H04M 3/42187
Lines and connections with preferential service
Official title: {Lines and connections with preferential service}
H04M3/42187 (Lines and connections with preferential service) appears on 105 US grants and 120 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04M- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- 72
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- 254
- Latest grant
- 25 Nov 2025
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Recent patents
- Systems and methods relating to managing customer wait times in contact centers25 Nov 2025US 12,482,003 B2Genesys Cloud Services, Inc.
- Processing method for priority notification of incoming call and mobile device18 Nov 2025US 12,477,063 B2ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
- Method and apparatus for determining an on-hold queue position of a call27 May 2025US 12,316,805 B1United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
- Providing health urgency context for incoming calls15 Oct 2024US 12,120,266 B2Optum, Inc.
- Method and apparatus for determining an on-hold queue position of a call16 Apr 2024US 11,962,717 B1United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
- Gets call pin sharing via ims data channel13 Aug 2026US 2026/0238687 A1T-Mobile USA, Inc.
- Gets call pin sharing via ims data channel13 Aug 2026US 2026/0238721 A1T-Mobile USA, Inc.
- Prioritizing telecommunications subscribers based on collected telecommunications data11 Jun 2026US 2026/0163974 A1T-Mobile Innovations LLC
- Providing health urgency context for incoming calls23 Jan 2025US 2025/0030798 A1Optum, Inc.
- Systems and methods relating to managing customer wait times in contact centers15 Jun 2023US 2023/0186317 A1Genesys Cloud Services, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for managing a hold queue based on customer information retrieved from a customer database223US 7,068,775 B1Concerto Software, Inc. · 2006
- Call priority based on audio stream analysis223US 8,175,007 B2Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2012
- Managing received calls210US 7,940,917 B2International Business Machines Corporation · 2011
- Video conference system and methods for use at multi-station sites141US 7,046,779 B2Multimedia Telesys, Inc. · 2006
- System and method for providing call-handling services on a data network telephone system129US 6,584,490 B13Com Corporation · 2003