Appeal No. 2006-3280
Application No. 09/874,152
Invention
Appellants’ invention relates generally to a method and
apparatus for queuing calls placed by a caller to a subscriber
line having a Call Forward on Busy Line functionality within an
Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) telecommunication system.
When the subscriber line is busy, the Call Forward On Busy Line
functionality comprised therein reroutes all calls in destination
to the subscriber line to a local switch servicing said
subscriber line. The local switch, in turn, forwards the
subscriber calls to an intelligent peripheral within the AIN
system, which then queues the forwarded calls in available queue
slots. The intelligent peripheral subsequently places a busy
check on the subscriber line. If the subscriber line is no
longer busy, the local switch then forwards the busy check back
to the intelligent peripheral, which drops the busy check and
connects a queued subscriber call with the busy check call.
Claim 1 is representative of the claimed invention and is
reproduced as follows:
1. A method of queuing calls to a subscriber of queuing
services accessed through a subscriber line, the method
comprising:
provisioning Call Forward on Busy Line on the subscriber
line to permit detecting a call to the subscriber line at a local
switch connected to the subscriber line;
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