367 results about "Contact number" patented technology

In a communication device, user activation of a speed-dial button causes a context-sensitive menu to be displayed. The menu lists available options, or communication modes, for contacting the party associated with the speed-dial button. The user can select an item from the menu in order to initiate communication with the selected party using the communication mode associated with the menu item. In various aspects, the invention provides additional functionality for redialing previously called contact numbers, assigning speed-dial buttons to other commands and functions, and displaying presence information for contacts.

The present invention relates to linking on-line data to printed documents, such as business cards, envelopes, stickers, stationary, letterhead, résumés, etc. In one embodiment, a card-user registers with an on-line database and receives a gallery item including a steganographically-embedded unique identifier. The gallery item, such as a graphical background, text, shading, graphic, etc., is integrated and then printed with a document. The printed document can then be presented an optical-scanner, which outputs data. The output data is decoded to identify the unique identifier. The unique identifier is then used to index into the on-line database to retrieve information related to the proprietor of the document. In one embodiment, the on-line database includes features such as providing an immediate contact number, translation and / or pronunciation ability, and storage of audio / video files.

Communications methods for allowing groups of individuals, such as family members, to contact one another when no one is available to answer calls to a primary, e.g., family, telephone number are described. Calls which go unanswered are connected to a telephony device capable of storing messages and initiating conference calls. If the calling party is determined to be a family member the telephony device accesses a table of contact information corresponding to the unanswered telephone number and offers the caller the opportunity to hear messages from other family members and / or initiate a conference call to one or more family members who have supplied a contact telephone number. Family members can access and update the table of messages and contact number information by telephone or the Internet. Table information can be accessed and updated remotely thereby providing a method of communicating with family members even when no one is at home.

A method, computer system, computer program product, and user interface for enabling SMS users to engage in many-to-many conversation, or an SMS conference, utilizing SMS services. Specifically, a user initiates an SMS conference by sending a short message, including the contact numbers for a group of conference participants, to a control center. The control center establishes an SMS conference by storing the contact information as a conference group and assigning a unique identifier to the conference group. Thus, the SMSC establishes an SMS conference by associating the conference group with a unique identifier. The SMSC transmits the short message from the conference initiator to each participant. A participant is able to send a message to all conference participants by addressing the message to the unique identifier. The control center then forwards the message to each participant in the conference as indicated by the unique identifier.

An automated parallel and redundant subscriber contact and event notification system capable of being triggered by the change in status of any sensing device or process including the sensor of an alarm system or other event. The system enables automated simultaneous contact of one or more persons over a plurality of telephonic and electronic communication channels and provides parallel event-specific notification via voice, pager, voice mail, fax and email to the recipient(s) that are identified by electronic or speech recognized entry of a PIN and then provides them with a detailed message including the date and time of a specific event which has occurred with respect to a monitored sensor. A telephone switching or conferencing feature allows the recipient(s) to communicate directly with a predetermined or pre-programmed location or person or select from a menu based upon the type of event that has occurred and the pre-programmed selection list. The system may be custom programmed by the authorized subscriber via a telephone interactive voice response system or Internet web page that offers specific programming, reporting, contact numbers, and message options. The system may also be triggered or programmed to perform its notification based upon the failure to receive a anticipated input, input of a timer, pre-programmed to operate at a specific time, or triggered by another CPU.

An email client method and server that allow a conference organizer to schedule a conference (e.g., conference call) using a calendar feature found in today's email applications. When the email client is installed to work with the user's email application, an option becomes available to allow access to a conferencing scheduling feature. The server is adapted to receive an incoming conference request via a data message (e.g., email message) and coordinate acceptances to the request. At the time of the conference, the server retrieves a list of conference participants / attendees and their contact information. The server determines whether or not each participant / attendee is a server participant. If the participant / attendee is a server participant, the server will initiate the conference by calling the multiple contact numbers associated with the participant / attendee. Otherwise, the server will call one contact number associated with the participant / attendee.

The invention provides an interactive short messaging service (SMS) in which the short messaging service provider (SMP) stores short messages as content short messages (CSMs) which CSMs are then stored in a short messages menu (SMM). A user dials up the desired SMM, the SMP downloads the SMM and immediately terminates the call. The user now has a menu which may lead directly to CSMs which can be contacted directly or which can be a list of further SMMs. For example, the first SMM downloaded could be airline arrivals from one airport and on being downloaded could list all airlines servicing that airport each with a unique contact number i.e. a further SMM. The user clicks onto the desired airline from this SMM. A second CSM is downloaded in this case the times of arrivals of all that airline's flights that day. This may be sufficient for the user. The time taken for the two calls is minimal. The advantage is that it overcomes the problems inherent in present SMSs.

The invention discloses a method and a system for preventing harassment call. The method comprises the following steps of: judging whether a calling number is in a black list, if so, rejecting to transfer calling to a phone owner; judging whether the calling number is in a white list if the calling number is not in the black list; automatically transferring to the phone owner if the calling number is in the white list, otherwise judging whether the calling number is in the call record of the phone owner; and automatically transferring to the phone owner if the calling number is in the call record of the phone owner, otherwise transferring to an automatic intelligent voice recognition platform. By the method, the harassment call can be effectively filtered, an acquaintance cannot feel strange by filtering the calling according to the white list and the black list and screening many frequently-contact numbers in the call record. Moreover, the workloads of manual operation can be reduced by adopting an intelligent voice recognition technology.

Methods for establishing communication with a person using a communication device such as a cell phone are disclosed. The communication device has two or more contact numbers for establishing communication with a particular the person (e.g., work, home or cell), such as might be programmed into a the cell phone's phonebook. The user defines calling rules for the person, and the rules are associated with the various contact numbers of the person. When the user selects to communicate with the person, the communication device initiates a call based on the user-defined rules, such that the user need not specify any particular contact number for the person. The user-defined rules can include a preferred order of the numbers for calling the person, a preferred period of time by which the various numbers of the person are to be used to call the person, or a combination thereof.

A method of responding to incoming calls while driving includes establishing a connection between an electronic device and a mobile phone to enable the electronic device to receive calls through the mobile phone. The electronic device receives position signals, calculates a speed at which the electronic device is moving, and thereby calculates a driving speed. The electronic device determines whether the driving speed is greater than a speed threshold when the mobile phone has an incoming call. The electronic device presents the user of the electronic device with an option to answer the incoming call when the driving speed is less than the speed threshold, and the electronic device presents the user with the option to answer the incoming call when the driving speed is greater than the speed threshold and when a phone number associated with the incoming call is present in a list of important contact numbers.

A wireless communication device may have several contact buttons, including, for example, a Mom button, a Dad button and a Home button. The device may also have a Send button and an End button. A child may press one of the contact buttons, then dial Send, and a call will be placed to the specifically denoted contact. Accordingly, a child may easily and efficiently use the present invention to quickly wirelessly communicate with another person, without the confusion of extraneous buttons. The wireless device can be remotely programmed such that a parent or other person may remotely program the numbers called when the contact buttons are pressed. Accordingly, if a parent or other person plan to change locations, the device may be remotely reprogrammed with a different contact number for that parent. The wireless communication device may be reprogrammed via a telephone call from a remote location or from a computer via the Internet.

A system and method for using a centralized conference call manager is provided for initiating conference calls. Users register with the centralized conference call manager to set up a conference call at a future date and time. When the designated time / date arrive, the centralized conference call manager contacts the various intended attendees using a variety of contact locations (e.g., office telephone, mobile telephone, home telephone, etc.). The system further allows an intended attendee to, when contacted by the centralized conference call manager, provide a different contact number that the conference call manager will use instead. An anticipated attendee can decline the call and provide a verbal reason for not being able to attend. The centralized conference call manager records the reason and, when requested, plays the reason back to the other attendees.

An ENUM services system includes a server module configured to support an ENUM account for a subscriber. The ENUM account has a single incoming contact number for the subscriber and one or more preferred outbound contact addresses, such that when a caller calls the single incoming contact number the call is connected to the subscriber on one or more preferred outbound contact addresses. A supplemental ENUM services platform is coupled to the server module to allow the subscriber of the ENUM account to map additional internet ready devices to the ENUM account, so that the subscriber may contact the system using the ENUM account to remotely control the additional internet ready devices.

A method for processing collision when data is synchronized includes obtaining communication list data of communication terminal and network communication system, forming said communication list data by contact person name and contact number, combining communication list data with the same contact person name and corresponding contact number. The processing server used for realizing said method is also disclosed.

Systems and methods include an input interface that receives registration information including a contact number input into a mobile device of a user, a call interface that transmits a call signal to a call center system, wherein the call signal comprises the call signal contact number that placed a call associated with the call signal and a communication interface that transmits the registration information to a profile database that stores the registration information as a profile for authenticating the mobile device user and identifying information from the mobile device of the user during the call. The call center system includes a call authentication processor that retrieves the user profile, an authentication interface that receives the identifying information, and an authentication processor that compares the identifying information with the user profile, and routes the call on an authenticated call path if the identifying information at least partially matches the user profile.

The invention provides a method for displaying dynamic information of friends during incoming calls and a system for implementing the same. The method comprises the following steps of: reading all contact numbers in a local contact list; accessing to a social intercourse platform, and binding the contacts in the local contact list with corresponding account information in the social intercourse platform of the contacts; and monitoring calling of a mobile phone, if the calling number of an incoming call or the called number of an outgoing call has an information binding relationship with a corresponding account, searching the latest dynamic information of the corresponding account in the social intercourse platform, and displaying the latest dynamic information in the mobile phone during the calling. The system comprises a reading unit, an access unit and a processing unit. According to the method and the system for implementing the same, the contacts in the local contact list are bound with the corresponding account information of the contacts in the social intercourse platform, so that the mobile phone can display the latest dynamic information of the friends during calling.

A method of automatically forwarding a response to a message to the sender of the message, wherein the sender is prompted to provide a message, the sender is prompted to identify a recipient, the recipient having a plurality of associated contact numbers, a user is prompted to rank the identified associated contact numbers relating to the recipient from highest to lowest, the message is sent to the highest ranked associated contact number to which the message has not yet been sent, the recipient of the message is prompted to provide a reply to the message, at least a predetermined amount of time is waited, until a response is received or the message has been sent to all associated contact numbers, the message is repeatedly sent to the next highest ranked associated contact number (and the recipient is prompted and the predetermined amount of time is waited), and the response is forwarded to the sender.

The invention discloses an intelligent collection method for overdue bill, the invention relates to a device, a computer device and a storage medium. The method comprises the following steps of: according to a customer risk grade dividing strategy, dividing the overdue customer information of an incoming case to obtain a list of overdue customers, wherein the list of overdue customers comprises overdue customer information and an overdue type identification corresponding to the overdue customer information; Obtaining a collection call template corresponding to an overdue type identifier, adding overdue customer information to a position corresponding to the collection call template, and obtaining a target collection call; The telephone platform is called to automatically dial the contact number of the overdue customer and convert the target collection call into the target collection voice, so as to obtain the overdue collection result of the overdue customer's feedback to the target collection voice. Improve collection efficiency, reduce collection costs and customer complaints due to improper use of collection strategies.

According to one embodiment of the present invention there is provided a communication method comprising the steps of making a determination in respect of at least initiating a first call between first and second communication devices having first and second contact numbers respectively; said making the determination comprising identifying at least one of the first and second contact numbers associated with said initiating, accessing a database comprising at least a first monitored contact number and at least one associated third party number corresponding to a third communication device, determining whether or not at least one of a first contact number and the second contact number match the first monitored contact number; and establishing, in response to the determination, a third party call to the third communication device.

A wireless communication device may have several contact buttons, including, for example, a Mom button, a Dad button and a Home button. The device may also have a Send button and an End button. A child may press one of the contact buttons, then dial Send, and a call will be placed to the specifically denoted contact. Accordingly, a child may easily and efficiently use the present invention to quickly wirelessly communicate with another person, without the confusion of extraneous buttons. The wireless communication device also includes a system and method for emergency dialing. Emergency dialing is effected by pressing an emergency call button and the Send button. In this manner, accidental dialing of an emergency number is avoided. The wireless device can be remotely programmed such that a parent or other person may remotely program the numbers called when the contact buttons are pressed. Accordingly, if a parent or other person plan to change locations, the device may be remotely reprogrammed with a different contact number for that parent. The wireless communication device may be reprogrammed via a telephone call from a remote location or from a computer via the Internet.

A system and method for updating contact records automates analysis of contact results for one or more contact devices performing a contact campaign in order to select contact records for skip trace updates to contact information with the updated contact information for real time use by the contact devices. For instance, an update engine analyzes contact records returned by dialers to a distribution module to select contact records to skip trace based on rules, such as where a wrong number code is indicated, or cost analysis, such as where the predicted result of an update has a value greater than the cost of obtaining the update. The distribution model provides the updated contact information for real time use by the dialers of the updated contact numbers.

The invention provides a display adjusting method for a display interface, and a mobile terminal, wherein the method is applied to the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal comprises a display screen as well as a first side edge and a second side edge, and sensors are arranged on the first side edge and a second side edge. The display adjusting method comprises: based on sensing signals of the sensors, acquiring contact number information of the first side edge and the second side edge; based on the contact number information, determining which is the side edge for the location of the thumb of a mobile terminal user; detecting a first sliding operation, performed by the mobile terminal user, in a first direction on the side edge for the thumb location; judging whether the first sliding operation meets with a preset condition or not; if the first sliding operation meets with the preset condition, reducing the display interface of the display screen to a reduced interface according to a preset proportion, and displaying the reduced interface close to the side edge for the location of the thumb of the mobile terminal user. The display adjusting method provided by the invention enables one-hand operations of a large-screen smart mobile terminal to be simpler and easier, and the experience fluency for operations of the user is improved.

The invention provides an automobile alarming device and method. Firstly, whether a person is in an automobile or not is judged through a camera, under the situation that the person is in the automobile, when any of environment parameters of the temperature, the concentration of carbon monoxide, the concentration of carbon dioxide and the concentration of oxygen in the automobile exceeds the corresponding first preset value, a controller is used for controlling a communication module to send a video in the automobile and the environment parameters in the automobile to a preset contact number to inform a preset contact to handle the situation in time, and it is avoided that the body of the person left in the automobile is uncomfortable due to the high temperature or the low oxygen content or the high concentration of poisonous gas of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. When the controller judges that any of the environment parameters in the automobile exceeds a corresponding second preset value, the communication module is controlled to send the video in the automobile, the environment parameters in the automobile and automobile information to a preset help calling number to call a preset institute for help, and it is avoided that the person left in the automobile dies due to the excessively-high temperature or the excessively-low oxygen content or the excessively-high concentration of poisonous gas.

Apparatus, and an associated method, for providing a Web-based directory with automatic dialing capabilities that may be used by the user of a standard wireline or cellular telephone to establish contact with entities having SIP phones or other IP-based communication devises. The Web-based directory includes not only the names of various entities, but information on how to establish voice contact with them as well such as IP addresses or other contact numbers. A Web-based directory user establishes an Internet connection and retrieves one or more Web pages of the Web-based directory, selecting from them one or more entities from among those listed. Having made this selection, the user requests initiation of a voice-communication session, whereupon a conferencing system in communication with the Web-based directory application server initiates a call to both of the selected entity or entities using applicable communication channels and the user so that the desired voice-communication session can be established.