Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 9
Claim 1
Independent Claim
212 words
A subscriber call routing system for routing calls initiated in a carrier public switched telephone network (PSTN) to any of a plurality of different subscriber resources for a subscriber number, comprising: receive processing means for receiving a connection request from the PSTN for any call placed to the subscriber number, said connection request including call identification information including indicia relating to the call, and developing a routing request; routing processing means operatively associated with the receive processing means and responsive to a routing request and using a stored routing algorithm for selecting one of the subscriber resources to receive the call, the routing processing means including means for transmitting a request to the selected subscriber resource for acceptance of the call; telephone interface processing means operatively associated with each of said subscriber resources for receiving requests from the routing processing means for acceptance of the call and returning an acceptance command to the routing processing means to accept the call or returning a rejection command to the routing processing means to reject the call; and the receive processing means sending a response to the PSTN designating the selected subscriber resource to receive the call responsive to receiving the acceptance command or developing a further routing request responsive to receiving the rejection command.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
212 words
A subscriber call routing system for routing calls initiated in a carrier public switched telephone network (PSTN) to any of a plurality of different subscriber resources for a subscriber number, comprising: receive processing means for receiving a connection request from the PSTN for any call placed to the subscriber number, said connection request including call identification information including indicia relating to the call, and developing a routing request; routing processing means operatively associated with the receive processing means and responsive to a routing request and using a stored routing algorithm for selecting one of the subscriber resources to receive the call, the routing processing means including means for transmitting a request to the selected subscriber resource for acceptance of the call; telephone interface processing means operatively associated with each of said subscriber resources for receiving requests from the routing processing means for acceptance of the call and returning an acceptance command to the routing processing means to accept the call or returning a rejection command to the routing processing means to reject the call; and the receive processing means sending a response to the PSTN designating the selected subscriber resource to receive the call responsive to receiving the acceptance command or developing a further routing request responsive to receiving the rejection command.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
34 words
The subscriber call routing system of claim 1 wherein said receive processing means includes means for assigning a unique ID to the call, the ID remaining with the call throughout existence of the call.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
37 words
The subscriber call routing system of claim 1 wherein said telephone interface processing means includes means for transferring a routing request to the routing processing means to reroute a call previously received by its associated subscriber resource.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
27 words
The subscriber call routing system of claim 3 wherein the routing request transferred from the telephone interface means identifies a specific subscriber resource to receive the call.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
27 words
The subscriber call routing system of claim 1 wherein the rejection command transferred from the telephone interface means identifies a specific subscriber resource to receive the call.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
39 words
The subscriber call routing system of claim 1 further comprising means for storing the call identification information, the stored identification information being used by the routing processing means for selecting one of the subscriber resources to receive the call.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
28 words
The subscriber call routing system of claim 6 wherein the telephone interface processing means includes means for updating the stored call identification information during processing of the call.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
31 words
The subscriber call routing system of claim 1 wherein the telephone interface means is adapted to begin local processing of the call prior to the call arriving at the selected resource.