| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6148071 |
Method and apparatus for providing calling features independent of the numbering plan |
November 14, 2000 |
| A telecommunications network (41) for providing telecommunication subscribers (12, 14, 16, 18, and 20) with special features independent of the subscriber's number plan includes a first switch (40.sub.1) that receives an incoming call for a dialed number subscriber. For each received |
| 5894595 |
Personal mobile communication system |
April 13, 1999 |
| With the advent of personal digital assistants (PDAs) having modems for information, e.g., facsimile and/or data, transmission over wireless connections, as well as the capability for voice communications, we have recognized that is possible to communicate with a person, wherever they |
| 5771282 |
Method for billing multiple services on a single account |
June 23, 1998 |
| Aggregated billing for calls originating from separate telephone stations (12-20) may be obtained by accessing a segmentation directory (54) upon the receipt of the call at an originating switch (40.sub.1) within a telecommunications network. The segmentation directory contains a table |
| 5675607 |
Method and apparatus for facilitating the making of card calls |
October 7, 1997 |
| Encumbrances on making calls charged to a card can be reduced by a) storing information so that an association is created relating a card number and at least one calling telephone station, from which card calls charged to the associated card are to be made, b) using the association to re |
| 5633922 |
Process and apparatus for restarting call routing in a telephone network |
May 27, 1997 |
| A telecommunications system is configured for restarting a telephone call within a telephone network as the call is processed from an originating station progressively through the telephone network. The system determines that the originally dialed number is not associated with optimum |
| 5521966 |
Method and system for mediating transactions that use portable smart cards |
May 28, 1996 |
| The invention provides a method and system for employing a communication system to mediate a transaction involving one of a plurality of files and programs corresponding to a plurality of applications residing on a single smart card. The invention uses a smart card gateway which provides |
| 5450479 |
Method and apparatus for facilitating the making of card calls |
September 12, 1995 |
| Encumbrances on making calls charged to a card can be reduced by a) storing information so that an association is created relating a card number and at least one calling telephone station, from which card calls charged to the associated card are to be made, b) using the association to re |
| 5444774 |
Interactive queuing sytem for call centers |
August 22, 1995 |
| This invention relates to a system and a method for a) queuing a call when no attendants are available to service that call b) soliciting and collecting initial information from the caller while the call is in the holding queue c) querying a database using the collected initial infor |
| 5329581 |
Target area calling system |
July 12, 1994 |
| A system for completing a series of calls from a calling party to a plurality of called parties served by a common terminating switch and located in the same general geographic area, is implemented by a) establishing a first communication path from the calling party to the terminatin |
| 5311583 |
International priority calling system with callback features |
May 10, 1994 |
| A telephone call initiated from a first network and directed to a second network at which network resources are temporarily unavailable to route and/or switch that call, is completed by a) estimating the anticipated time before these resources can become available, b) offering the caller |
| 5311572 |
Cooperative databases call processing system |
May 10, 1994 |
| A system for processing a database-queried call uses the call processing capabilities of a carrier's database and a subscriber's database as part of a total communication switching system. Generally, origination information such as as ANI, dialed number and caller entered information |
| 5282243 |
Recording of automatic number identification to identify lost customers |
January 25, 1994 |
| In order to enable an "800" telephone number business subscriber to identify customers, whose incoming telephone calls were blocked, the Automatic Number Identification (ANI) of these calling customer is automatically recorded within the telecommunications network for later access by |
| 5003584 |
Method and apparatus for the billing of value-added communication calls |
March 26, 1991 |
| A call billing method and apparatus specifies, on a call-by-call basis, the calling charges incurred by a caller during a call to a sponsor-provided value-added service. The method provides the sponsor real time access to rate tables to specify call billing parameters needed to rate call |
| 4555594 |
Telephone interexchange signaling protocol |
November 26, 1985 |
| Disclosed are schemes for selecting an interexchange telephone call carrier, selecting a route to the selected carrier, and establishing a call path on the selected route to the selected carrier in a multicarrier environment. Call path establishment from an end office at which a call is |
