Priority incoming call alerting system for a wireless communication system

A method of providing priority incoming call alerting for screening communication connections from a calling party to a wireless subscriber equipped with a wireless telephone station which is served by a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of:

• determining, in response to an incoming communication connection directed to said wireless telephone station, a priority of said incoming communication connection;
• determining a privacy level assigned to a present physical location of said wireless telephone station, comprising at least one of:
• storing data, received from said wireless telephone station, indicative of a privacy level assigned, exclusive of said subscriber, to said present physical location of said wireless telephone station;
• determining a privacy level assigned to said present physical location of said wireless telephone station, from present physical location definition data received from said wireless telephone station, and pre-stored privacy definition data associated with said present physical location;and
• extending, in response to said determined priority of said incoming communication connection corresponds to said privacy level assigned to said determined present location of said wireless telephone station, said incoming communication connection to said wireless telephone station.

A priority incoming call alerting system for screening communication connections from a calling party to a wireless subscriber equipped with a wireless telephone station which is served by a wireless communication system, comprising:

• incoming call priority determining means, responsive to an incoming communication connection directed to said wireless telephone station, for determining a priority of said incoming communication connection;
• means for determining a privacy level assigned to a present physical location of said wireless telephone station, comprising at least of:
• site privacy definition means for storing data, received from said wireless telephone station, indicative of a privacy level assigned, exclusive of said subscriber, to said present physical location of said wireless telephone station;
• site privacy determining means for determining a privacy level assigned to said present physical location of said wireless telephone station, from present physical location definition data received from said wireless telephone station, and pre-stored privacy definition data associated with said present physical location;
• call screening means, responsive to said determined priority of said incoming communication connection corresponding to said privacy level assigned to said determined present location of said wireless telephone station, for extending said incoming communication connection to said wireless telephone station;
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• call redirecting means, responsive to said determined priority of said incoming communication connection failing to correspond to said privacy level assigned to said wireless subscriber, for extending said incoming communication connection to a call coverage point for said wireless telephone station.