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US 6,725,045 B2Granted
System and method for locating personal units, notifying called parties of incoming calls and automatically routing calls to desired telephone stations
AssigneeVirtual Extension Ltd.
InventorsYariv Oren, Leor Hardy
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to various methods and systems for locating people and routing telephone calls to telephone stations selected by the called party. According to some embodiments of the present invention, the system may include wireless personal units and a location and routing unit adapted to locate the personal units and to route an incoming call intended for a telephone user associated with a particular personal unit to any one of the telephone stations selected by the telephone user.
Claims10
A system comprising:
- a plurality of wireless personal units, each associated with a respective telephone user;
- a location and routing unit coupled to a telephone exchange having telephone stations, said location and routing unit to locate a particular one of said personal units and to notify said particular personal unit of an incoming call intended for its respective telephone user and to automatically route said incoming call to a desired telephone station being in proximity to said particular personal unit once said telephone user off-hooks said desired telephone station;
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- a plurality of gateways each coupled to one of said telephone stations, said gateways to communicate with said location and routing unit and with said personal units.
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A system comprising:
- a plurality of personal units, each associated with a respective telephone user and with either of a first telephone exchange or a second telephone exchange, said first telephone exchange having first telephone stations, said first telephone exchange and said second telephone exchange connected by a private network or a public switched telephone network;
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- a first location and routing unit coupled to said first telephone exchange, said location and routing unit to locate a particular personal unit associated with said second telephone exchange based on a signal produced by said particular personal unit when said particular personal unit is located at said first predefined coverage area, said first locating and routing unit to notify said particular personal unit of an incoming call intended for its respective telephone user and to automatically route said incoming call to a desired first telephone station being in proximity to said particular personal unit once said telephone user off-hooks said desired first telephone station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.