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US 5,867,562 AGranted
Call processing system with call screening
OwnerGordon F. Schererinventor
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Abstract
A system is described in which call processing considers unique information about the call to better serve the caller and/or to enable the called party to more efficiently handle the call. In one embodiment, the unique information considered by the call processor is information indicator digits, which may indicate to the called party whether to accept the call before the voice portion of the call is initiated.
Claims10
A method of processing a call, said method comprising the steps of:
- providing a call processor which receives information associated with said call;
- receiving said information including info-indicator (II) digits, dialed number, and the calling number (ANI) associated with said call;
- analyzing the ANI of said call based on the info-indicator (II) digits of said call;
- providing a new caller identification which includes the ANI as defined by II digits;
- and
- handling the call based on the new caller identification and dialed number as defined by the info-indicator (II) digits of said call.
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A telephone call processing method, comprising:
- providing a call processor which receives information associated with said call;
- receiving said information including info-indicator (II) digits and the calling number (ANI) associated with said call;
- analyzing said info-indicator (II) digits to determine the source type of said call;
- prompting said caller via an automatic voice response unit for a new caller identification different from said received calling number (ANI), said new caller identification representing data about the actual caller;
- and
- storing said new caller identification.
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A telephone call processing method, comprising:
- providing a call processor which receives information associated with said call;
- receiving said information including info-indicator (II) digits and the calling number (ANI) associated with said call;
- analyzing said info-indicator (II) digits to determine the source type of said call;
- prompting said caller via an automatic voice response unit for a new caller identification, said new caller identification representing data about the actual caller different from said received calling number (ANI);
- storing said new caller identification;
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- replacing said received calling number (ANI) with said new caller identification by storing said new caller identification in said data field used by said received calling number (ANI).
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A telephone call processing method, comprising the steps of:
- providing a call processor which receives information associated with said call;
- receiving said information including the calling number (ANI) associated with said call;
- analyzing the NPA-NXX of said calling number (ANI) to determine the source of said call;
- and
- modifying the call path of an automatic voice response script based on the determination of said source of said call.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.