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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 1996
Filed:
Jul. 29, 1994
Saundra V Bass, Somerset, NJ (US);
Donald L Blosser, Freehold, NJ (US);
Andre K Crump, Summit, NJ (US);
David B Kerr, Fogelsville, NJ (US);
Frank C LaPorta, Millington, NJ (US);
Ted M Ricci, Atlantic Highlands, NJ (US);
William H Stenger, Sr, Marlboro, NJ (US);
AT&T Corp., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A facility is disposed in a telecommunications network to provide an alternative to retrying the placing of a call to a telephone station when a busy signal is encountered. More particularly, if a subscriber places a telephone call to a called station set that is busy with another telephone call, then the facility notes that fact and terminates the subscriber's telephone call. Thereafter, the facility places a telephone call to the called station and, when the call is answered, announces at least the calling subscriber's telephone number and allows the called party to optionally extend the call back to the original calling subscriber. If the call is not answered, then the call back is terminated, and the placement of another call to the called station is rescheduled for a subsequent time.