Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
379207040 | Line or loop condition | 12 |
20090022296 | CALL COMPLETION SERVICE IN CASE OF CALLED PARTY UNAVAILABILITY - If an attempt by a first user ( | 01-22-2009 |
20090067604 | Method and apparatus for evaluating possible 3-way call events - The likelihood that a called party to a telephone call has forwarded the call to another party, or has conferenced the call to include another party is estimated by requiring that the called party supply a first signal, illustratively a first DTMF signal, later requiring that the called party provide a second signal, illustratively the same DTMF signal provided by the first signal, and comparing characteristics of said first and second signals as received at a telephone network node. | 03-12-2009 |
20100266113 | TELEPHONE CALL MAINTENANCE WITH SINGLE PARTY FOR SUBSEQUENT RECONNECTION - Disclosed herein is a solution for managing telephone calls that allows a telephone switch to maintain a connection with one Party to a telephone call while allowing the connection between the switch and the other Party to be disconnected. When the parties wish to be reconnected, the switch re-establishes the connection between the switch and the other Party and reconnects the call. | 10-21-2010 |
20140321632 | System and Method for Avoiding Hold Times on a Telephone Call - A method and system including receiving a communication from a source, the communication including a request to connect to a destination, connecting, via a communication link, to the destination, detecting an event on the communication link to the destination, and connecting the source to the destination after detecting the event. | 10-30-2014 |
20150304493 | VOICE INPUT STATE IDENTIFICATION - A method and system for indicating voice input state for a call on a communications device being used by a user to communicate with a party during the call. A processor unit identifies the state of voice input for the call. In response to the state of the voice input state being a mute state, the processor unit identifies a first setting for the mute state. The first setting for the mute state specifies: (i) first conditions which must be satisfied during the call in order for the voice input state to be the mute state and (ii) a first type of audio to be played on the communications device during the call while the voice input state is the mute state, wherein the first conditions comprise a first type of the call and an identity of a first party to whom the user is communicating with during the call. | 10-22-2015 |
379207050 | Busy signal (e.g., off hook) | 3 |
20100189246 | METHOD FOR REALIZING USER DECISION USER BUSY FORWARDING - The present invention provides a method for implementing call forwarding on user-determined user busy, comprising the following steps of: step 1: after receiving a session request routed by a CSCF from a calling side ( | 07-29-2010 |
20100316208 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BUSY OVERRIDE IN AN INTERNET PROTOCOL-BASED TELEPHONE SYSTEM - Method and apparatus for busy override in an internet protocol-based telephone system are described. In some examples, a first communication attempt of a third party is received by a first party, the first party being in an established communication session with a second party over a communication network. A timer is initiated in response to the first communication attempt. A busy operation is performed with respect to the third party in response to the first communication attempt. At least one additional communication attempt by the third party is received during the established communication session. A busy override operation is performed with respect to the first party in response to the first communication attempt and the at least one additional communication attempt satisfying a threshold pattern of communication attempts, the threshold pattern being based on elapsed time of the timer. | 12-16-2010 |
20160094711 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR TELEPHONE INTERACTION - A method for telephone interaction includes establishing a voice channel for voice calls with a telephone agent system, establishing a data channel with the telephone agent system if the telephone agent system is in a busy state, and acquiring information provided by the telephone agent system via the data channel. The information is associated with an entertainment service. The method further includes providing the entertainment service to a user based on the information. | 03-31-2016 |
379207060 | Transition from off-hook to on-hook (e.g., busy to idle, hook flash) | 2 |
20110228924 | AVAILABILITY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM WITH INTER-NETWORK CAPABILITIES - In a communication system comprising multiple networks, a system is provided for notifying a caller that a call destination who was initially unavailable is now available, involving subscribers of possibly different networks. The system, when installed in a network, can support destination availability notifications following failed call attempts in which at least one user is a user of the network, regardless to which network the other user subscribes. | 09-22-2011 |
20130322614 | System and Method for Detecting Three-Way Call Circumvention Attempts - Disclosed is a three-way call detection system and method for use with a telephone management system. Specifically, a three-way call detection system and method for detecting continuous noise indicative of an attempt to mask a three-way call attempt. The continuous noise detection system and method may be stand alone or used in conjunction with any existing three-way call detection system and method. | 12-05-2013 |
379207070 | Transition from on-hook to off-hook (e.g., idle to busy) | 1 |
20100091970 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CALL PARKING - A method and apparatus for providing call parking for a communication network are disclosed. The method first determines a disconnection of a first party's endpoint device, wherein said first party is either a calling party or a called party. The method then determines if said disconnection of said first party's endpoint device is due to hanging up. If said disconnection is not due to hanging up, the method parks a second party wherein said second party is either a calling party or a called party communicating with said first party prior to said disconnection. The method determines if said first party's device is back online and reconnects said first party and second party if said first party's device is back online. | 04-15-2010 |
379207080 | No answer (e.g., ringing signal, on-hook, idle) | 1 |
20130223606 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING PATIENTS USING GROUP COMMUNICATION - A group communication-based patient management method for patient management by a patient management server by requesting connection of a first call between a patient terminal and a first management terminal corresponding to a representative contact in a patient management group list, and a second call between the patient terminal and a second management terminal corresponding to a general contact in the patient management group list, connecting calls and transmitting connection state information associated with the call connection, to one of the management terminals, whose call to the patient terminal is not connected, checking call result information upon termination of the call connection between the patient terminal and the management terminal, and transmitting the call result information to the management terminals, whose call to the patient terminal is not connected. | 08-29-2013 |