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Telephone system

  • US 5,557,665 A
  • Filed: 06/22/1994
  • Issued: 09/17/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/23/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a telephone system for providing personalized services comprising:

  • a plurality of telephone terminals;

    a plurality of individual identifier input means, each associated with one of said telephone terminals, for entering an individual identifier; and

    a PBX for serving said plurality of telephone terminals, said PBX comprising;

    telephone terminal data memory means for storing telephone terminal data each associated with at least an individual identifier;

    a first memory table storing an identifier of each of said telephone terminals and, if the telephone terminal is in use, the individual identifier which has been entered from the individual identifier input means associated with said telephone terminal;

    associating means responsive to an individual identifier entered from one of said individual identifier input means for associating said individual identifier with the identifier of the telephone terminal with which said one of said individual identifier input means is associated to place said telephone terminal in a personalized mode (hereinafter, referred to as "P mode"); and

    executing means responsive to a selection of telephone service made from one of the P-mode telephone terminals for executing said selected telephone service for said one of the P-mode telephone terminals on the basis of said telephone terminal data stored in said telephone terminal data memory means and associated with at least said individual identifier,an improvement wherein;

    said telephone terminal data comprises first telephone terminal data associated with said individual identifier and optional second telephone terminal data associated with said individual identifier and telephone terminal identifiers which have been specified by the owner of said individual identifier; and

    said executing means comprises means for executing said selected telephone service on the basis of said second telephone terminal data, if any, and on the basis of said first telephone terminal data, otherwise.

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