Barbara A Bozek

US Patent:

61782386, Jan 23, 2001

Filed:

Apr 9, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/058094

Inventors:

Barbara Ann Bozek - Naperville IL
James Lee Turner - Lemont IL

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

H04M 344

US Classification:

379207

Abstract:

An arrangement for permitting callers to make speed dialing calls away from their home telephone. A speed dialing list is maintained for those who subscribe to this service for a particular telephone line. When the caller who normally uses that line and makes use of his/her speed dialing feature from that line, and is away from his/her telephone, speed dialing service can be obtained if the call is a calling card, or credit/debit card telephone call. Such calls are routed initially to a switch for serving such calls. This switch then queries a calling card or credit card data base to obtain either a number corresponding to the caller's speed calling number, or to obtain an identification of the switch which contains that caller's speed dialing list. The caller is identified by his/her calling card, or credit/debit card number. If the data base provides a number, or other data for directly deriving the destination number corresponding to a speed dialed number, then the calling card server switch can complete the call to that number.