Internet based telephony service method

• US 20020042825A1
• Filed: 11/30/2000
• Published: 04/11/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Atphone Telecom Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Atphone Telecom Company Limited
• Inventors: Gee, Min Gu
• Application Number:
  US09/728,024
• Publication Number:
  US 20020042825A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/128 Details of addressing, directories or routing tables

Abstract

There is provided an Internet based telephony service method in which an identification code, a country code and an area code each of which is composed of only figures are used when a call is made using a telephony service system operating on the Internet, thereby allowing users to become familiar with Internet phone numbers and use them easily and thereby automatically allocating e-mail addresses and UMS to the Internet phone numbers such that they have standardized characteristic numbers. The Internet based telephony service method constructed in a certain manner that an identification code for establishing a call connection route is assigned to a specific position corresponding to the head of a telephone number to be stored in a management server; and upon transmission of a call request signal to the management server via the Internet, the code located at the specific position of the head of a transmitted telephone number is extracted and then the call connection route is determined on the basis of the extracted code.

Claims

1. An Internet based telephony service method, comprising the steps of:

assigning an identification code for establishing a call connection route to a specific position corresponding to the head of a telephone number to store it in a management server;

upon transmission of a call request signal to the management server via the Internet, extracting the code located at the specific position of the head of a transmitted telephone number; and

determining the call connection route is determined on the basis of the extracted code.

2. The Internet based telephony service method according to claim 1, wherein the identification code is configured of Arabic figures.

3. The Internet based telephony service method according to claim 1, further comprising a step of recognizing a country code or area code which follows the identification code.

4. The Internet based telephony service method according to claim 3, wherein the country code and area code are configured of Arabic figures.

5. The Internet based telephony service method according to claim 1, wherein the call connection route established on the basis of the identification code is a call connection route connected from a wired telephone using a public switched telephone network or mobile phone to an Internet phone via the Internet.

6. An Internet based telephony service method, wherein, when an identification code and a telephone number are inputted and then an e-mail transmission signal is transferred to a management server, data storage of the management server stores the transmitted content in an e-mail storing space therein, the e-mail storing space having the identification code and the telephone number as an e-mail address.