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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 1993
Filed:
Aug. 26, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael K Pula, Naperville, IL (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ; H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379 67 ; 379 88 ; 379 89 ; 379 97 ;
Abstract
This invention relates to a method and apparatus for establishing telecommunications calls. An intelligent peripheral is bridged to a call being dialed. If the intelligent peripheral recognizes a need to supply information for establishing a call, or for signaling a customer request, the intelligent peripheral supplies digits or characters on the customer's behalf for use by the switch. The peripheral optionally has speech recognition apparatus for interpreting customer requests and supplying the digits needed to implement that request.