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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 29, 1999
Eugene William Foster, Naperville, IL (US);
Kimberly Sue Tomasko-Dean, LaGrange, IL (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, method and system are provided for hand-off of a communication session utilizing directed call pick up with barge-in, in which the communication session of a mobile unit is transferred from a serving base station to a target base station. The preferred system includes a switch coupled to a serving base station and. a target base station, wherein the target base station includes instructions to generate a barge-in call path to a switch. The switch includes instructions to connect the barge-in call path to the communication session of the mobile unit to form a reverse three-way communication session. Following a provision for the mobile unit to communicate with the target base station for continuation of the communication session through the barge-in call path, the serving base station disconnects from the communication session. The barge-in call path. from the target base station to the switch is established through the transmission of various messages between the target base station and the switch. In one of the embodiments, the target base station includes instructions to transmit a call set up message to the switch, to transmit a first sequence of information messages to the switch requesting a directed call pick up with barge-in, and to transmit a second sequence of information messages to the switch specifying a first predesignated directory number associated with the communication session at the serving base station.