At&t Intellectual Property I, LP

At+t Corp.

Fred Burg

Larry A Russell

John Kantonides

Kamlesh T Tewani

Mostafa Hashem Sherif

Anthony Schinao

A telephone network voting system receives telephone ballots cast by voters by dialing a telephone number. The telephone number is dialed by voters spread over a large geographic area. The voting calls are routed to points of presence local to or otherwise identified with the caller by using the caller's ANI or other originating number identification. The points of presence then accumulate votes and periodically forward tallies to a centralized location over a data network. Instructions may be transmitted from the centralized location to the points of presence.

Techniques for telephony-based voting

The system and method of the present invention attempts completion of one call, while at least one call is in progress, between terminal equipment and a telecommunications network where the terminal equipment is connected by a point-of-attachment having a single phone number to a public switched telephone network where a dial tone is provided to the premises. Multiple calls are now allowed with an analog interface to the public switched telephone network. At least one call and control channel are combined into a modulated analog signal having a separate channel for each call and transmitted through a modulation/demodulation device as a modulated analog signal to the public switched telephone network. The modulated analog signal is split into respective calls and control channel. Each call is forwarded to a respective remote device based on the identity information and auxiliary information received through the control channel.

System and method for completing a call while at least one call is established using analog interface to telephone network

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West Long Branch, NJ, United States of America

Fred Burg