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|United States Patent||4,797,910|
|Daudelin||January 10, 1989|
A method and apparatus for identifying the class of an operator assistance call in order to reduce the operator work time for serving such a call. A customer dials 0 or dials 0 plus a directory number and is connected to a program controlled operator assistance system or switch. The switch initially connects the calling customer to a voice processing unit and prompts the customer to speak a command or key a command code. The command or command code is recognized and used to direct the flow of the control program to selectively defer a connection to an operator position. For example, for person-to-person calls, the operator position is only connected after the called customer terminal answers. Advantageously, such a method and apparatus substantially reduces operator work time for broad classes of frequently used operator assistance services.
|Inventors:||Daudelin; Abraham N. (Colts Neck, NJ)|
American Telphone and Telegraph Company, AT&T Bell Laboratories
|Filed:||May 7, 1986|
|Current U.S. Class:||379/88.01 ; 379/203.01; 379/223; 379/244; 379/88.25|
|Current International Class:||H04M 3/51 (20060101); H04M 3/60 (20060101); H04M 3/50 (20060101); H04M 003/38 (); H04M 003/50 (); H04M 003/56 (); H04Q 003/70 ()|
|Field of Search:||379/88,89,67,244,223,265,266,203 364/513.5 381/43,110|
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