Geographical number portability

• US 20020176563A1
• Filed: 04/29/2002
• Published: 11/28/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Kryvossidis, Nikos, Langeberg, Jeroen
• Granted Patent: US 7,020,267 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/221.14
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/30 Determination of the location of a subscriber
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/54 Arrangements for diverting calls for one subscriber to another predetermined subscriber based on the calling party profile H04M3/42059; based on location H04M3/42348; based on presence H04M3/42365; to voice mail H04M3/53308

Abstract

Telecommunication system, with a communication network (1), and a database (10), accessible through the network (1), the database (10) comprising telephone numbers (60), and associated with a telephone number a location identification (70), each location identification (70) comprising a primary geographical location identifier (71) and a secondary geographical location identifier (72), wherein the primary geographical location identifier (71) is an identifier of an area (I-VI) of the network (1), such as a postal code, and the secondary geographical location identifier (72) is an identifier of the geographical location associated with the corresponding telephone number (60), such as a geographical place name.

Claims

1. Telecommunication system, with a communication network, and a database, accessible through said network, said database comprising telephone numbers, and associated with a telephone number a location identification, each location identification comprising a primary geographical location identifier and a secondary geographical location identifier.

2. System according to claim 1, wherein said primary geographical location identifier is an identifier of an area of said network.

3. System according to claim 1, wherein said primary geographical location identifier is a postal code.

4. System according to claim 1, wherein said primary geographical location identifier is an area code.

5. System according to claim 1, wherein said secondary geographical location identifier is an identifier of the geographical location associated with the corresponding telephone number.

6. System according to claim 5, wherein said secondary geographical location identifier comprises a geographical place name.

7. System according to claim 1, wherein said database comprises all telephone numbers accessible through said communication network.

8. Method for establishing a connection between a calling party and a called party over a telecommunication network, wherein said calling party is identified by a calling telephone number and said called party is identified by a called telephone number, said method comprising the steps of:

retrieving from a database location identification associated with said telephone numbers, and establishing a connection based on said retrieved location identification.