Abstract:
Agencies issue multiple devices to personnel for maintaining distinct identities over the course of assigned investigations. To provide flexible capabilities to agencies, a phone is converted for use with multiple attached telephone numbers. Accordingly, a single phone may be used to manage multiple identities over the course of one or more investigations. Using a multiple attached number, a given device can place and receive calls over the network to and from contacts. In addition to providing multiple attached numbers, calls using the multiple attached numbers may be monitored live and recorded to establish evidence.
Abstract:
A system and a method are disclosed for providing telephone number sharing services to subscribers over public switched telephone network or data network. The disclosed system maintains a bank of reusable caller identifiers (IDs). The system receives call details of a call from a subscriber of the system. The call details include a caller identifier (ID) preference of the subscriber and a called number corresponding to the called party. The system stores the call details in a database. The system determines whether the call from the subscriber is a first call to the called number. In response to the call being the first call to the called number, the system assigns a call ID from the bank of reusable caller IDs that satisfies the reusable caller ID preference of the subscriber, and connects the call to the called number along with the caller ID.
Abstract:
Apparatus comprising at least one processor configured to compare an identifier of a calling party with one or more contacts of a receiving party to determine privilege information associated with the calling party, the privilege information providing one or more authorised receiving party location-based responses. The apparatus further comprising at least one processor configured to determine a location of the receiving party and provide an associated authorised response to the calling party.
Abstract:
Telephones providing a dial controller (110A, HOB) for enhancing a telephone voice call using individual data connections by providing presence tweets and social networking information. A dial controller is provided in a calling device for calling another user, and/or a called device for receiving a call from another user. Both the calling device and the called device access a content server (120) storing profiles of the calling user and/or the called user, subject to user-determined privacy settings. The profiles include, e.g., information on the status, location, or preferences of the users. The dial controller may delay the establishment of a voice connection pending user review and approval of the other user's profile.
Abstract:
Die Erfindung betrifft ein Verfahren zur automatischen Generierung einer personenspezifischen Sprachansage für einen in einem Telekommunikationsnetz integrierten Anrufbeantworter. Es wird vorgeschlagen, dass zumindest der Name eines Telekommunikationsteilnehmers und eine ihm zugeordnete Rufnummer aus einer Datenbank auf ein Namensansagesystem übertragen werden, wobei das Namensansagesystem aus einem oder mehreren Textelementen und dem Namen eine Sprachansage synthetisiert, der Rufnummer zuordnet und dem Anrufbeantworter zur Verfügung stellt.
Abstract:
A method for providing directory assistance includes receiving a communication from a requester for a business listing and retrieving at least one first listing in response. At least one signal indicative of the status of the listing retrieved is received, and if negative, such status is conveyed to the requester. A second option is then offered to the requester, where the second option offered to the requester is for a second listing related to a same category of business as the first listing.
Abstract:
Ce procédé concerne les terminaux (T) comportant au moins une touche à fonction évolutive (K1,..., Kn) et des moyens d'affichage (LCD) apte à afficher à proximité de cette touche une indication concernant la fonction de cette touche. Il comprend les étapes consistant à : indiquer à un serveur de communication (AS) quels types d'indication ce terminal est apte à afficher à proximité de cette touche; envoyer (201), du serveur au terminal, des informations définissant au moins une commande KPLM que le serveur est capable de recevoir et qu'il est capable d'exécuter; et des informations définissant au moins une indication associée à cette commande et devant être affichée sur le terminal, à proximité d'une touche à fonction évolutive en fonction de l'état téléphonique d'une communication active.
Abstract:
A method for instructing a mobile switching center to initiate a transmission of a color ring back tone in a mobile communications network is useful for increasing a rate of successful transmissions of color ring back tones, and for increasing overall network efficiency. The method includes processing, at a home location register, first data describing a color ring back tone capability of a first mobile switching center (step 305). Second data describing a color ring back tone capability of a second mobile switching center is then processed at the home location register (step 310). It is then determined that the first mobile switching center is a preferred mobile switching center for initiating a transmission of a color ring back tone based on the first data and the second data (step 315). The first mobile switching center is therefore instructed to initiate the transmission of the color ring back tone (step 320).