Patent ID: 7272216

Claim:
Incomplete call notification apparatus comprising: a determination unit for detecting an uncompleted call by at least one of receiving a signal from a telephone switch and monitoring operation of said switch, an interrogation unit for obtaining, from said switch, call data of said uncompleted call, said call being to a given called party, and a forwarding unit for arranging said called data into a format for forwarding to said called party, wherein said forwarding unit comprises a database for storing said data for retrieval by said called party, wherein said database is associated with an aggregation unit, comprising a comparator for determining whether said obtained call data is the same as already stored call data in said database, and an aggregator, associated with said comparator, for aggregating together said obtained call data with any already stored call data identified by said comparator, thereby to output said obtained and already stored called data together as a single item.