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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kimberly A. Baals, Woodinville, WA (US);
Darren A. Kall, Woodinville, WA (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hills, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/20 ; H04M 3/42 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/20 ; H04M 3/42 ;
Abstract
A method and system of processing a call from a calling party to a called party are provided to enable selective call waiting which involves determining whether the called party is busy on another call; receiving a password from the calling party; and providing a call waiting signal to the called party only if the password corresponds to at least one predefined password associated with the called party.