Method, system, and article for audibly identifying a called party
AssigneeAmeritech Corporation
InventorsRaymond Walden Bennett III, Robert Wesley Bossemeyer JR., Gayle Roberta Ekstrom, Laura Marie Griffith, Edmond W. Israelski, Denise Violetta Kagan
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Abstract
A dialed number of a called party is received from a calling party. Based on the dialed number, a name of the called party is retrieved from a database. An audio message which includes the name of the called party is generated and communicated to the calling party. A call is routed between the calling party and the called party after said communicating the audio message.
Claims22
A method comprising:
- receiving, from a calling party, a dialed number of a called party;
- retrieving, from a database, a name of the called party based on the dialed number;
- generating an audio message which includes the name of the called party;
- communicating the audio message to the calling party;
- and
- routing a call between the calling party and the called party after said communicating the audio message.
A method comprising:
- receiving a misdialed number from a calling party;
- retrieving, from a database, a name of a party having the misdialed number;
- generating an audio message which includes the name of the party having the misdialed number;
- communicating the audio message which includes the name of the party having the misdialed number to the calling party;
- inhibiting routing a call to the party having the misdialed number for a first time period;
- detecting an on-hook state from the calling party during the first time period;
- terminating the call to the party having the misdialed number based on said detecting;
- receiving, from the calling party, a correctly dialed number of a called party;
- retrieving, from the database, a name of the called party based on the correctly dialed number;
- generating an audio message which includes the name of the called party;
- communicating the audio message which includes the name of the called party to the calling party;
- determining an absence of an on-hook state from the calling party during a second time period after said communicating the audio message which includes the name of the called party;
- and
- routing a call between the calling party and the called party after the second time period.
A system comprising:
- at least one telephone network element to receive a dialed number of a called party from a calling party, to retrieve from a database a name of the called party based on the dialed number, to generate an audio message which includes the name of the called party, to communicate the audio message to the calling party, and to route a call between the calling party and the called party after communicating the audio message.
A computer-readable medium whose contents cause at least one telephone network element to retrieve a name of a called party from a database based on a dialed number received from a calling party, to generate an audio message which includes the name of the called party, to communicate the audio message to the calling party, and to route a call between the calling party and the called party after communicating the audio message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.