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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 1992
Filed:
Jun. 22, 1990
Tracy Rust, Austin, TX (US);
Cathy Arledge, Austin, TX (US);
Gordon Ford, Round Rock, TX (US);
Nigel James, Aberdeen, MD (US);
Rolm Systems, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for capturing and saving recently dialed telephone numbers and for redialing automatically a telephone number from among the most recently dialed telephone numbers. Embodiments of the present invention: (a) capture an outgoing telephone number when it is dialed by a caller; (b) enter the telephone number into a database comprised of the last N telephone numbers that were dialed, where N is a predetermined number of telephone numbers, while eliminating duplicative entries for a particular telephone number; (c) display the telephone numbers in the directory in response to caller input; and (d) cause a telephone number in the directory to be redialed in response to caller input.