Abstract: Presented is a method for pre-arranging a VoIP or VoIM phone call. A first date and time for the VoIP or VoIM phone call and participants for the VoIP or VoIM phone call is selected. The availability of the participants during the first date and time is determined. If any of the participants are unavailable, one or more subsequent dates and times are selected. An invitation for the VoIP or VoIM phone call is then transmitted. Acceptance of the invitation is then received from the participants thereby indicating that the date and time has been agreed to. After the acceptance is received, the participants' location and contact information for the agreed date and time are obtained. On the agreed upon date and time, the VoIP or VoIM phone call is automatically routed to the participants' respective locations and the call is automatically established without any involvement from the participants.

Abstract: A computing system is provided that includes a display 124 for displaying information and an audible locating agent 148 that, as a pointer moves over the display, plays audible locating signals to identify spatial locations of at least some of the displayed information.

Abstract: The present invention includes a loudspeaker system having at least one loudspeaker drive unit; at least one loudspeaker enclosure for housing the loudspeaker drive unit(s), the loudspeaker enclosure(s) having resonating chamber(s), wherein the loudspeaker drive unit(s) produces at least one standing wave in the resonating chamber(s); and at least one internal resonance control structure, the internal resonance control structure being positioned within the loudspeaker enclosure to form a tapering cross-sectional area within the resonating chamber(s) in relation to the loudspeaker drive unit(s) to substantially diffuse the standing wave.

Abstract: The multi-user Internet access and security system which automates the management of the favorites category of bookmarks and also provides a password protection capability for all of the bookmarks that are stored by the computer system for each of the users of the computer system. In particular, the favorites category of bookmarks for each user is cache managed with the infrequently used bookmarks being cataloged as “expired” and then migrated to a “former favorites” category where they remain until the user deletes them or the system optionally automatically deletes them after a further predetermined period of inactivity. In this manner, the user can populate the favorites feature of the bookmarks, but does not have to further address the usefulness of these stored bookmarks, since the computer system automatically manages the cleanup of former favorite bookmarks.

Abstract: The sender (101) of a message is able to specify to the recipient's messaging system (112) or to the sender's own messaging system (102) a reply time at which the sender wishes to be informed of whether or not the recipient (111) has accessed the sent message. The reply time is included (204, 304) in the message. Upon occurrence (220) of the response time, the recipient's messaging system checks if the recipient has accessed (222) the message, and if not, whether the recipient's present schedule (115) is available (226). It then sends (232) a reply (224, 230), with the schedule if it is available (228), to the sender. Upon occurrence (320) of the response time, the sender's messaging system checks (322) if a reply has been received from the recipient, and if so, whether it indicates (324) that the message has been accessed and whether it contains (328) the recipient's schedule. It then notifies (330) the sender accordingly.

Abstract: The loudspeaker system having back pressure equalization apparatus functions to minimize the mismatch between the forward sound wave and the reverse sound wave that is generated by the loudspeaker by rotating the apertures that are formed in the basket to be in alignment with the corners of the enclosure. This rotation causes sound wave reflections within the loudspeaker enclosure at angles at other than 90 degrees to thereby redirect the acoustic reflections within the enclosure away from the back side of the loudspeaker cone. These reflections are also more likely to be absorbed by the sound absorbing material that is mounted on the inside of the enclosure rather than causing perturbations in the cone. In addition, the back edge of the baffle is releaved using a bevel, radius or other contour or apertures formed in the baffle to prevent the blocking of the basket apertures by the baffle.

Abstract: A messaging system (100) automatically correctly resizes users' mailboxes (160-161) based on information gathered through periodic activity audits (206). The gathered information includes frequency of login to the messaging system and time of last login for each login ID and the fill level and fill-level frequency for each mailbox. Periodicity of audits, time-to-login-ID-expiration period, upper and lower fill-level thresholds, time-to-storage-allotment-change period, and allotment-change size and mailbox size limits are administratively set (202-204). If audit reports indicate that a login ID has not been used for the time-to-login-ID-expiration period, the user is warned and if the user does not respond, the login is expired (208-224).

Abstract: A signal compression-selection arrangement (19) dynamically trades off signal storage capacity against signal quality, by sacrificing capacity in favor of signal quality whenever capacity is plentiful and sacrificing quality in favor of capacity whenever capacity is scarce. In a messaging system (FIG. 1), the arrangement monitors the amount of storage (14, 15) that is presently free and available for storing new messages, either on a system-wide or per-mailbox basis, and automatically selects a higher compression rate (13) than a presently-applied compression rate (13) to be applied to newly-received messages as the amount of free storage falls below each predetermined threshold. Storage capacity may be freed up by re-compressing (FIG. 3) at the new, higher, compression rate those stored messages that were previously compressed at a lower compression rate.