Andre Lamont Johnson

US Patent:

6493432, Dec 10, 2002

Filed:

Jan 24, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/489862

Inventors:

Diane Doran Blum - San Jose CA
Mridu Garg - Chicago IL
Andre Floyd Johnson - Naperville IL
Lila Elizabeth Russ - Plainfield IL

Assignee:

Avaya Technology Corp. - Basking Ridge NJ

International Classification:

H04M 164

US Classification:

379 8812, 379 671, 379 8819, 379 8821, 379 8822, 37920103, 37920712

Abstract:

The system for providing calling party privacy during subscriber call screening for a central office switching system enables a subscriber to monitor and intercept the last forwarded, active call to the Voice Messaging System, while providing the calling party with privacy as the voice messaging system provides the prerecorded instructions/message to the calling party. The calling party privacy feature delays call screening alerting to the subscriber to prevent the subscriber from monitoring the call connection until the calling party is recording their message on the voice messaging system. Depending on the method used, once the calling party privacy feature requirements are satisfied, the subscriber call screening system notifies the subscriber of the presence of a calling party who is recording a message for the subscriber on the Voice Messaging System.