Internet on hold

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1996-04-01

1999-11-09

Tsang, Fan S.

Multiplex communications

Pathfinding or routing

Switching a message which includes an address header

370352, 370389, 370404, 370427, 379215, 379216, 379217, 379218, H04L 1266, H04L 1228, H04M 342

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ABSTRACT:
A user connected to the Internet (102), over his or her telephone line (105), through an Internet Access Provider (IAP) (104) can place the Internet connection on hold to take an incoming telephone call from a calling party at a telephone set (110). The user is informed of the waiting call by means of a signal send by the Local Exchange Carrier (LEC) (103) to the IAP that indicates the presence of the waiting call and the identity of the calling party. This information is then transmitted by the IAP to the user's terminal (101). Upon an affirmative decision to take the call, indicated to the IAP by means of a "click" on the screen of the user's terminal, the call to the IAP is placed on hold and the incoming call is connected to the user's telephone set (111).

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Publication No. 08032682, published Feb. 2, 1996, by H. Yutaka.

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