Method for notifying a primary wireless unit of group calling plan activity
AssigneeLucent Technologies Inc.
InventorsDeborah Lewandowski Barclay, David S Benco, Sanjeev Mahajan, Thomas Lee McRoberts, Raymond Leroy Ruggerio
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method for notifying a primary wireless unit in a group calling plan that a wireless unit in the group calling plan has call activity. An MSC determines if there is call activity on a wireless phone. The MSC determines if the wireless phone is a member of a call monitoring group. If so, the MSC records call information related to the call activity and sends the call information to the primary wireless unit.
Claims17
A method for notifying a primary wireless unit in a group calling plan that a wireless unit in the group calling plan has call activity, the method comprising:
- determining if there is call activity on a wireless phone;
- determining if the wireless phone is a member of a call monitoring group that has subscribed to a call monitoring service, wherein the call monitoring service can be enabled and disabled by the primary wireless unit, and wherein the step of enabling and disabling the call monitoring service comprises entering a feature code by the primary wireless unit;
- if the wireless phone is a member of the call monitoring group, recording call information related to the call activity;
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- sending the call information to the primary wireless unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.