Method for inputting a call number in a call number memory of a telecommunication terminal, terminal and telecommunication network for carrying out said method

• US 20040198330A1
• Filed: 02/20/2003
• Published: 10/07/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Graf, Jurgen, Klein, Cornel
• Application Number:
  US10/344,996
• Publication Number:
  US 20040198330A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/205 Transfer to or from user equipment or user record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

According to the inventive method, a call number is input in a call number memory of a telecommunication terminal (MS) by transmitting (S6) a call number information to the terminal (MS) via a telecommunication network (PLMN), said terminal (MS) recording a call number derived from the received call number information in a memory. The call number information can be transmitted in an especially automatic manner when the telecommunication network (PLMN detects the check-in (S1) of a terminal (MS); else, it can be transmitted upon request of the terminal (MS).

Claims

1. A method for inputting a call number into a call number memory of a telecommunications terminal (MS), characterized in that call number information (RNI) is disseminated in a telecommunications network (PLMN), and the terminal (MS) records a call number, which is derived from the received call number information (RNI), in a memory.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the call number information (RNI) is disseminated by periodic transmission to all the terminals (MS) which are registered in the telecommunications network (PLMN).

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the call number information (RNI) is disseminated by specific transmission to the terminal (MS) when that terminal registers in the telecommunications network (PLMN).

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, characterized in that the telecommunications network (PLMN) sends the call number information (RNI) to a registering terminal (MS) for which it is not the home network.

5. The method as claimed in claim 3, characterized in that, whenever a terminal (MS) registers in a controlling telecommunications network (PLMN) which is not its home network, the home network (PLMN′

) transmits the call number information (RNI) to the terminal (MS) via the controlling network (PLMN).

6. The method as claimed in one of claims 3 to 5, characterized in that the call number information (RNI) is transmitted when the telecommunications network (PLMN) finds that the position of the terminal (MS) has changed.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, characterized in that the telecommunications network maintains a directory (HLR;

VLR) of the locations of the connected terminals, and finds that the position of a terminal (MS) has changed when an entry relating to the terminal in the directory (HLR;

VLR) is changed.

8. The method as claimed in one of claims 3 to 5, characterized in that the call number information (RNI) is transmitted on request by the terminal (MS).

9. The method as claimed in one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the call number information (RNI) is transmitted to the terminal (MS) in the form of one or more SMS messages.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, characterized in that the terminal (MS) uses an identifier which is transmitted with the SMS message to identify that the SMS message contains call number information (RNI), and records the call number which is derived from this message.

11. The method as claimed in claim 10, characterized in that the identifier is the sender call number of the SMS message.

12. The method as claimed in one of the preceding claims, characterized in that said method is used for updating a call number which has already previously been recorded in the call number memory.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12, characterized in that the updating process includes the replacement of the stored number by a new number.

14. The method as claimed in claim 12, characterized in that the updating process includes a change to the dialing code of the stored number.

15. The method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 11, characterized in that said method is used for new-recording of a call number.

16. The method as claimed in one of the preceding claims, characterized in that said method is used for inputting at least one of the following call numbers;

an information service,

an emergency service.

17. A terminal for a telecommunications network having a call number memory, characterized by a processor for extracting call numbers from messages which are sent by the telecommunications network to the terminal, and for recording the extracted numbers in the call number memory.

18. The terminal as claimed in claim 17, characterized in that the processor extracts the call numbers from received SMS messages.

19. A telecommunications network, characterized by a databank (DB) which, for a given service, in particular an emergency service or an information service, contains call numbers which differ regionally within the telecommunications network, and/or at least one number for the service which is applicable in another telecommunications network, and by a device (SMSC, UC) for transmitting call numbers from the databank to a telecommunications terminal (MS).

20. The telecommunications network as claimed in claim 19, characterized in that the device (SMSC, UC) for transmitting call numbers has a device for producing SMS messages (SMSC).