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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:
Dec. 24, 1996
Filed:
Jul. 08, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert M Fuller, Redmond, WA (US);
Frederick A Epler, Issaquah, WA (US);
Maxwell E Manowski, Enumclaw, WA (US);
Assignee:
Accessline Technologies, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379 57 ; 379201 ; 379199 ;
Abstract
A telephone switching and control system connected to a telephone network for providing telephone calling services to an authorized user. The telephone switching and control system includes at least one switch for concurrently servicing a plurality of users; and at least one controller for receiving user authorization information, controlling the at least one switch and, during a call from the user, permitting that call to be extended to one or more network addresses in a series of extensions of that call without requiring the user to go on hook.