...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5469500 | Method and apparatus for delivering calling services A call processor (49) contains a service node/intelligent peripheral service creation environment (58) to create a service logic table (56) to store call processing instructions. A service logic executive (54) accesses the service logic table (56) and exe... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5452341 | Integrated voice processing system Integrated voice processing systems. General-purpose common computer platform voice processing systems described provide integrated voice processing functions, for example, voice messaging, call processing, interactive voice response and other systems typ... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5255305 | Integrated voice processing system Integrated voice processing systems. Generalpurpose common computer platform voice processing systems described provide integrated voice processing functions, for example, voice messaging, call processing, interactive voice response and other systems typi... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5243643 | Voice processing system with configurable caller interfaces A voice mail processing system is provided which comprises a digital computer common-platform operable to communicate through telecommunication lines with an outside environment. Communications between callers and the voice mail processing system are perf... | 09/07/1993 |