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Paging system that allows caller/subscriber interconnection

  • US 5,559,859 A
  • Filed: 03/10/1995
  • Issued: 09/24/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/06/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A telecommunications system capable of receiving telephone calls for meet-me page subscribers and telephone calls for non-meet-me page subscribers from a publicly switched telephone network, wherein the subscribers are provided with portable page receivers, comprising:

  • a paging system including a first processing circuit connected to the publicly switched telephone network for receiving telephone calls to the non-meet-me page subscribers, which, in response to the telephone calls, generates page requests;

    a second processing circuit connected to said first processing circuit for receiving said page requests, which, in response to said page requests, forms one of pages or page messages according to a time of the day at which the page requests are received and selectively forwards said one of pages or page messages to one of a plurality of terminal devices;

    a meet-me unit connected to the publicly switched telephone network for receiving telephone calls to the meet-me page subscribers and for receiving telephone calls from the meet me page subscribers, wherein said meet-me unit is capable of distinguishing between calls to the meet-me page subscribers and calls from the meet-me page subscribers and in response to an incoming call for a specific meet-me page subscriber, generates a meet-me page request and parks the incoming call, said meet-me unit including means for generating a ring signal to a caller for a predefined time interval while said incoming call is parked, so that a caller is at least initially unaware that a meet-me page request has been generated and wherein said meet-me unit is further connected to said paging systems second processing circuit for forwarding said meet-me page request thereto; and

    call connection circuitry integral with said meet-me unit for determining from which meet-me page subscriber that said meet-me page subscriber call has been received, determining if said parked call is for the calling meet-me page subscriber; and

    , if said parked call is for the calling meet-me page subscriber, establishing a single link between said parked call and the call from the meet-me page subscriber, said caller being connected in communication with the calling meet-me page subscriber without being informed that the calling meet-me page subscriber has been paged if the signal link is established within said predefined time interval.

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