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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 21, 1999
Chinmei Chen Lee, Woodbridge, IL (US);
Douglas William Varney, Naperville, IL (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system and method for remote activation of customized telecommunication services are provided for data network telephony subscribers in a data network. In response to a call originator placing a call to a terminating telephony subscriber in the data network, a telephony server routes the call according to custom telecommunication service instructions provided in advance by the telephony subscriber and stored remotely from the telephony subscriber's point of presence on the data network. The call originator may be a data network telephony subscriber or a subscriber in the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). The telephony server preferably performs the call routing based custom telecommunication service instructions (along with the subscriber's network address) retrieved from a subscriber profile server that maintains a subscriber profile database. A registration server may be provided to forward a data network address assigned to the telephony subscriber to the subscriber profile server when telephony service is invoked. Registration service may be provided on behalf of dial-up data network telephony subscribers in association with a network access server.