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Abstract

A telephone subscriber who wishes to forward calls placed to that subscriber from a selected set of calling parties identifies the current destination number to a service adjunct. The service adjunct, in turn, transmits the destination number to the intelligent terminals of preselected parties while those intelligent terminals are in an inactive (i.e. on-hook) mode, for storage in a local memory contained in those terminals. Thereafter, when the usual number of the telephone subscriber is 'dialed' (e.g., entered on the keypad) at any one of the intelligent terminals, the stored destination number is retrieved and output to the telecommunications network in place of the usual number. The actual destination number is also displayed to the calling party who then has the option to let the call complete or disconnect to stop the call.

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