144 results about "Selective calling" patented technology

Methods, devices, signals, and systems are provided in a message routing architecture which provides improved capabilities for integrating “digital” communication through email messages with “analog” communication through voice and / or fax or pager messages. Email can be addressed using nothing more than a standard telephone or fax number. If the registered owner of the telephone or fax number has a corresponding email address, then the invention converts the telephone or fax number to the email address for delivery and uses standard email delivery systems to deliver the message. If no conventional delivery email address is known, or if the message sender or recipient specify multiple delivery modes, then the email message content is transformed into voice, pager and / or fax content and delivered to the recipient using the telephone or fax number which was specified as the email address. Familiar telecommunications services such as call forwarding and selective call blocking can also be used with messages that originate as email. The invention also supports use of telecommunications numbers as indexes into databases which contain public key certificates, to make it unnecessary for a proposed message recipient to provide its public key expressly in advance to each particular proposed message originator.

A technique is used for providing additional information about a broadcast presentation that allows a user interested in the additional information to acquire it easily, using a selective call device or a television remote control device to easily acquire an information address during the broadcast when a prompt is presented during the broadcast. An advertiser can send the additional information over a wide area radio selective call communication system or can post it at a universal resource locator of a computer network. The information address is used to acquire the additional information. The information address can be stored, selected and deleted in the selective call device or remote control device. The prompt can be disabled or enabled manually or based on location.

The system and method prevents reception of calls to a mobile cellular device within a relatively small area or zone, with minimal inconvenience to the public by also permitting outgoing transmissions. The mobile cellular device has a wirelessly settable parameter associated therewith enabling establishment of an inbound call. A selective call blocker includes a receiver, a transmitter, and a selective call blocking controller cooperating with the receiver to determine the wirelessly settable parameter. The selective call blocking controller also cooperates with the transmitter to wirelessly change the wirelessly settable parameter to selectively block an inbound call to the mobile cellular device and without defeating the capability of the mobile cellular device to establish an outbound call.

An apparatus and method (200) are disclosed for linking communication channels of disparate access technologies in a selective call unit (SCU) (100). A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an SCU having a multimode transceiver (102) supporting two or more disparate access technologies, and a controller (112) for managing operations thereof. The controller is programmed to establish (202) a first communication link on a select one of the access technologies, establish (204, 210) a second communication link on another one of the access technologies, and associate (208, 212) the first and second communication links.

A radio selective calling receiver comprising a receiving for receiving the radio calling signal containing sending user information that allows the receiving user to identify the sending user and assign a priority level to the sending user, a plurality of types of notifying for notifying the receiving user of the received radio calling signal in different manners, a time counting for setting up and counting the current time and date, an information storing for setting up and storing notification state information and time information through information inputting and information displaying for the receiving user, the notification state information representing a receiving operation and a notifying operation of the radio calling signal, the time information representing a valid date range and a valid time range of the receiving operation and the notifying operation, and a controlling for searching, collating, searching, comparing and controlling the notifying operations corresponding to the searched notification state information.

Call completion menus are established by the telecommunications provider (of the called party) who may assign a number of options for the menu of a certain subscriber (called party) based on the subscription of the called party. The available options depend on the state of the user equipment of the called party such as: called party is busy, called party is not reachable or called party does not answer. The available options also are dependent on the profile of the user equipment, the user (called party), the calling party and the network conditions / attributes.

A telephone includes first circuitry enabling communications with a telephone network. A call block list includes at least one user designated number. A call blocking logic module is implemented within the first circuitry and selectively blocks incoming calls to the telephone over the telephone network responsive to the at least one user designated number in the call block list.

Methods and apparatus for implementing call forwarding services using AIN techniques and next event list messages are described. Methods of notifying a subscriber of a call forwarded using AIN techniques are also described. In accordance with one feature of the present invention, a subscriber is allowed to set the number of rings which are allowed to occur prior to a call being forwarded. The number of rings, e.g., the ring count, is stored as part of a customer's call processing record (CPR) which is used by a service control point (SCP) to implement the call forwarding service. The ring count information may be updated via the Internet or via a dial-up telephone connection. Call forwarding customers are provided with a distinctive ring, e.g., a ring shorter than an ordinary telephone ring, to notify them when a call is being forwarded. Distinctive rings may be used to distinguish between different forwarding services. For example a different ring may be used for forwarding to voice mail than for selective call forwarding or follow-me call forwarding. The distinctive ring may be implemented by using an SCP to instruct a telephone switch to provide any one of a plurality of different rings which are supported by the telephone switch or by simply causing the subscribers phone to ring for different periods of time which are shorter than a normal ring.

A radio receiver with improved accuracy of phase-locked loop is disclosed. In addition to a detector for detecting a detected signal from a received radio signal, the receiver includes a monitor for monitoring an amplitude change of the detected signal to detect timing where the amplitude change occurs over a predetermined range. The phase-locked control of the timing clock signal with respect to the detected signal is performed only when the timing is detected by the monitor.

Disclosed is a message receiving method executed on a radio selective calling receiver, which comprises: a first step of judging whether a received message is originated from a local transmission station or a non-local transmission station; a second step of judging whether the received message is an information message or a personal message when the received message is judged to be originated from the non-local transmission station; a third step of judging whether or not a native language is used in the received message when the received message is judged to be the information message; a fourth step of translating the received message into a native language when it is judged that the native language is not used in the received message.

A method, system and apparatus for remotely configuring selective call features includes receiving a selective call feature request message addressed to a feature configuration address associated with a first communication device from a second communication device. The selective call feature request message includes a selective call feature command. The method further includes enabling a selective call feature indicated by the selective call feature command for the first communication device. In various embodiments, the selective call feature request message is a text message. In some embodiments, the method further includes sending a selective call feature acknowledgment message to the second communication device. The selective call feature acknowledgment message indicates that the selective call feature is enabled for the first communication device. In various embodiments, the selective call feature request message includes a selective call forwarding command, a selective call acceptance command, or a selective call rejection command.

A method for performing elective call termination to a mobile unit is provided. A call request is received a mobile unit. If the mobile unit is in a vehicle and traveling at a speed greater than a speed threshold and is driving the car, selective call termination is provided. The call request is screened by playing an announcement to the caller that the intended call recipient is a mobile phone that is currently being used by the driver of a cat travelling at a speed greater than a speed threshold. The caller can then decide if the call is important enough to distract the driver, which could be the case, for example, in an emergency situation.

A system and method for allowing a first party with Caller ID Block to selective pass its Caller ID data to desired known second parties without undue burden is disclosed. The present invention provides for a “white list”, where the “white list” includes a list of known second parties, e.g., friends and family, such that if a second party's telephone number is on the white list, the first party's Caller ID data will pass to the known second party. The white list many reside within a telecommunications switch of a telecommunications carrier or within a local digital telephony device of the first party.

A system and method for providing telephony services, such as caller ID, voice mail, selective call forwarding, and the like, to a remote subscriber, typically located outside the provider's regional territory. The system can include customer premise equipment (CPE) selectively connectable to a remote central office (CO), a packet-switched network gateway, such as an Internet telephony gateway (ITG), for remotely communicating service requests to a local service node. The local service node can be located within the service provider's territory and returns telephony service responses via the packet-switched network gateway to the remote CO, and ultimately the remote CPE.

The invention provides an all-purpose aircraft airborne system and a communication supervision system based on the Tiantong-01 satellite. The communication supervision system comprises the all-purposeaircraft airborne system, a ground data processing system, and a satellite system. The satellite system is a Tiantong communication satellite, and serves as a communication circuit of the all-purposeaircraft airborne system and the ground data processing system. The ground data processing system tracks the flight position and track of an aircraft according to the positioning information transmitted by the all-purpose aircraft airborne system, and achieves the real-time voice and data communication. The communication supervision system can carry out the automatic switching of a transmission mode according to the intensity of different satellite signals, and achieve the selective call of one or more all-purpose aircrafts from the ground through the voice communication function of the Tiantong-01 satellite while achieving the voice communication between the ground and the all-purpose aircrafts. The system can achieve the seamless supervision and voice communication of the all-purpose aircrafts in an integrated manner, thereby greatly saving the construction and operation cost of the ground equipment.

An MSC receives a request from a mobile station to originate a call to a directory number that corresponds to another mobile station. The MSC sends a query that includes the directory number to an off-board translation center (OTC). The OTC determines from the directory number whether the call can be transcoder-free and, if so, provides a response with a transcoder-free indication. If the response includes a transcoder-free indication, the MSC selects a transcoder-free communication path for the call.

The present invention dynamically determines whether call control for a call from a user element should be anchored in a multimedia subsystem (MS) or in a circuit-switched subsystem (CS) based on the location of the user element. Calls may be anchored in the MS regardless of whether the user element is currently served by a cellular network of the CS or a WLAN of the MS. In particular, the anchoring decision is based on whether the user element is within an MS anchoring zone, which defines an area or areas where calls for the user element should be anchored in the MS. Accordingly, when the user element is outside of the MS anchoring zone, calls for the user element are not anchored in the MS. When the user element is within the MS anchoring zone, calls for the user element are anchored in the MS.

The present invention allows a user to establish a customized call waiting rule set to control whether call waiting alerts and associated caller identification information are provided to the user in association with an incoming call. Based on the call waiting rule set, the call waiting alert may be blocked or provided to the user when an incoming call for the user is detected. The decision to provide the call waiting alert may be based on the calling party, the type of call, the party with whom the user is engaged in an active call, whether the user previously called or received a call from the calling party, the relative priority or urgency of the incoming call, or a combination thereof.

A technique is used for providing additional information about a broadcast presentation that allows a user interested in the additional information to acquire it easily, using a selective call device or a television remote control device to easily acquire an information address during the broadcast when a prompt is presented during the broadcast. An advertiser can send the additional information over a wide area radio selective call communication system or can post it at a universal resource locator of a computer network. The information address is used to acquire the additional information. The information address can be stored, selected and deleted in the selective call device or remote control device. The prompt can be disabled or enabled manually or based on location.

A method of forwarding a call based on media attributes of the call in a telecommunications network is disclosed. The call forwarding services includes call forwarding based on SDP attributes, media-based partial call forwarding and partial call forwarding to multiple destinations. The method comprises comparing parameters of SDP with call forwarding parameter of the user, obtaining a match between one of the SDP parameters and the call forwarding parameters, sending a REFER message in case of partial call forwarding, multiple REFER messages in case of partial call forwarding to multiple destinations to network of calling user, and forwarding the call to other terminals as specified in the call forwarding parameters. The call forwarding based on media attributes enables a served user to forward communications based on media attributes conveyed over SDP for an IMS / SIP user.

An automatic testing device for an audio management module of a passenger airplane and a method thereof are disclosed. The automatic testing device comprises an industrial control machine, a bus adapter, a piece of automatic testing equipment and a signal adapter. The invention makes use of the industrial control machine to run the automatic testing program sets and control the automatic testing equipment through the bus adapter so as to generate various signals needed in the test, and outputs the signals to the audio management module through the signal adapter; meanwhile, the output of the audio management module is transferred by the signal adapter and a corresponding device in the automatic testing equipment is used for data collection, then the collected data is transferred to the industrial control machine through the bus adapter and the test result is judged through data analysis and treatment function of the automatic testing program sets, thus not only avoiding the troubles of adapting to an audio control panel and requiring a special selective call signal source but also greatly reducing the test time of the automatic testing and greatly reducing man-made errors.

A method of forwarding a call based on media attributes of the call in a telecommunications network is disclosed. The call forwarding services includes call forwarding based on SDP attributes, media-based partial call forwarding and partial call forwarding to multiple destinations. The method comprises comparing parameters of SDP with call forwarding parameter of the user, obtaining a match between one of the SDP parameters and the call forwarding parameters, sending a REFER message in case of partial call forwarding, multiple REFER messages in case of partial call forwarding to multiple destinations to network of calling user, and forwarding the call to other terminals as specified in the call forwarding parameters. The call forwarding based on media attributes enables a served user to forward communications based on media attributes conveyed over SDP for an IMS / SIP user.

In a radio selective call receiver, a reception channel is efficiently selected from a plurality of radio channels without unnecessary channel switch. When having lost synchronism with a first radio channel, the radio channels are scanned in a predetermined sequential order to search for a second radio channel with which synchronization is established. When the second radio channel has been found, it is again determined whether synchronization can be established with the first radio channel. When synchronization has been established with the first radio channel, the first radio channel is selected as the reception channel. When synchronization fails to be established with the first radio channel, the second radio channel is selected as the reception channel.

The invention discloses an analog and digital DMR compatible intercom small cluster construction method, and the construction method thereof comprises the following steps: A. the addressing allocationdefinitions of various IDs of the system networking include: (1), DMR ID addressing; (2), composition of the system networking IDs; and (3), combination definition of system extension SYS ID and DMRID and terminal ID address and group selective call ID address allocation. By specially designing the coding of the device ID, the invention adopts the arrangement combination of the system, base station, channels, number and priority, reasonably arranges the common information of the intercom, combines the traditional analog intercom system and the new digital intercom system through reasonable system planning under a reasonable ID programming mode to form a small cluster, and makes the intercom users in these channels be interconnected. Not only old equipment is used, but also new digital intercom may be introduced more reasonably, so that users and suppliers can all smoothly adapt to the upgrade of the intercom technology.

The present invention is an intellectualized TV remote control device, including: remote control unit, TV remote control receiving unit, data setting display unit, selecting volumn unit, clock timing springing unit. By means of the TV intellectualized remote control system of the present invention, it is possible to implement automatization and individuation of TV selective calling. In addition, the audience information stored in the system can be used for impersonal gist of analyzing TV column audience of correlative mechanism and organization. The TV intellectualized remote control system has advantage as follows: 1. channel selection can be completed automatically under the control of a timing device, so as to implement the automatic selection of prescribed column as well as recover automatic watching channel, which avoids the instance that user forgets to select column. 2. audience information is stored in a device automatically, so as to implement information-based processing for audience statistics data. 3. the present invention can awoke user to keep distance to protect eyesight availably, and is convenient to seek remote control machine.

The invention discloses a biological information identification method and a biological information identification system applied to building talk-back. The method comprises the following steps of detecting whether the authorization of selective call subscriber extensions is obtained or not when a gate host is communicated with the selective call subscriber extensions, and if yes, reading the biological information of subscribers by the gate host and storing into the selective call subscriber extensions as a biological information stub; receiving the biological information of the subscribers in real time by the gate host, and sending the biological information to all the subscriber extensions; comparing whether the biological information received in real time and the biological information stud are consistent or not by the subscriber extensions, and feeding back comparison results to the gate host; controlling a gate to be opened according to the comparison results. According to the biological information identification method and the biological information identification system applied to the building talk-back disclosed by the invention, the subscriber extensions can be expanded without the influence of the configuration of the gate host; the number of the subscriber extensions can be increased but the identification time of the system is not influenced; each subscriber extension and the gate host are all independent embedded systems; the comparison speed of the biological information is high; the comparison speed and the hardware cost can be reduced. The biological information identification method and the biological information identification system applied to the building talk-back have the advantages that capacity is flexible, the cost is low, operation is easy, the reliability is high, and the like.

The invention relates to an airborne selective calling signal generator and an implementation method thereof. A virtual interface control window running on an industrial personal computer is used as a control terminal for the airborne selective calling signal generator; virtual interface control software is communicated with selective calling signal source hardware through a universal serial bus (USB) conversion circuit so as to control the selective calling signal source hardware; the airborne selective calling signal generator does not need to modify the hardware but only needs to modify a singlechip and parts of programs in a field programmable gate array (FPGA) so as to realize an arbitrary waveform function; a signal calling source of the generator has a wide output frequency band and a high frequency resolution rate, and the variation in the output frequency only changes the slope of a corresponding function curve, does not have influence on the continuity of the curve and can meet the testing requirements of various system management components on an airplane; and a selective calling audio signal can be accurately and stably generated according to requirements in the automatic testing process of airborne electronic equipment.

The present invention provides a portable individual calling device which performs no indication on the LCD indicator as a measure for preventing decrease in signal-receiving sensitiveness due to CPU noises, wherein the non-indication time period is shortened. For this purpose, the portable individual calling device comprises a receiving unit for receiving a radio signal which contains a selective calling number and message information, an LCD indicator for indicating message information, an address detecting unit for detecting whether the received signal contains its personal selective calling number, and a controlling unit for reading out message information from the received signal in correspondence with the detection of its personal selective calling number and for subjecting such information to data processing. The controlling unit suspends the indication operations of the LCD indicator for the time period from the detection of its personal selective calling number to the completion of the data processing, during which the CPU is in a high speed operation state.