Network support for enhanced VoIP caller ID

• US 20070115928A1
• Filed: 11/08/2005
• Published: 05/24/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Mahajan, Sanjeev, True, Sandra, Sheen, Baoling, Benco, David
• Application Number:
  US11/268,921
• Publication Number:
  US 20070115928A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/352
• 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 7/1235 where one of the core networks is a wireless network

Abstract

An apparatus in one example has: a calling terminal and a called terminal in a telecommunication system; at least one of a specified name or a preferred call back number that are input at the calling terminal before originating a call to the called terminal; at least one telecommunication system that operatively couples the calling terminal to the called terminal; and the specified name and/or the preferred call back number being calling party information at the called terminal for the call from the calling party.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a calling terminal and a called terminal in a telecommunication system;

at least one of a specified name or a preferred call back number that are input at the calling terminal before originating a call to the called terminal;

at least one telecommunication system that operatively couples the calling terminal to the called terminal; and

the specified name and/or the preferred call back number being calling party information at the called terminal for the call from the calling party.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the calling terminal is one of a personal computer, a subscriber telephone, a pay telephone, a VoIP (voice over internet protocol) phone, or a mobile terminal, and wherein the called terminal is one of a personal computer, a subscriber telephone, a pay telephone, a VoIP phone, or a mobile terminal.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the telecommunication system comprise at least one of a PTSN (public switched telephone network) network, a data network, or a cellular network.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein the data network is the Internet.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system further includes a calling card feature in which at least one of a specified name or a preferred call back number is provided to the telecommunication system when the calling card is activated.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein the at least one of a specified name or a preferred call back number, which are provided to the telecommunication system when the calling card is activated, are overrideable at the calling terminal with a new at least one of a specified name or a preferred call back number, before originating a call to the called terminal.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the call is a VoIP call.

8. A system, comprising:

a calling terminal that originates a VoIP (voice over internet protocol) call to a called terminal in a telecommunication system;

at least one of a specified name or a preferred call back number that are input at the calling terminal before originating the VoIP call to the called terminal;

the at least one telecommunication system operatively coupling the calling terminal to the called terminal, the telecommunication system having a data network and at least one of a PTSN (public switched telephone network) network or a cellular network; and

the specified name and/or the preferred call back number being calling party information at the called terminal for the VoIP call from the calling party.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein the calling terminal is one of a personal computer, a subscriber telephone, a pay telephone, a VoIP phone, or a mobile terminal, and wherein the called terminal is one of a personal computer, a subscriber telephone, a pay telephone, a VoIP phone, or a mobile terminal.

10. The system according to claim 8, wherein the data network is the Internet.

11. The system according to claim 8, wherein the system further includes a calling card feature in which at least one of a specified name or a preferred call back number is provided to the telecommunication system when the calling card is activated.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the at least one of a specified name or a preferred call back number, which are provided to the telecommunication system when the calling card is activated, are overrideable at the calling terminal with a new at least one of a specified name or a preferred call back number, before originating a call to the called terminal.

13. The system according to claim 8, wherein the call is a VoIP call.

14. A method, comprising:

specifying, at a calling terminal, at least one of a caller name or a preferred call back number before originating a call to a called terminal in a telecommunication system;

originating the call and routing the call to the called terminal; and

providing the name and preferred call back number as calling party information at the called terminal.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the calling terminal is one of a personal computer, a subscriber telephone, a pay telephone, a VoIP (voice over internet protocol) phone, or a mobile terminal, and wherein the called terminal is one of a personal computer, a subscriber telephone, a pay telephone, a VoIP phone, or a mobile terminal.

16. The method according to claim 14, wherein the telecommunication system comprise at least one of a PTSN (public switched telephone network) network, a data network, or a cellular network.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the data network is the Internet.

18. The method according to claim 14, wherein the telecommunication system further includes a calling card feature in which at least one of a specified name or a preferred call back number is provided to the telecommunication system when the calling card is activated.

19. The method according to claim 18, wherein the at least one of a specified name or a preferred call back number, which are provided to the telecommunication system when the calling card is activated, are overrideable at the calling terminal with at least one of a new specified name or a new preferred call back number, before originating a call to the called terminal.

20. The method according to claim 14, wherein the call is a VoIP call.

21. A method, comprising:

specifying, before originating a call to a called terminal in a telecommunication system, at least one of a specified caller name or a preferred call back number that is different than a default call back number for a calling terminal; and

providing the specified caller name and preferred call back number as calling party information at a called terminal.

22. The method according to claim 21, wherein:

for calling cards, a specified caller name and preferred call back number are specified when the calling card is activated;

for calls placed through a public call office, PSTN (public switched telephone network) phones having an optional feature to input a specified caller name and call back number before the call is originated;

for calls placed through a public call office, public PSTN phones having an optional feature to input a specified caller name and preferred call back number before the call is originated; and

for public call office PC-to-PSTN calls a PC (personal computer) client capturing a specified caller name and preferred call back number before the call is originated; and

for calls placed through a residential VoIP phone providing, as part of a service activation, a specified caller name and a preferred call back number.

23. The method according to claim 21, wherein:

the calling terminal is one of a personal computer, a subscriber telephone, a pay telephone, a VoIP (voice over internet protocol) phone, or a mobile terminal, and wherein the called terminal is one of a personal computer, a subscriber telephone, a pay telephone, a VoIP phone, or a mobile terminal; and

wherein the telecommunication system comprise at least one of a PTSN network, the Internet, or a cellular network.

24. The method according to claim 21, wherein the telecommunication system further includes a calling card feature in which at least one of a specified name or a preferred call back number is provided to the telecommunication system when the calling card is activated.

25. The method according to claim 21, wherein the call is a VoIP call.