Nortel Networks Corporation

Northern Telecom Limited

Eric Bierman

Ernst A Munter

Michael A Kelly

Yafan An

A system and method for allowing telephone subscribers to update over the Internet the features which are active on the telephone. A server on the Internet is connected to a profile repository which determines which features are active on each subscriber line. Subscribers with Internet access may access a special home page, and access their feature profile and make additions, deletions etc. to it. This eliminates the need for a human operator to process requests for changing feature profiles.

Service order mechanism for telephone subscriber

A system for displaying graphic information such as a facial representation on a communications terminal. The facial representation is digitized, compressed and stored in memory at the appropriate control center of a communications network. Upon receipt of a display command the digitized data is retrieved from memory and transmitted to the called party's display terminal using modem technology.

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Ottawa, Canada

Eric Bierman