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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 1984
Filed:
Mar. 30, 1982
Jennie L Cottrell, Arvada, CO (US);
Richard A Davis, Boulder, CO (US);
Susan K Harris, Northglenn, CO (US);
Bernard R Jones, Arvada, CO (US);
John Y Payseur, Thornton, CO (US);
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
An arrangement in a telephone system providing for the handling of calls which have been automatically redirected to a call covering station in a customer premises telephone system. The covering station is equipped with one or more function buttons each for activating a different call processing function on a covered call at the covering station. The arrangement automatically identifies the intended principal station on a covered call and performs the necessary operations associated with an operation of one of the function buttons with respect to the principal station in question regardless of how many principal stations are covered by the covering station, thereby eliminating direct station selection (DSS) keyfields or the dialing of principal station numbers from the covering station.