Telephone and method for routing a telephone call in a telecommunications network
View Patent ↗A telephone and a method for routing a telephone call using the telephone is provided. The telephone includes a microprocessor and a transceiver coupled to the microprocessor. The telephone further includes a voice recognition unit coupled to the microprocessor. The unit is further configured to determine when the user is speaking proximate the unit and to generate a match signal when the user is speaking. The microprocessor is configured to generate a command signal to induce the transceiver to transmit a voice mailbox routing signal to a telephone switching center upon receipt of the match signal from the unit.
1. A method for routing a telephone call within a telecommunications network, comprising:
receiving a telephone call from a first telephone being directed to a second telephone;
determining if a user proximate the second telephone is speaking using a voice recognition unit in the second telephone; and
routing the telephone call from the first telephone to a voice mail box associated with the second telephone when the user is speaking;
wherein the determining if the user proximate the second telephone is speaking includes:
comparing at least one word spoken proximate the second telephone to keywords stored in a memory of the voice recognition unit; and,
indicating that the user proximate the second telephone is speaking when the comparison matches at least one of the words spoken proximate the second telephone to one of the stored keywords,
wherein the indicating that the user proximate the second telephone is speaking includes generating a voice mailbox routing signal in the second telephone that is transmitted to a telephone switching center;
wherein the voice mailbox routing signal is transmitted to the telephone switching center when the second telephone is not transmitting a voice signal to the switching center;
wherein the voice mailbox routing signal is an RF voice mailbox routing signal.