Multi-ring telephone method and system

US5802160A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Pilgrim Telephone, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Stanley Kugell · Newton, US
• David Silver · Hitchin, GB

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 19, 1996
• Grant date: Sep 1, 1998
• Expiry date: Jan 19, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04M3/56
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method and system of providing telephone service comprises associating a list of telephone numbers with a representative telephone number. A call to the representative telephone number is detected and a plurality of telephone numbers on the list are simultaneously signalled. Thereafter, signalling is terminated at at least one of the plurality of telephone numbers thereby allowing a connection to be established with one or more parties at telephone numbers among the plurality of telephone numbers. Each telephone number on the list may be a representative number which is associated with another list of telephone numbers.