Toll fraud control override

An operator system comprising:

• means for indicating an absence of answer supervision for a call having communications disabled over one of a plurality of call connections at a switching system for serving a calling and called line,
• means for receiving information indicating an actual answer of said call, and
• means controllable by said indicating and receiving means for removing the disabling of communications over said one of call connections in response to the absence of said answer supervision and the receipt of said information concurrently persisting during the absence of said answer supervision.

In a switching system having a network operable for establishing unidirectional communication paths between a calling and a called line, apparatus comprising:

• means responsive to a receipt of a call from said calling line for operating said network to establish a receive one of said paths from said called to said calling line;
• and
• means responsive to a receipt of answer supervision for said call for operating said network to establish a transmit one of said paths from said calling to said called line and also responsive to an absence of said answer supervision and a receipt of information indicating an actual answer of said call concurrently persisting during the absence of said answer supervision for operating said network to establish said transmit path.

A method of handling calls over call connections having unidirectional communication paths through a switching system which establishes said call connections therethrough for serving a calling and a called line in response to a receipt of a call from said calling line, comprising:

• disabling communications over one of said unidirectional communication paths following the establishment of said call connections until a receipt of answer supervision for said call;
• and
• removing said disabling of communications over said on unidirectional path in response to an absence of said answer supervision and a receipt of information indicating an actual answer of said call concurrently persisting during the absence of said answer supervision.

A method of handling a call over call connections through a switching system comprising:

• maintaining one of said call connections in a noncommunicative state during an absence of answer supervision for said call and until an actual answer of said call during a concurrent persistence of said absence of said answer supervision.

An operator system comprising:

• means for indicating an absence of answer supervision for a call having communications disabled over one of a plurality of call connections at a switching system for serving a calling and a called line,
• means for receiving information indicating an actual answer of said call, and
• means activated under operator control during a processing of said call and during a persistence of said actual call answer and said absence of said answer supervision for enabling communications over said one of said call connections.