METHOD AND SYSTEM OF SCREENING AND CONTROL OF TELEPHONE CALLS WHILE USING A PACKET-SWITCHED DATA NETWORK
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Abstract
A Call Alerting and Control System is provided in a communication environment to allow an Internet user (“user”) approximately real-time monitoring of information about an incoming call from a calling party while maintaining a connection with the Internet. The monitored information can include the calling party'"'"'s name and telephone number. The system could also allow the user to provide an answering machine-type message to the calling party and the user to listen to the calling party'"'"'s response to the message while still connected to the Internet. The system can further allow the user to reroute, answer or otherwise treat the incoming call while, at the user'"'"'s discretion, either maintaining or disconnecting a connection to the Internet.
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29. A method for managing incoming calls from a calling party to a communication line of a user, where the user is connected to a packet-based data network, comprising:
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receiving an incoming call from the calling party; determining with a service control point how to handle the incoming call, including determining with information from a gateway system whether the user is connected to the packet-based data network; providing instructions from the service control point to a service switching point to supply a busy or call waiting signal to the calling party if the user is not connected to the packet-based data network; otherwise, forwarding the incoming call to the gateway system if the user is connected to the packet-based data network; and establishing a one-way voice connection to allow a called party to listen to the calling party contemporaneous with the calling party leaving a message and while the called party maintains a connection with the packet-based data network, without answering the incoming call. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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42. A method for managing incoming calls from a calling party to a communication line of a user, where the user is connected to a packet-based data network, the method comprising:
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receiving an incoming call via a telephone network, wherein the telephone network includes a service control point, a service switching point and a gateway system; determining with information from the service control point whether the user is connected to the packet-based data network; if the user is connected to the packet-based data network, prompting the user to choose at least one call handling option, where the call handling option includes allowing a one-way voice connection to be established by the service switching point to the user to allow the user to listen to the calling party contemporaneous with the calling party leaving a message and while the user maintains a connection with the packet-based data network, without answering the incoming call. - View Dependent Claims (43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51)
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