Abstract:
A system, method, and computer readable medium. A method includes monitoring calls from a client system to a server system for properties associated with an object, each call having a context. The method includes storing call data related to the calls as a property-retrieval history, including storing the context of each call. The method includes analyzing a policy associated with at least one context based on the property-retrieval history. The method includes updating the policy associated with the at least one context based on the analysis, and transferring data corresponding to the at least one context based on the policy.
Abstract:
A system and method of responding to an incoming voice call are described. The method may comprise receiving the incoming call at a voice communication device, monitoring a user input via the voice communication device and generating a user control signal in response to the user input. The user control signal may identify that termination of ring functionality associated with the incoming call is at least to be delayed. Further, a system and method are described of processing a voice call to a voice communication device. The method may comprise communicating the voice call to a voice communication device and receiving from the voice communication device a user control signal in response to a user input. Termination of ring functionality may be at least delayed in response to the user control signal. The invention extends to a device to process a voice call to a voice communication device.
Abstract:
An intelligent voice message status indication device for a single line of a telephone network includes a controller that responds to caller-ID signals to detect whether a mailbox contains a message, responds to a call-waiting signal to break communication with the voicemail system during message retrieval to capture an incoming call, and toggles multiple indicators associated with respective sub-mailboxes on a single line. The message waiting indicators may include respective unique audio, as well as respective unique, visual indication of message presence in one or more mailboxes. The voicemail servers of the network may be correspondingly partitioned to host multiple mailboxes and to provide unique outbound caller IDs to identify a mailbox having a message.
Abstract:
Method and apparatus to automatically screen incoming telephone calls, wherein the caller identification (nullCaller IDnull) transmitted by the telephone company is received, compared to a list of stored caller identification criteria, and a telecommunication device, such as a telephone, answering machine, fax machine or computer modem, is activated or deactivated in response to unwanted or low-priority calls. The Caller ID information transmitted by the telephone company, such as date, time, number and/or name of the calling party, is used as the decision criteria to accept or intercept the call.
Abstract:
In a communicating apparatus which accommodates a plurality of channels, even if a transfer station is busy (a telephone is being employed) or is located at a place where a radio wave does not reach, a message of a sender can be recorded. The apparatus has means for detecting a specified signal such as a tone signal like DTMF or the like which is transmitted from the sender upon call transfer and means for, when the specified signal is received, suspending the transfer and storing a message of the sender into the communicating apparatus by a message recording function of the communicating apparatus.
Abstract:
A rationalized automated answering machine which can distinguish sentence intervals in the Out Going Message (OGM) left by a host by using a microcomputer and record the space position between adjacent sentences of the Out Going Message. When the rationalized automated answering machine receives a call and plays the Out Going Message left by the host, the rationalized automated answering machine also monitors the sound of a caller simultaneously. If the caller interrupts in the OGM playback at any point, the Out Going Message playback stops immediately and the rationalized automated answering machine records the sound of the caller. After talk from the caller finishes, the Out Going Message playback continues.
Abstract:
With a personal call manager, when a caller calls a primary telephone number for the owner of the personal call manager, the personal call manager selectively routes the incoming call to any combination of local extensions on the owner's premises, and to remote extensions such as a telephone instrument on another premises, a pager, a cellular telephone, a central office voice mail box, and a cellular telephone voice mail box. The personal call manager retains control over an incoming call throughout the duration of the call. Consequently, the owner can route the incoming call to multiple locations, or transfer the call to a telephone answering service at any time after taking the incoming call. The personal call manager permits a user to monitor, either locally or remotely, a message being left with a telephone answering service, e.g., a telephone answering device on the user's premises, a central office voice mail box, or another answering service, and can take the call at any time prior to the caller hanging up.
Abstract:
A reduced complexity method of ring signal detection, in which a digital signal processor monitors an incoming data stream for zero crossings and employs a limiter-discriminator to differentiate ring frequency signals from line noise. Controlled noise is injected into the incoming data stream in order to prevent false declarations of ring signals in the presence of low frequency natural noise or low amplitude signals. The method conserves valuable processing power and may therefore prove useful in DSP-based telephone devices that must simultaneously perform multiple processing operations such as ring detection and speech processing.