公开(公告)号：US5546442A

公开(公告)日：1996-08-13

申请号：US264651

申请日：1994-06-23

申请人： Mark J. Foladare ,  Shelley B. Goldman ,  Nancy Murray ,  David P. Silverman ,  Yao-Chung Tsao ,  Roy P. Weber

发明人： Mark J. Foladare ,  Shelley B. Goldman ,  Nancy Murray ,  David P. Silverman ,  Yao-Chung Tsao ,  Roy P. Weber

IPC分类号： H04M1/64 ,  H04M1/658 ,  H04M3/20 ,  H04M3/38 ,  H04M3/42 ,  H04M3/428 ,  H04M3/436 ,  H04M3/48 ,  H04M3/533 ,  H04M3/54 ,  H04M3/56 ,  H04M3/58 ,  H04M11/02 ,  H04Q3/00 ,  H04Q7/06 ,  H04Q7/08 ,  H04Q7/12

CPC分类号： H04M3/42229 ,  H04M3/20 ,  H04M3/436 ,  H04M3/48 ,  H04M3/54 ,  H04Q3/002 ,  H04Q3/005 ,  H04M11/022 ,  H04M3/382 ,  H04M3/4283 ,  H04M3/533 ,  H04M3/56 ,  H04M3/58 ,  H04Q2213/13097 ,  H04Q2213/13098 ,  H04Q2213/13173 ,  H04Q2213/1324 ,  H04Q2213/13256 ,  H04Q2213/1328 ,  H04Q2213/13282 ,  H04Q2213/13374 ,  H04Q2213/13377 ,  H04Q2213/13513

摘要： We have recognized that in the prior art, to insure that there is at least some communication between the calling and called parties, when the called party is unavailable to take a call, the calling party may be connected to an alternate destination, e.g., a voice messaging system, and the caller's telephone call is considered completed. If the called party thereafter becomes available, the called party is not connected to the caller's telephone call. However, in accordance with the principles of the invention, this problem is overcome by, in response to receipt of an indication that the called party is available for a caller's telephone call after the caller's telephone call has already been connected to an alternate destination, a) disconnecting the caller's telephone call from the alternate destination and, instead, b) connecting it the called party, thus interrupting the connection between the caller and the alternate destination. Optionally, a tone or announcement may be supplied to the caller to indicate that the called party will now be connected "live" to the caller.

摘要翻译： 我们已经认识到，在现有技术中，为了确保主叫和被叫方之间至少有一些通信，当被叫方不能接听电话时，主叫方可以连接到备用目的地，例如， 语音消息系统，并且呼叫者的电话被认为是完成的。 如果被叫方此后可用，被叫方不连接到呼叫者的电话呼叫。 然而，根据本发明的原理，通过在呼叫者的电话呼叫已经连接到备用目的地之后响应于接收到被叫方可用于呼叫者的电话呼叫的指示来克服该问题， ）将主叫方的电话呼叫从备用目的地断开，而不是b）将被叫方连接起来，从而中断呼叫者和备用目的地之间的连接。 可选地，可以向呼叫者提供音调或通知，以指示被叫方现在将“直播”连接到呼叫者。

公开(公告)号：US5761277A

公开(公告)日：1998-06-02

申请号：US851315

申请日：1997-05-05

申请人： Mark Jeffrey Foladare ,  Shelley B. Goldman ,  Nancy Murray ,  David Phillip Silverman ,  Yao-Chung Tsao ,  Roy Philip Weber

发明人： Mark Jeffrey Foladare ,  Shelley B. Goldman ,  Nancy Murray ,  David Phillip Silverman ,  Yao-Chung Tsao ,  Roy Philip Weber

IPC分类号： H04M1/64 ,  H04M1/658 ,  H04M3/20 ,  H04M3/38 ,  H04M3/42 ,  H04M3/428 ,  H04M3/436 ,  H04M3/48 ,  H04M3/533 ,  H04M3/54 ,  H04M3/56 ,  H04M3/58 ,  H04M11/02 ,  H04Q3/00 ,  H04Q7/06 ,  H04Q7/08 ,  H04Q7/12

CPC分类号： H04M3/42229 ,  H04M3/20 ,  H04M3/436 ,  H04M3/48 ,  H04M3/54 ,  H04Q3/002 ,  H04Q3/005 ,  H04M11/022 ,  H04M3/382 ,  H04M3/4283 ,  H04M3/533 ,  H04M3/56 ,  H04M3/58 ,  H04Q2213/13097 ,  H04Q2213/13098 ,  H04Q2213/13173 ,  H04Q2213/1324 ,  H04Q2213/13256 ,  H04Q2213/1328 ,  H04Q2213/13282 ,  H04Q2213/13374 ,  H04Q2213/13377 ,  H04Q2213/13513

摘要： We have recognized that in the prior art, to insure that there is at least some communication between the calling and called parties, when the called party is unavailable to take a call, the calling party may be connected to an alternate destination, e.g., a voice messaging system, and the caller's telephone call is considered completed. If the called party thereafter becomes available, the called party is not connected to the caller's telephone call. However, in accordance with the principles of the invention, this problem is overcome by, in response to receipt of an indication that the called party is available for a caller's telephone call after the caller's telephone call has already been connected to an alternate destination, a) disconnecting the caller's telephone call from the alternate destination and, instead, b) connecting it the called party, thus interrupting the connection between the caller and the alternate destination. Optionally, a tone or announcement may be supplied to the caller to indicate that the called party will now be connected "live" to the caller.

摘要翻译： 我们已经认识到，在现有技术中，为了确保主叫和被叫方之间至少有一些通信，当被叫方不能接听电话时，主叫方可以连接到备用目的地，例如， 语音消息系统，并且呼叫者的电话被认为是完成的。 如果被叫方此后可用，被叫方不连接到呼叫者的电话呼叫。 然而，根据本发明的原理，通过在呼叫者的电话呼叫已经连接到备用目的地之后响应于接收到被叫方可用于呼叫者的电话呼叫的指示来克服该问题， ）将主叫方的电话呼叫从备用目的地断开，而不是b）将被叫方连接起来，从而中断呼叫者和备用目的地之间的连接。 可选地，可以向呼叫者提供音调或通知，以指示被叫方现在将“直播”连接到呼叫者。

公开(公告)号：US5706329A

公开(公告)日：1998-01-06

申请号：US524360

申请日：1995-09-05

申请人： Mark Jeffrey Foladare ,  Shelley B. Goldman ,  Nancy Murray ,  David Phillip Silverman ,  Yao-Chung Tsao ,  Roy Philip Weber

发明人： Mark Jeffrey Foladare ,  Shelley B. Goldman ,  Nancy Murray ,  David Phillip Silverman ,  Yao-Chung Tsao ,  Roy Philip Weber

IPC分类号： H04M1/64 ,  H04M1/658 ,  H04M3/20 ,  H04M3/38 ,  H04M3/42 ,  H04M3/428 ,  H04M3/436 ,  H04M3/48 ,  H04M3/533 ,  H04M3/54 ,  H04M3/56 ,  H04M3/58 ,  H04M11/02 ,  H04Q3/00 ,  H04Q7/06 ,  H04Q7/08 ,  H04Q7/12 ,  H04Q7/38

CPC分类号： H04M3/42229 ,  H04M3/20 ,  H04M3/436 ,  H04M3/48 ,  H04M3/54 ,  H04Q3/002 ,  H04Q3/005 ,  H04M11/022 ,  H04M3/382 ,  H04M3/4283 ,  H04M3/533 ,  H04M3/56 ,  H04M3/58 ,  H04Q2213/13097 ,  H04Q2213/13098 ,  H04Q2213/13173 ,  H04Q2213/1324 ,  H04Q2213/13256 ,  H04Q2213/1328 ,  H04Q2213/13282 ,  H04Q2213/13374 ,  H04Q2213/13377 ,  H04Q2213/13513

摘要： It is known in the prior art to, when a telephone customer is unavailable to take a call, page the customer, thereby notifying the customer that a telephone call is waiting. The customer may then call in to a meet-me bridge to be connected to the incoming telephone call. However, if the customer does not respond to the page in time, prior art systems provide for the calling party's call to be routed to an alternate destination, e.g., a voice messaging system. The calling party's telephone call is thereby considered completed. If the customer thereafter becomes available, the customer is not connected to the caller's telephone call even if the caller is still connected to the alternate destination. In accordance with the principles of the invention, this problem is overcome by, in response to receipt of the telephone call from the customer, a) disconnecting the caller's telephone call from the alternate destination and b) connecting the caller's telephone call with the customer's call substantially contemporaneous with receipt of the customer's call.

摘要翻译： 在现有技术中，当电话客户不能接听电话时，将客户页面，从而通知客户电话正在等待。 然后，客户可以打电话到会议桥，连接到来电。 然而，如果客户没有及时响应该页面，则现有技术系统提供主叫方的呼叫被路由到备用目的地，例如语音消息系统。 因此，主叫方的电话呼叫被完成。 如果客户此后可以使用，即使呼叫者仍然连接到备用目的地，客户也不会连接到主叫方的电话呼叫。 根据本发明的原理，通过响应于从客户接收到电话呼叫来克服这个问题，a）将呼叫者的电话呼叫从备用目的地断开，以及b）将呼叫者的电话呼叫与客户呼叫连接 基本同时收到客户的电话。

公开(公告)号：US5894595A

公开(公告)日：1999-04-13

申请号：US803892

申请日：1997-02-21

申请人： Mark Jeffrey Foladare ,  Albert Friedes ,  Shelley B. Goldman ,  Susanne Watson Moroses ,  Nancy Murray ,  David Phillip Silverman ,  Roy Philip Weber

发明人： Mark Jeffrey Foladare ,  Albert Friedes ,  Shelley B. Goldman ,  Susanne Watson Moroses ,  Nancy Murray ,  David Phillip Silverman ,  Roy Philip Weber

IPC分类号： H04M3/42 ,  H04M1/00 ,  H04M11/00 ,  H04Q3/00 ,  H04W68/00 ,  H04Q7/20

CPC分类号： H04W68/00 ,  H04Q3/005 ,  H04Q2213/13248 ,  H04Q2213/13513 ,  H04Q2213/13527 ,  H04Q2213/13532

摘要： With the advent of personal digital assistants (PDAs) having modems for information, e.g., facsimile and/or data, transmission over wireless connections, as well as the capability for voice communications, we have recognized that is possible to communicate with a person, wherever they are, in whatever form is desired. In order to do so in a manner that simulates the way a person at a fixed location having a separate telephone, fax machine and data modem would communicate, incorporate into a PDA is a) a receiver for a wireless actuation signal that indicates that a communication of some type is waiting for a called party; b) an outgoing connection origination unit that establishes a connection from the PDA to the waiting communication; c) a discriminator, which makes a determination as to the type of communication that is waiting; and d) a selection unit that routes the information signals received over the connection established by the PDA to an appropriate communication unit within the PDA, e.g., a fax modem, data modem, or voice communication unit, the appropriate communication unit being selected in response to the type of communication that was determined by the discriminator to be waiting. The PDA owner may optionally be alerted only when 1) an information transmission is successfully completed and the received information is waiting in the PDA for access by its owner, or 2) when a voice connection has successfully been established to the communication originator who continues to indicate a readiness to communicate.

摘要翻译： 随着具有调制解调器的个人数字助理（PDA）的出现，例如传真和/或数据，通过无线连接的传输以及语音通信的能力，我们已经认识到可以与人通信，无论在哪里 他们是，无论什么形式的需要。 为了这样做，以模拟在具有单独的电话，传真机和数据调制解调器的固定位置处的人的通信方式，并入PDA中的是：a）用于指示通信的无线致动信号的接收器 某种类型的人正在等待一个被叫方; b）建立从PDA到等待通信的连接的出站连接发起单元; c）歧视者，对正在等待的通信类型作出决定; 以及d）选择单元，其将通过PDA建立的连接接收的信息信号路由到PDA内的适当的通信单元，例如传真调制解调器，数据调制解调器或语音通信单元，响应于选择的适当的通信单元 由鉴别器确定的要等待的通信类型。 只有当1）信息传输成功完成并且所接收的信息在PDA中等待其所有者访问时，PDA所有者可以可选地被警告，或者2）当语音连接已经成功建立到继续进行的通信发起者时 表示准备沟通。

公开(公告)号：US5960348A

公开(公告)日：1999-09-28

申请号：US854381

申请日：1997-05-12

申请人： Allen Eisdorfer ,  Jerry Eisdorfer ,  Mark Jeffrey Foladare ,  Shelley B. Goldman ,  Nancy Murray ,  David Phillip Silverman

发明人： Allen Eisdorfer ,  Jerry Eisdorfer ,  Mark Jeffrey Foladare ,  Shelley B. Goldman ,  Nancy Murray ,  David Phillip Silverman

IPC分类号： H04M3/00 ,  H04M3/42 ,  H04M3/54 ,  H04M11/02 ,  H04Q3/00 ,  H04Q3/66 ,  H04W4/16 ,  H04W76/06 ,  H04Q7/38

CPC分类号： H04W4/16 ,  H04M3/4228 ,  H04M3/54 ,  H04Q3/002 ,  H04Q3/66 ,  H04M11/022 ,  H04Q2213/1302 ,  H04Q2213/1304 ,  H04Q2213/13091 ,  H04Q2213/13097 ,  H04Q2213/13098 ,  H04Q2213/13102 ,  H04Q2213/13103 ,  H04Q2213/13106 ,  H04Q2213/13141 ,  H04Q2213/13282 ,  H04Q2213/13299 ,  H04Q2213/13374 ,  H04Q2213/13377 ,  H04Q2213/13383 ,  H04Q2213/13405

摘要： a telecommunications carrier other than the carrier of last contact is arranged to a) recognize that the telephone to which a particular call is placed is a disconnected telephone and b) provide different call treatment for the call, e.g., different call handling or different call features or services, as compared to the treatment the telecommunications carrier provides for the same call to the same telephone when it is recognized that the telephone is not disconnected. Advantageously, no effort is wasted in an attempt to complete the telephone call to a disconnected telephone. Such different treatments include 1) simply making no attempt to route the call to the disconnected telephone via the network of last contact, 2) routing the call to a secondary, alternate telephone, and 3) initiating transmission of a page to a pager that is associated with the owner of the disconnected telephone.

摘要翻译： 除了上一次接触的载波之外的电信运营商被安排为：a）认识到放置特定呼叫的电话是断开的电话，以及b）为呼叫提供不同的呼叫处理，例如不同的呼叫处理或不同的呼叫特征 或服务，与电信运营商在识别出电话没有断开连接时向相同电话进行相同呼叫的处理相比。 有利地，在尝试完成对断开的电话的电话呼叫时，不会浪费任何努力。 这种不同的处理包括：1）简单地不尝试通过上一次联系的网络将呼叫路由到断开的电话，2）将呼叫路由到辅助电话，备用电话，以及3）开始向寻呼机发送 与断开电话的所有者相关联。

公开(公告)号：US5646589A

公开(公告)日：1997-07-08

申请号：US359109

申请日：1994-12-19

申请人： Nancy Murray ,  David Phillip Silverman

发明人： Nancy Murray ,  David Phillip Silverman

IPC分类号： G08B3/10 ,  G08B3/00 ,  G08B5/22

CPC分类号： G08B3/1041

摘要： In a noisy environment, e.g., a car traveling down the road with the radio playing, a user who prefers that his pager provide him with an audible alert in response to an actuation of the pager may not be able to hear such an audible alert supplied by the pager. To overcome this difficulty, a pager that is set to an audible alert mode is arranged to change its alerting for a particular actuation of the pager from audible to tactile only when the ambient sound level of the environment in which the pager is located is greater than a predetermined threshold level. For each actuation of the pager that the ambient sound level in the environment in which the pager is located is less than the predetermined threshold level, the pager alerts audibly. Optionally, if the pager also determines that it is no longer being worn on the person of a user, the pager alerts audibly regardless of whether the ambient sound level is greater than the predetermined threshold level. Advantageously, as much of the time as feasible the user receives only the type of alert he desires, namely audible, while receiving the alternative form of alert, namely tactile, only when necessary to avoid loss of the page by the failure of the use to perceive the alert.

摘要翻译： 在嘈杂的环境中，例如，通过无线电播放在汽车上行驶的汽车，喜欢他的寻呼机响应于寻呼机的致动向他提供可听警报的用户可能不能听到提供的这种可听到的警报 由寻呼机。 为了克服这个困难，设置为可听警报模式的寻呼机被布置成仅当寻呼机所在的环境的环境声级大于大于的情况时，才能将寻呼机的特定致动器的警报改变为可听到触觉 预定的阈值水平。 对于寻呼机的每个致动，寻呼机所在的环境中的环境声级都小于预定阈值水平，寻呼机可听到警报。 可选地，如果寻呼机还确定其不再佩戴在用户的人身上，则无论环境声级是否大于预定阈值级别，寻呼机都可以听到警报。 有利的是，尽可能多的时间，用户仅接收到他所期望的类型的警报，即可听见的，同时接收到替代形式的警报，即触觉，仅在必要时避免由于使用失败而丢失页面 察觉到警报。