Appeal No. 1998-0015
Application No. 08/388,058
calls from calling stations to a virtual telephone number are
routed to destination stations.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
1. For use in a system that determines routing
instructions for telephone calls to be
routed
from calling stations within various geographic
territories to destination stations when the calls
are placed to a virtual telephone number, an
arrangement whereby a subscriber for the virtual
number can prescribe which destination stations shall
receive calls from which geographic territories,
comprising:
(a) a first database having data relating
telephone numbers of the calling stations
to geographical indicators of corresponding
locations of the calling stations;
(b) a processor configured for assigning a
relationship between at least some of the
geographical indicators and telephone numbers
for the destination stations using a graphical
user interface;
(c) a second database storing the relationship
between at least some of the geographical
indicators and telephone numbers for the
destination stations as assigned by said
processor, whereby for each call to the
virtual number from one of the calling
stations the first database is accessed
using a telephone number for the calling
station to produce a geographical indicator
for the calling station for entry into the
second database, and the second database yields
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