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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:
Oct. 31, 1995
Filed:
Nov. 04, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
William L Millios, Washington, DC (US);
David E Schulz, Wheaton, IL (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Corp., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379 52 ; 379201 ; 34082519 ;
Abstract
A call between a caller using a telephone device for the deaf (TDD) and another including a TDD user is connected by automatically prompting the TDD caller for calling information, parsing the received calling information to determine a forward number, and routing the call to one of a number of communication assistants. One embodiment involves storing the forward number before routing the call so the communications assistant can press a single button to connect the call. Another embodiment entails connecting the call automatically routing the call to the communications assistant.