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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160127560 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING A TELECOMMUNICATIONS LINK - Disclosed is a method for establishing a telecommunications link (C | 05-05-2016 |
20150097919 | Method, Device, and System for Reducing Bandwidth Usage During a Communication Session - A communication system, method and communication terminal are configured to permit bandwidth reduction when communication partners are engaged in a communication session. In one embodiment, a communication terminal such as a cellular phone or tablet may turn off at least one of its display and camera sensor within a predetermined amount of time when the terminal is detected as being positioned near a user's ear via at least one sensor of the terminal. In some embodiments, the communication terminal may also transmit one or more messages to communication devices of communication partners engaged in the communication session to inform those devices that video transmissions should no longer be sent to the communication terminal. The communication terminal and other communication devices involved in the communication session may also stop transmitting video as a result of the detection of the communication terminal being positioned near a user's ear. | 04-09-2015 |
20150080016 | METHOD OF CONVEYING A LOCATION INFORMATION REPRESENTING A PHYSICAL LOCATION OF A COMMUNICATION DEVICE, A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD, AND THE COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR CONVEYING THE LOCATION INFORMATION - A method of conveying a location information representing a physical location of a communication device ( | 03-19-2015 |
20150046916 | METHOD AND LICENSING SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY LICENSING SERVICE FEATURES DURING THE UPGRADE OF A COMMUNICAITON SYSTEM - The invention relates to a method for automatically licensing service features during the upgrade of a first communication system ( | 02-12-2015 |
20150032923 | COUPLING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY ALLOCATING USB ENDPOINTS OF A USB INTERFACE, AND EXCHANGE TRADING SYSTEM TERMINAL WITH COUPLING DEVICE - The invention relates to a method and a coupling device ( | 01-29-2015 |
20150023251 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR CONNECTING TO A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method and apparatus include a first server that communicates with a second server to cause a call back request to be communicated to an endpoint so that the endpoint can initiate a call back connection with the first server or a third server. Such a call back connection may occur near real time or in substantially real time so that updates can be supplied to an endpoint running an application supported by the server quickly and efficiently. The endpoint may register with the second server such that the second server is able to utilize notification messages for providing call back request information to the endpoint to advise the endpoint of a call back request. | 01-22-2015 |
20140379343 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR AUDIO DATA PROCESSING - A method and apparatus that filters audio data received from a speaking person that includes a specific filter for that speaker. The audio characteristics of the speaker's voice may be collected and the specific filter may be formed to reduce noise while also enhancing voice quality. For instance, if a speaker's voice does not contain specific frequencies, then a filter may cancel the noise at such frequencies to ease noise cancellation and reduce processing sound spectrum for cleaning that is not needed. Additionally, the strength frequencies of a speaker's voice may be identified from the collected audio characteristics and those spectrums can be filtered with finer granularity to provide a speaker specific filter that enhances the voice quality of the speaker's voice data that is transmitted or output by a communication device. The audio data may also be output based upon a user's predefined hearing spectrum. | 12-25-2014 |
20140369489 | METHOD FOR HANDLING A TELECOMMUNICATIONS CONNECTION, TELECOMMUNICATIONS ARRANGEMENT, SWITCHING DEVICE AND NETWORK COUPLING DEVICE - A method is specified for the handling of a telecommunications connection between at least two subscribers, wherein the telecommunications connection has a signalling Channel for transmission of a signalling stream and a payload Channel for the transmission of a payload stream, wherein frequency-coded Signals are transmitted in the payload stream, wherein at least one subscriber among the at least two subscribers is assigned to a network which has a switching device and a signal processing device provided separately from the switching device, and wherein the frequency-coded Signals are recognised in the signal processing device and are transmitted independently of the payload stream to the switching device. The invention also relates to a telecommunications arrangement, a switching device and a network coupling device. | 12-18-2014 |
20140348307 | Apparatus and Method for Audio Data Processing - A communication terminal, system and method utilize a communication device that activates a speech to text application so that subsequent audio that is received from a caller is converted into text. A caller may then provide audio in response to a question. A caller may send input by pressing a button on a communication device for example, to activate the speech to text application, speak an answer, and then press a button to indicate that an answer to a question is complete. The spoken answer may be converted into text and may then be stored, parsed, and then assigned to an object representing the question posed to a caller. The stored text assigned to the object representing the question may then be used to populate different forms or databases for subsequent use or for displaying to a user via a display device of that person's computer device. | 11-27-2014 |
20140314214 | COMMUNICATION BETWEEN USERS OF A TELEPHONE SYSTEM - Each user of a telecommunications system may speak and record their own name, in their own voice, and a recording of their spoken name may subsequently be accessed by or delivered to other users of the system, thereby facilitating communication between users by enabling users to better know how to pronounce the names of other users. A user may listen to the recorded spoken name of another user before placing a call to another user. When a user joins a conference call, their spoken name may be announced to other users (attendees) already in the call. A user joining a conference call may listen to the recorded spoken names of attendees in the call. A button on users' phones may invoke these features. | 10-23-2014 |
20140307865 | Procedure and Mechanism for Managing a Call to a Call Center - In a method procedure for managing a caller's call to a call center with a call center agent, an agent is defined to receive the call and identified as the responsible agent for an incident assigned to the call. A relationship is created between the responsible agent and the incident. Then a token is generated that allows the relationship to be addressed without containing any individual connection or personal data for the responsible agent. The token is made available for the caller so the token can be activated when the caller resumes contact with the call center. The token causes the caller to be connected to the responsible agent or a proxy if the token is activated when contact is resumed. | 10-16-2014 |
20140294000 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NEGOTIATION OF MEDIA BETWEEN COMMUNICATION DEVICES FOR MULTIPLEXING MULTIPLE MEDIA TYPES - A method of negotiation of media between a source communication device and a destination communication device for multiplexing multiple media types on an IP transport address comprises the source communication device generating an offer message comprising an extension to the ICE protocol according to RFC 5245 to specify the IP transport address whereon the multiple media types can be multiplexed, wherein the offer message comprising the extension indicates support for both the multiplexing and a non-multiplexing of the multiple media types, and sending the offer message from the source communication device to the destination communication device. | 10-02-2014 |
20140288927 | Procedure and Mechanism for Controlling and Using Voice Communication - In a method and system for controlling voice communication of a first person with at least a second person via a communication network a first microphone receives and converts vocal utterances from the first person to a voice signal. A first processor generates a transmission signal by processing the voice signal. A transmitter sends the transmission signal to a receiver. The receiver generates a listening signal by processing the received signal and transmits the listening signal to a speaker. The speaker converts the listening signal to an acoustic signal to be perceived by the first person. In this method a second processor generates the listening signal from the received signal by branching the voice signal and adding the branched voice signal to the received signal. The branched voice signal may be subjected to variable attenuation and/or amplification before being added to the branched voice signal to the received signal. | 09-25-2014 |
20140280646 | Method and Device for Managing Communication Activities - A method is disclosed for managing communication processes (N | 09-18-2014 |
20140258413 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING DATA PRODUCED IN A CONFERENCE - A method for providing data produced in a conference, in which voice signals from participants in the conference are mixed in a conference bridge, comprises provision of a time base that runs concurrently over the duration of the conference and setup of automatic identification of each participant when this participant speaks in the conference. The method also comprises capture of conversation contribution by each speaking participant to a conversation by the participants which is conducted during the conference as speaking time associated with each speaking participant at the conference, association of a time stamp with the speaking time, and production of statistical data by virtue of statistical evaluation of the speaking times of the participants. | 09-11-2014 |
20140247764 | Method of Operating a Communication Device Operable in an Active Mode and in an Idle Mode, a Computer Program Product for Executing the Method, and the Communication Device Operable in an Active Mode and in an Idle Mode - A method of operating a communication device comprises providing the communication device (T, T | 09-04-2014 |
20140237556 | METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION AND COMPONENTS IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - With a method for communication in a communication network, a subscriber is assigned an authorization level depending on the respective applicable scenario at the time when the authorization level is assigned for that subscriber in that communication network. | 08-21-2014 |
20140232812 | METHOD FOR HANDLING INTERFERENCE DURING THE TRANSMISSION OF A CHRONOLOGICAL SUCCESSION OF DIGITAL IMAGES - A method for handling interference during the transmission of a chronological succession of digital images (I) from a sender (S) to at least one receiver (R), in which the images to be transmitted show the face of a Speaker at least intermittently, involves images in the chronological succession that are unable to be decoded, or unable to be decoded satisfactorily, on account of the interference being replaced by synthentic images (P) at the receiver. The synthetic images are produced using phonetic data (LD) that are or have been extracted from digital voice data (SD) for the Speaker by means of phonetic recognition, the digital voice data being or having been transmitted together with the digital image data (I). | 08-21-2014 |
20140223187 | Method for Authenticating Key Information Between Terminals of a Communication Link - With the help of a key management protocol, the transmitted key information is authenticated by at least one certificate signed by the terminals, and at least one fingerprint of the public keys or certificate, which were used for authenticating the key information, is added to the useful part of an SIP message. The identity information present in the header of an SIP message is additionally copied into a region of the header or the useful part, and a signature is produced by way of the fingerprint, the datum information presented in the header of an SIP message, the copied identity information, and optionally the certificate reference information, and is inserted into a further region of the header of the SIP message. The additional signature that is produced and inserted can remain uninfluenced during a transmission across several networks of different network operators. | 08-07-2014 |
20140204174 | Content Security for a Mobile Communication Terminal - A method for outputting sensitive data to a user includes a communication terminal checking to determine whether at least a portion of the sensitive data is to be outputted by determining whether the communication terminal is in one of a plurality of predefined communication configurations for outputting the sensitive data. If the communication terminal is found to be a first configuration, the communication terminal transmits the sensitive data so that at least one of the video data and the audio data is output to the user via at least one peripheral device connected to the communication terminal. If the communication terminal is in a second configuration, the communication terminal performs at least one security action to help further protect the sensitive data. | 07-24-2014 |
20140199971 | Docking Station and Method for Connecting a Mobile Communication Device to a Communication Infrastructure - A docking station and a method for connecting a mobile communication device to an at least partially wire-based communication infrastructure are disclosed. The docking station has a cradle for the storage of the communication device. A detection device detects the presence of the communication device within a selected distance from the docking station and receives authentication information from the communication device. There is also an authentication device for validating the credentials of the communication terminal and for enabling communication with the communications infrastructure on the basis of authentication information. A first interface provides a first wireless communication link with the communication device and a second interface establishes a second wired communication link to the communication infrastructure. A transfer device can switch from the first communication link to the second communication link. A communication system containing the docking station is also disclosed. | 07-17-2014 |
20140185792 | BIDIRECTIONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPENSATING FOR UNDESIRED FEEDBACK IN THE BIDIRECTIONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The invention relates to a bidirectional communication System ( | 07-03-2014 |
20140177528 | Method for Synchronizing Clocks in a Communication Network - A method for synchronizing clocks in a communication network includes a first clock of a first network element which is a master element is used for synchronizing second clocks of one or more second network dements which are slave elements. A first sequence of first messages transmitted from the first network element to the second network element and/or a second sequence of second messages transmitted from the second network element to the first network element is recorded. First messages and/or second messages out of those sequences are identified by using an appropriate threshold function with respect to the transmission delays of those messages. Those identified messages have the same constant minimum delay, and based on those messages clock synchronization between the first clock and the second clock is performed. | 06-26-2014 |
20140169165 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING DSP CHANNELS - Described is a method for channel management on one or more digital signal processors. The method distinguishes itself by the fact that channel management occurs at any time based on a current load utilization of each digital signal processor, taking into account an actual load requirement of each channel and a maximum total performance capacity of each digital signal processor. The invention also relates to a device for carrying out the method. | 06-19-2014 |
20140119338 | Method for Switching Communication Links to a Mobile Terminal Device Which is Associated with a Local Radio Area of a Network - A mobile terminal device determines whether it is located in the local radio area of the network or in another radio area and the determined radio area is indicated to an application of the network. The application is used to control a communication request addressed to the mobile terminal device. Communication requests coming in on the network can be directly switched to the local radio area using the application or can be directly forwarded to the mobile radio address in the mobile radio network of which the mobile terminal device is located, thereby avoiding or substantially reducing roaming or forwarding of communication requests from the local radio area to another radio area and thereby achieving an economical operation of mobile telephone terminal devices with local radio area. | 05-01-2014 |
20140104239 | METHODS AND PRODUCTS FOR INFLUENCING THE REPRESENTATION OF PICTORIAL INFORMATION BY A DISPLAY DEVICE OF AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY APPARATUS - In a method for influencing the representation of pictorial information by a display device ( | 04-17-2014 |