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Personal desktop router

  • US 6,201,863 B1
  • Filed: 02/19/1997
  • Issued: 03/13/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/10/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for routing telephone calls to a plurality of individual agent workstations at a customer premises, comprising steps of:

  • (a) receiving a call at a telephony switch coupled to a customer local area network (LAN);

    (b) forwarding an indication of the received call to a personal computer (PC) at the at least one of the agent workstations connected to the LAN, wherein the PC executes a personal router application having a set of specific personal routing rules for that particular agent workstation on which it resides;

    (c) determining routing for the call in the personal router application for the particular agent workstation based on the specific set of routing rules for that workstation; and

    (d) sending routing commands effecting further routing of the call to the telephony switch as a result of the personal routing determined in step (c).

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