Appeal No. 2001-2055 Page 9
Application No. 08/750,870
they admit that "the Home MTSO site . . . establishes a communication connection
when a call is subsequently made to the intended subscriber. . . ." (Id. at 3.)
Furthermore, we find that the aforementioned communications connection
between the caller and the roamer is established if required by the service requested by
the roamer. More specifically, when the caller attempts to call the roamer, the
communication connection is established therebetween only if the roamer has
requested the aforementioned service of transparent call forwarding. If the roamer has
not requested that service, but has instead requested the service of caller notification,
no communication connection is established between the caller and the roamer.
Instead, "calls to the roamer will be routed to the VRS 12 located at the home site." Id.
at ll. 6-7. "The VRS is programmed to analyze this digit spill and play a message to the
caller which indicates where the roamer is located, and the roamer port access number
that should be used to call the roamer." Id. at ll. 21-25. "An example of a message that
would be played is: 'The person that you have called is out of the local area. If you wish
to reach this person, please call 609-226-7626 in Atlantic City, N.J.'" Id. at ll. 25-28.
In summary, Sonberg's system directs requests for its call forwarding service and
its call notification service from a roamer to service processing means and responds
thereto via signaling connections. When a user attempts to call the roamer, the
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