Apparatus, and an associated method, for redirecting telephonic calls.
Calls are directed to a user based upon the user's presence on a packet
network. An indexer indexes together a forwarded call location together
with dialing digits associated with a called location. When a calling
party subsequently places a call to the called location, selected
redirection of the call is effectuated pursuant to redirection
procedures. A telephonic switch, through which the call placed by the
calling party is routed, accesses the index formed by the indexer,
located, for example, at a service control point. Responsive to the
values contained in the index, the call is routed, to be delivered to the
called party. In a work-from-home scenario, a TDM call placed to a
worker's work location is redirected to a secondary location with the
only effort required by the worker being his log on to the worker's
corporate network.