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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2000

Filed:

Jul. 10, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:

David Charles Hochman, Nicamie, CA (US);

Richard Ukeno, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379211 ; 379201 ; 379 9324 ;
Abstract

A method for routing a call to a called party who may be located at any one of plural sites which avoids delays in connecting the called party to the received call. When a call is received at a switch, a controller at the switch uses an embedded data base to identify plural sites where the called party may be located from among a multiplicity of sites to which the switch can be connected and causes the switch to initiate parallel connections from the switch to the identified sites. The received telephone call is routed through the switch to a one of the sites at which the called party responds to the initiated connections, and the initiated connections from the switch to the other of the identified plural sites are thereafter disestablished.


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