Verizon Laboratories Inc.

Verizon Services Corporation

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Verizon Services Organization Inc.

Verizon Services Corp. & Verizon Services Organization Inc.

Alex E Tserkovny

Michael Alan Weintraub

Lily F Chen

Piotr Boni

Vincent T Phuah

Sayyid Siddiq Ali

Nee Ben Gee

Michael F Lane

Stephen S Liu

Douglas Reynold Jones

John Herman Wurster

Stephen Paul Brennan

Premkumar Natarajan

Gregory Wayne Cermak

Stephen Shyan-Shiang Liu

Bernadette Anita Nelson

Sandra Kelly Teare

Linda Louise Witham

Anne M Kraus-Keenan

Elizabeth I Van Horn

The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for providing bandwidth-on-demand telecommunications services over next-generation optical transport networks (NG-OTN). One embodiment of a system providing bandwidth-on-demand services includes a next-generation optical transport network (NG-OTN) having an intelligent control plane (ICP) and new-generation synchronous optical network (NG-SONET) capabilities. A next-generation operation support subsystem (NG-OSS) is communicatively coupled to the NG-OTN. The NG-OTN and the NG-OSS are configured to provide the bandwidth-on-demand services.

Bandwidth-on-demand systems and methods

Disclosed is a method and system for routing telephone calls within a household. In the disclosed home call routing system, a head of the household or other person with administrative authority within the home can control the routing of telephone calls by establishing and modifying call system parameters such as call priorities, traffic times, caller identities, routing rules, etc. through a home computer.

Home call router

A system and method can enable a user of a communications network, such as a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), wireless and/or voice over IP network to participate in Presence Availability Management (PAM) and Instant Messaging (IM) activities of a PAM/IM network. In response to phone network triggers, a phone network Service Control Point (SCP) can generate requests to a web server. The web server can translate the requests to presence information that can be forwarded to presence user agents for participants of the PAM/IM network. The presence user agents can present the user's presence information to participants having the user on their 'buddy list'. In turn, the presence user agent for the user can forward the presence information for participants on the user's 'buddy list' to a media server that can communicate the information to the user through Automatic Speech Recognition, Text to Speech and/or Dual Tone MultiFrequency technology.

Methods and systems for presence-based telephony communications

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Brookline, MA, United States of America

Alex E Tserkovny