Called party control of incoming calls

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5949869
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08789887

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A call referral system (10) for use in a telecommunications network (12) that permits a called party (16) to control the number and treatment of incoming calls. The call referral system includes a switch (34) for receiving calls from calling parties(14) and for connecting the calls to the called party. The call referral system includes a routing monitor computer (40) coupled with the switch for monitoring the connection of the calls to the called party. The monitoring computer receives and stores a gate size selected by the called party indicating the maximum number of calls the called party wishes to simultaneously handle through each of its gates. The gates are comprised of single destination telephone numbers or groups of destination telephone numbers to the various destinations (17 & 18, 32).

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SPRINT COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY L P6450 SPRINT PARKWAY MAILSTOP KSOPHN0312-3A371 OVERLAND PARK KS 66251-2100

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
DeWitt, Constance Ann Kansas City, MO 2 140
Miller, Karen Harden Overland Park, KS 3 97
Sink, William Brian Overland Park, KS 1 40

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