Method and system for establishing a communication connection via a schedule store

• US 20020078210A1
• Filed: 07/25/2001
• Published: 06/20/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Aschir, Alexander
• Application Number:
  US09/912,971
• Publication Number:
  US 20020078210A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/2072 Schedules, e.g. personal calendars
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/12 intelligent networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42229 Personal communication services, i.e. services related to one subscriber independent of his terminal and/or location diverting calls from one subscriber to another subscriber, i.e. two different subscriptions H04M3/54; selecting arrangements in intelligent networks H04Q3/005

Abstract

A method and a system for establishing a communication connection between a person seeking communication and a communication partner to whom a personal communication address is allocated. To provide for a correlation between individual identification codes of communication terminals and the personal communication address in a simple and ergonomic manner, the information about which individual identification code is allocated to the personal communication address of the communication partner at this time is read out of a schedule store of the communication partner, for setting up the communication connection.

Claims

1. A method for establishing a communication connection between a person seeking communication and a communication partner to whom a personal communication address is allocated, the method comprising the steps of:

addressing the personal communication address of the communication partner;

allocating an individual identification code of at least one communication terminal to the personal communication address depending upon time;

reading out of a schedule store of the communication partner information about which individual identification code is allocated to the personal communication address of the communication partner at the time; and

establishing the communication connection to the at least one communication terminal having the individual identification code.

2. A method for establishing a communication connection as claimed in claim 1, wherein, if the information is not available in the schedule store, the individual identification code of the at least one communication terminal is allocated to the personal communication address depending upon time.

3. A method for establishing a communication connection as claimed in claim 1, wherein the individual identification codes of a plurality of communication terminals are allocated to the personal communication address in a preselected order depending upon time and, if the establishment of the first communication connection fails, the establishment of communication connections to the communication terminals having individual identification codes is attempted in the preselected order of the individual identification codes of the plurality of communication terminals.

4. A method for establishing a communication connection as claimed in claim 1, wherein, for setting up the communication connection, the information about which schedule time is provided for the communication partner at the time is read out of the schedule store of the communication partner, at least one individual identification code allocated to the schedule time is read out of an address store of the communication partner, at least one individual identification code allocated to the schedule time is read out of an address store of the communication partner, and a communication connection is established to the communication terminal having the individual identification code allocated to the schedule time.

5. A method for establishing a communication connection as claimed in claim 1, wherein the schedule store is administered by an appointments book program.

6. A method for establishing a communication connection as claimed in claim 1, wherein the schedule store is administered by an appointments book program which can be operated via a data processing device of the communication partner.

7. A method for establishing a communication connection as claimed in claim 5, wherein the appointments book program is operated on a computer which is arranged outside a communication network via which the person seeking communication and the communication partner can be connected.

8. A method for establishing a communication connection as claimed in claim 7, wherein the computer and the communication network are connected via an interface operated in accordance with specifications of a Parlay Group.

9. A method for establishing a communication connected as claimed in claim 7, wherein the communication network is an intelligent network.

10. A system for establishing a communication connection between a person seeking communication and a communication partner to whom a personal communication address is allocated, the system comprising:

at least one communication terminal, wherein, for starting communication, the personal communication address of the communication partner is addressed, and an individual identification code of the at least one communication terminal is allocated to the personal communication address depending upon time; and

a schedule store which can be connected to a communication network via which the person seeking communication and the communication partner can be connected, in which schedule store information is stored about which individual identification codes of a plurality of communication terminals are allocated to the personal communication address of the communication partner, wherein the information is read out of the schedule store and the communication connection to the at least one communication terminal is established.

11. A system for establishing a communication connection as claimed in claim 10, further comprising:

an address store, wherein schedule times of the communication partner are stored in the schedule store, and individual identification codes of communication terminals which can be allocated to the schedule times are stored in the address store.