Frank Laporta

US Patent:

58355685, Nov 10, 1998

Filed:

Apr 8, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/637191

Inventors:

Saundra V. Bass - Somerset NJ
Donald LeRoy Blosser - Freehold NJ
Andre K. Crump - Summit NJ
David Bruce Kerr - Fogelsville PA
Frank Carl LaPorta - Millington NJ
Ted Michael Ricci - Atlantic Highlands NJ
William Henry Stenger - Marlboro NJ

Assignee:

AT & T Corp - Middletown NJ

International Classification:

H04M 350

US Classification:

379 67

Abstract:

A facility is disposed in a telecommunications network to provide an alternative to retrying the placing of a call to a telephone station when a busy signal is encountered. More particularly, if a subscriber places a telephone call to a called station set that is busy with another telephone call, then the facility notes that fact and terminates the subscriber's telephone call. Thereafter, the facility places a telephone call to the called station and, when the call is answered, announces at least the calling subscriber's telephone number and allows the called party to optionally extend the call back to the original calling subscriber. If the call is not answered, then the call back is terminated, and the placement of another call to the called station is rescheduled for a subsequent time.

US Patent:

55331009, Jul 2, 1996

Filed:

Jul 29, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/282450

Inventors:

Saundra V. Bass - Somerset NJ
Donald L. Blosser - Freehold NJ
Andre K. Crump - Summit NJ
David B. Kerr - Fogelsville NJ
Frank C. LaPorta - Millington NJ
Ted M. Ricci - Atlantic Highlands NJ
William H. Stenger - Marlboro NJ

Assignee:

AT&T Corp. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

H04M 164

US Classification:

379 67

Abstract:

A facility is disposed in a telecommunications network to provide an alternative to retrying the placing of a call to a telephone station when a busy signal is encountered. More particularly, if a subscriber places a telephone call to a called station set that is busy with another telephone call, then the facility notes that fact and terminates the subscriber's telephone call. Thereafter, the facility places a telephone call to the called station and, when the call is answered, announces at least the calling subscriber's telephone number and allows the called party to optionally extend the call back to the original calling subscriber. If the call is not answered, then the call back is terminated, and the placement of another call to the called station is rescheduled for a subsequent time.