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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 14, 1997
John D Elliott, Portland, OR (US);
Mark D Zuber, Beaverton, OR (US);
Michael F Buondonno, Beaverton, OR (US);
Kenneth L Keeler, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Mojtaba Mirashrafi, Portland, OR (US);
Keith A Pirkl, Vancouver, WA (US);
Al J Simon, Hillsboro, OR (US);
George L Taylor, Tigard, OR (US);
eFusion, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
An apparatus is provided with a storage medium having stored therein programming instructions that implement a set of communication services for bridging a voice call from a caller to a calle, and an execution unit coupled to the storage medium for executing the programming instructions. The communication services include call management services for transitioning the voice call through a plurality of call states [including a call holding state] while connecting/disconnecting the caller and the callee, and facilitating selective provision of information in non-audio form to the caller [in at least the call holding state] while transitioning the voice calls through the call states. The caller is also equipped to receive non-audio information.