PRE-PAID TELEPHONE CALLING CARD HAVING AN ASSOCIATED PRE-RECORDED PERSONAL GREETING

• US 20070121842A1
• Filed: 10/31/2006
• Published: 05/31/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: MCI LLC (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Gillman, Anne, Borocz, Stacy, Bond, James, Henderson, Karl
• Granted Patent: US 8,130,914 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/114.200
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 17/02 Coin-freed or check-freed systems , e.g. mobile- or card-operated phones, public telephones or booths
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 17/026 Constructional features
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 17/103 using SIMs (USIMs) or calling cards
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2017/12 using calling, telephone credit/debit cards

Abstract

System and a method for recording a personal greeting associated with a pre-paid telephone calling card. The system and method include and involve a data storage system for storing data corresponding to a pre-paid telephone calling card and a personal greeting. Also included and involved is a pre-paid telephone calling card processing system that is coupled to the data storage system and which is configured to receive a request to record the personal greeting during a setup call over a telephone network and to cause the personal greeting to be recorded for subsequent playback. The pre-paid telephone calling card processing system is also configured to receive a request to make an outbound telephone call in relation to the pre-paid telephone calling card during an access call over the telephone network and to cause the personal greeting to be played back automatically during the access call.

Claims

1. A system for recording a personal greeting associated with a pre-paid telephone calling card, comprising:

a data storage system for storing data corresponding to a pre-paid telephone calling card and a personal greeting related to said pre-paid telephone calling card; and

a pre-paid telephone calling card processing system coupled to said data storage system and configured to receive a request to record said personal greeting during a setup call over a telephone network and to cause said personal greeting to be recorded during said setup call.

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