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US 2005/0240671 A1Published application
IP-based front-end web server
OwnerLoraine Beyer, Anita Simpson +1inventors
InventorsLoraine Beyer, Anita Simpson, Karen Mullis
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for providing unified access to communications services offered by vendors. One method presents an interface to a unified communications service offered by a communications service provider. If a user is authenticated to the unified communications service, the user is presented one or more communications services offered by a vendor that the user may access.
Claims20
A method, comprising the steps of:
- storing an interface to a unified communications service offered by a communications service provider;
- authenticating a user to the unified communications service;
- and
- if the user is authenticated, then providing the user with access to one or more communications services offered by a vendor.
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A method, comprising the steps of:
- storing an interface to a unified communications service offered by a communications service provider;
- authenticating a user to the unified communications service;
- and
- if the user is authenticated, then providing the user with access to a bandwidth on-demand communications service, the bandwidth on-demand communications service allowing the subscriber to receive increased bandwidth for downloading data and, when the data is downloaded, the increased bandwidth is eliminated.
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A system, comprising:
- a Unified Communications Module stored in a memory device, and a processor communicating with the memory device;
- the Unified Communications Module storing an interface to a unified communications service offered by a communications service provider, the Unified Communications Module authenticating the user to the unified communications service, and if the user is authenticated, then providing the user with access to a bandwidth on-demand communications service, the bandwidth on-demand communications service allowing the subscriber to receive increased bandwidth for downloading data and, when the data is downloaded, the increased bandwidth is eliminated.
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