Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Verizon Data Services Inc.

Anirudha Joshi

Mahesh Rajagopalan

Alin L D'Silva

Sutap Chatterjee

Ashraf Yussouff

Gerald Honma

Robert A Chingon

Reza Ghaffari

Ravi Narayan

Kevin Trottier

Sean Kane

Fang Liu

Jason Jen

John F Littlefield

Vijaykumar Pennirselvam

An approach for integrating network elements and providing media processing services, which includes generating at least one integration interface for integrating at least one network element into a media processing platform. The approach also includes determining access information associated with the at least one network element, generating a master parameters list for the at least one network element for use in a processing of a media content item, and communicating the master parameters list via the at least one integration interface to the at least one network element.

Method and apparatus for integrating various network elements and providing media processing services

Methods and apparatus for forwarding communications, such as telephone calls over a voice network, are provided. A user accesses a data network to specify one or more rules for forwarding telephone calls. For example, the user may use an electronic calendar to specify patterns for forwarding their telephone calls. These patterns may include one or more rules for determining a forwarding pattern, and one or more time periods specifying when the pattern is effective. The rules are provided to a service center which provides configuration information to the voice network. The voice network then forwards calls based on the configuration information for the time periods specified by the user.

Method and apparatus for calendared communications flow control

Methods and systems are disclosed for supplying calling party information to a called party via a network comprising a telephone network, a data network, and at least one gateway device. The gateway device is connected to both the telephone network and the data network. The gateway device receives, via the telephone network, signaling information representing a telephone call from the calling party to the called party. The signaling information includes called party information. Calling party information is obtained based on the signaling information. The calling party information is provided to the called party via the data network.

Device independent caller ID

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Anirudha Joshi