Abstract: An originating party (10) places a call through an originating party called control (30), through a network (40), through a terminating party call control (50) to a terminating subscriber (22). For an inability to complete the connection from the originating subscriber to the terminating subscriber, control is returned from the terminating party call control through network (40) to the call control logic (31) of the originating party call control (30) or directly to the originating subscriber (10).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 26, 2002
Date of Patent:
October 28, 2003
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc.
Inventors:
Jill C. Wheeler, Peter J. Armbruster, Bradley R. Schaefer