| 摘要 |
<p>A customer premise equipment (CPE) (105) is adapted to take advantage of a three-way calling feature in order to forward incoming calls on a flexible and less expensive basis. Thus, according to one embodiment of the invention, a method of automatically forwarding an incoming call in a CPE includes the steps of temporarily placing the incoming call in a hold status, calling a forwarding number, and retrieving the incoming call from the hold status to connect the incoming call to the forwarding number. In an alternative embodiment, a CPE includes a flash unit adapted to place an incoming call into a hold status, and a calling unit (113) adapted to call a forwarding number based on call related information associated with the incoming call. <IMAGE></p> |
