Patent ID: 6353597
Filing Date: 2002-03-05
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
A subscriber station for use in a telecommunication system wherein it is one of a plurality of subscriber stations, said telecommunication system further including at least one switching center for effecting call transmission between calling and called subscriber stations; at least said one subscriber station comprising:a call diversion activator for automatically activating call diversion without manual intervention from said one subscriber station to another of said subscriber stations at least at one predetermined time; a signaling device for automatically signaling to a user of said one subscriber station that call diversion has been activated to divert incoming calls to another of said subscriber stations; and manually operable means for selectably deactivating said call diversion, and thereby also deactivating signaling by said signaling device, at a subsequent time selected by said user; wherein upon activation of call diversion it remains in effect until manually deactivated by said user by operation of said manually operable means.