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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2001
Ronald Durkson Stelter, San Ramon, CA (US);
Wendell Brown, Las Vegas, NV (US);
America Online, Inc., Dulles, VA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are provided for forwarding information regarding a called party to a third party, for a call originated from a calling party to the called party. The information may comprise a telephone number of the called party and the call may be forwarded along with the information, so that the third party can provide a telephone service (e.g., centralized voice mail). At a telephone switch coupled to the third party, the forwarded call is received with the identifying information via a first signaling protocol (e.g., SS7). A second signaling protocol (e.g., SMDI, ISDN PRI) is used between the switch and the third party. The identifying information is retrieved from one field of the first protocol and stored in a different field of the second protocol.