Appeal No. 2002-1136
Application 09/030,601
See page 1 of Appellants’ specification. The method commences
upon receipt of a call from the calling party dialed to the Plain
Old Telephony Service (POTS) number of the called party. A first
hub, such as a local office, receives and routes the call to the
called party if the called party is not on line. If the called
party is on line, the first hub offers the call to the Internet
Service Provider (ISP) serving the called party. The ISP serving
the called party converts the call to an Internet format and then
delivers the call to the called party over the Internet. See
page 2 of Appellants’ specification.
Independent claim 1 present in the application is
representative of the claimed invention and is reproduced as
follows:
1. A method for completing a call dialed from a calling
party to a Plain Old Telephony Service (POTS) number associated
with a called party, comprising the steps of:
receiving the call dialed to the POTS number associated with
the called party at a first hub in a telecommunications network;
routing the call to the called party if the called party is
not an Internet Telephony (IT) services subscriber that is
presently on-line, but if the called party is an IT subscriber
that is on line, then
receiving the call from the calling party at an Internet
Service Provider serving the called party;
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