Method for identifying a telecommunications subscriber

• US 20050176412A1
• Filed: 06/03/2003
• Published: 08/11/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Schlozer, Markus, Krischker, Carsten, Tennert, Andreas
• Granted Patent: US 7,613,450 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/2066 Call type detection of indication, e.g. voice or fax, mobile of fixed, PSTN or IP
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/22 Automatic class or number identification arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42 Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers specially adapted for wireless communication networks H04W4/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42042 Notifying the called party of information on the calling party details within substation equipment H04M1/57, signalling details H04Q3/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42093 Notifying the calling party of information on the called or connected party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42382 Text-based messaging services in telephone networks such as PSTN/ISDN, e.g. User-to-User Signalling or Short Message Service for fixed networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13091 CLI, identification of calling line
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13175 Graphical user interface [GUI], WWW interface, visual indication
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13204 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13396 Signaling in general, in-band signalling
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/74 Identification of subscriber calling from a party-line
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for identifying a telecommunications subscriber. According to the method, a call from a second telecommunications device (MFG2) of a second telecommunications subscriber is first signaled to a first telecommunications device (MFG1) of a first telecommunications subscriber. Device information (GI1), which indicates the type of subscriber data that the first telecommunications device is configured to process, is then sent from a first to a second telecommunications device. Subscriber data (TD2) is subsequently transmitted from the second to the first telecommunication device, in accordance with the information from the first device. It is also conceivable that device information (GI2) can be transmitted from the second to the first telecommunications device, in accordance with which subscriber data (TD 1) can finally be transmitted from the first to the second telecommunications device. The use of device information that is exchanged between two telecommunications devices and indicates which subscriber data should be transmitted to the respective other telecommunication device thus permits a reduction in the data flow between two telecommunications devices with respect to subscriber data, as only the desired subscriber data is transmitted.

Claims

1-21. -21. (canceled)

22. A method for identifying a telecommunications subscriber, the method comprising:

signaling a call from a second telecommunications device of a second telecommunications subscriber to a first telecommunications device of a first telecommunications subscriber;

sending device information from the first telecommunications device to the second telecommunications device which indicates a type of subscriber data that the first telecommunication device wants to receive; and

transmitting subscriber data from the second telecommunications device to the first telecommunications device in accordance with the device information.

23. A method for identifying a telecommunications subscriber as claimed in claim 22, wherein at least one of the first and second telecommunications devices stores transmission information which indicates which subscriber data has been transmitted from the other respective telecommunications device.

24. A method for identifying a telecommunications subscriber as claimed in claim 23, wherein the transmission information is transmitted from one telecommunications device to the other telecommunications device with the subscriber data.

25. A method for identifying a telecommunications subscriber as claimed in claim 23, wherein the transmission information is assigned historical data which references the transmitted subscriber data.

26. A method for identifying a telecommunications subscriber as claimed in claim 25, wherein the historical data of the transmission information stored in the respective telecommunications device is incorporated into the device information to be transmitted.

27. A method for identifying a telecommunications subscriber as claimed in claim 22, wherein the subscriber data to be transmitted is referenced to current historical data.

28. A method for identifying a telecommunications subscriber as claimed in claim 27, further comprising comparing the current historical data from subscriber data to be transmitted with historical data from received device information of the respective other telecommunications device, wherein the step of transmitting includes transmitting only subscriber data whose current historical data does not agree with the historical data of the received device information from the respective other telecommunications device.

29. A method for identifying a telecommunications subscriber as claimed in claim 22, wherein at least one of the first and second telecommunications devices stores release information which indicates which subscriber data should be transmitted to the respective other telecommunications device.

30. A method for identifying a telecommunications subscriber, the method comprising:

signaling a call from a second telecommunications device of a second telecommunications subscriber to a first telecommunications device of a first telecommunications subscriber;

sending device information from the second telecommunications device to the first telecommunications device which indicates components of subscriber data that the first telecommunications device wants to receive; and

transmitting subscriber data from the first telecommunications device to the second telecommunications device in accordance with the device information.

31. A method for identifying a telecommunications subscriber as claimed in claim 30, wherein at least one of the first and second telecommunications devices stores transmission information which indicates which subscriber data has been transmitted from the respective other telecommunications device.

32. A method for identifying a telecommunications subscriber as claimed in claim 31, wherein the transmission information is transmitted from one telecommunications device to the other telecommunications device with the subscriber data.

33. A method for identifying a telecommunications subscriber as claimed in claim 31, wherein the transmission information is assigned historical data which references the transmitted subscriber data.

34. A method for identifying a telecommunications subscriber as claimed in claim 33, wherein the historical data of the transmission information stored in a respective telecommunications device is incorporated into the device information to be transmitted.

35. A method for identifying a telecommunications subscriber as claimed in claim 30, wherein the subscriber data to be transmitted in referenced to current historical data.

36. A method for identifying a telecommunications subscriber as claimed in claim 35, further comprising comparing the current historical data from subscriber data to be transmitted with historical data from received device information of the respective other telecommunications device, wherein the step of transmitting includes transmitting only subscriber data whose current historical data does not agree with the historical data of the received device information from the respective other telecommunications device.

37. A method for identifying a telecommunications subscriber as claimed in claim 30, wherein at least one of the first and second telecommunications devices stores release information which indicates which subscriber data should be transmitted to the respective other telecommunications device.

38. A telecommunications device for identifying a telecommunications subscriber, comprising:

a memory for storing subscriber data;

a facility for receiving device information of a further telecommunications device which indicates components of subscriber data that the telecommunications device wants to receive; and

a facility for transmitting particular subscriber data from the memory to the further telecommunications device depending on the device information received.

39. A telecommunications device for identifying a telecommunications subscriber as claimed in claim 38, further comprising a further memory for storing transmission information which indicates which subscriber data has already been transmitted by the further telecommunications device.

40. A telecommunications device for identifying a telecommunications subscriber, comprising:

a memory for storing device information which indicates a type of subscriber data that a further telecommunications device wants to receive;

a facility for transferring the device information from the memory to the further telecommunications device; and

a facility for receiving subscriber data from the further telecommunications device depending on the device information transmitted.