Communication Status Notification Patents (Class 379/100.06)
  • Patent number: 11929776
    Abstract: A configuration to allow a wireless device having one or more TRPs to configure the one or more TRPs based on configurations of other wireless devices. The apparatus detects a second wireless device in a vicinity of a first wireless device. The apparatus determines a duplex configuration of the second wireless device. The apparatus enables a duplex configuration of the first wireless device to correspond with the duplex configuration of the second wireless device. The apparatus communicates with the second wireless device based on the duplex configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Shuanshuan Wu, Kapil Gulati
  • Patent number: 11831737
    Abstract: A communication apparatus for communicating with an information processing apparatus includes a memory containing instructions and a processor to execute the instructions to function as a communication unit to perform communication between the communication apparatus and the information processing apparatus, an analysis unit to analyze an execution request of a function of the communication apparatus using a predetermined communication protocol that has been received from the information processing apparatus, and an execution unit to, when the execution request of the function is determined to not comply with a specification of the predetermined communication protocol because the execution request of the function does not include header information as a result of the analysis by the analysis unit, transmit a response using the predetermined communication protocol on condition that at least the execution request of the function is an execution request of a specific function, and execute the specific function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Aran Kunimatsu
  • Patent number: 11588952
    Abstract: An electronic device includes circuitry to determine whether to reject or accept a facsimile being transmitted from a transmission source based on a common transmission source list. The common transmission source list is shared by a plurality of electronic devices including the electronic device. The circuitry further outputs a part of the facsimile in response to determining that the transmission source is one from which the facsimile is to be rejected, based on the common transmission source list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Koichiro Maemura
  • Patent number: 10674324
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and universal interface to perform operations comprising initiating, at a first communication system, a call to a second communication system over a 4-wire E&M interface of the first communication system by adjusting, at the first communication system, a state of an e-lead of the first communication system to a closed state; in response to the initiating, triggering, at an interface board, a solid state relay to switch signaling from the first communication system to the second communication system; and in response to the triggering, establishing the call with the second communication system over an auxiliary audio interface of the second communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Mustafa A. Jar, Naif A. Daafas, Mohammad S. Alkharafi
  • Patent number: 10609247
    Abstract: An information processing system transmits and receives sound data through a switching equipment. The information processing system includes: a transmitting end image forming apparatus that has a facsimile function to transmit communication sounds through the switching equipment; a receiving end image forming apparatus that has a facsimile function to receive the communication sounds through the switching equipment; a controller that generates a sound recording start command to start a recording of the communication sounds, and transmits the sound recording start command to the receiving end image forming apparatus; and a sound recorder that starts the recording of the communication sounds in the receiving end image forming apparatus when the receiving end image forming apparatus receives the sound recording start command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Yukio Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10349235
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for receiving information related to an instant message (IM) transmitted from another electronic device through a Short Message Service (SMS) network and transmitting information related to message reception through the SMS network. An electronic device includes a reception unit for receiving a first message through a first network, a generation unit for generating a second message including information related to reception of the first message, and a transmission unit for transmitting the second message through the first network. The first message includes information associated with an IM transmitted from the another electronic device through a second network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jaesik Oh, Jaidong Kim
  • Patent number: 10250731
    Abstract: A method and apparatus provide for controlling the user equipment in a telecommunication network having a network control node. A method may be performed at the network control node and a method may also be performed at a user equipment within a telecommunication network. The method performed at the user equipment comprises: receiving an incoming call signal, the incoming call signal comprising a combined automatic answer and loudspeaker activation indication; in response to the incoming call signal, automatically answering the incoming call and activating a loudspeaker on the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Karthick Rajapandiyan, Harikumar Pandurangan
  • Patent number: 9844022
    Abstract: Upon detecting at a two-way communication device that a communication link has been terminated, the two-way communication device can provide a unique corresponding signal (such as a unique audible signal) to indicate such termination. Pursuant to one approach, a plurality of such unique signals are available and a specific one of the available signals is selected for use in a given circumstance using a selection criteria of choice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: First Circle, LLC
    Inventor: Brockett Muir
  • Patent number: 9699830
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technique that, in the case where a first radio communication unit has acquired device information, and the execution of a service has started, makes it possible to detect the stopping of execution of the service by a second radio communication unit. To achieve this, device information regarding another communication apparatus is acquired via the first radio communication unit, and if a predetermined service is being executed with the other communication apparatus based on the acquired device information, a predetermined signal indicating stopping of the predetermined service is detected via the second radio communication unit that is different from the first radio communication unit. If the predetermined signal is detected, processing for stopping the predetermined service is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomoki Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 9614875
    Abstract: A distributed cloud environment system comprising: a repository; a plurality of cloud managed nodes with a client program interface; a plurality of service management components with a service management component interface; a central trusted computing platform service in communication with the repository, the plurality of cloud managed nodes and the plurality of service management components, comprising: a first interface for communication with the client program interface in each of the plurality of cloud managed nodes through a first single touch point; and a second interface for communication with the service management component interface for the plurality of service management components through a second single touch point. The central trusted computing platform service manages interaction of the plurality of service management components with the plurality of cloud managed nodes, and the interaction of the plurality of cloud managed nodes with the repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Venkata R. Jagana, Srinivasa Rao Mangipudi, Neil I. Readshaw, Karthik Sivakumar
  • Patent number: 9467592
    Abstract: A facsimile machine includes an image data receiving unit, a transmitting subscriber identification receiving unit, and a sorting unit. The image data receiving unit receives image data transmitted from a transmitting facsimile machine. The transmitting subscriber identification receiving unit receives transmitting subscriber identification specified as an arbitrary signal in a Group 3 standard and transmitted from the transmitting facsimile machine. The sorting unit sorts the image data received by the image data receiving unit into at least one of plural storage destinations on the basis of the transmitting subscriber identification received by the transmitting subscriber identification receiving unit and one or more predetermined sorting conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Wada, Hirotaka Kawabata, Satoshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9433031
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technique that, in the case where a first radio communication unit has acquired device information, and the execution of a service has started, makes it possible to detect the stopping of execution of the service by a second radio communication unit. To achieve this, device information regarding another communication apparatus is acquired via the first radio communication unit, and if a predetermined service is being executed with the other communication apparatus based on the acquired device information, a predetermined signal indicating stopping of the predetermined service is detected via the second radio communication unit that is different from the first radio communication unit. If the predetermined signal is detected, processing for stopping the predetermined service is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoki Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 9432217
    Abstract: An email communication apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive an email; and a transmitter configured to transmit an acknowledgement mail relating to a delivery confirmation of the email. The receiver includes: a first reception unit configured to receive a first type email through an email server, the first type email designating a mail address as a transmission destination of the acknowledgement mail, and a second reception unit configured to receive a second type email without through the email server. If the first reception unit receives the first type email, the transmitter transmits, through the email server, the acknowledgement mail in which a transmission destination is the designated email address. If the second reception unit receives the second type email, the transmitter transmits, without through the email server, the acknowledgement mail in which a transmission destination is a network address of a transmission source device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Shibata
  • Patent number: 9100593
    Abstract: A relay apparatus includes a reception section, a facsimile communication section, and a generation section. From terminal apparatuses having no facsimile transmission functions, the reception section receives facsimile transmission instructions along with pieces of identification information of the terminal apparatuses via a private network. The facsimile communication section performs facsimile transmission via a public network to the outside on the basis of the facsimile transmission instructions received by the reception section. The generation section generates pieces of communication result information about facsimile transmission for the respective pieces of identification information corresponding to the terminal apparatuses when the facsimile communication section performs the facsimile transmission to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirotaka Kawabata
  • Patent number: 9083777
    Abstract: This image communication apparatus receives a digital signal having a voice bandwidth from an external apparatus capable of communicating through a network, and processes the received digital signal by means of a signal processing unit. If it is determined that the digital signal includes a CNG signal, the image communication apparatus determines that the digital signal is a facsimile signal received as deemed voice, and executes facsimile reception according to the T.30 standard. If it is determined that the digital signal does not include a CNG signal, the image communication apparatus determines that the digital signal is a voice signal, and executes a voice call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiji Ohara, Shigeru Koizumi, Daisuke Suga, Michio Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20150055766
    Abstract: A data communication apparatus having a transfer function, and a method of controlling the same, wherein a list of stored addresses is displayed on a display unit, and when a transfer function is set, an address that becomes a transfer destination is selected in the list, and it is determined whether or not an editing restriction is set on the selected address. It is determined, when an editing target address is selected in the displayed list, whether an editing target address is set as the transfer destination and an editing restriction is set to the transfer destination, and if it is determined that the editing target address is set as the transfer destination and the editing restriction is set to the transfer destination, editing of the editing target address is restricted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventor: Yuichi Kondo
  • Patent number: 8879694
    Abstract: A communication apparatus including: a communication portion which performs a data communication with a sub-communication apparatus; a transmission-data communicating portion which performs a transmission-data communication with a data processing apparatus; a transmission-data receiving section which receives transmission data from the data processing apparatus; a notifying section which transmits a notification to the sub-communication apparatus, the notification being based on that the transmission-data receiving section has received the transmission data; a relaying section which relays a phone conversation between an external communication apparatus and the sub-communication apparatus; and a transmitting section which transmits the transmission data received by the transmission-data receiving section, to an external communication apparatus as a call opposite party of the phone conversation which is being relayed by the relaying section where a transmission-data transmitting command has been received from
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tadahiro Kunii
  • Patent number: 8873548
    Abstract: Preferred embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods subscribing to receive a call forwarding status notification associated with a call forwarding service, receiving a call forwarding status notification when a state associated with the call forwarding service changes, and interpreting the call forwarding status notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: David C Robbins
  • Patent number: 8825470
    Abstract: A system and method of providing a response with different language options for a data communication protocol, such as Session Initiation Protocol, are disclosed. For example, data communication is controlled between at least two endpoints. A response code indicative of a condition of the data communication is transmitted to one of the at least two endpoints. The response code is associated with a reason phrase operable to be displayed at the one of the at least two endpoints in a language selected from an option of a plurality of languages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Enterprise Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Mallikarjuna Samayamantry Rao, Dennis Kucmerowski
  • Patent number: 8737583
    Abstract: Techniques for transmitting information to a recipient under their control are described. In some situations, the techniques are used in conjunction with a fax delivery system to, as part of a connection established to perform a fax transmission, provide a variety of functionalities to a human recipient that is participating as part of the connection, such as when the human recipient is contacted in error. In addition, in some situations an interactive voice response system is used to receive and interpret input from a human recipient, such as in response to one or more control selections or options provided to the human recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Open Text S.A.
    Inventor: William D. Street, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8731154
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided that includes a fax unit which receives fax data; a communication interface which searches for connectable control points; an address management unit which selects a control point to be notified of fax reception information from among the searched control points; and a DLNA stack unit which notifies the selected control point of the fax reception information through the communication interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki-young Shin, Sang-jin Lee, Jin-ah Heo
  • Patent number: 8718264
    Abstract: A system for automatically detecting status of an agent in a call center is provided. The system may have a call center management system with a plurality of agent workstations coupled to the call center management system and a plurality of telephones associated with the agent workstations. The system may also have a switch that automatically connects calls to the telephones. An off-hook detector automatically detects a manually initiated off-hook status of at least one of the telephones and signals the switch that the agent at the telephones is unavailable. The switch may then avoid connecting a call to the unavailable agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Aspect Software, Inc.
    Inventors: James Mitchell, John Cambray
  • Patent number: 8718610
    Abstract: A communication terminal includes a transceiver and a controller. The transceiver receives electronic messages from another communication terminal. The controller responds to receipt of each of the messages by examining content of the message according to at least one defined rule and to control sound characteristics of an alert tune that is played through a speaker responsive to the examined message content. The controller may attempt to match text from the message to a stored list of words and/or phrases, and to control the sound characteristics of the alert tune in response to an outcome of the matching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications AB
    Inventors: Erik Johan Vendel Backlund, Andreas Kristensson, Pär-Anders Aronsson
  • Patent number: 8571524
    Abstract: A system and method for delivery confirmation of a short message comprising sending the short message to an recipient communication device, determining that an instant message delivery notification (IMDN) is not received, and indicating delivery failure of the short message to the mobile station. In another aspect, if a 202 Accepted message is received, the IM server is subscribed to. Alternatively when a message indicating that an recipient communication device is reachable is received, the service center sends the short message to the communication device. In another alternative, if a recipient absence notification is received the short message is buffered in a service center until the service center receives notification that the recipient communication device is present. Upon receipt of the notification, the service center retransmits the short message, and a successful delivery report is sent when the short message is received by the recipient communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Roozbeh Atarius
  • Patent number: 8565732
    Abstract: Systems and methods allow a roaming mobile device to communicate with a visual voicemail (VVM) system to inform the VVM system of its roaming status. The VVM system then suspends VVM service for the voicemail account associated with the roaming mobile device and instructs a notification server to notify the roaming mobile device if a voicemail message is deposited into a voicemail box associated with the voicemail account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Michael Zubas, Jacqueline Jackson
  • Patent number: 8548136
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes: a first determining unit that determines whether specific identification information designated as a transmission destination of object data to be transmitted is identification information assigned to an internal device within a LAN including the communication apparatus; a deciding unit that decides a specific guaranteed band to be used for transmission of the object data, from a plurality of guaranteed bands, based on the determination result; and a first communication unit that transmits the object data by performing IP communication using the specific identification information and the specific guaranteed band. If the specific identification information is the identification information assigned to the internal device, the deciding unit decides the specific guaranteed band using a first deciding method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Shibata
  • Patent number: 8526579
    Abstract: A method for providing a notification includes receiving a notification request at a central location. The notification request includes an audible message, a notification time, and a destination. The audible message is stored at the central location and associated with the notification time and destination. A current time is determined and compared with the determined notification time. The method further includes connecting a telephone call to the destination based on the determination and transmitting the stored audible message to the destination during the telephone call based on the connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Inventor: Wendell A. Thomas
  • Patent number: 8488755
    Abstract: A system and method for tracking call activity of a plurality of businesses is disclosed. A global pool of phone numbers is allocated from which to draw numbers. A business-specific pool of numbers is established for business locations involved in advertisements using the Internet via Web pages. As a consumer begins viewing an advertisement for a business, a number is temporarily allocated from the business's pool of available numbers. As the business's pool of unallocated numbers is exhausted, a metric is used to determine whether or not to grow the pool of numbers, to show an untracked ‘fallback’ number for the business, or to reuse a previously allocated number. When one of the temporarily allocated numbers is called, the online consumer it was associated with is credited for making the call and the business is credited and charged for receiving the call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Felix Calls, LLC
    Inventors: Brent D. Metz, Kevin Caffrey
  • Patent number: 8458320
    Abstract: A user inputs event information into a data processing system which is stored in an application memory of an application. Message information contained in each incoming message received by a messaging service is compared to the event information. In the event that the message information corresponds to the event information a notification of the event is sent to a short-range wireless transmitter. The wireless transmitter transmits notification of the event to a remote receiver. Upon receipt of the wireless signal, the remote receiver triggers an alert notification notifying the user that data processing system has received the specified event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Susann Marie Keohane, Gerald Francis McBrearty, Shawn Patrick Mullen, Jessica Carol Murillo, Johnny Meng-Han Shieh
  • Patent number: 8395800
    Abstract: A document transmission apparatus reduces troublesome labor of an operator when transmitting document data, inputted from a scanner or the like, by various transmission methods such as electronic mail, facsimile, remote printing and file transfer. An address book containing a receiver and a plurality of transmission methods for transmitting document data to the receiver is generated. Upon transmission instruction, an appropriate transmission method is selected by the receiver, then document data is converted into data of an appropriate data format, and the converted data is transmitted. Further, a notice of transmission indicating that the document data has been transmitted is transmitted to the receiver of the document data by a method different from the transmission method of the document data. Thus, the document data can be reliably delivered to the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomoaki Endo
  • Patent number: 8385520
    Abstract: After the user purchased an information apparatus, even when he turns on a power source without setting a line and automatic line identification fails, a demonstration mode is not started, and when the information apparatus exists in a shop, the demonstration mode can be certainly started by the minimum number of steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Taketomo Naruse
  • Patent number: 8374323
    Abstract: In a communication system comprising multiple networks, a system is provided for notifying a caller that a call destination who was initially unavailable is now available, involving subscribers of possibly different networks. The system, when installed in a network, can support destination availability notifications following failed call attempts in which at least one user is a user of the network, regardless to which network the other user subscribes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: ON-Q Telecom Systems Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Oren Tal, Reuven Tal
  • Patent number: 8346222
    Abstract: Systems and methods allow a roaming mobile device to communicate with a visual voicemail (VVM) system to inform the VVM system of its roaming status. The VVM system then suspends VVM service for the voicemail account associated with the roaming mobile device and instructs a notification server to notify the roaming mobile device if a voicemail message is deposited into a voicemail box associated with the voicemail account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP
    Inventors: Michael Zubas, Jacqueline Jackson
  • Publication number: 20120314851
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus stores the received FAX data as a document in a storage unit. The information processing apparatus receives a FAX reception notification which is a notification indicating the reception of FAX data from the image forming apparatus and includes at least a telephone number of a transmission source of the FAX data. Then, the image forming apparatus determines whether or not a new arrival document is present in the storage unit, and sets the telephone number included the FAX reception notification as a property of the new arrival document when the image forming apparatus determines that the new arrival document is present in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki Kusakabe
  • Patent number: 8310730
    Abstract: Provided are a fax data transmission controller, a fax server, a fax system, and a method of providing the fax system. The fax data transmission controller can store fax data received via a public switched telephone network (PSTN), and transmit the stored fax data to a fax server, to a facsimile, or to a user computer. The fax server can filter fax data that is received or to be transmitted, and perform authentication on the content of the fax data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Inventor: Yun Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 8306198
    Abstract: A private branch exchange (PBX) capable of transmitting and receiving an E-mail over a network is provided. The PBX includes an interface for communicating with the network, an E-mail server for receiving and storing the E-mail; an extension interface for exchanging a communication signal including an audio signal and control signal with an extension telephone, a database for storing a destination address of an E-mail and an extension number corresponding to the address, an examining unit for examining whether or not an mailing address contained in an E-mail received at the E-mail server from the network is registered in the database, and a controller for sending a notice of the reception of the E-mail the extension telephone of the extension number allocated to the mailing address of the E-mail when the examining unit judges that the mailing address of the E-mail is registered in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Sadaka Mitsuo
  • Patent number: 8280017
    Abstract: A communication terminal apparatus is provided capable of preventing a misunderstanding that the external attachment telephone is hooked up, so that the external attachment telephone can be correctly shifted to a receiving mode. In the apparatus, a ring signal detecting section detects a ring signal sent by a line exchange machine from a line; and a hookup detecting section monitors a line voltage of the line and detects a hookup of an external attachment telephone. In the hookup detecting section, a line voltage detecting section detects the line voltage on the line; a reference voltage outputting section outputs a reference voltage; a threshold value voltage switching section switches to a threshold value voltage representing a first voltage level or switches to a threshold value voltage representing a second voltage level; and a voltage comparing section compares the reference voltage with the line voltage when the ring signal is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Kimiaki Ogawa
  • Patent number: 8249228
    Abstract: Techniques for transmitting information to a recipient under their control are described. In some situations, the techniques are used in conjunction with a fax delivery system to, as part of a connection established to perform a fax transmission, provide a variety of functionalities to a human recipient that is participating as part of the connection, such as when the human recipient is contacted in error. In addition, in some situations an interactive voice response system is used to receive and interpret input from a human recipient, such as in response to one or more control selections or options provided to the human recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Open Text S.A.
    Inventor: William D. Street, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8237959
    Abstract: A communication apparatus is provided. The communication apparatus includes an image read unit which reads image data from a transmission document; a tag read unit which wirelessly reads tag data stored in a wireless tag corresponding to the transmission document; an image data generation unit, if the tag data includes mark data indicating that a mark is to be added to the image data, generates composite image data by combining the image data and mark image data based on the mark data; and a transmission unit which transmits the composite image data as transmission document data to an external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tokunori Kato
  • Patent number: 8223933
    Abstract: A line interface unit in which a circuit to detect a calling line and a ring signal includes a connecting unit connected to a public switched telephone network (PSTN) to individually detect the calling line and the ring signal and to commonly use an insulating circuit electrically insulated from PSTN. A circuit to detect the calling line and the ring signal is simply implemented so that economical burden can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun Tae Kim, Jeong Baek Lee, Jong Cheol Oh
  • Patent number: 8189750
    Abstract: A system and method for tracking call activity of a plurality of businesses is disclosed. A global pool of phone numbers is allocated from which to draw numbers. A business-specific pool of numbers is established for business locations involved in advertisements using the Internet via Web pages. As a consumer begins viewing an advertisement for a business, a number is temporarily allocated from the business's pool of available numbers. As the business's pool of unallocated numbers is exhausted, a metric is used to determine whether or not to grow the pool of numbers, to show an untracked ‘fallback’ number for the business, or to reuse a previously allocated number. When one of the temporarily allocated numbers is called, the online consumer it was associated with is credited for making the call and the business is credited and charged for receiving the call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Yext, Inc.
    Inventors: Brent D. Metz, Kevin Caffrey
  • Patent number: 8126122
    Abstract: A network device to control a transmission rate of one or more fax data units transferred between a transmitting and a receiving network device. The transmission rate is controlled based on one or more control parameters. The control parameters may be generated based on comparing the configured values and the capability values. The configured values may represent allowable transmission characteristics of a network path provisioned between a transmitting and a receiving network device and the capability values may represent the transmission capabilities of the transmitting and the receiving network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Anand Basalingappa Jyoti
  • Patent number: 8116440
    Abstract: When a transmission of image data to a destination has not been completed, retransmission processing in which the image data is repeatedly transmitted to the destination is performed and the number of times the transmission has been performed is counted. When the number is higher than a predetermined value, the sender is informed about the occurrence of transmission error and whether the modification of destination information has been requested is determined. When the modification has been requested, the destination information is modified; when the modification has not been requested, the destination information is deleted and then the deletion of the destination information is informed. When stored destination information including destinations of data is wrong, the use of the destination information is inhibited, which prevents users as recipients from feeling displeasure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Suehiro Ueda, Syoichiro Yoshiura, Tsutomu Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 8108462
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus capable of exchanging information with another apparatus. The apparatus includes: a unit for carrying out a communication with the other apparatus; a unit for acquiring information on a state of a communication with the other apparatus carried out by the communication unit; and a unit for determining image information for a user owning the other apparatus based on the information acquired by the communication-state information acquisition unit and determining an array including the image information. The apparatus further includes: a unit for generating a display image including the image information based on the array; and a unit for displaying the display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shiro Morotomi
  • Patent number: 8055240
    Abstract: There is provided a method of notifying a caller of confirmation of a voice or text message in a wireless communication system. A calling mobile station transmits a voice or text message to a called mobile station. If the called mobile station senses confirmation of the received voice or text message, it notifies a calling mobile station of the message confirmation via a confirmation message. Upon receipt of the confirmation message, the calling mobile station alerts a caller to receipt of the confirmation message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Hyun-Jeong Kim
  • Publication number: 20110216887
    Abstract: A facsimile apparatus includes a first detecting unit and a second detecting unit. The a first detecting unit detects whether a facsimile communication is established or not with a communication destination in a prescribed time after a selection signal is sent to the communication destination with a communication line held. The second detecting unit detects a state of the communication line with the communication line held when the first detecting unit detects that a facsimile communication is not established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20110216893
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided that includes a fax unit which receives fax data; a communication interface which searches for connectable control points; an address management unit which selects a control point to be notified of fax reception information from among the searched control points; and a DLNA stack unit which notifies the selected control point of the fax reception information through the communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki-young SHIN, Sang-jin Lee, Jin-ah Heo
  • Patent number: 8014506
    Abstract: Methods for managing and routine multiple telephone calls through a wireless network provide efficient and cost-effective ways in which a subscriber to the network can take advantage of the multiple services being offered. When the subscriber has only one line in the network, or when the subscriber often uses more than one line, multiple telephone calls may attempt transmission to the subscriber and so the subscriber may miss the call. The inventive methods determine what type of incoming call is attempting to contact the subscriber and routes the call to another location, such as the subscriber's voice mail, if the subscriber is otherwise occupying his or her line or lines in the network. The methods are particular useful for storing and forwarding facsimile messages to subscriber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventor: Jayson Newlin
  • Patent number: 8005903
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing e-mail messages. A local copy of the e-mail message is stored on the data processing system for a selected period of time in response to sending an e-mail message to a recipient from a data processing system. A determination is made as to whether the local copy of the e-mail message is present in response to receiving a notification that the recipient is unable to respond. The local copy of the e-mail message is retrieved if the local copy of the e-mail message is present to form a retrieved e-mail message. The retrieved e-mail message is presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Susann Marie Keohane, Gerald Francis McBrearty, Shawn Patrick Mullen, Jessica Carol Murillo, Johnny Meng-Han Shieh
  • Patent number: 7995724
    Abstract: A telecommunications system and method provides a time slicing capability whereby alternate services, such as advertising, can be provided to a party while being kept on hold. Thus, charges associated with portions of the call during which alternate services are provided can be billed to other parties, such as advertisers, and the cost for the call to the caller or the called party can be reduced. The connection between the caller and the called party is maintained during the time that alternate services are being provided so that when either the caller or the called party is available to accept or resume a call, the alternate services are terminated and the caller and called party are reconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventor: Rao Kocharlakota