Patent Document ID: 5412714
Application ID: 07841159

Base Claim:
1. A call-processing arrangement in a telecommunications system having a plurality of endpoints, means for accessing each of the endpoints, and a numbering plan according to which a selected endpoint is accessed in response to a user providing a sequence of symbols associated with the selected endpoint, CHARACTERIZED IN THAT: the numbering plan assigns, to at least some of the endpoints, at least one predefined sequence of symbols that includes a plurality of strings of symbols arranged in the sequence in any order, so that the accessing means access a selected endpoint, selected from said at least some of the endpoints, irrespective of the order in which the user provides the strings of symbols of the sequence of symbols associated with said selected endpoint.

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Claim 2:
2. The arrangement of claim 1 further CHARACTERIZED IN THAT the sequence of symbols comprises alphabetic symbols or numeric symbols within a predefined digital alphabet and said sequence is a member either of a natural human language or of a proper name so that said sequence has a logical meaning outside of the network numbering plan, and the means for accessing use the sequence of symbols itself to address the associated endpoint within the telecommunications system.