Patent · US Expired

Target area calling system

US5329581A · kind A · utility

31Cited by
5References
18Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateDec 23, 1991
Grant dateJul 12, 1994
Priority date
Expiry dateDec 23, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04Q3/0016
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system for completing a series of calls from a calling party to a plurality of called parties served by a common terminating switch and located in the same general geographic area, is implemented by a) establishing a first communication path from the calling party to the terminating switch b) establishing a second communication path from the terminating switch to the the called party using routing information received from the calling party regarding the called party c) bridging those two communication paths to form a complete connection from the calling party to the called party d) preserving the first communication path and reusing it to complete all the calls in the series.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.