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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:
Apr. 28, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jerry Eisdorfer, Somerset, NJ (US);
Leonard R Kasday, Moorestown, NJ (US);
David E Schulz, Wheaton, IL (US);
Assignee:
AT&T, Middletown, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379 52 ; 379266 ; 34082519 ;
Abstract
A call between a caller using a telephone device for the deaf (TDD), and requiring one or more types of expertise from a calling assistant, and another person, including a TDD user, is connected by automatically prompting the TDD caller for calling information, automatically identifying the expertise needed, including the language being used, selecting a communication assistant (CA) capable of speaking in the language and other expertise, routing the call to the selected CA, and connecting the call.