Patent ID: 7680261

Claim:
A method of providing an improved call forwarding service in a telecommunications network, wherein a call initiated by a caller to a first callee is consecutively forwarded, starting from the first callee, to one or more further interlinked callees, thereby forming a call forwarding chain, wherein the method comprises the steps of: adding a set of data to the call, the data comprising an identifier of each of the callees involved in the call forwarding chain and an address associated with a respective message memory assigned to each of the callees involved in the call forwarding chain; when the call is forwarded to the message memory assigned to a last callee of the call forwarding chain, prompting the caller to provide a message to be stored in one or more of the message memories; retrieving from the set of data one or more of the addresses associated with the message memories; and delivering the message received from the caller to one or more of the message memories by routing the message to the retrieved one or more addresses.