Abstract: A method for updating a caller database in a communication system by detecting repeat callers during the bridging of calls placed to a called party subscriber and upon such detection, enabling the subscriber to enter corresponding alphanumeric identifiers in the frequent caller database. This method is useful in a communication system that completes a telephone call placed by a caller to a personal telephone number of a called party by bridging that call to a return call originated by the called party in response to a paging signal alerting the subscriber of the telephone call.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 21, 1995
Date of Patent:
November 2, 1999
Assignee:
AT&T Middletown
Inventors:
Mark Jeffrey Foladare, Shelley B. Goldman, David Phillip Silverman