| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| D351594 |
Mobile telephone handset |
October 18, 1994 |
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| 5809130 |
System and method for selectively retrieving communications from any selected location |
September 15, 1998 |
| A communication system operative to retrieve communications from a plurality of calling parties by a called party at a plurality of selected secondary party locations, each having a corresponding Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) device and a communication address. The system includes a |
| 5805688 |
Automated system and method for call handling |
September 8, 1998 |
| A system and method for automatically routing telephone calls to a subscriber selected from a group of subscribers having a common calling number. The system and method are directed for use in a local exchange portion of an Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN). A database in electrical |
| 5784562 |
System for using a dialog session context to process electronic forms data on the world wide web |
July 21, 1998 |
| An electronic document processing system is disclosed for a communications network, wherein the network protocol has the property of repeatingly breaking down each established communication connection between network nodes attempting to carry on a dialog session. Related document data is |
| 5774887 |
Customer service electronic form generating system |
June 30, 1998 |
| An apparatus for producing a series of electronic forms that are related to completing a task. The apparatus includes a computer system in which one or more databases are stored. The computer system displays a list of tasks that can be selected by a customer service representative. Each |
| 5727058 |
Apparatus and method for routing communications to a variety of CPE devices |
March 10, 1998 |
| Provided is an apparatus and method for routing communications in an Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) having at least one central office switch. The disclosed system routes communications from a calling party having at least one Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) device to a seconda |
| 5633912 |
Mobile telephone user interface including fixed and dynamic function keys and method of using sa |
May 27, 1997 |
| A user interface for use in a mobile telephone handset which includes static visual display means for presenting the status of the mobile telephone and other services accessible by the user. The interface further includes dynamic visual display means for presenting a plurality of con |
| 5592540 |
Method and apparatus for selectively delivering telephony signals on a hybrid coaxial cable netw |
January 7, 1997 |
| An interdiction device and method to jam or delete selected video and telephony signals. The interdiction device includes amplifiers and forward couplers to prevent the telephony signals from appearing at other undesired subscriber locations on the network. |
| 5572573 |
Removable user interface for use with interactive electronic devices |
November 5, 1996 |
| An improved user interface for use in interactive electronic devices. The user interface eliminates the complexity and ambiguity problems encountered in conventional interfaces through the incorporation of a physical overlay designed for use in cooperation with a contiguous touch scr |
| 5559858 |
Method and apparatus for delivering secured telephony service in a hydrid coaxial cable network |
September 24, 1996 |
| A hybrid coaxial cable network employing interdiction to ensure privacy in telephony communications. The video and telephony signals are secured such that telephony and interactive video signals to and from a subscriber do not appear on the network at any other undesired subscriber locat |
| 5553223 |
Method and system of selectively transmitting display formats and data between a host computer a |
September 3, 1996 |
| User interfaces are distributed between a host computer 10 and an intelligent terminal 12 for communication over a telecommunications network 14 requiring minimum bandwidth. Host user interfaces 18 resident in the host computer 10 are distributed as terminal user interface objects 32 |
| 5537647 |
Noise resistant auditory model for parametrization of speech |
July 16, 1996 |
| A method and system are provided for alleviating the harmful effects of convolutional and additive noise in speech, such as due to the environmental noise and linear spectral modification, based on the filtering of time trajectories of an auditory-like spectrum in a particular spectr |
| 5515367 |
Method and system for planning and installing communication networks |
May 7, 1996 |
| A method is disclosed for use in cooperation with a computer having memory in a Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) for generating an optimized transition plan for the placement of Self-Healing Rings (SHR) and the routing of point-to-point demand in accordance with projected customer |
| 5508999 |
Method and system for designing least cost local access networks |
April 16, 1996 |
| A method and system is provided for use in cooperation with a computer having a memory for generating an optimized transition plan for the placement and interconnection of carrier hubs in a local access network having a plurality of Central Offices (COs), Serving Wire Centers (SWCs) |
| 5479495 |
Method and system for automatically accessing and invoking switch-based services in an advanced |
December 26, 1995 |
| A method and system is provided for use in an Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) for automatically accessing and invoking existing switch-based services without going off-hook. To be operative, the Advanced Intelligent Network must be equipped with O-called-party-busy trigger and leg |
| 5475615 |
Method and system for sizing interactive video delivery systems |
December 12, 1995 |
| A method and system for determining the required number of active video circuits in an interactive video delivery network required to meet the specified blocking probability constraints. By determining peak loading hours as well as the number of system subscribers in a given video de |
| 5469495 |
Method and apparatus for delivering secured telephone service in hybrid coaxial cable network |
November 21, 1995 |
| A hybrid coaxial cable network employing interdiction to ensure privacy in telephony communications. The video and telephony signals are secured such that telephony and interactive video signals to and from a subscriber do not appear on the network at any other undesired subscriber locat |
| 5467384 |
Method and apparatus for providing power to a coaxial cable network |
November 14, 1995 |
| A fiber optic/coaxial cable telephony network including power. Power is supplied through the coaxial cable portion of the video network to an cable network unit where the power is converted and supplied to the equipment including customer premises equipment. |
| 5457738 |
Method and system for searching an on-line directory at a telephone station |
October 10, 1995 |
| A method and system are disclosed for processing and displaying objects to permit a search of a database by a user of a telephone station. The telephone station includes a computer, a display device having a display screen adapted to cooperate with a pointing device. The method includes |
| 5452340 |
Method of voice activated telephone dialing |
September 19, 1995 |
| The present invention relates to a method of interface between a voice activated dialing system and a user. The present invention solves the problems presented by the prior art by providing a user interface which can add a name and corresponding telephone number to a directory during |
| 5450522 |
Auditory model for parametrization of speech |
September 12, 1995 |
| A method and system are provided for alleviating the harmful effects of convolutional distortions of speech, such as the effect of a telecommunication channel, on the performance of an automatic speech recognizer (ASR). The technique is based on the filtering of time trajectories of |
| 5450317 |
Method and system for optimized logistics planning |
September 12, 1995 |
| An improved logistics planning method and system for recommending optimal order quantities and timing, choice of vendor locations and storage locations, and transportation modes, for individual items and for product families. The system is designed for use in cooperation with the compute |
| 5448631 |
Apparatus for handling features in a telephone network |
September 5, 1995 |
| A feature manager that handles the interactions between features in a telephone network is disclosed. A basic call processor transmits a sequence of event messages to the feature manager. The event messages are then transmitted from the feature manager to a subset of feature modules |
| 5442456 |
Method and apparatus for multi-level navigable video environment |
August 15, 1995 |
| An apparatus for generation of multi-level navigable video environments is disclosed. Generation of the virtual realities is accomplished by a video monitor, a touch screen, a CPU, and a compact disc storage device. The storage device contains pre-generated audio and visual data. The vis |
| 5440335 |
Method and apparatus for delivering passband and telephony signals in a coaxial cable network |
August 8, 1995 |
| A method and apparatus for delivering passband and telephony signals including signal combining and splitting. The method and device employs passive electronics in the form of L-filters, high pass filters and low pass filters to deliver baseband telephone communications and interactive |
| 5425077 |
Mobile telephone user interface including fixed and dynamic function keys and method of using sa |
June 13, 1995 |
| A user interface for use in a mobile telephone handset which includes static visual display means for presenting the status of the mobile telephone and other services accessible by the user. The interface further includes dynamic visual display means for presenting a plurality of con |
| 5388185 |
System for adaptive processing of telephone voice signals |
February 7, 1995 |
| A system for adaptively processing a telephonic speech signal performs modification in either the spectral domain or the time domain to bring the power in each frequency above the hearing threshold of the listener but below the upper limit of the listener's dynamic range. |
| 5379337 |
Method and system for providing emergency call service |
January 3, 1995 |
| An emergency call routing system includes a platform having a call router and a processor for identifying destinations to which such router directs emergency calls. The processor receives administration commands from administrators, some of which are at a public safety answering point |
| 5355401 |
Method and apparatus for providing telephony power through a coaxial cable network |
October 11, 1994 |
| A fiber optic/coaxial cable telephony network including power. Power is supplied through the coaxial cable portion of the video network to an optical network unit where the power is converted and supplied to the telephone network. |
| 5323444 |
Emergency call system with call capacity/last chance routing feature |
June 21, 1994 |
| A community emergency response service system is provided with three types of destinations to which emergency calls may be routed. These include public safety answering points (PSAPs), switch directory numbers and public switching telephone network directory numbers. A last chance ro |
| 5313280 |
Method and apparatus for testing codec devices |
May 17, 1994 |
| A video codec evaluation method and apparatus is provided that permits an objective evaluation of the performance of a codec. A plurality of motion graphics scenes, selected to test for specific motion artifacts, are stored on a video disc which is read by a video player and supplied to |
| 5276679 |
Method for maintaining channels and a subscriber station for use in an ISDN system |
January 4, 1994 |
| A method and at least one subscriber station utilizes a software package in combination with at least one terminal adapter which links ISDN circuit-switched channels, such as "B", "H0", "H10", "H11" and the like, into a single logical connection and synchronizes the linked channels in |
| 5255346 |
Method and apparatus for design of a vector quantizer |
October 19, 1993 |
| A method and apparatus for the design of a robust vector quantizer is disclosed. The initial output vector set is equal to the centroid of a training sequence of input vectors. A neural-network simulation and neighborhood functions are utilized for splitting and optimizing the output |
| 5222080 |
Method and apparatus for signal reconstruction |
June 22, 1993 |
| A method for reconstructing an incomplete signal in a sub-band transmission system is disclosed. Signal degradation from signal loss in a sub-band transmission system may be avoided by formulating an error function, and finding an optimal signal which minimizes the error between the sub- |
| 5218649 |
Image enhancement system |
June 8, 1993 |
| A system for enhancing the quality of an image that suffers from staircase effects, contouring effects, and granular noise, without affecting the existing method of creating the image is disclosed. The enhancement system identifies the edge and nonedge regions in the decoded image, and t |
| 5165008 |
Speech synthesis using perceptual linear prediction parameters |
November 17, 1992 |
| A method for synthesizing human speech using a linear mapping of a small set of coefficients that are speaker-independent. Preferably, the speaker-independent set of coefficients are cepstral coefficients developed during a training session using a perceptual linear predictive analys |
| 4818051 |
Optical bus |
April 4, 1989 |
| An optical bus for distributing a light wave signal to a plurality of receivers. The optical bus (10) includes a generally cylindrical form (12) having a helical groove (14) inscribed on its outer surface. At a plurality of nodes (30), an optical fiber (16) wound about the form within |
