Classifications

• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
  • H04M3/00—Automatic or semi-automatic exchanges
  • H04M3/42—Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers
  • H04M3/54—Arrangements for diverting calls for one subscriber to another predetermined subscriber

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• This invention relates generally to methods for subscriber service access and modification. More particularly, the invention relates to a method whereby a subscriber is able to receive periodic timed reminders of call forwarding service activation. History of Related Art
• a forwarding reminder in the form of an abbreviated alert tone
• a subscriber selecting various call forwarding services is only reminded at the time a call forwarding action occurs, and at no other time.
• a call forwarding reminder which can be implemented on a timed, periodic basis. That is, the call forwarding reminder alert at a subscriber telephone would be more useful if it could be activated every ten minutes, fifteen minutes, etc.
• the message may be sent to the telephone each time a reminder signal is to be asserted, and the telephone merely acts as a device to assert the signal under control of the message sender.
• Another method of asserting the reminder signal is to ring the telephone, and announce verbally that the call-forwarding feature is active on a periodic basis.
• CFRF is active, and sends an InformationForward message (which contains the CFI and AlertCode information) to the serving MSC 130. This occurs in step 530, and the serving MSC now undertakes implementation of the CFRF control algorithm illustrated in Fig. 2.
• the serving MSC 130 alerts the MS 140 on a timed, periodic basis in step 540, using the reminder type and reminder frequency intervals selected by the subscriber. As noted above, these parameters were received in the Information Forward message sent in step 530.
• the serving MSC 130 then sends an informationforward response to the anchor MSC 105, which includes the result of the alerting action undertaken in step 540. Assuming that the MSC 130 is responsible for asserting the reminders on a timed periodic basis, then all of the steps shown in Fig. 2 will typically be carried out within the MSC 130, and step 350 in Fig.2 is equivalent to steps 540 and 552 in Fig. 5.
• the method may include the steps of entering a key sequence into the telephone which includes a service code to deactivate the CFRF and determining that the call-forwarding reminder feature has been deactivated.
• the assertion of a reminder signal at the telephone may occur due to timed, periodic activity within the telephone itself.
• a single message may be sent from the node to the telephone to indicate that the CFRF is active, and thereafter, the reminder alert signal will be asserted according to reminder signal timing which originates from within the telephone.

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