Enhanced telecommunications alerting
AssigneeLucent Technologies Inc.
InventorAkhtar Akhteruzzaman
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing a calling customer with arrangements for enhanced alerting of called numbers. A customer defines an alerting list which is entered by the telephone company and can be modified by the customer. When the customer dials a special number, the telephone stations associated with the telephone numbers on that customer's enhanced alerting list are alerted either in parallel (as in flexible alerting) or sequentially under the control of the caller. Advantageously, a customer can arrange to alert a predefined group of called numbers in response to dialing a special number.
Claims14
A method of alerting a called telephone station comprising the steps of:
- defining, for a calling customer, an enhanced alerting list and a telephone number for calling for said enhanced alerting list;
- responsive to said customer dialing said telephone number, alerting the telephones of the telephone numbers on said enhanced alerting list.
Apparatus for alerting a called telephone station comprising:
- means for defining, for a calling customer, an enhanced alerting list and a telephone number for calling for said enhanced alerting list;
- means, responsive to said customer dialing said telephone number, for alerting the telephones of the telephone numbers on said enhanced alerting list.
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