Abstract: There is provided a multi-mode wireless communication device. A cellular transceiver communicates over a cellular network in a cellular mode. A wireless transceiver communicates over a wireless network in a wireless mode. A selector makes a selection between operating in the cellular mode and the wireless mode. The selector uses a subscriber profile and other information, such as financial information, to make the selection. The subscriber profile includes information such as a minimally acceptable quality of service acceptable for a communication.

Abstract: There is provided a multi-mode wireless communication device. A cellular transceiver communicates over a cellular network in a cellular mode. A wireless transceiver communicates over a wireless network in a wireless mode. A selector makes a selection between operating in the cellular mode and the wireless mode. The selector uses a subscriber profile and other information, such as financial information, to make the selection. The subscriber profile includes information such as a minimally acceptable quality of service acceptable for a communication.

Abstract: A telecommunications services exchange that assigns telecommunications services to a relatively small number of tagged classes based on the values of certain parameters characterizing these services is disclosed. Carriers and other traders participating in the exchange may use the class tag to refer to each service they seek to purchase or sell. The relatively small number of classes increases the probability of matching offered and required services. Class definitions may be established on the basis of typical parameter values for a particular type of service, and may be modified over time as those values change. The exchange operator may monitor the parameter variation of each offered service, and swap that service for a different service when monitored variation exceeds that dictated by class boundaries.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods for allowing phone lines to be used in a bonding scheme while retaining the ability to make or receive calls on those lines without terminating the entire data transmission. When a incoming call to one of the lines in use is detected, the call is rerouted to a specially configured server. Via the Internet, this server notifies the computer using the bonding scheme and coordinates the rerouting of the data transmission to the one or more other phone lines being bonded so that the requested line can be released and made available to connect the call. When the call is completed, the line can be returned to use as part of the bonded data transmission. When an outgoing call needs to be made, the computer using the bonding scheme is notified via an electronic signal. The computer then coordinates the rerouting of the data transmission to the one or more other lines being used in the bonding scheme and releases the line for the outgoing call.

Abstract: An improved audio browser is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a plurality of hypertext links (hereafter called “hyperlink words”) available from, for example, a World Wide Web document, are used as a vocabulary of a speech recognizer for an audio browser. These hyperlink words are read to the user in the ordinary course of the audio browser's “speaking voice”—such hyperlink words being identified to the user by, for example, a change in voice characteristics for the “speaking voice.” When a user wishes to select a hyperlink word, the user merely repeats the hyperlink word itself, rather than speaking a command or using a DTMF tone. The speech recognizer, which has as its vocabulary some or all of the hyperlink words of the document, recognizes the spoken hyperlink word and causes the jump to the linked address associated with the recognized hyperlink word.

Abstract: A technique for creating, training, and using a telecommunication network-based automatic voice-dialing system is provided through the automatic determination, by a network element, of likely called parties for a given customer. This determination is made based on records of network usage by the customer. Names of the likely called parties are determined through the use of, e.g., a conventional reverse telephone directory database.