Home gateway system with telephony functions and method
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsRobert Bossemeyer, Raymond Bennett, Donald Liebrecht, Barry Sullivan
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Abstract
A home gateway system has a transceiver (70) capable of establishing a wireless local loop connection (72). A voice processing system (74) is coupled to the transceiver (70). The voice processing system (74) is capable of storing a message from an incoming call. A caller identification processing system (76) is coupled to the transceiver (70). The caller identification processing system (76) determines a telephone number of the incoming call and routes the incoming call to the voice processing system (74), if the telephone number belongs to a screened group of telephone numbers.
Claims24
A home gateway system comprising:
- a transceiver capable of establishing a wireless local loop connection;
- a voice processing system coupled to the transceiver, the voice processing system capable of storing a message from an incoming call;
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- a caller identification processing system coupled to the transceiver, the caller identification processing system determining a telephone number of the incoming call and routing the incoming call to the voice processing system if the telephone number belongs to a screened group of telephone numbers.
11-15. (canceled)
A method of operating a home gateway system, comprising the steps of:
- (a) receiving an off hook signal;
- (b) determining if an external telephone line request has been received;
- (c) when the external telephone line request is received, determining if all of a plurality of external telephone lines are in use;
- (d) when all of the plurality of external telephone lines are in use, performing a derive lines procedure;
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- (e) connecting a call in response to the external telephone line request.
A home gateway system comprising:
- a switch connected to an external telephony channel and an internal telephony channel;
- a processor connected to the switch, the processor sending and receiving messages from the switch;
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- a caller identification system connected to the processor, the caller identification system receiving an identify query from the processor.
29-37. (canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.