Appeal No. 1998-1898
Application 08/497,721
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 1-3, 5, and 7-10. Claims 4
and 6 have been canceled.
We reverse.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention relates to a telephone call
forwarding system.
Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. For use in an Advanced Intelligent Network
(AIN) provided with, for each subscriber, (a) a
subscriber Service Number, (b) a subscriber Calling
Number, and (c) a subscriber Call Forwarding Profile
including a plurality of Destination Numbers each
assigned a calling day, a calling time, and a calling
priority designation, an automated call handling method
for enabling a caller to dial a single telephone number
and reach a subscriber at one of a plurality of
separate locations, comprising:
generating a call to a subscriber by dialing a
subscriber Service Number;
processing the call to determine the calling day
and the calling time of the call and the subscriber
Service Number;
processing the subscriber Service Number to
identify the subscriber Call Forwarding Profile
corresponding to the subscriber Service Number to
generate (a) a list of Destination Numbers to route the
call, and (b) a corresponding routing order with
respect to the calling day and the calling time of the
call;
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