953 results about "Telephone terminal" patented technology

Steps after a user finds an attractive product until he or she buys it are successively performed so that he or she can buy it stressfreely. The user photographs an attractive product with a portable camera telephone terminal 1 and transmits image data 7 to a server 3 through Internet 2. The server 3 has a DB 4 in which images such as various types of products, persons, and logo marks are registered and a DB 5 in which related information of image data registered in the DB 4 is registered. The server 3 performs an image recognizing process for the image data 7, retrieves data that match the image data 7 with a high match rate from the image data registered in the DB 4, and extracts corresponding related information from the DB 5. The related information is provided to the user through the Internet 2. By only transmitting the image data 7, the user can obtain related information of an attractive product. When the user accesses a site 6 for the product corresponding to the related information, he or she can obtain detailed information and buy the product.

Systems and methods are provided for advertising to telephony end-users. The ads delivered via these systems and methods can be targeted to the personal interests and/or other characteristics of the telephony end-users. Alternatively or additionally, the telephony end-users can be provided with interactive functionality with respect to the ads. The ads may be delivered, for example, during various phases of a telephone call.

A telephone docking station that combines the operation of a wireless telephone, a cordless telephone, and a land-line telephone interface is taught. The wireless telephone and land-line interface provide telephone resources to the cordless telephone, which functions as a telephone terminal unit. Telephone calls can originate or terminate from either telephone resource. The cordless telephone handset provides for selection and display of the presently connected telephone resource. Caller ID information from both resources are routed to the cordless telephone. The cordless telephone automatically answers the presently ringing resource when is received. A speakerphone and an answering machine are added as alternative telephone terminal units in an illustrative embodiment. A Caller ID preview and hold function is provided so that the user can manage multiple calls from the telephone resources.

A method and apparatus for commencing a caption assisted telephone call using a combination of a first party telephone terminal and a first party Network appliance, the method comprising the steps of connecting the first party Network appliance to a relay, using the first party Network appliance to specify a first party call back telephone number, using the relay to dial the first party call back telephone number, specifying a confirmation activity that must be performed via the first party telephone terminal in order to continue a telephone call process, when the first party telephone terminal is answered, monitoring activities via the first party telephone terminal and when the confirming activity occurs, continuing the telephone call process.

Multi-modal applications are capable of interacting with a user in a voice mode, a visual mode, and/or other modes of communication. Mode swapping refers to the process of changing from one mode of communication (or one combination of modes) to another. Mode swapping may be initiated by a user, by an application, or by another entity. Mode swapping may be performed “adaptively,” in that an entity monitors the effectiveness of a communication mode and initiates a mode swap if communication is proceeding non-optimally in the current mode. Mode swapping may be performed by dropping a call to a telephone terminal in the currently-open mode and placing a call to that same device in another mode. In one embodiment, logic for mode swapping resides on a gateway proxy that mediates communication between an application and a telephone terminal.

There is provided an information processing apparatus which may be applied to an information processing apparatus being connected, for example, to an information network such as Internet for transmitting and receiving various pieces of information in order to make access to such network through a terminal of simplified structure such as a telephone terminal. A code for uniquely identifying, for example, a telephone terminal and a computer terminal may be formed with the codes corresponding to operators of a telephone terminal.

The VoIP gateway 50a in accordance with the present invention serves to send a connection request to either the IP network 2 or the PSTN 1 on the basis of the information stored in the VOIP gateway 50a and the destination telephone number contained in the connection request as sent from the telephone terminal 70a. Also, even if a connection request is decided to be sent to the IP network 2, the VOIP gateway 50a sends the connection request to the PSTN 1 when the IP network state judgment unit 56 judges that the communication through the IP network 2 is impossible. Furthermore, if a destination telephone number includes predetermined identification information, the VOIP gateway 50a can forcibly send the connection request to the PSTN 1.

An apparatus for providing information services to a user includes a microserver disposed at the user's home or office. The microserver is connected to a communication network which is connected to a global computer network, and the user's mobile or fixed telephone terminal. At least one service server is connected to the user's mobile or fixed terminal via the global computer network, the communication network and the microserver. Through the disposition of microserver at the user's primary location, the service server can transmit general or user specific service information to the user via their mobile and/or fixed terminal. The problems of localization of the user are eliminated by the implementation of the microsever at the user's primary communication location.

A method serves for customizing the operation of a telephonic terminal, in particular a mobile telephonic terminal of a user. A profile file is provided for storing information relating to operation parameters of the telephonic terminal. The information stored in the profile file can be modifiable by the user. Additionally, a policy file is provided for storing information relating to the possibility to modify one or more of the operation parameters by the user. Typically, a profile manager software module manages the profile file and a policy manager software module manages the policy file. When a user attempts to carry out modifications on information stored in the profile file, the profile managing module interacts with the policy managing module in order to check the possibility to carry out the modifications and to get the authorisation or the denial from the policy managing module.

In response to a call from a telephone terminal (4) to a mobile terminal (1), a mobile phone network (2) confirms the moving state of the mobile terminal (1). If the mobile terminal (1) is found to be moving, the mobile phone network (2) notifies the mobile terminal (1) of the fact that a call was received by the mobile terminal (1) and also notifies the caller's telephone terminal (4) of the fact that the called party's mobile terminal (1) is moving, and causes the caller's terminal (1) to call again after the lapse of a predetermined time. If the called party's terminal (1) is found to be not moving, the mobile phone network (2) transmits a calling signal to the mobile terminal (1).

A switched telephone network is arranged in a manner to enable packet voice communication between telephone terminals via multiple redundant packet switched networks. The packet switched networks may utilize different protocols, be operated by different entities, and have primary functions other than voice communication. One example of such a network may be internetworked networks, such as the Internet. One example of an alternate packet switched network may be a network whose primary function is control of a circuit switched telephone network. The common channel interoffice switching system (CCIS) of a public switched telephone network (PSTN) is one such example.

Web-based telephony applications have recently been developed whereby a user is able to access a web-site and click on links or buttons in order to establish a voice over internet protocol telephone call from for example, his or her PC phone, to another user at another telephone terminal (PC phone or other suitable type of telephone). By enabling a web-based telephony application to receive URIs containing time information it is possible to enable telephone calls (including conference calls) to be initiated automatically at specified times or for feature keys on a user's telephone terminal to be programmed such that when activated at a particular time, a specified telephone call is initiated. In addition, URIs comprising time information may be used to set up "follow-me" functionality whereby all calls to a particular user are directed to different pre-specified directory numbers depending on the time of day. In another example, URIs comprising time information are used to route calls to contact-center agents in order to reduce the burden on contact center routing applications. URIs comprising time information are also advantageously used to communicate information to other entities.

The embodiment of the invention discloses an intelligent access control system and an access control method thereof. According to the method, a fixed telephone terminal of a resident sends a user identification of a mobile terminal of a visitor to an access control information processing platform; the access control information processing platform generates a multimedia message of a two-dimensional code corresponding to the floor of the resident, transmits the multimedia message to the mobile terminal and stores the two-dimensional code and the information about corresponding relationship between the floor of the resident and the validity period of the two-dimensional code; after scanning the two-dimensional code, a building access control terminal or a floor access control terminal of the resident transmits an authentication request to the access control information processing platform, wherein the authentication request comprises the two-dimensional code scanned by the building access control terminal; the access control information processing platform identifies whether the current moment is within the validity period of the two-dimensional code and sends a corresponding operation instruction to the building access control terminal or the floor access control terminal. By adopting the embodiment in the invention, the operation burden of the resident can be relieved and the safety of the access control system is improved.

There is provided a short-range wireless communication apparatus and a cellular phone terminal that can surely and immediately notify a user of the optimum distance between a contactless IC card reader/writer and a contactless IC card not through an MPU or a CPU and if the contactless IC card function is locked, surely notify the user as such. In an RFID card, a magnetic field strength/brightness conversion section adjusts the brightness of two LEDs in accordance with the detected magnetic field strength of a carrier wave. A blink generation circuit detects whether the RFID card is in a communication state and blinks the LEDs if so. A function combining section combines the functions to indicate the magnetic field strength and the communication state with the brightness and blinking of the LEDs. An LED with another color illuminates only when an RFID function LSI is in a lock state.

A contributor who is one of a number of participants divided into groups at telephone terminals is identified by recognizing the contributor voice during a teleconference managed by a conference device connected to the terminals. After the voice of the contributor received by the conference device is identified, an identifier of the identified contributor is broadcast from the conference device to the terminals and reproduced at the terminals. The contributor is introduced to the other participants, automatically or on demand, for example by a voice or visual message including the contributor name. The conference device can be included in one of the terminals; for example, the identifier identifies a contributor other than the regular user of a communicating telephone or mobile radio telephone.

A time division duplex (TDD) portable telephone relay device (and TDD system employing the same) for use with a radio base station and a portable telephone terminal within a terminal building, includes first and second distributors, a synthesizer, a predetermined-size (e.g., relatively small, internal) base station section, a position detecting unit, a synchronous receive section, and an exclusive telephone line connecting unit. With such a structure, transmission/reception using a frequency channel, other than frequency channels assigned to a radio zone where the terminal building exists, is conducted between the portable telephone terminal within the terminal building and the radio base station through the predetermined-size base station section. The predetermined-size base station section executes the operation adapted to TDD based on a synchronous signal from the synchronous receive section.

Disclosed is a sliding type mobile telephone terminal comprising (a) a main housing with upper and lower surfaces, (b) a sliding housing with upper and lower surfaces and first and second guide slots symmetrically formed on the lower surface to have a designated shape, and accepting in a range of a first sliding length a closing force from the main housing and accepting in a range of a second sliding length being disposed above the first sliding length an opening force from the main housing, thereby being closed into and opened from the main housing in a longitudinal direction so that the lower surface of the sliding housing is slid on the upper surface of the main housing, and (c) a module accommodated in the main housing and associated with the first and second guide slots so as to provide the opening and closing forces to the sliding housing.

This invention relates to the application and communication method for network media telephone terminals. The terminal includes a phone module and IP phone module imaging the target called number into related network IP address for Volp communication, PCI bus with Ethernet interface and phone/multimedia processor controlled by CPU, the media port is connected by D/A conversion, a special inserted CPU, TCP/IP protocol stack the real time transmission protocol of the transmission stream media. The terminal and the software exchange center based on IP interact synchronously or asynchronously, and the IP calling cetral platform provides support to communication for stream media forms and speech.

Disclosed herein is a teleconferencing system that enables disabled persons to conveniently participate in teleconferences. The format converting means of the server converts text or voice data inputted from a transmitting party to the receiving method corresponding to the telephone terminal of each destination terminal registered in the registration portion to obtain transmission data matched to the receiving method of each of the telephone terminals. A transmitting portion sends the transmission data to the respective telephone terminals.

The invention relates to a method for constructing a full-coverage all-direction resource sharing family endowment service system, belonging to the field of the information processing and transmission technology. The invention is technically characterized by mainly comprising a system platform, an Internet website subsystem, a call platform subsystem, an Internet aged-people interaction subsystem, a 120 first-aid supplementary information service subsystem, a home delivery logistics subsystem, home service scheduling subsystem and a call termination subsystem, wherein the call termination subsystem mainly comprises a computer, dual tone multi-frequency signal receiving and transmitting equipment, a telephone terminal and computer software. The family endowment service system constructed with the method can be used as an integrated network service system in the community and further as a digital information platform. The method of the invention is not only a special method applied to a special object but also a general method for constructing an information processing and transmission system serving the public. For example, the method of the invention can be used for constructing the full-coverage all-direction resource sharing life insurance service system.