Forewarning of telephone automatic answering device
OwnerFrederick A. Blominventor
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Abstract
A method for a telephone network service that utilizes state of the art intercept and message techniques to verbally advise/forewarn a calling party who is calling a line enabled for this service that the line being called will be answered by an automatic answering device, and offer the calling party the option to terminate the call before the called line answers and, if applicable, before billing for the call is initiated.
Claims4
A method for a telephone network service that can be provided to a telephone subscriber who desires to advise/forewarn incoming calls to his line that his line is enabled to be answered by an automatic answering device comprising:
- identifying a calling party's line intending to complete to said line enabled for this service,
- intercepting said calling party's line, whereby a temporary delay of the call completing process is effected,
- transmitting a verbal message to said calling party, advising that the line being called is enabled to be answered by an automatic answering device, and
- subsequently releasing said calling party's line from said intercept.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.