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20090222512 | Entryway Communication System - A premises entryway communications device and system enable a visitor to the premises and an occupant of the premises to communicate via icons and text. | 09-03-2009 |
20090241153 | OPEN CABLE APPLICATION PLATFORM SET-TOP BOX (STB) PERSONAL PROFILES AND COMMUNICATIONS APPLICATIONS - Utilization of stored of personalized information and communication preferences in a profile in a STB in a structured format or via cookies allows at least a combination of feature rich telephony applications, with the personalized data stored in STBs facilitating feature rich communications sessions. Providing advanced multimedia communications applications using personalized data resident in STBs could allow an entity to provide, for example, many previously unavailable services, and therefore provide considerable new business potential. The personal information stored in the STB can convey many exemplary benefits, such as communication preferences, alternate contact modalities, payment preferences, priority preferences, trusted contacts, personal information, as well as multimedia messaging, etc. The integration of the personal information with the intelligent personal agent also enhances the user experience. | 09-24-2009 |
20090248421 | Arrangement for Creating and Using a Phonetic-Alphabet Representation of a Name of a Party to a Call - A first party creates and edits a phonetic-alphabet representation of its name. The phonetic representation is conveyed to a second party as “caller-identification” information by messages that set up a call between the parties. The phonetic representation of the name is displayed to the second party, converted to speech, and/or converted to an alphabet of a language of the second party and then displayed to the second party. | 10-01-2009 |
20100158228 | System and Method for Extending Services - The system and method associate a room telephone number with a guest telephone number. A predetermined time period is associated with the guest telephone number. Once a call is received from a telephone number, the system verifies that the calling telephone number matches the guest telephone number and that the call is within the predetermined time period. If there is a match between the calling telephone number and the guest telephone number and the call is within the predetermined time period, the call is enabled so that the guest can connect to one or more services. | 06-24-2010 |
20100208728 | Multi-Route Transmission of Packets Within a Network - Two or more packets are generated from the same data stream (e.g., an audio signal) and are sent on a network. When the first of the two or more packets is received, a first optimal route for the first packet is determined, the first packet is sent on the first optimal route, and information about the first packet is stored in a packet list. When another packet is received, the process determines whether it is the second packet of the two or more packets by comparing at least one field in the second packet to the stored information about the first packet in the packet list. If there is a match, a second optimal route for the second packet is determined, and the second packet is sent on the second optimal route. | 08-19-2010 |
20100265834 | VARIABLE LATENCY JITTER BUFFER BASED UPON CONVERSATIONAL DYNAMICS - Methods, devices, and systems for balancing latency and voice quality during a communication session are provided. More specifically, mechanisms for monitoring parameters indicative of conversational dynamics and adjusting jitter buffer size based thereon are described. This allows latency to increase if the conversation is not highly interactive and decrease if a more interactive conversation is desired. | 10-21-2010 |
20110047501 | SEQUENCED APPLICATIONS WITH USER PLAYBACK OR OTHER USER CONTROLS UTILIZING A SINGLE WINDOW OR DIALOG BOX - Methods and systems for displaying content in support of a communications session are provided. More specifically, a single window session application is provided in which content is displayed in a single window user interface. Changes or modifications to the content displayed are presented to conference participants in the single window user interface presented by each participant's communication device. Different items of content can be displayed in sequence, but are not displayed simultaneously. In addition, input from different users can be accepted, to support collaboration. | 02-24-2011 |
20120044156 | MULTI-FINGER SLIDING DETECTION USING FINGERPRINTS TO GENERATE DIFFERENT EVENTS - Fingerprint portions of two or more different fingers are detected on a detection surface, such as an optical surface, a touch pad, a touchscreen, or the like, and then a further detection made that the person has moved their finger(s), for example, apart, together or relative to one another. The movement can be detected based on identifying the fingerprint portion sliding across the screen. The combination of fingerprint information associated with a corresponding motion is correlatable to one or more actions or triggering events that are used to control one or more electronic devices. Further aspects are directed toward utilizing one or more of the techniques herein for a security application. For example, two users, each placing one or more fingers on a touch screen or touch pad, with the fingerprints thereafter being recognized, perform a certain movement with this triggering the unlocking, or locking, of an object. | 02-23-2012 |
20120047525 | OCAP/STB ACAP/SATELLITE-RECEIVER AUDIENCE RESPONSE/CONSUMER INFORMATION APPLICATION - An exemplary aspect is directed toward one or more solutions that are capable of providing feedback information about OCAP/ACAP/IMS solutions generally related to audience acceptance and satisfaction, and extensions thereto. For example, one exemplary aspect is directed toward information, such as consumer feedback about their viewing choices, being gathered, evaluated and distributed. Even more specifically, an exemplary aspect is directed toward the use of information, such as personalized or customized information and personal preferences contained in an STB combined with an OCAP/ACAP/IMS intelligent personal agent and application(s) to provide advanced interactive and interoperable services to both obtain and distribute feedback about OCAP/ACAP/IMS services. | 02-23-2012 |
20120253701 | MONITORING KEY-PRESS DELAY AND DURATION TO DETERMINE NEED FOR ASSISTANCE - In a user-interactive system, such as an interactive voice response (IVR) system, the duration and/or force of key-presses by the user and/or the speed of response to prompts by the user are used to make inferences about the user, such as whether the user is impaired or is growing frustrated. The user interface is modified based on the inferences. | 10-04-2012 |
20130148798 | INTELLIGENT CALL LOG AND SCHEDULE INTEGRATION - Described are embodiments that provide for an intelligent call log. Specifically, in embodiments, a call log module can be provided on a user's phone (or as a sequenced application) that analyzes the actual communications between a calling party and a called party. The call log module is configured, in embodiments, to do analysis of the calling party's interaction with the called party, changes in routing, and/or failure to connect. The call log module is linked to the calling party's schedule information, in some embodiments, for situations with multiple failures to connect and/or multiple short discussions have inadequately dealt with the need to talk, and therefore scheduling a meeting is likely to be more effective. | 06-13-2013 |
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20100246797 | SOCIAL NETWORK URGENT COMMUNICATION MONITOR AND REAL-TIME CALL LAUNCH SYSTEM - A complete social network based, urgent matter, communications solution and response system is provided. The system can monitor one or more social networks (or other sources of information) for the presence of keywords, scalar urgency ratings, the identity and/or number of the parties submitting the urgent requests, temporal factors such as day, date, time, time zone, or the like, in an effort to determine which social network posts or communications are urgent, and optionally prioritize or rank pending urgent matters. The system can also determine who should be involved with solving or addressing the urgent matter. The system can also determine the presence of the parties needed to solve the urgent matter, and can, based on the presence information, setup a real-time or near real-time communications session between the parties to address the urgent matter. | 09-30-2010 |
20110248927 | MULTI-MODE TOUCHSCREEN USER INTERFACE FOR A MULTI-STATE TOUCHSCREEN DEVICE - A simple exemplary embodiment can leverage the ability of the touchscreen or touchpad device to distinguish between a fingernail and a palm-side fingertip press as binary distinctions. This can be done via long nails or alternatively, by rotating a hand to invert the finger. The binary distinction can be used to perform different functions. For example, a fingertip press could be the functional equivalent of a left-click on a mouse, and a fingernail press could be the equivalent of a right-click. Another example using a simply binary distinction could be that a fingertip press while typing will result in lower case, and fingernail press while typing will result in upper case. Another example, using a binary distinction, would interpret a light touch for right-clicks or upper case characters and a heavy touch for left-clicks or lower case characters. | 10-13-2011 |
20110248946 | MULTI-MODE PROSTHETIC DEVICE TO FACILITATE MULTI-STATE TOUCH SCREEN DETECTION - Aspects are directed toward an active prosthetic that includes, for example, an LED, RF transponder, or comparable electrical, optical, and/or electromagnetic componentry that allows the characteristics of the prosthetic to be changed. These characteristics then can be correlated to different modes of operation when used with a corresponding input device. Other aspects are directed toward utilizing prosthetics with different shapes to affect different modes of behavior and input with an input device, such as a touchscreen or touchpad. Even further aspects are directed toward providing handicapped individuals with increased dexterity by providing a prosthetic that allows different modes of behavior when used with an associated input device. | 10-13-2011 |