Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provides systems and methods for pooled IP recording. An exemplary method of the present invention comprises monitoring a user's logon, associating a communication device to the user, assigning an interface to a recorder associated with the communication device, and recording data from the communication device sent over the interface. Another exemplary method of the present invention comprises detecting a recorder failure and dynamically routing an interface associated with the failed recorder to at least one other recorder.

Abstract: The present invention relates to system and method of reading and rewriting EDID in a video transmission system includes a transmitter transmitting a video signal and a receiver receiving the video signal that the transmitter transmitted which are connected to each other through digital interface, the method includes a reading step where the transmitter reads the EDID of the receiver through the digital interface; a first transmitting step where the transmitter transmit the video signal to the receiver on the basis of the EDID which the transmitter read; a second transmitting step where the receiver transmits a first message related to the EDID of the receiver; and a third transmitting step where the receiver transmits a second message related to the EDID of the receiver; wherein the transmitter, which received the first message from the receiver, does not read the EDID of the receiver until the second message is received.

Abstract: The system automatically generates electronic commands necessary to modify or provision different types of program control switches as may be included in a public switch telephone network. A data schema and organization of tables and data structures provide for command generation for each of the different switch types. Additionally, a self-modifying dynamic data structure is used as a common area to communicate information between various programs and formulate the commands due to a limited number of parameters used to communicate information between programs that generate the command for the switches. A technique for verifying switch commands automatically generated by a second new provisioning system is described. A technique is described for automatically extracting switch specific commands and options as generated by a first system for use in populating data stores used in a second system for command generation.

Abstract: A technique for using a computer system to filter incoming telephone is provided. The computer system decodes caller ID information in an incoming telephone call and compares the decoded caller ID information against a stored list of caller ID information. If the caller ID information in the incoming call matches an item in the stored list, the computer system prevents the telephone input/output device from ringing, opens a connection on the telephone line, outputs a prerecorded audio message on the telephone line, and closes the connection. If the caller ID information in the incoming call does not match an item in the stored list, the computer system passes the incoming call to the input/output device normally. The computer system is configured to receive voice commands from a user to manage the stored list, including adding the caller ID information from a current or recent call to the list.

Abstract: The system automatically generates electronic commands necessary to modify or provision different types of program control switches as may be included in a public switch telephone network. A data schema and organization of tables and data structures provide for command generation for each of the different switch types. Additionally, a self-modifying dynamic data structure is used as a common area to communicate information between various programs and formulate the commands due to a limited number of parameters used to communicate information between programs that generate the command for the switches. A technique for verifying switch commands automatically generated by a second new provisioning system is described. A technique is described for automatically extracting switch specific commands and options as generated by a first system for use in populating data stores used in a second system for command generation.

Abstract: A memory management method for a digital answering system having a non-volatile memory, e.g., flash memory, for storing files of audio messages. In accordance with the method, a first portion of the memory is dedicated for the storage of file information, and a second portion for the storage of message data. A number of rotary storage areas are defined within the first memory portion, with said file information being stored within only one of the rotary storage areas at any given time. Following a predetermined number of write operations to the one storage area, its contents are transferred to another one of the rotary storage areas. A file allocation table is employed which maps the memory of the flash memory. A directory includes directory entries which provide a first row for message data. A data area where messages are stored includes pointers to a next sequence or word in the memory such that a chain of words or sequences in a message file are retrieved in a single access to the first portion of memory.

Abstract: A wireless answering system is disclosed in which answering functions executed at a main telephone answering device can be controlled from an extension answering device. The extension answering device is able to record new outgoing messages, screen calls and playback messages recorded at the main telephone answering device. Communication between the main telephone answering device and extension telephone answering device are by way of wireless communications, preferably through a Bluetooth™ compliant communications path.

Abstract: A telephone answering device that includes a variable rate encoder.

Abstract: In a digital voice messaging system, a circular message storage selection is added to allow the digital voice messaging system to automatically overwrite previously-stored, e.g., the oldest messages in voice memory as necessary for storage of the newest voice message when the voice memory is filled. Another embodiment of the invention further provides the ability to prioritize certain previously stored voice messages over other stored voice messages to prevent overwriting of the prioritized voice messages when the circular message storage selection is enabled, but which allows overwriting of non-prioritized voice messages.

Abstract: In a switching system data inheritance method of controlling hardware on the basis of a first database storing various management data such as subscriber information to inherit switching system data for various types of call connection processing, change information indicating a change in structure from the first database to a second database which inherits data from the first database is created. Data constituting the first database is converted into new data having a new structure and constituting the second database on the basis of the created change information to store the converted data in the second database. A switching system data inheritance system is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for locating a desired record amongst a plurality of records in a telephone directory involves associating a frequency field with each of the records, the frequency field being operable to store a frequency metric. A characteristic field is also associated with each of the records, the characteristic field being operable to store a characteristic representation of at least one identifying characteristic of a rendering associated with the record. An input representation of a rendering purporting to identify the desired record is produced and the input representation is compared with the contents of the characteristic fields of at least some of the records and confidence metrics are assigned to the records respectively, each of the confidence metrics representing a respective probability that a respective record is the desired record. A determination is then made as to which of the records have the first and second highest confidence metrics.

Abstract: A method for transferring a speech message registered by a user from an automatic telephone answering system at a reserved time wherein the reserved time and speech message are registered along with a telephone number so that the registered speech message can be automatically transferred at the reserved time as the telephone number is automatically dialed at the reserved time.

Abstract: A combination wavelength and energy dispersive x-ray spectrometer comprising a point source of isotropic x-rays, a collimator to collect a large flux of x-rays and to redirect them into a substantially parallel beam, dispersing element means having a plurality of diffracting surfaces to reflect and diffract the parallel beam of x-rays into its component wavelength spectrum, controller means to alter the orientation of the dispersing element relative to the beam of x-rays, position tracking means to identify the orientation of the dispersing element and to provide data output, detector means to receive the reflected beam and to quantify its energy spectrum, wavelength spectrum and to provide data output, data display means to exhibit and record the output provided.

Abstract: In a voice mail exchange for voice mail telephone sets grouped into first through N-th groups, where N represents a first predetermined number, a message recorder comprises memory sectors in one-to-one correspondence to the first through N-th groups for storage of messages originating at and destined to the telephone sets. The voice mail exchange may also include interface circuits which are selectively put in operation by control signals produced in accordance with predetermined office data by a control unit. The interface circuits interface between first through N-th recorder signals supplied to (and reproduced from) the memory sectors and first through M-th switchboard signals produced by (and supplied to) a switchboard connected to the telephone sets, where M represents a second predetermined number related to N by the office data.

Abstract: Communication equipment comprises a communication section 3 performing communication with other equipment via a public line, a local area network, or an infrared communication network, a resource information storing section 5 storing what format data equipment can handle, a data storing section 6 storing data to be transmitted, a data conversion section 7 converting data so that the other party of communication can interpret it, a conversion table 8 storing whether currently held data can be converted to a form that the other party of communication can interpret, a conversion- means storing section 9 storing actual conversion means, and a negotiation section 10 knowing what the resource information of equipment of the other part is.

Abstract: A telephone answering machine which includes a recording position memory for storing address data corresponding to a recorded leading position of each message on a recording medium and a number designation device such as a dial pad. When a number input is made by the number designation device at the time of a reproduction operation, the recording position corresponding to this number is indexed, and the message is reproduced. When a key corresponding to a given message is pushed down during reproduction of this message, the message is again reproduced from the start. According to this construction, a message to be reproduced can be designated from a plurality of messages by a one-touch operation, and a desired message can be immediately listened to. When the same key is simply pushed, the message corresponding to the key can be listened to once again.

Abstract: An arrangement is disclosed for determining a byte error rate (ByER) of a received digital signal. In particular, a local byte clock signal is generated and a complement of the received signal (or clock signal) is compared to the clock signal (or received signal). When both are the same logic value, as determined by a series of logic gates, an error is deemed to have occurred. A counter is utilized to track a number of occurrences N over a predetermined period of time T.

Abstract: A video cassette rotary scanner is adapted for high capacity, high speed, digital audio spectrum data recording by the use of a buffer memory and a servo control system. The buffer memory is operative at a speed much higher than that of the tape. The tape is maintained at relaxed tension until a high data occupancy signal from the buffer activates the data write operation. In response, the tape tension is increased for a write operation, and relaxed again only when the buffer sends a low data occupancy signal. The use of the buffer along with capstan, take-up reel and supply reel motors responsive to the two signals permits tape wear to be decreased substantially while increasing tape capacity.

Abstract: In a double-cassette tape player for driving cassette tapes in a pair of cassettes in an alternative fashion, there is provided a mechanism for moving a single head base to respective positions of the cassettes by a single drive source, a mode detector for detecting that the head base moves in a first direction toward one of cassette receiving areas before taking a regular position in a second direction, and an error preventing apparatus responsive to a detection output from the mode detector to bring the head base to the regular position.