Siemens Communications, Inc.

Siemens Enterprise Communications, Inc.

Siemens Information & Communication Networks, Inc.

Rolm Company

Jeffrey Mark Blohm

Rami Caspi

Michelle Michael

Jagjiwan Virk

Alexandre Chatilov

Johannes Ruetschi

Michael Eugene Locke

Andrew Mason

Mark Bernard Hettish

Christoph A Aktas

Randy Wuerfel

Joseph F Khouri

Ting Zhu

Thomas R Schmidt

Shakil Malhotra

Faye Mowery

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.

Power management for a communications system

A system and method for simplifying Session Initiation Protocol ('SIP') Back To Back User Agent ('B2BUA') development by associating different call legs with each other across multiple SIP entities. Call legs may be associated with one another through a common or shared identification.

System and method to identify and associate call legs in session initiation protocol back to back user agents

A system includes a server including one or more databases for storing one or more handling rules specifying handling of incoming telephone calls; an intermediary routing control unit configured to access the one or more databases responsive to an incoming telephone call and provide the one or more handling rules to a switch control unit for handling routing of the incoming telephone call, said switch control unit being on a signaling path of the incoming telephone call; wherein the server and intermediary routing control unit are external said signaling path.

Method and apparatus for personal call routing request and handling

A telecommunications system includes a telephone routing system; and a presence database manager unit operably coupled to the routing system and adapted to maintain one or more watcher lists of registered users. The routing system is adapted to receive phone calls and provide an indication to the presence database manager unit whether the phone calls originate from registered users. The presence database manager unit is adapted to determine if such a user has a watcher list and transmit an indication to parties associated with the watcher list that said user is present.

Dynamic presence proxy for call sessions

A telecommunications system includes a plurality of cellular telephone networks; a presence server configured to receive cellular telephone network registration information from presence clients and provide cellular telephone network identification indicia to others of said presence clients.

Method and apparatus for presence indication of cellular telephones

A method for providing a stateless Session Interface Protocol (SIP) back to back user agent (B2BUA) comprising receiving a SIP message and determining if the SIP message is a SIP request. The SIP request further comprises a request to create an original SIP dialog or a request for an existing SIP dialog. Method further comprises determining if the SIP message is a SIP response. The SIP response may further comprise a provisional SIP response or a final SIP response. Method is suitable for transforming the SIP request, transforming the SIP response, transmitting the transformed SIP request to a new destination, and transmitting the transformed SIP response to a request originator.

Method and system for implementing a stateless back to back user agent

A telecommunications system includes a plurality of network clients including electronic or multimedia messaging clients. The electronic messaging clients are adapted to provide presence information and to display such presence information in association with received messages. The display of messages may then be sorted according to the presence information.

System and method for presence enabled electronic mail folders

A telecommunications system includes a personal computer having a unified communication system including a presence application and a cellular telephone network identifier operably coupled to the unified communication system and configured to identify a cellular telephone network of multiple parties; and a cellular network gateway appliance operably coupled to the personal computer and configured to allow the unified communication system to make a telephone call via an associated cellular network and identified by the cellular telephone network identifier.

Method and apparatus for cost optimization of cellular networks indication

In some embodiments, a managed presence online processing system may include one or more of the following features: (a) a memory comprising, (i) presence information submitted from a user, and (ii) a presence online processing program that initiates online processes on the user's computer based upon the presence information of the user, and (b) a processor coupled to the memory that executes the presence online processing program.

Presence enhanced online processes

A voice message system utilizes presence status information obtained from a presence server in playing inbox greeting to incoming callers. The presence status can indicate the actual presence or availability of the called user and is thus dynamic in nature. By using a voice message system to reflect and relay the presence status, the presence status information can be heard by those devices which do not have the capability to display presence information.

Greetings based on presence status

An outcalling system considers subscriber presence information in determining when to initiate attempts to deliver messages to the subscriber. The subscriber presence state may provide insight into the likelihood of successful message delivery. The outcalling system may decide to initiate or may forgo initiation of a delivery attempt based in part on the subscriber presence state.

Presence enhanced outcalling

In some embodiments, a managed content recovery system may include one or more of the following features: (a) a data storage device comprising, (i) presence state submitted from at least one user, and (ii) a managed content recovery program that distributes managed content that has been backed up due to a backlog based upon at least one user's presence state, and (b) a processor coupled to the data storage device that executes the managed content recovery program.

Presence enhanced disaster/overload recovery

A real-time communications system of networked communications devices, method and program product for operating such a system. A screensaver resides on at least one of the communications devices, that selectively displays status information on a corresponding identified user. Presence and availability information about the particular system user is stored on a central storage and provided to the screensaver for display. Information on the screensaver apprises viewers of current user presence and availability status.

Screen saver displaying identity content

A system and method for organizing and accessing multi-media messages from a displayless interface. According to one embodiment, voice recognition techniques are used to allow the user to identify and create a hierarchical organization for stored messages.

System and method for organizing multi-media messages folders from a displayless interface and selectively retrieving information using voice labels

Method for preventing a facsimile server from looping back on itself, the method including the steps of: (a) transmitting fax server identifier information during fax transmission setup; (b) analyzing the fax server identifier information to determine whether the fax server identifier information is the same as that of the fax server that is placing the call; and (c) if the fax server identifier information is the same, dropping the call, otherwise, continuing the call. In a preferred embodiment, the fax identifier information is transmitted in the NSF command of the facsimile communication protocol.

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Menlo Park, CA, United States of America

Jeffrey Mark Blohm