Lucent Technologies Inc.

Robert John Zurawski

Robert T Calabrese

Robin Jeffrey Thompson

Jeffrey Arthur Zahnle

Langdon Edward Alger

John Mitchell Rendak

Tracy Edwin Iii East

The present invention supports a voice messaging service in a wireless communications system. A subscriber accesses a voice messaging system (VMS) through a wireless device in order to retrieve voice messages that are deposited into the subscriber's voice mailbox. The subscriber may wish to return a call to a call sender. The call is established to the call sender's directory number through a serving mobile switching center (MSC) in concert with a service control point (SCP) and an intelligent peripheral (IP). The subscriber may return to the VMS so that the subscriber can resume the voice mail session. The subscriber ends the call or optionally enters a feature rebound code. The IP detects an associated call event and initiates a connection between the subscriber and the VMS. The IP notifies the SCP, causing the SCP to instruct the serving MSC to re-establish the connection between the subscriber and the VMS.

Method and apparatus for supporting voice message services with automatic rebound in a wireless intelligent network

An apparatus and method in a telephone communications system that provide for redirecting a call by an adjunct processor, utilizing a control message. The control message contains various directives for current or subsequent execution by a telephone switching center, which can assume a function of a mobile switching center in a wireless communications system or a landline switching center in a landline telephone system. Directives in the control message instruct the telephone switching center to redirect a call contingent upon subsequent call events that can occur.

Method and apparatus providing call redirection for subsequent call events in a telephone communications system

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