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Personal auto attendant apparatus and method

US6766006B1 · kind B1 · utility

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12Claims
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Filing dateJun 8, 2000
Grant dateJul 20, 2004
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Expiry dateSep 11, 2021

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04M3/436
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for operating a telecommunications server including configuring a personal auto attendant associated with a particular telephone extension, the personal auto attendant including a series of menu selections, each menu selection associated with a user defined action, receiving an incoming call from a caller for the particular telephone extension, transferring the incoming call to the particular telephone extension, outputting the series of menu selections to the caller, receiving a menu selection from the series of menu selections from the caller, and performing a user-defined action associated with the menu selection.

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