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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2000
Diane Doran Blum, San Jose, CA (US);
Mridu Garg, Chicago, IL (US);
Andre Floyd Johnson, Naperville, IL (US);
Lila Elizabeth Russ, Plainfield, IL (US);
Avaya Technology Corp., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
The system for providing calling party privacy during subscriber call screening for a central office switching system enables a subscriber to monitor and intercept the last forwarded, active call to the Voice Messaging System, while providing the calling party with privacy as the voice messaging system provides the prerecorded instructions/message to the calling party. The calling party privacy feature delays call screening alerting to the subscriber to prevent the subscriber from monitoring the call connection until the calling party is recording their message on the voice messaging system. Depending on the method used, once the calling party privacy feature requirements are satisfied, the subscriber call screening system notifies the subscriber of the presence of a calling party who is recording a message for the subscriber on the Voice Messaging System.