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Network group pickup

  • US 7,492,887 B1
  • Filed: 12/22/1998
  • Issued: 02/17/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/22/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A group pickup system in a communication network having one or more servers, said group pickup system comprising:

  • one or more call group locations associated with different ones of said one or more servers, each of said one or more servers including call group lists of members for each call group, said each call group having listed members from said one or more call group locations;

    an invite request unit to invoke the group pickup system;

    a group pickup request unit responsive to said invite request unit to establish a connection to any of a plurality of group pickup destinations to enable a call to a called station to be picked up from any group pickup destination, said destination being manually and automatically selectable, said destinations being automatically serially selected responsive to one of an alerting listed group member location and manually selected responsive to a responding listed group member location; and

    a retrieval request unit to connect a selected call pickup station with said call to said called station.

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