Method for the operation of an automatic telephone information system
First Claim
1. A method for the operation of an automatic telephone information system in which, using search parameters transmitted to the system by means a terminal (1) of a user, subscribers are sought whose subscriber data (TD) stored in the system database (3) corresponds to the search parameters and in which the subscriber data (TD) of at least one subscriber found are output to the user, characterized in that allocated to each subscriber data record (TDS) of each subscriber stored in the database (3) is a priority value (P) which can be selected by the subscriber concerned from the multiplicity of priority values, and the order of output to the user of subscriber data (TD) of the subscribers found depends on the priority values (P) allocated to the subscribers concerned.
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Abstract
A method is described for the operation of an automatic telephone information system in which a user transmits the search parameters to the system by means of a terminal (1) connected with the system. The system then searches from the search parameters for the subscriber data (TD) of a subscriber sought by the user and stored in the system database (3) and outputs corresponding subscriber data (TD) found in the database (3) to the user. A priority value (P) which can be selected by the subscriber concerned from a multiplicity of priority values is allocated to each of the subscriber data records (TDS) of each subscriber stored in the database (3).
The order of output of subscriber data (TD) of the subscribers found in the database (3) depends on the priority values (P) allocated to the subscriber data records (TDS) concerned. In addition a corresponding automatic telephone information system is claimed.
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- 1. A method for the operation of an automatic telephone information system in which, using search parameters transmitted to the system by means a terminal (1) of a user, subscribers are sought whose subscriber data (TD) stored in the system database (3) corresponds to the search parameters and in which the subscriber data (TD) of at least one subscriber found are output to the user, characterized in that allocated to each subscriber data record (TDS) of each subscriber stored in the database (3) is a priority value (P) which can be selected by the subscriber concerned from the multiplicity of priority values, and the order of output to the user of subscriber data (TD) of the subscribers found depends on the priority values (P) allocated to the subscribers concerned.
- 8. An automatic telephone information system which for use is connected with a terminal (1) of a user, with a database (3) in which are stored subscriber data records (TDS) of a multiplicity of subscribers, with means (1, 6, 5, 4, 8) for entering search parameters by the user, with a search device (2) for searching for subscribers whose subscriber data (TD) correspond to the search parameters, and with means (4, 10, 9, 5, 6, 1) for output of subscriber data (TD) of at least one subscriber found, characterized by the priority values (P) allocated to the subscriber data records (TDS) stored in the database (3) and a sorting device (7) in order to sort the subscriber data (TD) of the subscribers found as a function of the associated priority values (P) for output to the user.
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