Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080235349 | System and method for social-networking based presence - A telecommunications system includes a network; a social networking service operably coupled to the network and configured to allow registration of users, to allow identification of registered users' interests, and to identify associated users, said associated users being associated with registered users; a presence service operably coupled to the network and configured to determine an availability of associated users responsive to one or more availability criteria; a translation unit configured to convert user information from a social networking service format to a presence service format; and a messaging service operably coupled to the network and configured to send notification messages to associated users determined to be available and having a common interest corresponding to an event responsive to an occurrence of the event and one or more availability criteria. | 09-25-2008 |
20090086949 | Method and apparatus for mapping of conference call participants using positional presence - A method includes receiving audio electronic business card data during a conference; comparing said audio electronic business card data with voices of conference speakers to confirm identities of said speakers; performing an acoustic triangulation to determine a position of speakers; correlating a position of said speakers with said identities; and displaying locations of said speakers. | 04-02-2009 |
20090088140 | Method and apparatus for enhanced telecommunication interface - A telecommunications system including a telephone including a calling party identification receiver and a peripheral device transceiver; and a headset configured to communication with the telephone via the peripheral device transceiver and configured to deliver calling party identification information to a user as audio information. | 04-02-2009 |
20090088215 | Method and apparatus for secure electronic business card exchange - An electronic business card is provided with voice data associated with the card owner. In some embodiments, the voice data is a digitized voice sample; in other embodiments, the voice data is a selection of pre-processed voice recognition data associated with a voice sample. In some implementations, the electronic business card can be transferred to other parties using a Bluetooth personal network. A user application can then make use of the voice sample or pre-processed voice recognition data for security or user identification | 04-02-2009 |
20090089055 | Method and apparatus for identification of conference call participants - A system including a conferencing telephone coupled to or in communication with an identification service. The identification service is configured to poll user devices of conference participants to determine or confirm identities. In response, the user devices transmit audio electronic business cards, which can include user voice samples and/or preprocessed voice recognition data. The identification service stores the resulting audio electronic business card data. When the corresponding participant speaks during the conference, the identification service identifies the speaker. | 04-02-2009 |
20090195638 | Method and apparatus for face recognition enhanced video mixing - A telecommunications system includes a network; a plurality of user devices coupled to the network; a multipoint control unit coupled to the network and configured to supervise multipoint conferencing among the plurality of user devices, the multipoint control unit including a presentation mixer, the presentation mixer configured to remove one or more backgrounds from a presentation and mix a live video feed into the presentation as a substitute background; a screen for displaying a resulting mixed presentation such that a full area of the screen is used to display the mixed presentation; and a feature recognition system configured to identify a party from one or more features displayed on the screen and selectively adjust a transparency of said one or more features other than said party. | 08-06-2009 |
20090199078 | Method and apparatus for enhanced video mixing - A telecommunications system including a network; a plurality of user devices coupled to the network; a multipoint control unit coupled to the network and configured to supervise multipoint conferencing among the plurality of user devices, the multipoint control unit including a presentation mixer, the presentation mixer configured to remove one or more backgrounds from a presentation and mix a live video feed into the presentation as a substitute background; and a screen for displaying a resulting mixed presentation such that a full area of the screen is used to display the mixed presentation. In some embodiments, the presentation mixer is further configured to adjust a level of transparency of the substitute background. | 08-06-2009 |
20100015995 | System and method for automated location information in a unified communication system - A telecommunications system includes a cellular telephone equipped with a global positioning utility for receiving global positioning samples. The cellular telephone periodically transmits received samples to a location client application running on a computer that also includes a unified communication client suite. The location client application derives a location confidence factor from the samples. The confidence factor is provided to a presence and availability service. Incoming calls and/or notifications can be routed to a user based on the confidence factor. | 01-21-2010 |
20100115084 | POWER MANAGEMENT FOR A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - Described herein is a method and system for facilitating power management in a communications system. The communications system includes a server and one or more communications devices operably coupled to a network, each communications device being operable to enter a low power state in response to a “hibernate” command. The “hibernate” command may be provided by a power management unit in the server in response to, for example, a change in routing preference, location or availability status of the user. | 05-06-2010 |