INTELLIGENT INDEPENDENT CALL SERVER
First Claim
1. An apparatus comprising:
- at least one transceiver;
at least one memory circuit; and
at least one processor coupled to the at least one transceiver and the at least one memory circuit, whereupon the apparatus receiving access to an established telephone call, the at least one processor executes automatically one or more commencement telephone call features based on selected features associated with the telephone call and the processor monitors transmitted signals from the established telephone call to execute non-conflicting telephone call features in response to received feature requests.
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Abstract
An Intelligent Independent Call Server (IICS) is coupled to communication equipment of a network that signals the IICS of an established telephone call during which the IICS provides additional features to communication equipment of parties to the established telephone who are subscribers to the services being provided by the IICS. The services being provided by the IICS comprise various telephone call features that can be requested by parties to the established telephone call who have subscribed to such features. Subscriber parties to the telephone call request for specific features during the telephone call by dialing, on their communication devices, certain IICS defined sequences of DTMF keys which when recognized by the IICS causes it to execute the corresponding feature.
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34 Claims
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1. An apparatus comprising:
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at least one transceiver; at least one memory circuit; and at least one processor coupled to the at least one transceiver and the at least one memory circuit, whereupon the apparatus receiving access to an established telephone call, the at least one processor executes automatically one or more commencement telephone call features based on selected features associated with the telephone call and the processor monitors transmitted signals from the established telephone call to execute non-conflicting telephone call features in response to received feature requests. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A method comprising:
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monitoring, by an IICS, for received transmit signals of an established communication session to determine if at least one feature request has been transmitted; and executing the at least one requested feature after confirming that said at least one requested feature is non-conflicting. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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