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Abstract

A telephone network provides personalized calling services based on a voice identification of a calling subscriber. When a person initiates a call, the network executes a speaker identification/verification procedure to identify the person as a subscriber. For example, on an outgoing call over a telephone line, the speaker identification/verification process provides a virtual office equipment number corresponding the identified subscriber. The central office switch servicing the outgoing call receives the virtual office equipment number and uses that number to retrieve a service profile associated with the subscriber. The switch provides a personalized form of 'dial tone' like service to the subscriber by processing the outgoing call using the profile. As part of this service, the switch and the network provide subscriber specific identification information to the called party, to provide caller ID service which identifies the individual subscriber rather than the line or station that the subscriber has called from.

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