US Patent No: 6,424,707

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Point-to-point-to-point calling

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Abstract

A method and apparatus for establishing a point-to-point-to-point telephone connection between a remote telephone and a desired called telephone. The method and apparatus use a two-line base telephone unit, e.g., a home or office telephone, as an intermediary point in the telephone call to reduce long distance rates and/or to utilize features and/or information stored in the base telephone unit when the user is away from the home or office. In a first embodiment, the remote telephone makes a local call to the base telephone unit and instructs the base telephone unit to establish a telephone call with, and interconnect the remote telephone to, a called third party. In a second embodiment, the remote telephone makes a quick call to the base telephone unit instructing the base telephone unit to establish and interconnect both a telephone call back to the remote telephone and a second telephone call to the desired called telephone. In a third embodiment, the instructions from the remote telephone to the base telephone unit are transmitted through an external communication link such as a paging system or the Internet.

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Patent Owner(s)

Patent OwnerAddressTotal Patents
LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.MURRAY HILL, NJ9561

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Chatterjee, Ranjan Bethlehem, PA 3 22

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Patent Citation Ranking

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VONAGE NETWORK LLC (7)
7,417,981 Method and apparatus for enhanced Internet Telephony 3 2003
7,453,990 Emergency call completion for VoIP based on location of call originator 17 2004
8,306,202 Method and system for customized caller identification 0 2006
7,693,176 Method and system for bidirectional data transfer 0 2007
7,924,822 Method and apparatus for enhanced internet telephony 0 2008
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VONAGE NETWORK (2)
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BELLSOUTH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION (1)
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GENBAND US LLC (1)
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LG-ERICSSON CO., LTD. (1)
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