| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6801780 |
Method and apparatus for providing intelligent emergency paging |
October 5, 2004 |
| A method and apparatus for providing intelligent paging services is disclosed. A server receives a paging request from a customer. The page request may be, for example, a telephone call initiated by the customer from a telephone. The server then determines the identity of the customer |
| 6574480 |
Method and apparatus for providing intelligent emergency paging |
June 3, 2003 |
| A method and apparatus for providing intelligent paging services is disclosed. A server receives a paging request from a customer. The page request may be, for example, a telephone call initiated by the customer from a telephone. The server then determines the identity of the customer |
| 6018572 |
Method and apparatus for prioritizing telephone calls |
January 25, 2000 |
| A method and apparatus for prioritizing telphone calls that enables a caller to specify priority criteria relating to the calls and a recipient to specify priority criteria relating to the treatment of the calls. |
| 5950122 |
Technique for providing feature information in a personal mobile communication system |
September 7, 1999 |
| A method for use in completing a caller's telephone call that is placed to the telephone number of a called party, comprises the steps of receiving the caller's call, in response to which selecting a meet-me system from among a plurality of meet-me systems. The method further comprises t |
| 5946626 |
Method and system for determining location of subscriber of two-way paging service |
August 31, 1999 |
| A method and system for determining the location of a subscriber of a two-way paging service includes a telephone network with a switched network and a paging service operatively connected thereto. The paging service includes a paging receiver for receiving a location parameter from |
| 5724407 |
Network based multimedia messaging method for non-CCITT compliant switches |
March 3, 1998 |
| A method is disclosed for messaging multimedia calls with a non-CCITT compliant switch when the intended recipient is unavailable. The method is used in connection with a telecommunication network which has an identified multimedia server. According to the method, multimedia calls fr |
| 5710591 |
Method and apparatus for recording and indexing an audio and multimedia conference |
January 20, 1998 |
| A method and apparatus for recording and indexing audio information exchanged during an audio conference call, or video, audio and data information exchanged during a multimedia conference. For a multimedia conference, the method and apparatus utilize the voice activated switching fu |
| 5625680 |
Method and apparatus for prioritizing telephone calls |
April 29, 1997 |
| A method and apparatus for prioritizing telephone calls that allow the caller to specify priority criteria relating to a call and the recipient to specify priority criteria relating to the treatment of incoming calls. The caller designates priority of the call based on specified priority |
| 5563882 |
Process for converting a point-to-point multimedia call to a bridged multimedia call |
October 8, 1996 |
| A process for converting a point-to-point multimedia call into a bridged multimedia call for accommodating multi-party conferencing. The process utilizes the bearer channel configuration of the standard BRI format to disconnect, one at a time, each bearer channel from the point-m-point c |
| 5546442 |
Method and apparatus for use in completing telephone calls |
August 13, 1996 |
| We have recognized that in the prior art, to insure that there is at least some communication between the calling and called parties, when the called party is unavailable to take a call, the calling party may be connected to an alternate destination, e.g., a voice messaging system, and t |
| 5510777 |
Method for secure access control |
April 23, 1996 |
| A requester making a request for access to a destination is prompted to supply additional authentication information, beyond that which may be supplied by the requester in an attempt to meet a first level of security processing specified by the nature of the request itself, only if it is |
| 5329589 |
Mediation of transactions by a communications system |
July 12, 1994 |
| Methods and apparatus for employing a communications system with actively connects communicating entities to mediate transactions. Disclosed are general methods and apparatus for mediating transactions, methods and apparatus permitting information from one transaction to be used in other |
| 5181238 |
Authenticated communications access service |
January 19, 1993 |
| This invention relates to arrangements for providing pre-authenticated access from a caller to a service provider. The caller dials the number of the service provider and subsequently enters a personal identification number (PIN) or other suitable authentication data, and, if necessary, |
| 4737983 |
Automatic call distributor telephone service |
April 12, 1988 |
| A method of balancing traffic loads to a plurality of customer automatic l distributors (ACDs). Each ACD periodically transmits call congestion data to a central data base. Periodically, the data is automatically analyzed and resulting call routing information stored at the data base. |
| 4313035 |
Method of providing person locator service |
January 26, 1982 |
| A method is disclosed of using the public switched telephone network, including the CCIS (Common Channel Interoffice Signaling) system, to provide nationwide personal locator telephone service for called subscribers. In accordance with the service, a calling party may reach a called |
| 4191860 |
Data base communication call processing method |
March 4, 1980 |
| A method is disclosed for processing call data among telephone switching offices and a remotely situated data base system for deriving call service information needed to complete special service calls, such as INward WATS (Wide Area Telephone Service) calls to a destination specified by |
