Abstract: A method and apparatus provide telecommunication terminal status information as enhanced telecommunication terminal status information by establishing communication with a telecommunication switching system controlling a telecommunication terminal by a monitor computer; directly accessing the telecommunication terminal status information from the telecommunication switching system by the monitor computer via a path distinct from that used to transmit the telecommunication terminal status information to the telecommunication terminal; converting the telecommunication terminal status information to enhanced terminal status telecommunication terminal status information by the monitor computer; and presenting the enhanced telecommunication terminal status information to a user of the telecommunication set. The telecommunication set may be a multi-paged telecommunication set.

Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for consumer-controlled specification, filtering and delivery of multimedia product/service offerings to “opted-in” consumers. A plurality of business subscribers is associated with a plurality of offers, wherein each offer is associated with an offer category. Through a consumer gateway, a consumer member defines a set of consumer preferences that is stored in a consumer profile, wherein the preferences define one or more offer categories preferred by the consumer member. The consumer member selects a set of business subscriber sponsors from the plurality of business subscribers. A set of sponsored offers is defined, each of which originates from the set of business subscriber sponsors. Using consumer preferences, an offer exchange matches a sponsored offer, or offers, to each consumer subscriber from the set of all sponsored offers. A distribution server distributes the sponsored offer or offers to each consumer member according to user preference.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for identification of telephone numbers for IP telephones in offices to be assigned to different persons by (1) assigning one of the offices to one of the persons upon a request from the one of persons; (2) accessing a physical network address for an IP telephone located in the assigned one of the offices; (3) obtaining a telephone number for the one of the persons; (4) determining from the accessed physical network address an IP address of the IP telephone; (5) transmitting a message having the telephone number and IP address to a telecommunication switching system to which the IP telephone is interconnected; and (6) assigning the telephone number to the IP address by the telecommunication switching system in response to the message thereby assigning the telephone number to the IP telephone.

Abstract: An apparatus and method convert streaming text to a display of a telecommunication terminal to audio by detecting the streaming text being transmitted to the digital display and performing the conversion. Another embodiment converts text in one language directed to a display of a telecommunication terminal to text of another language and displays the resulting text on the display of the telecommunication terminal.