Appeal No. 1997-4348 Page 2
Application No. 08/088,708
The invention is directed to a call forwarding system
wherein calls are automatically communicated to selected
locations.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as
follows:
1. For use in an Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN), a
system for automatically routing communications from a calling
party having a Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) device to a
secondary party having a single calling number for a plurality
of CPE devices, each of said secondary party CPE devices placed
at a different geographic location and having a corresponding
communication address, the system comprising:
a Service Switching Point (SSP) in electrical
communication with said calling party CPE device and said
plurality of secondary party CPE devices, said SSP provisioned
with Automatic Call distribution (ACD) architecture;
a Signal Transfer Point (STP) in electrical communication
with said central office SSP; and
a Service Control Point (SCP) in electrical communication
with said STP, said SCP adapted to forward control signals to
said SSP causing said communications to be parked on queue in
said ACD while said ACD performs selected routing functions in
a predetermined sequence in an attempt to locate said secondary
party at one of said communication addresses.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Brennan et al. (Brennan) 5,329,578 Jul.
12, 1994
(filed May 26, 1992)
Emery et al. (Emery) 5,353,331 Oct. 4,
1994
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