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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:
Nov. 10, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 20, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Charles Thomson Richardson, Jr, Norcross, GA (US);
Kevin Lee Austin, Roswell, GA (US);
Samuel F Billingsley, III, Atlanta, GA (US);
Assignee:
United States Advanced Network, Inc., Norcross, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ; H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379 88 ; 379142 ; 379196 ; 379245 ;
Abstract
Method and apparatus for providing customized, billing-controlled call bridging services through a bridging node which includes a node interface for connection through incoming and outgoing telephone trunks to a carrier switch of a public switched network, an audio peripheral for recording, playing, and analyzing audio signals, and a node controller for controlling operation of the node interface and the audio peripheral.