as a prerequisite to a conventional transaction card authentication step. The servic |
| 5654751 |
Testing jig and method of testing video using testing jig |
August 5, 1997 |
| A testing jig is comprised of a circuit board which replaces and emulates the data transfer between a network interface module and a decoder engine of a settop box in a digital network. The testing jig receives the encoded video output of an encoder used in the network and converts the p |
| 5651010 |
Simultaneous overlapping broadcasting of digital programs |
July 22, 1997 |
| 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 throughout substantially overlapping portions of the service area. Obstructions in t |
| 5650994 |
Operation support system for service creation and network provisioning for video dial tone netwo |
July 22, 1997 |
| An operational support system includes service creation, service activation and service control functions to provide on-line service activation for video information providers (VIPs) and video information users (VIUs) on a video dial tone network. The operational support system provides |
| 5646942 |
Simulcast transmission of digital programs to shared antenna receiving systems |
July 8, 1997 |
| 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 throughout substantially overlapping portions of the service area. Obstructions in t |
| 5644619 |
Analysis and validation system for provisioning a public switched telephone network |
July 1, 1997 |
| An administration system for a public switched telephone network (PSTN) includes a service order processing system receiving a service request from a customer requesting service for a customer location, and determining whether the service request is provisionable responsive to the se |
| 5642418 |
Satellite television system and method |
June 24, 1997 |
| A system for controlling the acquisition of encrypted program signals such as television or other signals utilizing existing equipment in use in telecommunications networks. The transmitted program signals are encrypted subject to decryption for presentation by a receiver such as a telev |
| 5638425 |
Automated directory assistance system using word recognition and phoneme processing method |
June 10, 1997 |
| A mechanized directory assistance system for use in a telecommunications network includes multiple speech recognition devices comprising a word recognition device, a phoneme recognition device, and an alphabet recognition device. Also provided is a voice processing unit and a compute |
| 5631948 |
Voice mail communication with call blocking |
May 20, 1997 |
| A system and method of effecting transfer of a message such as a voice message from one centralized messaging system to another centralized messaging system in a switched communications network having a plurality of central offices connected to subscriber terminals and connected toge |
| 5630204 |
Customer premise wireless distribution of broad band signals and two-way communication of contro |
May 13, 1997 |
| A system and method for providing interactive multimedia services to subscriber premises utilizing wireless and power line distribution within the subscriber premise. The service is provided via a communications link delivering to the subscriber premises broad band digital information |
| 5627836 |
VPI/VCI administration |
May 6, 1997 |
| In a network utilizing asynchronous transport mode (ATM) transport and/or switching, the VPI/VCI values have meaning beyond the boundaries of each individual ATM processing element. At the very least, the VPI represents a source identifier related to the provider of the particular progra |
| 5621787 |
Prepaid cash card |
April 15, 1997 |
| A system is provided which uses a pre-purchased card having an identity number to make long distance telephone calls or to order services over a landline telephone system. When long distance telephone calls are being purchased, the agent selling the card has the option of selecting the l |
| 5621728 |
Level 1 gateway controlling broadband communications for video dial tone networks |
April 15, 1997 |
| In advanced digital networks for providing selective point-to-point communications between subscribers terminals and broadband server equipment operated by a plurality of independent information service providers, routing through the network is controlled by functionality identified |
| 5619562 |
Method and system for remotely activating/changing subscriber services in a public switched tele |
April 8, 1997 |
| An arrangement (apparatus and method) for remotely activating service for subscribers in a public switched telephone network. A field technician telephones a voice response unit. The field technician supplies DTMF inputs to provide a subscriber telephone number and a service to be pe |
| 5613191 |
Customer premise wireless distribution of audio-video, control signals and voice using CDMA |
March 18, 1997 |
| A system and method for providing interactive multimedia services to subscriber premises utilizing wireless distribution within the subscriber premise. The service is provided via a communications link delivering to the subscriber premises broad band digital information including video a |
| 5613190 |
Customer premise wireless distribution of audio-video, control signals and voice |
March 18, 1997 |
| A system and method for providing interactive multimedia services to subscriber premises utilizing in whole or in part the public switched telephone network. The service is provided using an existing twisted wire pair subscriber line with Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) t |
| 5610972 |
Personal communications service using wireline/wireless integration |
March 11, 1997 |
| 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 |
| 5610916 |
Shared receiving systems utilizing telephone cables as video drops |
March 11, 1997 |
| 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 throughout substantially overlapping portions of the service area. At most receiving |
| 5600632 |
Methods and apparatus for performance monitoring using synchronized network analyzers |
February 4, 1997 |
| A plurality of network analyzers are combined into a network performance analysis tool for analyzing complex and widely distributed networks. Each of the network analyzers is synchronized with the others to provide consistency in the application of timestamps to packets traversing the |
| 5594789 |
Transaction implementation in video dial tone network |
January 14, 1997 |
| Disclosed is a system and method of implementing purchasing and other transactions in an integrated multimedia communication system by utilizing an intelligent peripheral of an advanced intelligent telephone network which peripheral includes a voice recognition module for providing contr |
| 5594492 |
Method and apparatus for rapid channel selection |
January 14, 1997 |
| In a video distribution system, methods and apparatus for rapid channel selection are implemented to reduce the channel-to-channel latencies which might otherwise occur in modern video decoding systems, such as MPEG-2. |
| 5592477 |
Video and TELCO network control functionality |
January 7, 1997 |
| An Intelligent Signaling Transfer Point (ISTP) of the common channel interoffice signaling (CCIS) network provides high level control of signaling message routing and of processing of calls relating to telephone services, broadcast services, interactive broadband services and packet |
| 5588061 |
System and method for identity verification, forming joint signatures and session key agreement |
December 24, 1996 |
| A method for improving an RSA cryptosystem by generating a user private exponent key, having an associated modulus N, and a user public exponent key for each user of the system. Each user's public exponent key is provided to all users of the system. Each user's private exponent key is |
| 5588056 |
Method and system for generating pronounceable security passwords |
December 24, 1996 |
| A pronounceable security password is generated using a plurality of first word segment portions and second word segment portions, each of which has at least one character. A transition number, for each of the plurality of first word segment portions is identified, preferably using a Mark |
| 5586177 |
Intelligent signal transfer point (ISTP) |
December 17, 1996 |
| An intelligent network, such as might provide telephone services or the like, comprises local communication links, one or more trunk circuits and a number of separately located central office switching systems. The network selectively provides switched call connections between at least |
| 5586171 |
Selection of a voice recognition data base responsive to video data |
December 17, 1996 |
| In a switching system for connecting a call between a calling station and a called station, a system and method of voice recognition using a concentrated or distributed multiplicity of voice recognition and other resources with a facility for selecting an initial resource on the calling |
| 5583864 |
Level 1 gateway for video dial tone networks |
December 10, 1996 |
| In advanced digital networks for providing selective point-to-point communications between subscriber's terminals and broadband server's equipment operated by a plurality of independent information service providers, routing through the network is controlled by functionality identifi |
| 5583863 |
Full service network using asynchronous transfer mode multiplexing |
December 10, 1996 |
| An arrangement for transporting digital broadband data output in Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) cell streams from a plurality of video information service providers (VIPs) to a plurality of subscribers. A digital broadband network is adapted to receive a plurality of ATM streams fr |
| 5579379 |
Personal communications service having a calling party pays capability |
November 26, 1996 |
| 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 |
| 5566235 |
Customer controlled service mediation management |
October 15, 1996 |
| Equal access to the trigger functionality of the Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) is accessible to a plurality of service providers offering independent communication services. In response to a trigger event during processing of a call, a switching office sends a query to a mediation |
| 5563892 |
Method of upgrading the program transport capacity of an RF broadcast channel |
October 8, 1996 |
| The program transport capacity of an RF broadcast channel is upgraded by replacing analog services with digitally multiplexed services. RF channels can be obtained from one or more parties, e.g. parties holding MDS, MMDS and ITFS licenses for microwave video channels in the high end of t |
| 5559808 |
Simulcasting digital video programs |
September 24, 1996 |
| Within a desired service area, multiple transmitters at separately located sites broadcast the same multi-channel, multi-program digital video signal. Broadcast waves from the transmitters propagate throughout substantially overlapping portions of the service area. Obstructions in th |
| 5557678 |
System and method for centralized session key distribution, privacy enhanced messaging and infor |
September 17, 1996 |
| A encryption method and system using split key public encryption. A first and second user private encryption key and a corresponding first and second user public encryption key are generated. The first and second user private encryption keys are divided into a first and second private us |
| 5553119 |
Intelligent recognition of speech signals using caller demographics |
September 3, 1996 |
| In a switching system for connecting a call between a calling station and a called station, a system and method of voice recognition using a concentrated or distributed multiplicity of voice recognition and other resources with a facility for selecting an initial resource on the calling |
| 5546450 |
System and method for providing switch translations |
August 13, 1996 |
| A method for providing switch translations upon a failure in the conventional recent change message handling system. The failure results in triggering a common channel signaling inquiry, to a signaling control point which responds with instructions for setting up a common channel sig |
| 5544161 |
ATM packet demultiplexer for use in full service network having distributed architecture |
August 6, 1996 |
| 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 |
| 5535276 |
Yaksha, an improved system and method for securing communications using split private key asymme |
July 9, 1996 |
| In a system, such as a system utilizing a Kerberos protocol, system users each have an associated asymmetric crypto-key. The security of communications over the system is enhanced by a first user generating a temporary asymmetric crypto-key having a first temporary key portion and an |
| 5534912 |
Extended range video on demand distribution system |
July 9, 1996 |
| In a video on demand system utilizing asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) interfaces, a plurality of video channels are arranged at a central office into ADSL format and, together with a provisioning channel, are multiplexed into a composite spectrum. This composite spectrum is the |
| 5526413 |
Advanced intelligent network access by customer premise equipment |
June 11, 1996 |
| Telecommunications calls exchanged between customer premise equipment (CPE) and a switched telephone network receive advanced intelligent network (AIN) treatment within the CPE and within the network. The overall processing operations are coordinated and integrated so that the CPE can |
| 5524146 |
Automatic access to communication service providers |
June 4, 1996 |
| A short dedicated code, such as an N11 telephone number, is used to access an information source selected from a large number of voice, data, facsimile and/or video services offered by information service providers. The system can use a single N11 number for all calls, or a first code |
| 5524145 |
Incoming call completion threshold restriction |
June 4, 1996 |
| In a telephone communications system an Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) platform is used to complete or block incoming calls to a subscriber in accordance with a threshold stored in the ISCP call processing record (CPR). The CPR contains a table of information that is customized in |
| 5521965 |
Apparatus and method for handling busy calls in telephone network |
May 28, 1996 |
| A system and method for improving the completion rate of calls encountering a busy condition wherein the customer lines connected to a stored program controlled (SPC) switch having CLASS features are provided with a repeat call feature, comprising connecting such lines encountering a bus |
| 5513250 |
Telephone based credit card protection |
April 30, 1996 |
| A system and method for enhancing the security of use of a transaction device such as a credit card through a telephone system wherein the subscriber may establish through the telephone network a series of parameters which must be satisfied in order to activate the credit card to per |
| 5506887 |
Personal communications service using wireline/wireless integration |
April 9, 1996 |
| 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 |
