Inductive Pickup Patents (Class 379/86)
  • Patent number: 8977248
    Abstract: Systems and methods that can be utilized to convert a voice communication received over a telecommunication network to text are described. In an illustrative embodiment, a call processing system coupled to a telecommunications network receives a call from a caller intended for a first party, wherein the call is associated with call signaling information. At least a portion of the call signaling information is stored in a computer readable medium. A greeting is played the caller, and a voice communication from the caller is recorded. At least a portion of the voice communication is converted to text, which is analyzed to identify portions that are inferred to be relatively more important to communicate to the first party. A text communication is generated including at least some of the identified portions and including fewer words than the recorded voice communication. At least a portion of the text communication is made available to the first party over a data network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Callwave Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Anthony Bladon, David Giannini, David Frank Hofstatter, Colin Kelley, David C. McClintock, Robert F. Smith, David S. Trandal, Leland W. Kirchhoff
  • Patent number: 8688092
    Abstract: Systems and methods that can be utilized to convert a voice communication received over a telecommunication network to text are described. In an illustrative embodiment, a call processing system coupled to a telecommunications network receives a call from a caller intended for a first party, wherein the call is associated with call signaling information. At least a portion of the call signaling information is stored in a computer readable medium. A greeting is played the caller, and a voice communication from the caller is recorded. At least a portion of the voice communication is converted to text, which is analyzed to identify portions that are inferred to be relatively more important to communicate to the first party. A text communication is generated including at least some of the identified portions and including fewer words than the recorded voice communication. At least a portion of the text communication is made available to the first party over a data network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Callwave Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Anthony Bladon, David Giannini, David Frank Hofstatter, Colin Kelley, David C. McClintock, Robert F. Smith, David S. Trandal, Leland W. Kirchhoff
  • Patent number: 8280011
    Abstract: Included are embodiments for recording data from a communication. A least one embodiment includes a system for recording data from a communication that includes a controller component and a gateway component passively coupled to a switching component. In at least one embodiment the gateway component configured to receive at least a portion of the control data, the gateway component further configured to receive media data associated with the with the communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Verint Americas, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Calahan, Mark Edmund Coleman
  • Patent number: 8111041
    Abstract: A power reception device transmits authentication information (e.g., start code, manufacturer ID, product ID, rated power information, and resonance characteristic information) to a power transmission device before starting normal power transmission by a non-contact power transmission system. The power transmission device performs instrument authentication based on the received authentication information, and regulates the maximum transmission power is regulated to conform to a power-reception-device side rated power. The power transmission device then performs normal power transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignees: Seiko Epson Corporation, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.
    Inventors: Kota Onishi, Kentaro Yoda, Haruhiko Sogabe, Takahiro Kamijo, Kuniharu Suzuki, Hiroshi Kato, Katsuya Suzuki, Manabu Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 5966438
    Abstract: An adaptive volume controlled radiotelephone system includes a microphone, a loudspeaker, a transceiver, and an adaptive volume control. The microphone generates an output electrical audio signal in response to sound, and the loudspeaker produces sound in response to an input electrical audio signal. The transceiver is responsive to the microphone and transmits radiotelephone communications to a remote party and receives radiotelephone communications from the remote party to generate the input electrical audio signal. The adaptive volume control is responsive to the output electrical audio signal and selects an amplitude of the sound produced by the loudspeaker so that the amplitude of the sound produced by the loudspeaker increases as the amplitude of the sound received at the microphone increases and decreases as the amplitude of the sound received at the microphone decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1999
    Assignee: Ericsson Inc.
    Inventor: Eric D. Romesburg
  • Patent number: 5319703
    Abstract: A method for real-time recognition of speech and call-progression tone energy includes the steps of digitizing an analog signal present on a signal line, correlating N neighboring portions of the digitized signal, performing FFT analysis on the digitized signal, identifying the three largest frequency-domain maxima, determining whether the two largest maxima are above a threshold frequency, and determining whether the ratio of the largest to the third largest maxima exceeds a predetermined value. According to the present invention, the steps of the method may be performed in real time using fixed-point hardware by approximating the correlation and FFT functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1994
    Assignee: VMX, Inc.
    Inventor: Eatamar Drory
  • Patent number: 4747136
    Abstract: A rest for a service receiver of an automobile telephone includes a plate-shaped lower part and a cap-shaped upper part having a depression therein for accepting the telephone trumpet portion of the service receiver. In an elevated region of the rest, two slot-shaped recesses and a pot-shaped portion lying therebelow are provided for mounting two retaining plates with a magnet disposed therebetween which magnetically engages a steel plate in the service receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1988
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Reinhold Kiesewetter