Verfahren zum Anrufen eines Telefonteilnehmers

摘要

A method of ringing a telephone subscriber comprises (a) defining a hunt group of telephone lines for a particular telephone line associated with the subscriber, (b) receiving a call to the telephone line from a calling party, (c) seizing and ringing a telephone line contained in the group as a result of receiving the call, (d) timing an interval of answering time, (e) in the event the telephone line is not answered within the interval, releasing and ceasing ringing the telephone line and ringing another telephone line listed in the hunt group, (f) repeating steps (d) and (e) until a ringing telephone line has been answered, all telephone lines in the hunt group have been rung for the interval, or the calling party has hung up, and (g) in the event a ringing telephone line has been answered, routing the call to the answered telephone line. <IMAGE>