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Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2011

Filed:

Oct. 14, 2008
Applicants:

Philip Ted Kortum, Austin, TX (US);

Robert R. Bushey, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Inventors:

Philip Ted Kortum, Austin, TX (US);

Robert R. Bushey, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Assignee:

AT&T Labs, Inc., Austin, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 11/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method of presenting instructions to a user sending an incoming communication to a service center includes presenting a menu to the user. The menu includes a plurality of procedure descriptors to the user. The user is presented, according to a selection of one of the procedure descriptors by the user, a sequence of instructions which enable completion of a procedure described by the selected procedure descriptor. The incoming communication is transferred at a position in the sequence of instructions to a representative. The incoming communication is also transferred back to the same position in the sequence of instructions.


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