Visual message waiting indication in a telephone voice message system
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1. A telephone system comprising:
- a telephone switching network responsive to telephone subscriber locations for providing telephone connections for said telephone subscriber locations including connections to a voice message system;
and first means responsive to a message waiting indicator signal associated with a particular subscriber location, said message waiting indicator signal indicating that said voice message system contains a message, and said first means acting to establish a suppressed ringing connection through said telephone switching network to the particular subscriber location associated with said message waiting indicator signal.
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Abstract
A telephone system which offers a voice message service and which enables visual indication of waiting messages at subscriber locations using suppressed ringing connections through the switching network of the system.
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1. A telephone system comprising:
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a telephone switching network responsive to telephone subscriber locations for providing telephone connections for said telephone subscriber locations including connections to a voice message system; and first means responsive to a message waiting indicator signal associated with a particular subscriber location, said message waiting indicator signal indicating that said voice message system contains a message, and said first means acting to establish a suppressed ringing connection through said telephone switching network to the particular subscriber location associated with said message waiting indicator signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method for use with a telephone switching network which is responsive to telephone subscriber locations for providing telephone connections for said telephone subscriber locations including connections to a voice message system, comprising:
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generating a message waiting indicator request signal associated with a particular subscriber location, said message waiting indicator request signal indicating that said voice message system contains a message; and based on said message waiting indicator request signal, establishing a suppressed ringing connection through said telephone switching network to the particular subscriber location associated with said message waiting indicator request signal. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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