Patent ID: 6169904
Filing Date: 2001-01-02
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
For use in an Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN), a system for automatically routing communications from a calling party having a Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) device to a secondary party having a single calling number for a plurality of CPE devices, each of said secondary party CPE devices placed at a different geographic location and having a corresponding communication address, the system comprising: a Service Switching Point (SSP) in electrical communication with said calling party CPE device and said plurality of secondary party CPE devices, said SSP provisioned with Automatic Call distribution (ACD) architecture; a Signal Transfer Point (STP) in electrical communication with said central office SSP; and a Service Control Point (SCP) in electrical communication with said STP, said SCP adapted to forward control signals to said SSP causing said communications to be parked on queue in said ACD while said ACD performs selected routing functions in a predetermined sequence in an attempt to locate said secondary party at one of said communication addresses.