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Anonymous interactive telephone system with expanded outward calling features

  • US 4,878,239 A
  • Filed: 05/19/1988
  • Issued: 10/31/1989
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/10/1987
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A telephone communication method for anonymously connecting a subscriber station and a caller station via public telephone lines controlled by a public telephone company central switching station having the capability of connecting together select ones of the public telephone lines, the method including the steps of:

  • storing data at a system controller station that is received from a plurality of subscriber stations, such data including the telephone number of each subscriber station and a corresponding reference number for each subscriber station;

    publishing the telephone number of said system controller station in advertisements including the reference numbers for the respective subscriber stations;

    receiving a call from a caller station to said system controller station;

    receiving a published reference number from said caller station in communication with said system controller station;

    matching said received published reference number with the telephone number of the corresponding subscriber station;

    automatically connecting the telephone call received from said caller station at the system controller station to said corresponding subscriber station, said connecting being accomplished at said public telephone company central switching station, under the control of said system controller station; and

    disconnecting said system controller station from the caller station, the subscriber station, and the public telephone company central switching station, so that after said caller station and said subscriber station are connected together on their respective public telephone lines, the public telephone company central switching station maintains the connection between the caller and subscriber stations.

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