Supervised call redirection

A method of redirecting an incoming telephone call from a calling party to a subscriber comprising:

• sensing said incoming telephone call having a DN associated with a subscriber line of said subscriber;
• initiating a first outgoing call to said subscriber line;
• accessing a database for a record corresponding to said incoming telephone call;
• determining, based upon information associated with said record, whether call forwarding is active, and in response to determination that call forwarding is active, retrieving forwarding location information from said database;
• locating said subscriber by initiating one or more forwarding outgoing telephone calls to corresponding one or more forwarding locations;
• and
• answering and connecting said incoming telephone call to said subscriber, if said subscriber answers a one of said first outgoing call to said subscriber line and said one or more forwarding outgoing telephone calls.

A computer readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions which, when performed by a processor in a telephone system, cause said processor to:

• receive an indication of an incoming call to a destination number (“DN”) associated with a subscriber line;
• initiating an outgoing call to said subscriber line;
• access a database for a record corresponding to said DN;
• determine, based upon information associated with said record, whether call forwarding is active;
• and
• in response to determining that call forwarding is active, initiate one or more outgoing calls to one or more forwarding numbers while leaving said incoming call unanswered.