Appeal No. 2006-3280
Application No. 09/874,152
if the subscriber line is busy, forwarding the call to an
intelligent peripheral within an Advanced Intelligent Network
(AIN) telecommunications system;
queuing the call to the subscriber in the intelligent
peripheral;
determining that the subscriber line is not busy by dialing
the subscriber line from the intelligent peripheral; and
if a call is queued in the intelligent peripheral and the
subscriber line is determined to be not busy, connecting the call
to the subscriber with the subscriber line.
References
The Examiner relies on the following references:
Andrews et al. (Andrews) 5,271,058 Dec. 14, 1993
Weisser, Jr. et al. (Weisser) 5,600,710 Feb. 4, 1997
Watts 5,668,861 Sep. 16, 1997
(filed Dec. 23, 1993)
Marks et al. (Marks) 5,844,896 Dec. 1, 1998
(filed Feb. 26, 1997)
Knoerle et al. (Knoerle) 6,597,780 Jul. 22, 2003
(filed Dec. 16, 1999)
Rejections at Issue
A. Claims 1, 4 through 10, 21 through 28 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the combination of
Weisser, Knoerle and Watts.
B. Claims 11 through 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over the combination of Weisser and Knoerle.
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