Lucent Technologies MERLIN LEGEND Release 5.0 Feature Reference page 568

MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 5.0
Feature Reference 555-650-110
Features
Ringing Options
Personalized Ringing Options
Personalized Ringing options allow a user to select one of eight different ringing
patterns for his or her telephone, making it easier to distinguish its ring from those
of other telephones. The user hears the personalized ringing pattern as the long
part of the distinctive ring for an inside, outside, returning transfer, or callback call,
described in the next section. Pattern #1 is the factory setting.
Distinctive Ringing
Distinctive ringing allows users to identify the type or origin of an incoming call.
The system identifies calls with the distinctive ringing patterns listed in
These patterns cannot be changed.
Table 39. Distinctive Ringing
Call Type
Inside
Outside
Transferred outside call or
returning transfer
Returning callback call
(priority ring)
* Includes Direct-Line Consoles.
NOTE:
The long ring is the personalized ringing pattern selected for the telephone.
Considerations and Constraints
Transfer returns ring repeatedly until answered, regardless of the Abbreviated
Ring setting for the telephone.
When one of the eight personalized ringing patterns is selected, through either
extension programming or centralized telephone programming, the person
programming the option hears the ring selected. In Release 2.0 and later systems,
an MLX display telephone user must select
store the selection. After choosing
The personalized ringing pattern selected for each extension is not shown on
system programming reports.
3 8
3 8
Analog
MLX* Multiline*
1 long ring 1 long ring
1 long ring + 1 short ring +
1 short ring 1 long ring
1 long ring + 2 short rings +
2 short rings 1 long ring
1 long ring + 2 short rings +
3 short rings 1 long ring
3 9
Enter
, the user again hears the selected ring.
Enter
Telephone Type
Single-Line
1 ring
2 rings
3 short rings
3 short rings
from the display to confirm and
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Table 39.
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1 ring
2 rings
1 ring