Call handling method and apparatuses
OwnerDavid Grubbinventor
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Abstract
A call handling apparatus includes a recording medium (34) operative to store a call record (38) associated with a call made by a calling party (16) to a called party (17) and received by a plain-old-telephone service (“POTS”) telecommunication interface (19) disposed at an end-user site (14) associated with the called party (17). A web server (20) is configured for use at the end-user site (14) to receive the call record.(38) from the recording medium, and to generate a World Wide Web (“Web”) page (72) based on the call record. The call record (38) is remotely accessible by the called party (17) using a Web browser (94) configured to access the Web page (72).
Claims19
A call handling apparatus, comprising:
- a recording medium operative to store a call record associated with a call made by a calling party to a called party and received by a plain-old-telephone service (“POTS”) telecommunication interface disposed at an end-user site associated with the called party;
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- a web server configured for use at the end-user site to receive the call record from the recording medium and to generate a World Wide Web (“Web”) page based on the call record,
- wherein when the call record remotely accessible by the called party using a Web browser configured to access the Web page.
A method for call handling, comprising:
- at an end-user site associated with a called party, arranging for storage of a call record associated with a call made by a calling party to the called party and received by a POTS telecommunication interface disposed at the end-user site;
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- at the end-user site, arranging for generating a Web page based on the call record, the call record remotely accessible by the called party using a Web browser configured to access the Web page.
A call handling apparatus, comprising:
- a computer-readable storage medium configured to store a computer program;
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- a processor responsive to the computer-readable storage medium and to the computer program, the computer program, when loaded into the processor and executed, operative to:
- arrange for storage of a call record associated with a call made by a calling party to a called party and received by a POTS telecommunication interface disposed at an end-user site associated with the called party;
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- at the end-user site, arrange for generating a Web page based on the call record, the call record remotely accessible by the called party using a Web browser configured to access the Web page.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.