System for providing personalized telephone calling features
First Claim
1. An arrangement for providing a personalized calling service in a telecommunications network formed form a plurality of switches interconnected via respective communications paths, said arrangement comprisingmeans for associating a plurality of service telephone numbers with respective subscribers of said service,means for associating said subscribers with respective groups of caller identifiers such that each of said subscribers may specify a particular call treatment for each caller identifier forming the respective one of said groups, andmeans, responsive to receiving from one of said switches a telephone call associated with one of said plurality of service numbers and responsive to receipt of an associated caller identifier, for processing said telephone call in accordance with the call treatment specified for the received caller identifier.
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Abstract
A common adjunct switch integrated with a telecommunications network and associated with a plurality of predetermined telephone numbers prefixed by a common code is provided with a facility which allows telephone subscribers that are assigned respective ones of the telephone numbers to personalize the way in which they receive long distance telephone calls. For example, such a subscriber may program his/her associated service record to put into effect call forwarding or call screening. In addition, each such subscriber may be associated with one or more caller identification numbers, in which a caller identification number is used to determine whether a call placed to a service number is billed to the called subscriber or the calling party.
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1. An arrangement for providing a personalized calling service in a telecommunications network formed form a plurality of switches interconnected via respective communications paths, said arrangement comprising
means for associating a plurality of service telephone numbers with respective subscribers of said service, means for associating said subscribers with respective groups of caller identifiers such that each of said subscribers may specify a particular call treatment for each caller identifier forming the respective one of said groups, and means, responsive to receiving from one of said switches a telephone call associated with one of said plurality of service numbers and responsive to receipt of an associated caller identifier, for processing said telephone call in accordance with the call treatment specified for the received caller identifier.
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12. A method of providing personalized calling services in a telecommunications network formed from a plurality of interconnected switches, said method comprising the steps of
associating a plurality of service telephone numbers with respective subscribers of said service, associating said subscribers with respective groups of caller identifiers such that each of said subscribers may specify a particular call treatment for each caller identifier forming the respective one of said groups, and responding to receipt of a telephone call associated with one of said plurality of service numbers and to receipt of an associated caller identifier, by processing said telephone call in accordance with the call treatment specified for the received caller identifier.
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