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Personal desktop router

  • US 6,148,074 A
  • Filed: 06/04/1997
  • Issued: 11/14/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/10/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for routing telephone calls at customer premises having a telephony switch, individual telephones connected to the telephony switch, and a plurality of individual computer workstations including video display units (VDUs) connected on a local area network (LAN) also coupled to the telephony switch, wherein individual ones of the computer workstations are located proximate individual ones of the telephones, the method comprising steps of:

  • (a) receiving a telephone call at a telephony switch connected to individual telephones at the customer premises;

    (b) providing identifying data for the telephone call to a client-server router that stores a set of separate editable routing rules for users associated with the computer workstations;

    (c) determining a routing for the call to one of the computer workstations by use of a client interface accessing the stored routing rules associated with a user of that workstation on the client-server router, and transmitting the routing determination to the client-server router via the LAN connection; and

    (d) routing the telephone call by the client-server router according to the determination transmitted to the client-server router via the LAN connection.

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