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Telecommunications switch incorporating automatic conferencing service

  • US 6,038,304 A
  • Filed: 09/17/1997
  • Issued: 03/14/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/17/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. For a telephony system having a switch within which an automatic conferencing service resides, a method of establishing a conference call between an originating party and at least one of a plurality of terminating parties, said originating party being serviced by said switch, the method comprising the steps of:

  • said originating party dialing a conference call access number;

    upon connecting with said conference call access number, said originating party entering phone numbers for said plurality of terminating parties;

    upon entering said phone numbers for said plurality of terminating parties, said automatic conferencing service transmitting, via said switch, a call request to each one of said plurality of terminating parties;

    upon transmitting said call request to each one of said plurality of terminating parties, said automatic conferencing service initiating a countdown of a time-out period and applying a ringback, via said switch, to said originating party;

    said switch completing a conference call between said originating party and each one of said plurality of terminating parties responding to said call request before expiration of said time-out period;

    said switch releasing each one of said plurality of terminating parties failing to answer said call request by expiration of said time-out periodwherein the step of said switch connecting, to said call, each one of said plurality of terminating parties responding to said call request before expiration of said time-out period further comprises the step of;

    upon a first one of said plurality of terminating parties responding to said call request, said switch discontinuing said ringback to said originating party.

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