Telephonic communications – Special services – Service trigger
Patent
1994-11-09
1995-10-31
Hofsass, Jeffrey A.
Telephonic communications
Special services
Service trigger
379 92, 379216, 379219, 379265, 379309, H04M 342, H04M 700, H04M 300, H04Q 364
Patent
active
054636850
ABSTRACT:
An outbound call management capability is provided for a public switched telephone network by a network based outbound call management (NOCM) complex, which can be accessed by all subscribers to the public switched network through one or more central offices in the network. A predetermined list of telephone numbers is stored in a data base in the NOCM complex for each subscriber who uses the NOCM services. The telephone numbers are automatically dialed at one or more predetermined scheduled times. When one of the dialed telephones is answered, the NOCM complex sets up a connection through the public switched telephone network between the called party and one or more attendants at one or more telephone numbers specified by a customer of the NOCM services. The NOCM services are made available to any subscriber of the public switched telephone network by provision of a special access code which permits a subscriber who is a customer of this service to dial the NOCM complex which will then interact with the customer by responding to voice or DTMF commands from the customer. The customer may program the list of telephone numbers to be called and program the telephone phone numbers to be used by the NOCM system to connect awaiting attendants with parties automatically called by the NOCM system. The NOCM system customer may set the time for the execution of his calling program by the NOCM system, and may interrupt or otherwise influence or change the execution of his program. All of this may be accomplished without a need to purchase expensive outbound call management premises equipment or to retain the services of a special provider of outbound call management services.
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Gaechter Barbara I.
Sahni Paramdeep S.
Tseng I. Grace
AT&T IPM Corp.
Hofsass Jeffrey A.
Hong Harry S.
Indyk Eugene S.
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