Procedures and routines to place control of the call in the hands of the Telephone Secretary, rather than the caller, in order to make the most efficient use of time while performing a professional service.
The set of functions used to process a Call (e.g. provide Service Features and establish, supervise, maintain and release Connections). source: ITU-T Q.1290 domain: General usage: EU-P201
Also called Call Processing. Refers to the signaling involved in setting up, monitoring, transferring, and disconnecting (tearing down) a call.
Any part of telephone call establishment, including setting up, blocking, monitoring, transferring, releasing, or tearing down the telephone call.
In telephony, call control refers to the software within a telephone switch that supplies its central function. Call control decodes addressing information and routes telephone calls from one end point to another. It also creates the features that can be used to adapt standard switch operation to the needs of users.