| 摘要 |
<p>This invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing customized greeting messages from a switch-based voice messaging service (337). Advantageously, special messages may be left for identified callers (301,303,304). The invention further relates to a method and apparatus for determining which of a plurality of numbers received in a common channel signaling message (323,327,329) is to be used as the ICLID number for a specific call. The candidate ICLID numbers include the caller station telephone number (ODN), the caller's calling card number (CC), or a special number (IN) provided by the caller. Advantageously, such an arrangement can be used to identify callers who are calling away from their home or business telephones. <IMAGE></p> |
