Apparatus and method for network-initiated real-time multi-party communications
AssigneePilgrim Telephone, Inc.
InventorsPaul Kotik, Andrew Egendorf
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Abstract
A method for providing telecommunications services in a telecommunications network. A telecommunications service provider monitors data relating to communications initiation or termination criteria for at least two communicants in the telecommunications network and initiates or terminates communications between the at least two communicants if, by processing the data, it is determined that the criteria have been met.
Claims64
A method for providing telecommunications services in a telecommunications network, comprising the steps by a telecommunications service provider of:
- monitoring data relating to communications termination criteria for at least two communicants in the telecommunications network;
- and
- terminating communications between the at least two communicants by determining, by processing the data, that the criteria have been met.
A method for providing telecommunications services in a telecommunications network, comprising the steps by a telecommunications service provider of:
- monitoring data relating to communications initiation criteria for at least two communicants in the telecommunications network, wherein at least one of the at least two communicants is a customer service center;
- and
- initiating communications among the at least two communicants by determining, by processing the data comprising temporal data, that the criteria have been met.
A method for providing telecommunications services in a telecommunications network, comprising the steps by a telecommunications service provider of:
- monitoring data relating to communications initiation criteria for at least two communicants in the telecommunications network;
- and
- initiating communications comprising at least one of e-mail and instant-messaging by determining, by processing the data comprising at least one of geographic data, temporal data, and communicant-specific data, that the criteria have been met.
A method for providing telecommunications services in a telecommunications network, comprising the step by a telecommunications service provider of:
- re-establishing communications among at least two communicants by determining that a previously established communication among the at least two communicants has been terminated without either a valid termination request from at least one of the at least two communicants or a termination initiative designed into the network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.