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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2001
Thomas E. Creamer, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Zygmunt A. Lozinski, Winchester, GB;
Victor S. Moore, Boynton Beach, FL (US);
Glen R. Walters, Hollywood, FL (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The invention provides a method and apparatus for an extensible markup language (XML) calendar-telephony interface. The method can include the steps of defining an markup language element having a user defined tag that represents a calendar entry. The markup language element can have attributes which can represent call control instructions or information. The attributes can also be formatted using a markup language format that utilizes user defined tags. The elements and/or attributes can be formatted using XML format. The call control instruction can be provided to a telephony application upon initiation of a call or by request. A calendar application program can be used for maintaining calendar entries which can be stored in a database and made accessible to the telephony call control application. Utilizing call rejection as an illustration, a called party can have an XML formatted calendar entry stored which indicates that no calls are to be received from callers during a specified period except calls from a caller having a particular DN. If a call is initiated by a caller having that particular DN during the specified time period, the telephony application can determine that the call should be allowed. Accordingly, a network signaling device can be instructed to route the call to the dialed DN. If the calling DN was different from the particular DN stored in the XML calendar database, the call would not be completed.