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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 1997
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1994
Robert M Fuller, Redmond, WA (US);
Frederick A Epler, Issaquah, WA (US);
Maxwell E Manowski, Enumclaw, WA (US);
AccessLine Technologies, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
A telephone system which provides scheduled telephone call connecting services. The system includes a telephone switching system for concurrently servicing a plurality of telephone subscribers and a telephone switching system controller coupled to the switching system. The controller controls how calls from callers to subscribers are handled in the telephone switching system. The controller includes a memory for storing a plurality of addresses for each subscriber and a schedule for each subscriber, the controller, in response to a call directed to a subscriber, instructing the telephone switching system to connect the detected call to a selected one of the addresses stored in the memory, the selected one being selected from the plurality of addresses stored for the subscriber according to the schedule stored for the subscriber.