| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE38359 |
Optical signal equalizer for wavelength division multiplexed optical fiber systems |
December 23, 2003 |
| This invention disclosure describes the application of a polarization insensitive acoustically-tuned optical filter used in a multichannel WDM system to equalize variations in the power level of the WDM channels. The invention also describes a simple means for providing a low frequency |
| RE38267 |
Cellular network-based geographic coverage area reporting method and apparatus |
October 7, 2003 |
| In a cellular system configuration, the location of a mobile station is determined from the acquisition of cellular network data pertaining to the mobile station, and the translation of such network data into a corresponding geographical position profile. The cellular system includes |
| D440228 |
Portion of a display screen with a FAX icon image |
April 10, 2001 |
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| D439256 |
Portion of a display screen with an icon image |
March 20, 2001 |
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| 7613299 |
Cryptographic techniques for a communications network |
November 3, 2009 |
| Techniques are described for enabling authentication and/or key agreement between communications network stations and service networks. The techniques described include the negotiation and use of a cryptographic primitive shared between a service network and a home environment of a s |
| 7613176 |
Methods and systems for presence-based telephony communications |
November 3, 2009 |
| A system and method can enable a user of a communications network, such as a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), wireless and/or voice over IP network to participate in Presence Availability Management (PAM) and Instant Messaging (IM) activities of a PAM/IM network. In response to |
| 7574599 |
Robust authentication and key agreement protocol for next-generation wireless networks |
August 11, 2009 |
| Embodiments of the invention may be used to provide an authentication and key agreement protocol that is more robust against base station, replay and other attacks compared to previously known systems. The nonce-based authentication and key agreement protocol provides security against su |
| 7573874 |
Data link layer switch with multicast capability |
August 11, 2009 |
| A data link layer switch includes a switching mechanism coupled to a plurality of port interface controllers. Each of the port interface controllers comprises a multicast address table, a multicast matcher, and a timer. The multicast address table stores multicast addresses for hosts |
| 7561679 |
Message delivery using a voice mail system |
July 14, 2009 |
| Voicemail systems and methods can provide a user with means for receiving categorized messages from parties. The categories can be independent of the intended recipients of the messages, such that multiple users can receive the same message. A user can subscribe to receive categorized |
| 7555442 |
Estimating business targets |
June 30, 2009 |
| A method for generating business targets includes accessing data (300) corresponding to a number of customers. The data includes variables (310-330) associated with each of the customers and an observed value for each of the customers. The observed value for a customer may represent |
| 7554971 |
Method and system for estimating performance metrics in a packet-switched communication network |
June 30, 2009 |
| A method for estimating end-to-end quality of service (QOS), such as packet loss, delay, and delay jitter, in a packet-switched communications network includes steps for calculating packet loss and packet delay each router output link in a network path and using the packet loss and packe |
| 7519678 |
Internet messaging notification methods and systems |
April 14, 2009 |
| The disclosed methods and systems can employ internet messaging protocols to transmit an alphanumeric message to one or more destination addresses in response to a telephone service customer's notification service request. The request can include a string having a feature code trigger |
| 7502854 |
Systems and methods for managing faults in a network |
March 10, 2009 |
| A system (130) improves network management. The system (130) associates an event in the network with a network device and provides a geographical map (710). The geographical map (710) displays locations of network devices and indicates which network devices are associated with at least |
| 7502448 |
Automated conversation recording device and service |
March 10, 2009 |
| An apparatus and system for recording and managing conversation data occurring over a wireless network via a wireless communication device includes a data interface that transfers conversation data from the communication device to a storage location and a user interface that allows t |
| 7499529 |
Systems and methods for providing filtered message delivery |
March 3, 2009 |
| A system (140) that delivers messages receives a message intended for the receiving party. The system (140) determines whether the message should be delivered to the receiving party and converts the message to an audible message when the message should be delivered to the receiving p |
| 7493486 |
Method and apparatus for supporting cryptographic-related activities in a public key infrastruct |
February 17, 2009 |
| In a node (110) communicating with other nodes in a network (150), a system and method for performing cryptographic-related functions is provided. The node (110) receives and transmits inputs and outputs requiring cryptographic-related processing. When cryptographic processing is req |
| 7493366 |
System and method for processing customer requests relating to unsolicited commercial email and |
February 17, 2009 |
| A system and method for automatically processing and responding to large volumes of customer requests regarding Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) and other service disruptions. The process combines manual and automated steps, and includes routing, filtering, aggregating, validating, |
| 7469144 |
Method and apparatus for network planning |
December 23, 2008 |
| A system and method for wireless network planning utilizing raster data, stored and manipulated in raster data planes (204-212) and vector data (522) stored and manipulated in vector data planes (528-532). The invention increases the accuracy of network planning by simultaneously uti |
| 7464120 |
Method for analyzing the quality of telecommunications switch command tables |
December 9, 2008 |
| The system automatically generates electronic commands necessary to modify or provision different types of program control switches as may be included in a public switch telephone network. A data schema and organization of tables and data structures provide for command generation for |
| 7428300 |
Diagnosing fault patterns in telecommunication networks |
September 23, 2008 |
| The disclosed methods and systems prioritize network devices and components that more likely result in a network outage by evaluating their current and historical outage information relative to a dynamically-generated, statistical threshold based on such outage information. The prior |
| 7424101 |
Methods and systems for making telephone calls |
September 9, 2008 |
| Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and systems for making a call. Such methods and systems may request the call using a network, initiate a first leg to a caller device based on the request, initiate a second leg to a receiver device based on the request, connect |
| 7412722 |
Detection of softswitch attacks |
August 12, 2008 |
| A security system (150) in a network includes a softswitch (440) and a detection unit (420). The detection unit (420) detects activity directed to the softswitch (440) and records the detected activity. In another implementation, a method for configuring a security device (150) for use |
| 7406241 |
Methods and devices for the installation of the fiber optic cable to a house or other building s |
July 29, 2008 |
| Methods and devices for the installation of a fiber optic cable to a house or other building structure are provided. The method may include identifying a preferred location of a customer through an indication left by the customer either on the interior side or exterior side of a wall, |
| 7395058 |
Method and system for analyzing digital wireless network performance |
July 1, 2008 |
| A system (36) provides a network designer with a mechanism for analyzing the performance of a code division multiple access wireless network (20). The system (36) includes executable code in the form of a probable server identification module (52), a forward link initial estimation modul |
| 7386317 |
Methods and techniques in channel assignment in a cellular network |
June 10, 2008 |
| A cellular network configuration tool is described that performs frequency assignments for use in a cellular network. The channels are assigned in accordance with input configuration data such as a channel separation matrix, geographic data, and requested channel assignments for each |
| 7376132 |
Passive system and method for measuring and monitoring the quality of service in a communication |
May 20, 2008 |
| In accordance with the present invention, a portion of a received media stream is copied from a data network without interfering with the flow of the data in the network. A known test signal is then substituted for the information contained in the copied portion of the media stream to |
| 7366900 |
Platform-neutral system and method for providing secure remote operations over an insecure compu |
April 29, 2008 |
| A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for enhancing the security of a message sent through a network server from a client computer to a destination server running any computer platform. Credentials for authorizing a principal are obtained by the client computer |
| 7349528 |
Unified messaging system |
March 25, 2008 |
| Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide a unified messaging system. The unified messaging system comprises a unified messaging system server and clients, such as personal computers, telephones, facsimile machines, and two-way paging machines connected via bo |
| 7340408 |
Method for evaluating customer valve to guide loyalty and retention programs |
March 4, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus for training a neural network to compute hazard functions for customers and analyzing hazard functions, both for an individual customer, and for set of customers to focus marketing techniques. The hazard function represents the likelihood of churn for a particu |
| 7336617 |
Bit-field-encoded resource record for determining a transmission path in a communications networ |
February 26, 2008 |
| Method and apparatus for tracking, recording and distributing link state characteristics over communications networks. The invention allows network operators to efficiently define, track, store and disseminate link state characteristics using a bit-field-encoded resource record that |
| 7319973 |
Method of estimating expected revenues from business directory books |
January 15, 2008 |
| A new system of analyzing advertising revenue derivation is provided that is particularly useful for predicting an amount of revenue that can be expected from advertisements placed in a business directory book having a certain geographic coverage. The system comprises estimating a prefer |
| 7317716 |
Methods and systems for presence-based telephony communications |
January 8, 2008 |
| A system and method can enable a user of a communications network, such as a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), wireless and/or voice over IP network to participate in Presence Availability Management (PAM) and Instant Messaging (IM) activities of a PAM/IM network. In response to |
| 7292667 |
Method and system for transmitting synchronization information with data |
November 6, 2007 |
| A method for transmitting synchronization information with data, which data corresponds to a sequence of samples representative of a signal, includes detecting the occurrence of two consecutive equivalent samples and inserting a synchronization pattern for the second-occurring sample |
| 7284203 |
Method and apparatus for application sharing interface |
October 16, 2007 |
| An interface is provided for application sharing. An interface program facilitates application sharing by reducing it to a two step process hiding underlying details from a user. This interface program in cooperation with a conferencing program facilitates application sharing by enab |
| 7284048 |
Method and computer system for correlating network event messages |
October 16, 2007 |
| A method and system are disclosed for efficiently correlating network events within a data processing system and then transmitting messages to various network entities in response to an occurrence of a particular network event. According to the present invention, a network mediation |
| 7274776 |
Methods and systems for routing a call |
September 25, 2007 |
| Schemes for routing a call using caller identification are described herein. These schemes are termed "real caller ID" and can be capable of determining the identity of a calling party independent of a telephone number from which the call originated. According to one exemplary embodi |
| 7263178 |
Automated communications assistant and method |
August 28, 2007 |
| A method and system for administering calls on a voice network allows a user to selectively determine which calls will be accepted and assists the user in placing calls to other users on the network. The user may establish a list of users whose calls will be accepted and may also est |
| 7260195 |
Call management service |
August 21, 2007 |
| A system and method that enables a telecommunications consumer to define groups to be included in a monthly bill, and then periodically generate a bill in accordance with the consumer's specifications. In one embodiment, the invention includes a plurality of portable wireless telephone |
| 7251317 |
Methods and systems for making telephone calls |
July 31, 2007 |
| Methods and systems are disclosed for making a call. In one embodiment, methods and systems may request the call using a network, initiate a first leg to a caller device based on the request, initiate a second leg to a receiver device based on the request, connect the first leg and the |
| 7240056 |
Compressed document surrogates |
July 3, 2007 |
| Disclosed is a method and device for storing information about Web documents such as pages or sites in a manner which may be used in conjunction with inverted term lists to facilitate the retrieval of documents of interest from the Web. The method involves constructing compressed sur |
| 7231612 |
Computer-executable method for improving understanding of business data by interactive rule mani |
June 12, 2007 |
| Methods and systems operating in accordance with the present invention provide an interactive directed data analysis tool. The tool provides a user interface that receives a model from a data mining system. The tool computes specified business metrics representing business measures of |
| 7212822 |
Method and techniques for penalty-based channel assignments in a cellular network |
May 1, 2007 |
| A cellular network configuration tool is described that performs frequency assignments for use in a cellular network. The channels are assigned in accordance with input configuration data such as a channel separation matrix, geographic data, and requested channel assignments for each |
| 7212618 |
Systems and methods for forwarding telephone calls |
May 1, 2007 |
| A system (130) forwards a telephone call to a user. The system (130) receives a telephone call from a calling party and compares the name of the calling party to a list of names. If the calling party's name matches a name in the list, the system (130) forwards the telephone call to the |
| 7171210 |
Method and apparatus for network planning |
January 30, 2007 |
| A system and method for wireless network planning utilizing raster data, stored and manipulated in raster data planes (204 212) and vector data (522) stored and manipulated in vector data planes (528 532). The invention increases the accuracy of network planning by simultaneously uti |
| 7162017 |
System and method for determining an optimal threshold for increasing telephone line capacity an |
January 9, 2007 |
| A method determines a threshold for increasing telephone line capacity in a telecommunications system. The method includes receiving a group of parameters that relate to at least one of a telephone line management policy (1030), environmental parameters (1020), and cost parameters (1 |
| 7159039 |
Systems and methods for providing in-band and out-band message processing |
January 2, 2007 |
| A personal messaging agent (220) performs enhanced messaging services. The personal messaging agent (220) includes a user profile (310), a message filter (320), and at least one external helper (330). The user profile (310) stores user preferences for processing messages. The message fil |
| 7155204 |
System and method for billing calls over a wireless network |
December 26, 2006 |
| A system and method that enables subscribers to transfer the airtime charge for the sending/receiving wireless telephone station to a toll free call provider to/from whom a wireless toll-free telephone call is placed. A communication network in accordance with the present invention i |
| 7154911 |
Method and apparatus for service multiplexing over telephone networks which employ bridged tap c |
December 26, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus for service multiplexing over telephone networks which employ bridged tap construction to allow the simultaneous delivery of different services to physically separated subscribers over a shared single pair of wires. Service is provided to one or more subscribers by |
| 7143152 |
Graphical user interface and method for customer centric network management |
November 28, 2006 |
| A graphical user interface and method for customer centric network management. The graphical user interface includes a first view showing text input by a user indicative of customer identification data corresponding to a customer in a network. This data is received by a server connec |
| 7139819 |
Systems and methods for managing faults in a network |
November 21, 2006 |
| A system (130) improves network management. The system (130) associates an event in the network with a network device and provides a geographical map (710). The geographical map (710) displays locations of network devices and indicates which network devices are associated with at least |
