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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:
Aug. 27, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 02, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Stuart M. Garland, DuPage County, IL (US);
Lila N. Russ, Will County, IL (US);
David B. Smith, DuPage County, IL (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/00 ; H04M 3/42 ; H04M 7/00 ; H04M 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/00 ; H04M 3/42 ; H04M 7/00 ; H04M 1/100 ;
Abstract
A system and method for utilizing suppressed ringing with a plurality of communication devices. The system creates a suppressed ringing signal, at a remote computer, for at least one of the plurality of communication devices, implements a protocol to direct the suppressed ringing signal to the communication device through a private network and transmits the suppressed ringing signal from the remote computer, through the private network, to the communication device.