Method and device for establishing a connection between a first and a second subscriber in a telecommunications network

• US 20040249886A1
• Filed: 09/15/2003
• Published: 12/09/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Company KG (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Kindermann, Robert
• Application Number:
  US10/661,766
• Publication Number:
  US 20040249886A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/48 Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4535 using an address exchange platform which sets up a session between two nodes, e.g. rendezvous servers, session initiation protocols [SIP] registrars or H.323 gatekeepers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42195 Arrangements for calling back a calling subscriber when the wanted subscriber ceases to be busy H04M3/48
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/003 Click to dial services

Abstract

A method and a device for establishing a connection between a first and a second subscriber in a telecommunications network is specified, in which the address of the second subscriber or an identification assigned to them with which the address can be determined is contained in an attribute of an object OBJ intended for use on a computer PC. With the aid of a function F the address or identification is read out from the attribute and the connection is subsequently established automatically.

Claims

1. Method for establishing a connection between a first and a second subscriber of a telecommunications network,

where an object OBJ intended for use on a computer PC is created,

where an address assigned to the second subscriber in the telecommunications network is inserted into this object OBJ

where this object OBJ is transferred to the first subscriber and stored there on a computer PC,

where, with the aid of a function F which is activated by the first subscriber, the address assigned to the second subscriber in the telecommunications network is read out from the object OBJ and

where the connection between first and second subscriber is established with the aid of this address, in that,

the address assigned to the second subscriber in the telecommunications network is added as an attribute to the content of the object OBJ and is read out from there.

4. Method in accordance with one of the claims 1 to 3, characterized in that

an e-mail is provided as object OBJ

an e-mail address of the second subscriber is included as identification and

the address of the second subscriber in the telecommunications network is determined on the basis of this e-mail address.

5. Computer PC which is provided for execution of a method in accordance with one of the claims 1 to 4,

where this includes means for establishing a connection between a first and a second subscriber on the basis of an address assigned to the second subscriber and

where this includes a function for reading out from an object OBJ of this computer PC the address assigned to the second subscriber,

the address assigned to the second subscriber is added as an attribute to a content of the object OBJ.

6. Computer PC which is provided for execution of a method in accordance with one of the claims 1 to 4,

where this includes means for establishing a connection between a first and a second subscriber on the basis of an address assigned to the second subscriber,

where this includes a function F for reading out an identification assigned to the second subscriber from an object OBJ of this computer PC and

where this includes a function F for transferring the address assigned to the second subscriber on the basis of this identification

characterized in that,

the address assigned to the second subscriber is added as an attribute to a content of the object OBJ.

2. Method for establishing a connection between a first and a second subscriber of a telecommunications network,

where an object OBJ intended for use on a computer PC is created,

where an identification assigned to the second subscriber is inserted into this object OBJ,

where this object OBJ is transferred to the first subscriber and stored there on a computer PC,

where, with the aid of a function F which is activated by the first subscriber, the address assigned to the second subscriber in the telecommunications network is determined using the identification contained in the object OBJ and

where the connection between first and second subscriber is established with the aid of this address, in that,

the identification assigned to the second subscriber is added as an attribute to a content of the object OBJ and is read out from there.

3. Method in accordance with claim 2, characterized in that,

the identification contained in the attribute of the object OBJ is transferred in the telecommunications network using the function F activated by the first subscriber,

the address of the second subscriber is determined there on the basis of this identification and

the connection to the second subscriber is established.