Automatic person-following communication system
First Claim
1. An automatic person-following system for a telephone switching machine having at least one 2-way DID trunk operative for receiving incoming and transmitting outgoing calls and having a 3-way calling feature for use with said trunk, a bank of data storage cells accessible from said DID trunk each cell having storage capacity for storing at least one pre-recorded message, at least one incoming message and a plurality of pre-recorded telephone numbers associated with a person;
- signaling means for signaling a hookswitch flash to said DID trunk, and dialing means for automatically dialing a first one of said pre-recorded telephone numbers to said DID trunk after sending said hookswitch flash signal;
means for automatically determining whether said person has answered at said first pre-recorded telephone number; and
means for automatically sequentially dialing each additional one of said pre-recorded telephone numbers to said DID trunk after sending a hookswitch flash signal until detecting that said person has answered at one of said pre-recorded telephone numbers.
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Abstract
In accordance with the invention, there is provided an automatic person-following system for a telephone switching machine having at least one 2-way DID trunk operative for receiving incoming and transmitting outgoing calls, a 3-way calling feature connectable to the trunk, a bank of data storage cells accessible from the DID trunk, each cell having storage capacity for storing at least one pre-recorded voice message, at least one incoming voice message, and at least one pre-recorded telephone number; signaling apparatus for signaling a hookswitch flash to the DID trunk, and dialing apparatus for dialing the pre-recorded telephone number to the DID-trunk after sending a hookswitch flash signal.
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1. An automatic person-following system for a telephone switching machine having at least one 2-way DID trunk operative for receiving incoming and transmitting outgoing calls and having a 3-way calling feature for use with said trunk, a bank of data storage cells accessible from said DID trunk each cell having storage capacity for storing at least one pre-recorded message, at least one incoming message and a plurality of pre-recorded telephone numbers associated with a person;
- signaling means for signaling a hookswitch flash to said DID trunk, and dialing means for automatically dialing a first one of said pre-recorded telephone numbers to said DID trunk after sending said hookswitch flash signal;
means for automatically determining whether said person has answered at said first pre-recorded telephone number; and
means for automatically sequentially dialing each additional one of said pre-recorded telephone numbers to said DID trunk after sending a hookswitch flash signal until detecting that said person has answered at one of said pre-recorded telephone numbers. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
- signaling means for signaling a hookswitch flash to said DID trunk, and dialing means for automatically dialing a first one of said pre-recorded telephone numbers to said DID trunk after sending said hookswitch flash signal;
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