Patent ID: 6405041
Filing Date: 2002-06-11
Classification: H04M,H04Q

Abstract:
A method of routing a telephone call from a calling party to a called party's first station and to the called party's second station so that the first station and the second station ring concurrently, the first station having a first set-up time and the second station having a second set-up time that is longer than the first set-up time, the method comprising the steps of:(a) routing the call to a network interface point of control prior to routing the call to a subscriber line; (b) offering the call from the network interface point of control to the second station; (c) delaying offering the call from the network interface point of control to the first station after offering the call to the second station for a predetermined time corresponding to a ring-initiating time associated with the second station; and (d) offering the call from the network interface point of control to the first station after delaying offering the call such that the called party's first and second stations ring concurrently.