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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2015

Filed:

May. 27, 2009
Applicants:

Euclid S. Brooks, Laurel, MD (US);

Jeffrey R. Evans, Lovettsville, VA (US);

Nashwa F. Sidhom, Edison, NJ (US);

Henry L. Tam, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Inventors:

Euclid S. Brooks, Laurel, MD (US);

Jeffrey R. Evans, Lovettsville, VA (US);

Nashwa F. Sidhom, Edison, NJ (US);

Henry L. Tam, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Assignee:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/42 (2006.01); H04M 3/46 (2006.01); H04M 3/493 (2006.01); H04M 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/46 (2013.01); H04M 3/4936 (2013.01); H04M 7/006 (2013.01); H04M 2207/08 (2013.01); H04M 2207/12 (2013.01); H04M 2207/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

A device receives information associated with a calling party, validates the calling party for an originating locator service based on the calling party information, and sends an instruction to play an announcement requesting information associated with a called party. The device also receives the called party information from the calling party in response to the announcement, and retrieves called party destination information based on the called party information. The device then sends an instruction to originate a sequence of calls to the called party based on the called party destination information.


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