US 6,983,040 B1 | ||
Method for call forwarding without hairpinning and with split billing | ||
Charles Robert Kalmanek Jr., Short Hills, N.J. (US); William Todd Marshall, Chatham, N.J. (US); Partho Pratim Mishra, Millbrae, Calif. (US); Douglas M Nortz, Red Bank, N.J. (US); and Kadangode K. Ramakrishnan, Berkeley Heights, N.J. (US) | ||
Assigned to AT & T Corp., New York, N.Y. (US) | ||
Filed on Feb. 20, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/370,270. | ||
Application 10/370270 is a continuation of application No. 09/469221, filed on Dec. 22, 1999, granted, now 6,577,718. | ||
Int. Cl. H04M 15/00 (2006.01) |
U.S. Cl. 379—114.22 | 1 Claim |
1. A method for forwarding a call, comprising:
connecting the call between an originating location and a forwarding location without connecting the call through a terminating
location, the originating location being associated with a calling party, the terminating location being associated with a
dialed number, the terminating location and the forwarding location being associated with the called party, and
apportioning a bill for the call between the calling party and the called party, the bill portion for the calling party being
a function of the originating location and the terminating location, the bill portion for the called party being a function
of the terminating location and the forwarding location,
maintaining at least first and second copies of a user profile containing an address of the forwarding location, the first
copy being stored at a terminating interface unit operative to provide call forwarding functions associated with the terminating
location, and the second copy being stored at a gate controller associated with the terminating location,
operating said gate controller to determine the address of the forwarding location when a terminating interface is unavailable
to do so.
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