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Apparatus, method and system for providing information to a called party in multiple leg telecommunication sessions
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Inventors: Baiyor, Robert J.; Earl, Deborah Thomas; Smith, Jr., Harold Robert; Strom, Thomas Dale;
Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc. (Murray Hill, NJ)
Primary Examiner: Zele; Krista
Assistant Examiner: Bui; Bing
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Gamburd; Nancy R.
A system, apparatus and method are provided for providing information to a called party of multiple leg telecommunication sessions, such as in a flexible alerting service. The preferred system includes a home location register coupled to a mobile switching center. The home location register has, stored in a memory, a plurality of secondary directory numbers associated with a primary directory number, such as an ANSI compatible pilot directory number. The mobile switching center has an interface for receiving an incoming call leg designating the primary directory number and for differentially processing and routing each outgoing call leg associated with each secondary directory number, of the plurality of secondary directory numbers, the mobile switching center further providing in each outgoing call leg, of a plurality of outgoing call legs, first called party information distinguishing each outgoing call leg as a multiple leg telecommunication session. In the preferred embodiment, a waiting signal is provided to called parties, such as a steady, audible tone. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION A system, apparatus and method are provided for providing information to a called party in multiple leg telecommunication sessions, such as for providing a waiting signal on outgoing call legs for a flexible alerting service.
The preferred system embodiment includes a home location register coupled to a mobile switching center.
In the preferred system embodiment, a mobile switching center receives an incoming call leg designating a primary directory number ("DN").
A subscriber or other user of flexible alerting or other multi-leg communications, typically predefines a group of other directory numbers, referred to herein as secondary DNs, which are to be associated with the primary DN, such that when a call is placed to the primary DN, all of the secondary DNs are alerted.
Such a list or grouping may be referred to as a flexible alerting group, or more broadly as an alerting group.
The incoming call to the primary DN is then to be processed by a mobile switching center, which then directs the incoming call to the multiple different mobile or wireline secondary DNs of the user's predefined alerting group, creating multiple different outgoing communication legs to these differing and independent directory numbers.
Whichever outgoing call leg is first to answer will receive the call and be connected to the calling party, with the other call legs released (i.
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, dropped or torn down, with their corresponding alerting ceased).
To provide information to a called party in outgoing call legs of a flexible alerting service, in accordance with the present invention, the home location register has stored in a memory a plurality of secondary directory numbers associated with a pilot directory number.
The mobile switching center has an interface for receiving an incoming call leg designating the pilot directory number and for differentially processing and routing each outgoing call leg associated with each secondary directory number, and further providing in each outgoing call leg, of a plurality of outgoing call legs, first called party information distinguishing each outgoing call leg as a multiple leg telecommunication session
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