System and method for scan-dialing telephone numbers and classifying equipment connected to telephone lines associated therewith
US6490349B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 19, 1998 |
| Grant date | Dec 3, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 19, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04M2203/2066
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A telephone scan-dialing arrangement includes a listener module, at least one dialing control module and at least one dialing module, each dialing module being associated with a respective modem. The listener module receives a command to initiate a scan-dialing operation in connection with a profile that identifies, inter alia, telephone numbers to be dialed and operations to be performed during each call and telephone number selection criteria, and provides the identification of the profile to the dialing control module The dialing control module obtains from the profile a set of telephone numbers to be used during the scan-dialing operation and provides the obtained telephone numbers to respective ones of the dialer modules to be dialed for a call, along with information identifying operations to be performed during the call, as each dialer module finishes its previous call. During each call, each dialer module controls its associated modem to dial the telephone number provided thereto by the dialing control module and perform the specified operations. Each dialer module stores call result information in the profile based on results of the call. During each call the telephone sca…
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