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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 12, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Daniel Selig Furman, Summit, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Corp, Middletown, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379221 ; 379229 ; 379207 ;
Abstract
A call through a telecommunications network (10) that is dialed by a caller (12) to a lifetime number of a subscriber (14) that may be in common with the lifetime number of at least one other subscriber is routed in accordance with the past call history of one of the calling party and the subscribers with lifetime numbers common to the dialed number. The call from the caller is routed to that lifetime number subscriber to whom the caller has previously called on the basis that the caller is more likely to want a connection with someone who the caller had previously called.