Method and apparatus for forwarding a caller identification for a credit card or calling card call to an automatic number identification system of a telephone network
AssigneeAT&T Corp.
InventorThaddeus Julius Kowalski
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Abstract
A telecommunication system enables a called party having a caller identification device to learn the identity of a calling party although the calling party is a credit card caller, a calling card caller, a caller using an Intelligent/Agent service, a caller using a pager or a caller connected to a PBX system. If the calling party's ANI does not fully identify the calling party, information stored in a database is used to supplement the ANI so that the calling party can be identified.
Claims4
In a telecommunications network, a method for providing calling party identification information to a called party, the method comprising the steps of:
- receiving first information associated with a calling party;
- in response to receiving the first information, retrieving second information associated with the first information;
- determining whether the second information further identifies the calling party;
- responsive to a determination that the second information further identifies the calling party, forwarding the second information to the called party;
- and
- responsive to a determination that the second information does not further identify the calling party, forwarding the first information to the called party.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.