Authentication Or Authorization Patents (Class 379/142.05)
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Patent number: 8050393Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2008Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Confinement Telephony Technology, LLCInventors: Wesley Larry Apple, Sam Burris Clanton, III, Timothy Edwin Pabon, William Ryan, John Vincent Townsend, III
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Patent number: 8050917Abstract: A system including a conferencing telephone coupled to or in communication with an identification service. The identification service is configured to poll user devices of conference participants to determine or confirm identities. In response, the user devices transmit audio electronic business cards, which can include user voice samples and/or preprocessed voice recognition data. The identification service stores the resulting audio electronic business card data. When the corresponding participant speaks during the conference, the identification service identifies the speaker.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2007Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Siemens Enterprise Communications, Inc.Inventors: Rami Caspi, William J. Beyda
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Publication number: 20110260832Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes enrolling a potential enrollee for an identity-monitoring service. The enrolling includes acquiring personally-identifying information (PII) and capturing a voiceprint. Following successful completion of the enrolling, the potential enrollee is an enrollee. The method further includes, responsive to an identified suspicious event related to the PII, creating an identity alert, establishing voice communication with an individual purporting to be the enrollee, and performing voice-biometric verification of the individual. The voice-biometric verification includes comparing one or more spoken utterances with the voiceprint. Following successful completion of the voice-biometric verification, the individual is a verified enrollee. In addition, the method includes authorizing delivery of the identity alert to the verified enrollee.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2011Publication date: October 27, 2011Inventors: Joe Ross, Isaac Chapa, Adrian Cruz, Harold E. Gottschalk, JR.
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Patent number: 8031360Abstract: In an illustrative embodiment, methods and systems are provided for processing facsimiles. A call processing system receives a first message transmitted from a first carrier system regarding a facsimile call to a phone address. The first message includes an identifier associated with the user. The identifier is used to determine if the user is authorized to receive call processing system services. If the user is authorized, a second message is transmitted to the first carrier system, the second message indicating that the first carrier system is to connect the call to the call processing system. The call processing system is connected to the call. A facsimile is received via the call at the call processing system. Information regarding the facsimile call is provided over a network, wherein some or all of the information is displayed in a call log visually accessible by the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2010Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: j2 Global Communications, Inc.Inventors: Leland W. Kirchhoff, David S. Trandal
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Patent number: 8014508Abstract: By manipulating parameters of call setup messages, calls made with a caller's access code in a caller preview service may be completed to the called party of voice mail box with caller identification information displayed.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2008Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: John Wesley Moss, Robert Stroud, Rick Cherye
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Patent number: 8014496Abstract: A system enables voice authentication via a network. The system may include an intelligent voice response engine operatively coupled to the network for receiving transaction or access requests from a plurality of telecommunications devices over the network. A speech recognition and verification services engine may be operatively coupled to the network and a database may be operatively coupled to the speech recognition and verification services engine for storing user voice print profiles. The speech recognition and verification services engine may receive a speaker verification call from the intelligent voice response engine and perform speaker verification on the received speaker verification call based on the stored user voice print profiles. The speech recognition and verification services engine may generate a verification score based upon results of the speaker verification.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2004Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Verizon Business Global LLCInventor: Paul T. Schultz
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Publication number: 20110211682Abstract: A method for guarding against telephony-based fraud that includes, at a telephony device, identifying a caller ID of an incoming call or a dialled number of an outgoing call attempt or a number to be dialled. The identified caller ID or dialled number or number to be dialled is then compared against a blacklist of telephone numbers. In the event that a match is found, a warning is presented to a user of the device and/or the call or call attempt is terminated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2009Publication date: September 1, 2011Applicant: F-SECURE OYJInventors: Devinder Singh, Santeri Kangas, Christopher Elisan
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Publication number: 20110206195Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for verifying a user alias. The method comprises: a calling terminal inserting a set alias and a calling user's own number into calling information when calling a called terminal; after the called terminal receives the calling information, when the calling terminal registers calling number display restriction or when the calling terminal cancels the calling number display restriction and the calling number of the calling is inconsistent with a calling user number stored locally in the called terminal, determining whether the calling user's own number matches successfully with the calling user number stored locally in the called terminal to display in different modes when the matching is successful and unsuccessful, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2008Publication date: August 25, 2011Inventors: Tao Xue, Hongxing Guo, Fangmin Deng, Haiqing Yan
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Patent number: 8005460Abstract: A group authentication method adaptable to a communication system is disclosed. The communication system includes a user group, a serving network, and a home network. The user group includes at least one mobile station. The home network pre-distributes a group authentication key to itself and all the mobile stations in the same user group and generates a mobile station authentication key for each mobile station. The home network generates a group list for recording related information of the user group. The home network has a database for recording the group list. The serving network has a database for recording the group list and a group authentication data received from the home network. The group authentication method includes following steps. The serving network performs an identification action to a mobile station. The communication system performs a full authentication action or a local authentication action according to the result of the identification action.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2008Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignees: Industrial Technology Research Institute, National Chiao Tung UniversityInventors: Yu-Wen Chen, Jui-Tang Wang, Chien-Chao Tseng
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Patent number: 8000458Abstract: A system for automatically verifying an incoming telephone number. In response to detecting an incoming communication, a determination is made as to whether a telephone number associated with the incoming communication matches one of a plurality of telephone numbers in a storage unit. In response to determining that the telephone number associated with the incoming communication does not match one of the plurality of telephone numbers in the storage unit, telephone number verification rules are applied to determine whether to continue with the incoming communication. In response to a determination not to continue with the incoming communication based on the telephone number verification rules, an alert is provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2006Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yen-Fu Chen, Fabian F. Morgan, Keith Raymond Walker
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Patent number: 7995727Abstract: The present invention provides a system, method, and apparatus for managing the calling-party identification information offered to called parties. Accordingly, a caller can designate the Caller ID information to the called party based on the context of the call (e.g. the role of the caller) rather than the terminal used. Typically the calling party does this by selecting which of multiple values they wish to have sent with the call request. It is beneficial to implement such a mechanism in a secure manner—the ability to employ a different calling-number or calling-name ID should be restricted to properly-authorized and authenticated persons—in order to ensure the quality of this information. Accordingly, preferred embodiments include an authentication mechanism for verifying the calling party information is authentic.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2006Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Nortel Networks LimitedInventors: Thomas P. Chmara, Raymond Bruce Wallace
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Patent number: 7945034Abstract: After receiving a telephone number, various characteristics of the telephone number are determined. These include, the type of phone associated with the telephone number, the phone carrier of the telephone number, and geographic characteristics of the telephone number. This can be done, for instance, by analyzing the telephone connection or querying a database containing a plurality of telephone numbers and characteristics of each of the telephone numbers. The determination may be used to prevent fraudulent or restricted access to a website or system.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2005Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Telesign CorporationInventors: Shlomo Gonen, Jonathan A. Gonen, Alon Gonen, Danny Rosen
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Patent number: 7940913Abstract: A system and method for servicing a caller at a contact center includes prompting the caller for a password associated with a certificate of disability of the caller, then accessing a database that contains the certificate authenticating the password to retrieve information listed in the certificate. The certificate information includes a type of disability of the caller. Following authentication, the system provides a service response appropriate for the type of disability of the caller. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2005Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Labhesh Patel, Fadi R. Jabbour, Johnny Lee, David C. Lee
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Patent number: 7933260Abstract: An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method is for connecting an endpoint that is separated from another endpoint by a symmetric network address translation device.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2005Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: Damaka, Inc.Inventors: Sivakumar Chaturvedi, Satish Gundabathula
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Patent number: 7929168Abstract: A communication apparatus allows an efficient transmission/reception of a document for a sender and a receiver at their respective desired time and location. When a first user transmits a document using a facsimile machine (transmitting device) managed by a server, first, an account of the transmitting device is registered on the server. In such a state, when the first user inputs an account of a second user as a destination into the transmitting device, the transmitting device inquires the server of a registration status of the second user. The server checks the registration status of the account of the second user. When the account of the second user is registered on any facsimile machine (receiving device), the server notifies the transmitting device that the account of the second user is registered on the receiving device. Then, the transmitting device transmits a connection demand to the receiving device to transmit data of the document.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2007Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Murato Kikai Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshifumi Tanimoto
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Publication number: 20110085650Abstract: A caller authentication system that may enable a called party to be provided with identification information of a caller may be provided. The caller authentication system, including: a communication system to transmit, when a call request signal is received from a calling terminal of a caller, network information and a telephone number of the calling terminal to a certificate authority server, and to request identification of the caller, the network information and the telephone number being included in the call request signal, to transmit, when identification information of the caller is received from the certificate authority server in response to the identification request, the identification information to a called terminal of a called party, and to enable the identification information to be displayed on the called terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2010Publication date: April 14, 2011Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Kyung-yul CHEON, Soon Yong LIM, Aesoon PARK
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Patent number: 7925704Abstract: A computer implemented method comprising receiving a list of one or more contact points from a sender and comparing the list of one or more contact points to a satellite server's do-not-contact list. Any contact point on the list of one or more contact points that appears on the satellite server's do-not-contact list is reported to the sender. The satellite server's do-not-contact list is generated from a do-not-contact list distributed by a master server. A registrant registers with the master server to provide a registrant contact point to be on the do-not-contact list to be distributed by the master server. The contact points in the registry may be organized in a hierarchy with preferences at one or more levels.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2004Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: UNSPAM, LLCInventors: Arthur M. Keller, Lee Holloway, John Rodrigues, Dat Huu Nguyen, Thomas Belote, Matthew B. Prince
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Patent number: 7916850Abstract: A method of controlling subscriber access to SIP-based services facilitated by an IP Multimedia Subsystem. The method comprises defining at a Serving Call Session Control Function node at least one default screening trigger, and downloading from a Home Subscriber Subsystem, specific screening triggers allocated to at least certain subscribers. At the Serving Call Session Control Function node, at least certain SIP messages originating at subscriber terminals are intercepted and, for each intercepted message and in the absence of a matching specific screening trigger, the default trigger is activated so as to cause the SIP message to be forwarded to a specific SIP application service.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2004Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Nancy Greene, Sorin Surdila, Christophe Gourraud, Peter Postmus
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Patent number: 7898989Abstract: A method of customer identification for personalizable Internet portals is described. The method identifies customers on the basis of the phone number of the calling party, in which the phone number and service request is transmitted from the terminal via the access network to a proxy server, which in turn is responsible for converting the protocol between the access network and Internet, in which depending on the service request, the proxy server inserts a customer ID into the service request and the customer ID is called up by the proxy server from a customer registry based on the MSISDN, so that at the portal the ID can be taken from the service request and the authorization of the customer can be verified through an inquiry sent to the customer registry at which point the service request of the customer is fulfilled.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2001Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Siegfried Ergezinger, Dieter Plabmann
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Publication number: 20110026699Abstract: A service that handles incoming telephone calls without bothering the telephone subscriber is disclosed. The service permits a call to go through to a subscriber if the service determines that the call is not unwanted and the caller has been unauthenticated. The authentication is based on challenging the caller to prove its identity rather than relying on caller ID displays. Prospective callers pre-register with the service providing caller account information. When a caller is issued a challenge, the caller may prove its authenticity by supplying the challenge back to the service along with its registered information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2009Publication date: February 3, 2011Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Arnon Amir, Nimrod Megiddo
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Publication number: 20110013760Abstract: The present disclosure describes a system, method, and computer readable medium for providing information of a calling party to an alert party, wherein the calling party is in communication with the receiving party in a communications network. The method includes receiving a message from a calling party to a receiving party and performing a lookup of information relating to the calling party in a database, wherein the lookup is based on an identifier associated with the message, Thereafter, an alert is sent to the alert party if the calling party information is unavailable in a contact list of the receiving party.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2010Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: I D YOU, LLCInventors: Monica Rose Martino, Kevin V. Nguyen, M. Gregory Smith
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Patent number: 7864934Abstract: An object is to provide a telephone enabling a user of a telephone to readily recognize which telephone user is a source of voice under transmission. This telephone 10 has a receiver 102 for receiving telephone information to specify each of an authorized telephone and unauthorized telephones, a display surface 100 for displaying predetermined information based on the received telephone information, and a display control part 105 for specifying a content of the predetermined information, based on the telephone information received by the receiver 102, and for displaying the content on the display surface 100.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2006Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Tomohiro Ando, Rei Takahashi, Kazuka Higashi, Takeshi Iitaka
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Publication number: 20100329439Abstract: Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to determine authorization levels in a virtual private network are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes determining whether a call originated from an originating station associated with a virtual private network, the call originating via a private branch exchange associated with the virtual private network by a first user of a plurality of users associated with the virtual private network, querying a private-number table based on at least one of a switch identifier representing a service switching point, a trunk group identifier representing the private branch exchange, or an originating station identifier representing the originating station to obtain a private number assigned to the first user, and providing an authorization level associated with the private number to the service switching point, the service switching point to process the call according to the authorization level.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Inventors: Anup D. Karnalkar, Michael E. Redman
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Patent number: 7853243Abstract: A secure telephone call management system is provided for authenticating users of a telephone system in an institutional facility. Authentication of the users of the telephone call management system is accomplished by using a personal identification number, biometric means, and/or radio frequency means. The secure telephone call management system includes accounting software capable of limiting access to the system based on funds in a user's account or other related limitations. The system includes management software capable of implementing widespread or local changes to the system and is further capable of modifying or setting any number of user account parameters.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2007Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Value-Added Communications, Inc.Inventor: Stephen Lee Hodge
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Publication number: 20100310061Abstract: An account number security system with communication system, which, prior to and after a user uses a specific account number, includes the following steps: (a) dialing up a host server using a communication equipment provided with a specific number; (b) receiving of the incoming call and retrieving the telephone number by the host server; (c) storing of the incoming telephone number in a data bank by the host server; (d) comparing of the incoming telephone number with contents of already registered account number data for matching data; (e) enabling or locking of the account number of the user when matching data is found; and (f) terminating comparing of data when no matching data is found. According to the above steps, the present invention improves upon prior art in which unrecoverable loss to users occurs due to account numbers and passwords being easily leaked or misappropriated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2007Publication date: December 9, 2010Inventors: Andy Lin, Ayasuke Jiang
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Patent number: 7848504Abstract: A method is described of providing validation data associated with a subscriber line of a telecommunication network using a validation system. The method includes obtaining line data of the subscriber line wherein the line data is suitable for interrogating a line identification database (LIDB). The method interrogates the LIDB with the line data to obtain reference subscriber data associated with the line data, and processes the reference subscriber data to obtain validation data associated with the subscriber line. The method includes identifying a local exchange carrier (LEC) associated with the subscriber line to determine if a billing arrangement exists between the validation system and the LEC. The invention extends to a subscriber line validation system to validate a subscriber line of a communication network.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2006Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: PaymentOne CorporationInventors: Joseph M Lynam, Ken R. Dawson, M. Brendan Philbin, Jennifer Truitt
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Publication number: 20100303220Abstract: A device receives information associated with a calling party, validates the calling party for an originating locator service based on the calling party information, and sends an instruction to play an announcement requesting information associated with a called party. The device also receives the called party information from the calling party in response to the announcement, and retrieves called party destination information based on the called party information. The device then sends an instruction to originate a sequence of calls to the called party based on the called party destination information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2009Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing IncInventors: Euclid S. BROOKS, Jeffrey R. EVANS, Nashwa F. SIDHOM, Henry L. TAM
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Patent number: 7844252Abstract: A secure telephone call management system is provided for authenticating users of a telephone system in an institutional facility. Authentication of the users of the telephone call management system is accomplished by using a personal identification number, biometric means, and/or radio frequency means. The secure telephone call management system includes accounting software capable of limiting access to the system based on funds in a user's account or other related limitations. The system includes management software capable of implementing widespread or local changes to the system and is further capable of modifying or setting any number of user account parameters.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2006Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: Value-Added Communications, Inc.Inventor: Stephen Lee Hodge
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Patent number: 7839989Abstract: Methods, systems, and products for informing a caller of a callee identity are disclosed that include: detecting a call receipt condition from a destination device at a trusted telephone network; brokering a connection between said destination device and an external server enabled to perform a callee identity authentication service; and responsive to receiving, from said external server, an authenticated callee identity of a callee utilizing said destination device, transferring said authenticated callee identity to an origin device, such that a caller initiating said call at said origin device is informed of an identity of a party answering said call.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2006Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael Wayne Brown, Joseph Herbert McIntyre, Michael A. Paolini, James Mark Weaver, Scott Lee Winters
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Patent number: 7839988Abstract: Methods and apparatus for data structure driven authorization and routing of outdial communication services are disclosed. A disclosed method comprises obtaining a call criterion from a request to authorize an outdial communication service call, and retrieving an authorization result based on the call criterion by accessing a data structure that correlates a plurality of authorization results with a plurality of call criteria, wherein each of the plurality of authorization results is selectively modifiable.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2005Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Marco Schneider, Philip Charles Cunetto, John Edward Lemay
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Patent number: 7840226Abstract: An apparatus and method directed to automated call screening, and specifically the utilization of location history of a call recipient to determine call authorization, are provided. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, a computer readable medium embodied in an article of manufacture is encoded with instructions for directing a processor to receive a request from a first device to communicate with a second device. The processor is further directed to determine at least one location associated with the first device, determine an authorization for the request based at least in part upon the at least one location associated with the first device and at least one prior location of the second device, and transmit the request to the second device in accordance with the authorization.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2009Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Oto Technologies, LLCInventors: Richard J. Walsh, Alfredo C. Issa, Benjamin Ferid Issa
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Patent number: 7822407Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for a network to choose an authentication mode, wherein the key lies in that, according to the received authentication information in the authentication vector request message from S-CSCF as well as according to type of the requesting subscriber, HSS returns authentication information of the Early-IMS-based authentication vector to S-CSCF, or returns authentication information of the Full-IMS-based authentication mode to S-CSCF, or directly returns failure information to S-CSCF. If it is under the former two situations, the subscriber will be authenticated by adopting the corresponding authentication mode, and then S-CSCF will return access-allowed or access-rejected information to the subscriber according to authentication result. If it is in the latter situation, S-CSCF will directly send access-rejected information to the subscriber.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2006Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yingxin Huang, Yajuan Wu, Wenlin Zhang
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Patent number: 7817786Abstract: A method for providing communication with an automated voice system includes establishing a first communication session between a caller and the automated voice system. The first communication session includes a call thread. The method also includes receiving a signal indicative of a call event. In response to receiving the signal indicative of the call event, a state of the call thread is saved. The method also includes establishing a second communication session between the caller and the automated voice system at a state of the call thread associated with the saved state of the call thread.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2005Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: David C. Lee, Johnny H. Lee, Fadi R. Jabbour, Bradley R DeGrazia
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Patent number: 7808671Abstract: In an illustrative embodiment, methods and systems are provided for processing facsimiles. A call processing system receives a first message transmitted from a first carrier system regarding a facsimile call to a phone address. The first message includes an identifier associated with the user. The identifier is used to determine if the user is authorized to receive call processing system services. If the user is authorized, a second message is transmitted to the first carrier system, the second message indicating that the first carrier system is to connect the call to the call processing system. The call processing system is connected to the call. A facsimile is received via the call at the call processing system. Information regarding the facsimile call is provided over a network, wherein some or all of the information is displayed in a call log visually accessible by the user.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2009Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: j2 Global Communications, Inc.Inventors: Leland Kirchhoff, David Trandal
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Publication number: 20100226362Abstract: A method for providing international telephone call service to a calling party using a PSTN enabled communication device includes dialing the destination telephone number and establishing a connection between a software application installed on the communication device and an application server, authenticating the calling party using the user ID and the caller ID. When the calling party is authenticated, the method includes assigning a local DID number having the same or a nearby area code as the caller ID, notifying the communication device of the assigned local DID number, storing the destination telephone number and the assigned local DID number in a database, initiating a telephone connection over the PSTN to control signaling servers by dialing the assigned local DID number, retrieving the destination telephone number associated with the local DID number from the database, and establishing a voice-based connection between the caller and the callee.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2010Publication date: September 9, 2010Applicant: INNODIAL COMMUNICATIONS, INC.Inventors: Jaewoo Kim, Kyoungsig Kim
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Publication number: 20100172481Abstract: A mechanism for indicating a specific response message to be played to a caller is provided. A call that comprises an identification of a caller is received in a recipient device. If the recipient device is operating in the phone management mode, a recipient notification of the call is blocked on the recipient device. If the caller is identified as a known caller based on the identification of the caller, a caller specific response message is sent to the known caller. The caller specific response message is at least one of an interactive or a non-interactive caller specific response message. The interactive response message includes a code with which to respond. If the response message is the interactive response message and the caller enters the code associated with the interactive response message, then the recipient notification of the call is activated on the recipient device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2009Publication date: July 8, 2010Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Marco Canu, Barbara Febonio, Rosario Gangemi, Sandro Piccinini
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Publication number: 20100142685Abstract: The present invention relates to telephone call processing. In one embodiment, a call processing system receives from a caller a first call for a user, the first call including call signaling information. The call processing system determines whether the call signaling information includes caller identification information and whether the call signaling information indicates that the caller identification information is restricted. If the caller identification information is restricted, the call processing system instructs the caller to take a first action so that the caller identification information can be provided to the user. The call processing system determines whether the caller has performed the first action during the first call, and if the caller has performed the first action during the first call, the call processing system provides at least a portion of the caller identification information to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2010Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: CALLWAVE, INC.Inventors: Robert A. Dolan, David F. Hofstatter, Lee Kirchhoff
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Publication number: 20100135477Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a system for verifying identity of a user and a system for generating and maintaining verification codes. The method and the system use system-generated caller numbers as verification codes. When an application system needs to verify the identity of a user, the verification system generates a caller phone number and uses a communication switching system to place a call originating from the caller phone number to the user's phone. The user's phone has a caller ID display function to automatically display the caller number, which serves as a user identity verification code. The user provides the received caller number to the application system for user identity verification. No text messaging or other ways of communication is required. The method and the system can achieve reliable user identity verification. A centralized system may support multiple application systems for user identity verification.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2008Publication date: June 3, 2010Inventor: Yingwei Chen
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Patent number: 7720207Abstract: An enhanced telephone emulation computer system including a minidialer program for controlling a computer to add telephony functions which can be invoked from whatever active program is currently controlling the computer. The minidialer program controls the computer to alter its processing depending upon the context existing at the time when a mouse click or hot key combination event is detected indicating the user wishes to invoke a telephony function. The minidialer program determines whether the user has highlighted any text or numbers in the active window of the application currently controlling the computer and whether the highlighted material is a name or a phone number, and if a name, whether the name is stored with a phone number in a phone book or file maintained on the computer. Processing and telephony menu options displayed as available also depend upon whether the user is or is not on the phone at the time the mouse click or hot key event occurs.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2005Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Michael D. Stanford, Ronald Scott Langham
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Publication number: 20100111276Abstract: A method of establishing communication including providing a communication by a sending party to a receiving party, and verifying the sending party's identity by a trusted instrumentality. The trusted instrumentality can be at least the sending party communication controller and is usually both the sending and receiving parties' communication controllers. The communication controllers should be certified and preferably be certified by a mutually trusted communication controller certification authority. Also disclosed is a system for establishing communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2008Publication date: May 6, 2010Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: John Bryan Hartley, Io Tong Lei, David Muscat
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Patent number: 7706514Abstract: The invention uses the advanced intelligent network to provide caller identification for calls placed over the internet (24). A long distance call placed with an internet carrier results in the originating SSP (14) forwarding the call to an originating POP (22) for the internet carrier. The caller ID information is routed through the signaling system 7 network (16) to the SSP (32) in the terminating network. The call is routed to a terminating POP (26) and then to the SSP (32) in the terminating network. The SSP (32) inserts the caller ID information received through the SS7 network (16) and routes the call to the terminating line (30).Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2007Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LPInventors: Wayne Robert Heinmiller, Robert Wesley Bossemeyer, Jr., Bruce Edward Stuckman
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Publication number: 20100091965Abstract: A service subscription method is provided. The method includes the following steps. A service subscription request is received from a client. The request carries a service identifier (ID). Service information about a service that the client requests to subscribe to and information about related services of the service that the client requests to subscribe to are obtained according to the service ID. Related-service-set subscription information is obtained according to the information about the service to be subscribed to and the information about its related services. The related-service-set subscription information is returned to the client. Moreover, a service subscription system and server are also provided. Through the technical solutions of the present invention, the interaction process of related-service subscription is simplified and the system resources are saved, and the real-time performance of service subscription and the probability of related-service subscription are also increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2009Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Qifeng MA, Xiaomin SHI, Huan WANG, Jie TANG, Chong GU
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Patent number: 7693269Abstract: A caller identification system provides a caller identifier of an actual user rather than the conventional telephone number dependent on a caller terminal. Further, a caller base billing method and its system can bill an actual user by carrying out user authentication through a certification authority for a caller identifier that is independent of a caller terminal. The method includes the steps of receiving authentication information of the caller from a caller terminal; verifying the authentication information; and carrying out call setup if the authentication information and the certificate match, wherein the authentication information is generated by using a caller identifier and a private key that are applied by the caller, with no dependency on the caller terminal, and caller information corresponding to the caller identifier is transmitted to a callee terminal during call setup.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2005Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Jongmo Sung, Do-Young Kim, Young-Sun Kim
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Publication number: 20100067677Abstract: A call silencing device filters unsolicited incoming calls to a user's telephone. The call silencer powers up form the telephone and requires no user data input or intervention. An incoming call is silenced if the call is a toll-free number or if the number is not in the buffer and not in the permitted call list or if the number is in the buffer but the caller called back after more than a predetermined amount of time. The incoming call is allowed if the number is in the permitted call list or if the number is in the buffer and the caller called back within a predetermined time. If the call duration is more than a predetermined time, the incoming phone number is stored in the permitted call list. The software program and the permitted call list can be stored in non-volatile memory to maintain data despite power loss.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2008Publication date: March 18, 2010Inventor: Apollo Quan Fong
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Publication number: 20100046727Abstract: Sensor nodes (or addresses therefore), acting as real-time message decoys, are distributed across a real-time communications network to attract unsolicited real-time messages. Filtering rules are derived from the message characteristics (such as the source address) and messaging content of the traffic encountered at the sensor nodes. The filtering rules are distributed to filtering agents positioned in the communications network in such a way that they can filter traffic for legitimate users. The filtering agents may identify and control the disposition of real-time messaging traffic that is part of a mass communication campaign on behalf of legitimate users of the real-time messaging communication system. Disposition may include suppressing, diverting, or labeling.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2009Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: WATCHGUARD TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Rod Gilchrist, Richard Fogel, Robert Osborne, John Alsop
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Patent number: 7657020Abstract: A call routing system can be used to route calls. An action object identifier, a result identifier, and a reason identifier can be generated in response at least in part to a call. The call can be routed by the call routing system based at least in part on the action object identifier, the result identifier, and the reason identifier. The routing can be performed automatically without requiring an attendant. In another embodiment, an attendant can be used, if desired. In still another embodiment, the processing of the call can be interrupted by the caller, a data processing system used within the call routing system, or an attendant. In a particular embodiment, the call routing system can be used when authenticating a caller or determining an account status of the caller.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2005Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LPInventors: Robert R. Bushey, Sarah Korth, Benjamin Anthony Knott
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Patent number: 7657005Abstract: A method of processing calls received at an interactive voice response (IVR) server is provided and includes receiving a telephone call at the IVR. Caller identity data that is associated with the telephone call is received and a customer profile that includes a list of individual names associated with the caller identity data is received. Each of the individual names is mapped to a speech recognition grammar pattern. Further, a caller of the telephone call is prompted to speak their name. A spoken name from the caller is received and recorded. Moreover, the spoken name is converted into a speech recognition grammar pattern. Thereafter, the speech recognition grammar pattern associated with the spoken name is compared to each of the speech recognition grammar patterns associated with the individual names retrieved from the customer profile.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2004Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: Hisao M. Chang
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Patent number: RE41997Abstract: A mobile communication terminal includes timer for detecting the time of an incoming call, a caller number registration table for storing caller numbers, answer message ID numbers and time-dependent switching codes in relation to each other, the time-dependent control codes designating callers for whom answer messages are switched depending on a time zone in which the call is made. There is thus provided a capability of selecting an answer message for a caller based on the caller number included in the incoming call signal and switching between answer messages based on the time of call incoming detected by the timer.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2004Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masaki Kinoshita
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Patent number: RE42459Abstract: A mobile communication terminal includes timer for detecting the time of an incoming call, a caller number registration table for storing caller numbers, answer message ID numbers and time-dependent switching codes in relation to each other, the time-dependent control codes designating callers for whom answer messages are switched depending on a time zone in which the call is made. There is thus provided a capability of selecting an answer message for a caller based on the caller number included in the incoming call signal and switching between answer messages based on the time of call incoming detected by the timer.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2006Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Masaki Kinoshita
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Patent number: RE42601Abstract: The invention relates to a method for implementing a service in a digital multiple-service network comprising an exchange, a first telecommunication terminal connected to the multiple-service network via a first interface and a second telecommunication terminal connected to the multiple-service network via a second interface. In the method, the service is implemented using a server connected to the multiple-service network via a third interface, and the service information is transmitted to the second telecommunication terminal using channels reserved for signalling and a signalling protocol between the terminals and the exchange and between exchanges that comprises a limited amount of information not belonging to the call.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2007Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Spyder Navigations L.L.C.Inventors: Sakari Pernu, Matti Malo, Keijo Hasa