Telecommunications facility, group of telecommunication facilities, method of configuring and operating such group and software for identifying a client and a facility therein
First Claim
1. A telecommunications facility for forming a group with at least one other said telecommunications facility and comprising a memory for storing data as to subscribers of clients of said at least one other telecommunications facility capable of utilizing said group of telecommunications facilities together and independently from one another, said data including evaluation-relevant parts of call numbers of each subscriber of said at least one other telecommunications facility capable of utilizing said group of telecommunications facilities together and independently from one another, a facility identification number AID of said at least one other call number is connected, and a client identification number KID of the client of the respective subscriber.
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Abstract
A telecommunication group is formed by a multiplicity of private telecommunication facilities configured to connect calls between clients services by those facilities and subscribers of those clients based upon facility identification numbers AID and client identification numbers KID determined by dispatcher numbers from E.164 call numbers.
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- 1. A telecommunications facility for forming a group with at least one other said telecommunications facility and comprising a memory for storing data as to subscribers of clients of said at least one other telecommunications facility capable of utilizing said group of telecommunications facilities together and independently from one another, said data including evaluation-relevant parts of call numbers of each subscriber of said at least one other telecommunications facility capable of utilizing said group of telecommunications facilities together and independently from one another, a facility identification number AID of said at least one other call number is connected, and a client identification number KID of the client of the respective subscriber.
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5. A method of configuring a group of interconnected telecommunications facilities each having a plurality of clients each with a respective plurality of terminal devices capable of communicating through the group independently of one another, said method comprising the steps, in at least one of said telecommunications facilities, of:
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assigning a respective facility identification number AID to each of said facilities in said group;
assigning a client identification number KID to each client in the group;
storing evaluation-relevant parts of E.164 call numbers of subscribers of said one of said facilities and subscribers of other facilities which are required for determination of the AID and KID thereof as dispatcher numbers; and
assigning the AID and KID to the dispatcher numbers. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method of operating a group of telecommunications facilities which are interconnected by tie lines and which have multiple clients each of which can have a plurality of terminal devices which can use the group independently from one another, said method comprising the steps of:
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receiving a call;
determining a client identification number KID singularly assigned to each client from a call number of the call; and
assigning the call to the client identified by the determined client identification number KID. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. Dispatcher software for identifying a client and a telecommunications facility in a group of telecommunication facilities interconnected by tie lines and based upon a client identification number KID assigned to each of a multiplicity of clients of each telecommunication facility of the group and a telecommunications facility identification number AID assigned to each telecommunications facility of the group, whereby the identification of the client and facility is effected with the aid of dispatch number stored in a dispatcher of one of the telecommunications facilities in a form of parts of E.164 call numbers of associate terminal devices of the group to give an AID and KID from a called number of a terminal device upon receipt of a call.
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