Appeal No. 95-2050
Application 07/888,098
Claim 1 reads as follows:
1. In a communication network including a plurality
of interconnected central office switching systems each at a
different location, each of said central office switching
systems connected to a plurality of local communication lines,
a voice network portion comprising voice communication paths
for interconnecting any of the central office switching
systems, a common channel signaling network portion comprising
signaling paths interconnecting said central office switching
systems through at least one signal transfer point and at
least one integrated services control point including a data
base,
a method for simultaneously redirecting a plurality
of call paths for telephone numbers corresponding to local
communication lines at a first set of locations in pre-set
groups to local communication lines at one or more second
locations, comprising the steps of:
storing call redirection information concurrently
for all of said telephone numbers in said data base;
setting a trigger in the network for each of said
telephone numbers; and
redirecting a voice communication path between an
originating call location and one of said second locations in
accordance with redirection information accessed from said
data base in response to a trigger corresponding to one of
said telephone numbers.
The Examiner’s Answer cites the following prior art:
Bicknell et al. (Bicknell) 4,754,479 June 28, 1988
Morganstein 5,029,196 July 2, 1991
Inbound/Outbound Magazine, November 1989, page 54, “The Case
for Voice Recovery Services” by Mike Bush.
OPINION
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