Communication method with push-to-talk functionality

• US 20060077969A1
• Filed: 10/12/2005
• Published: 04/13/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
• Original Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
• Inventors: Mueller, Christel, Daussmann, Frank, Trinkel, Marian
• Application Number:
  US11/248,094
• Publication Number:
  US 20060077969A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/10 Push-to-Talk [PTT] or Push-On-Call services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/45 for Push-to-Talk [PTT] or Push-to-Talk over cellular [PoC] services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support

Abstract

A method for performing a communication over at least one telecommunications network includes sending a communication from a sending telecommunication device. At least one receiving telecommunication device is selected based on an identifier of the sending telecommunication device.

Claims

1. A method for performing a communication over at least one telecommunications network, the method comprising:

sending a communication using a sending telecommunication device; and

selecting at least one receiving telecommunication device based on an identifier of the sending telecommunication device.

2. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the communication is a voice communication.

3. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the identifier is at least one of a network identifier, a device identifier, a card identifier, and a user identifier.

4. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the user identifier includes a biometric user identifier.

5. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the selecting is performed in the telecommunications network and further comprising maintaining, in a list, a network identifier of the at least one receiving telecommunication device.

6. The method as recited in claim 5 wherein the selecting is performed in a switching center of the telecommunications network.

7. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the selecting is performed in the telecommunications network as a function of a network identifier of a called telecommunication device.

8. The method as recited in claim 7 wherein the selecting is performed in a switching center of the telecommunications network.

9. The method as recited in claim 7 wherein the selecting is performed using a plurality of selectable lists.

10. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising determining the at least one receiving telecommunication device by a user of the sending telecommunication device.

11. The method as recited in claim 10 wherein the determining is performed by the user of the sending telecommunication device entering a network identifier of the at least one receiving telecommunication device into at least one list.

12. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising determining the at least one receiving telecommunication device by a network operator.

13. The method as recited in claim 12 wherein the determining is performed by the network operator entering a network identifier of the at least one receiving telecommunication device into at least one list.

14. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising:

storing, under a key of the sending telecommunication device, a network identifier; and

starting, by calling the network identifier, a network-based service for carrying out the communication.

15. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising:

sending a message from the sending telecommunication device to the at least one receiving telecommunication device using a first network;

receiving the message using a second network.

16. The method as recited in claim 15 wherein the first network includes a one-way broadcasting network.

17. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising converting a communication connection between the sending telecommunication device and the at least one receiving telecommunication device into a normal telephone call.

18. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the sending telecommunication device includes a mobile telecommunication device, and the at least one receiving telecommunication device includes a public telecommunication device located in a vicinity of the mobile telecommunication device.

19. The method as recited in claim 18 further comprising performing a radio-based communication between the mobile telecommunication device and the public telecommunication device after the selecting.

20. The method as recited in claim 19 further comprising using the public telecommunication device as an access point, for the mobile telecommunication device, to a landline network.

21. The method as recited in claim 20 wherein the public telecommunication device includes a telephone booth and the mobile telecommunication device includes a mobile telephone.

22. The method as recited in claim 20 further comprising disconnecting a mobile telecommunications connection and establishing a direct radio link between the mobile telecommunication device and the public telecommunication device.

23. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the at least one receiving telecommunication device includes a group of receiving telecommunication devices.

24. A system for performing a communication comprising:

a sending communication device;

at least one receiving telecommunication device; and

at least one telecommunications network configured to select the at least one receiving telecommunication device based on a network identifier of the sending telecommunication device.