Password controlled switching system
CA 1320554 C · Owner: American Telephone And Telegraph Company · Inventors: Geers, Thomas Joseph, Jr.; Belfield, William Rohrman; Handy, Stephen Wade
Overview
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Abstract, A password controlled switching system and method of operation for enrolling and storing passwords identifying lines and trunks of the switching system denied access thereto by other lines and trunks and which is operable upon a match of a calling party command with an enrolled and stored password for selectively interconnecting the calling party via a line with ones of the restricted lines and trunks.
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- Granted July 20, 1993. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended July 20, 2010.
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