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Method and system for providing enhanced call waiting

US8126132B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. · US

Inventors

James Thomas Maciejewski · Spring Grove, US
Claude Lee Harrington · Downers Grove, US
Nancy Book · Naperville, US
Mary Louise Hardzinski · Palatine, US
Robert Wesley Bossemeyer, Jr. · McLeansboro, US
Susanne Marie Crockett · Buffalo Grove, US
Thomas Joseph McBlain · Arlington Heights, US

Key dates

Filing date	May 13, 2008
Grant date	Feb 28, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 23, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04M2207/12
WIPO fieldTelecommunications
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method for providing information about a calling party to a called party is disclosed. Generally, a network element obtains information about a calling party when a telephone line of a called party is busy. The network element notifies the called party that the calling party is attempting to contact the called party and transmits an audible version of the information about the calling party to the called party without receiving an input from the called party.

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