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  • Flexible, tapeless, personalized auto-attendant telephone
    Patent number: 5892814
    Abstract: A method of operating a subscriber terminal to provide a flexible tapeless personalized auto-attendant telephone by means of measuring ring cadence of an incoming telephone call; and selecting one outgoing message in response to the ring cadence and playing it after a predetermined number of rings. The method also provides for the selection of group greetings and mailboxes automatically, for example, based on CLID and name match in a directory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Northern Telecom Limited
    Inventors: Michel Joseph A. Brisebois, Robert Barrie Turnbull