System and method for automated provision and customer selection of temporary caller identification services
CA 2282785 C · Owner: Bellsouth Corporation · Inventors: Malik, Dale W.
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The disclosed system and method provide a customer with the ability to obtain temporary caller identification services in an Advanced Intelligent Network. The customer initiates the service by dialing a call to a feature access code and does not require the intervention of a service representative. The call by the customer is recognized as a request for.caller identification service. On the basis of the recognition an association is, retained between the line number and the Service Switching Point serving the line number. This retained association may be used later in the activation of the temporary caller identification service for the requested line, number. The call is routed to a …
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- Filed September 17, 1999 and granted November 26, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 17, 2019.
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