Appeal No. 2006-3280
Application No. 09/874,152
notified of the disconnect by playing an announcement
such as "Your Notification Hold call has been
disconnected. If you wish to re-initiate the call,
please press one now". The calling party either
confirms the announcement whereupon the call is re-
initiated by the intelligent peripheral, or the calling
party simply disconnects.
With the above discussion in mind, we find that Weisser
teaches a method for re-routing a call to an AIN system when a
subscriber line for which the call was intended is busy. Weisser
discloses playing a recorded message to a calling party while
waiting on hold to be connected to the subscriber line. Next, we
find that Knoerle teaches a system for providing a continuous
tone to a caller being re-routed from a service node to a central
office (see abstract). Additionally, we find that Watts teaches
a system wherein an intelligent peripheral initiates a call to a
calling party when said party’s call was dropped while waiting on
hold to be connected with the called party.
It is our view that one of ordinary skill in the art would
have duly recognized that the combined teaching of Weisser,
Knoerle and Watts does not amount to the invention as set forth
in representative claim 1. Particularly, the ordinarily skilled
artisan would have readily been apprised of the fact that the
teachings of the combined references amount to, at best, a method
that allows a calling party to be connected to a called party
when the latter’s line is available for communication, and in the
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