Ghost Call is a term used for a telephone call that you answer that doesn t have any one on the other end of the call. A ghost call is also a term used in managing IP PBX systems. Ghost calls on the lines that cannot be explained or are some residual output of one Real time Transport Protocol or RTP stream interacting with the PBX. Causes This is generally caused by a neglected Autodialer or indirectly through consequences of restrictions applied to autodialers used for telemarketing by the FCC that restricts how long they can tie up a phone line without causing inconvenience to the receiver or blocking emergency services. It could also fall under the accidental Pocket dialing category. Consequences A ghost call sometimes can be repetitive or completely tie up a phone line making it impossible to call 911 in an emergency. You may receive a ghost call sometimes once an hour, once a day or once a week. At a certain level when an Autodialer is completely overlooked and unmanaged or in extremely rare cases where a company goes under and an autodialer gets left running for years before it s discovered, this can be especially annoying as there is no one to complain to. I ve even heard of examples where an office was redesigned and many years later someone breaks into the wall to repair or remodel and there s an autodialer computer chunking away in the dark. Stopping The Calls Nowadays there are several websites that you can report your ghost dials to. They will track the number until it s repeatedly reported eventually gaining enough insight into where the machine is located and hopefully getting it shut down especially the abandoned ones. Improvements Today s Autodialer supposedly runs a smarter batch of software boasting a claim of less than a 2 hangup rate. Most telemarketing companies place 1000 s of calls an hour bringing that 2 back up to an annoying level however. In Fiction Ray Bradbury had at one time written a story about a telephone switch box that gained senti ... more details
no footnotes date October 2011 one source date October 2011 An auto dialer , autodialer , or autodialler is an electronic device or software that automatically dials telephone number s. Once the call has been answered, the autodialer either plays a recorded message or connects the call to a live person. When an autodialer plays a pre recorded message, it s often called voice broadcasting , or robocall ing . Some voice broadcasting messages ask the person who answers to press a button on their phone keypad, such as in opinion polls in which recipients are asked to press one digit if they support one side of an issue, or another digit if they support the other side. This type of call is often called outbound interactive voice response . When an autodialer connects an answered call to a live agent, it is often called a predictive dialer or power dialer . A predictive dialer uses realtime analysis to determine the optimal time to dial more numbers, whereas a power dialer simply dials a pre set number of lines when an agent finishes the previous call. Key Features Answering Machine Detection ... system, autodialer systems have to analyze incoming audio in order to make a prediction. Currently ... for a business or call center or anyone in the US using an autodialer. The ability to maintain records ..., or company Do Not Call lists is essential for continued legal use of any autodialer. Certain ..., can be turned into an autodialer by using a telephony board or modem . There are software programs which can set up an autodialer like function over a physical telephone line using such hardware ... modem based auto dialing systems. For a simple autodialer supporting only a few phone lines per PC ... autodialer A Smart Autodialer is an autodialer capable of personalizing messages and collecting touch ... speech over the phone. To customize or personalize messages, a smart autodialer system uses ... Autodialer alarm , which is different from an alarm autodialer Predictive dialer , a type of autodialer ... more details
For the European organisation REDIAL In telecommunication , an automatic redial is a service feature that allows the User telecommunications user to dial, by depressing a single key or a few keys, the most recent telephone number dialed at that instrument. Note Automatic redial is often associated with the telephone instrument, but may be provided by a Private branch exchange PBX , or by the central office . Synonym last number redial. Contrast with Autodialer automatic calling unit . FS1037C Category Calling features telecomm stub ... more details
unreferenced date March 2011 orphan date December 2007 The Landel Mailbug is a portable email terminal created and developed by Landel Inc. The device has a full size QWERTY keyboard and a 6 line by 79 column text only LCD display. It connects to a standard Plain old telephone service POTS telephone line and checks for new incoming mail or delivers outgoing mail by periodically calling into Landel s proprietary service. In addition to email, the device can display and store Caller ID , and act as an electronic telephone book and autodialer . Mailbug is an embedded system , not a computer, and has no ability to display non text e mail attachments, such as spreadsheets or images although it does attempt to extract the text from PDF attachments . As a result it is thought to be completely immune to traditional computer viruses . Mailbug is primarily marketed towards people who do not want or need a computer, especially seniors. External links http www.landel.com mb1.html Official Landel Mailbug Page http www.pcliquidations.com item.asp?id 985 PC Liquidations Article http www.multimediator.com bitstream issue23.shtml Early review Category Email devices ... more details
For other uses Alarm disambiguation Unreferenced date December 2009 An alarm device or system of alarm devices gives an audible or visual alarm signal about a problem or condition. Alarm devices include burglar alarm s, designed to warn of burglaries this is often a silent alarm the police or guards are warned without indication to the burglar , which increases the chances of catching him or her. alarm clock s can produce an alarm at a given time distributed control system distributed control manufacturing system s or DCSs, found in nuclear reactor nuclear power plants , refinery refineries and chemical facilities also generate alarms to direct the operator s attention to an important event that he or she needs to address. alarms in an operation and maintenance O&M monitoring system, which informs the bad working state of a particular part of the system under monitoring. first out alarm safety alarms, which go off if a dangerous condition occurs. Common public safety alarms include civil defense siren tornado sirens fire alarm s Multiple alarm fire , a locally specific measure of the severity of a fire and the fire department reaction required. car alarm s autodialer alarm community Alarm or autodialer alarm medical alarms civil defense siren air raid siren s personal alarm tocsin s &mdash a historical method of raising an alarm Alarms have the capability of causing a fight or flight response in human s a person under this mindset will panic and either flee the perceived danger or attempt to eliminate it, often ignoring rational thought in either case. We can characterise a person in such a state as alarmed . With any kind of alarm, the need exists to balance between on the one hand the danger of false alarms called false positives &mdash the signal going off in the absence of a problem &mdash and on the other hand failing to signal an actual problem called a false negative . False alarms can waste resources expensively and can even be dangerous. For example, false ... more details
A Safety confirmation system is a way of determining each day whether someone who lives alone is safe. All the person has to do is to press, before a time agreed with him or her, an I am okay button on a special landline or mobile phone handset that can also be used normally to make calls. The button press is transmitted to a monitoring centre and managed automatically. A follow up system is initiated if a user fails to confirm that they are okay. If the button is not pressed by the agreed time it can be taken as a passive request for contact. By the application of Lean manufacturing lean design, the process of Safety Confirmation is conceptually simple ref http www.poplarharca.co.uk News NEWPOPLARHARCASERVICEHELPSOLDERRESIDENTSSTAYSAFEANDINDEPENDENT Poplar HARCA housing provider ref , especially for people who use it but, as it has to be highly dependable and work reliably over different providers phone networks, the technology that runs it is complex. Safety confirmation was invented and brought to market by James Batchelor May 28th, 1977, Yorkshire, England , a British technology entrepreneur and inventor who created it when he spotted the shortcomings of the predominant paradigm of personal safety alarms also known as community alarms pendant alarms Autodialer alarm autodialer alarms Panic alarm Medical alert medical alerts or personal emergency response systems PERS after his grandmother fell. Conventionally, people who may be prone to falling or medical emergencies are provided with a button to press if they need help, which raises a call to a monitoring centre as in the famous US TV advertisement Life Alert Emergency Response Help, I ve Fallen and I Can t Get up . A study reported in 2010 found that only 8 of people with pendant alarms wore them at all times and that two thirds had never used them. ref http www.telecareaware.com index.php pendant alarms users dont use.html Telecare Aware ref By reversing the conventional paradigm safety confirmation provides ... more details
artist for telemarketing fraud . Homer witnesses the arrest and sees the discarded autodialer in a nearby Dumpster term trash bin . Homer takes the autodialer home to use for tele Begging panhandling ... , and soon enough Chief Wiggum catches him. Instead of confiscating the autodialer and taking Homer into custody, he shoots it then gives Homer a citation and asks him to bring the autodialer with him ... more details
or bribery and collusion with dishonest employees inside the firm may be used to gain access. Autodialer ..., connecting an autodialer to what should have been a payphone line, dialing an assorted series of toll ... a payphone . Autodialer s are also used to make many short duration calls, mainly to mobiles, leaving ... more details
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For the telephony API in Microsoft Windows Telephony Application Programming Interface Computer telephony integration , also called computer telephone integration or CTI , is a common name for any technology that allows interactions on a telephone and a computer to be integrated or coordinated. The term is predominantly used to describe desktop based interaction for helping users be more efficient, though it can also refer to server based functionality such as automatic call routing. Common functions By application type CTI applications tend to run on either a user s desktop, or an unattended server. Common desktop functions provided by CTI applications Screen popping Call information display caller s number Automatic number identification ANI , number dialed DNIS , and Screen pop on answer, with or without using calling line data. Generally this is used to search a business application for the caller s details. Dialing Autodialer Automatic dialing and computer controlled dialing power dial, preview dial, and predictive dialer predictive dial . Phone control Includes call control answer, hang up, hold, conference, etc. and feature control DND, call forwarding, etc. . Transfers Coordinated phone and data transfers between two parties i.e., pass on the Screen pop with the call. . Call center Allows users to log in as a call center agent and control their agent state Ready, Busy, Not ready, Break, etc. . Common server functions provided by CTI applications Call routing The automatic routing of calls to a new destination based on criteria normally involving a database lookup of the caller s number ANI or number dialed DNIS . Advanced call reporting functions Using the detailed data that comes from CTI to provide better than normal call reporting. call recording software Voice recording integration Using data from CTI to enrich the data stored against recorded calls. By connection type Computer phone connections can be split into two categories First party call control O ... more details
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