Method and system for forwarding telephone calls towards a cellular phone
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Abstract
A method and a related system for forwarding a telephone call from a caller intended to be directed to a first, fixed, telephony number to a second, mobile, telephone number in order to render an intended responder associated with the mobile telephony number reachable at a mobile phone instead that at a fixed telephone. The method includes having the caller place a call to a virtual mobile telephony number associated with the fixed telephony number; conditioned to the fact that call forwarding from the fixed telephony number to the mobile telephony number is enabled, routing the call to the mobile telephony number; and, if the responder accepts, terminating the call from the caller at the mobile telephony number of the responder instead of at the fixed telephony number, so as to establish a direct telephone call between the caller and the responder. This direct telephone call is viewed by the caller as a call to a mobile telephony number, and, in particular, the caller sustains the cost of the call.
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44 Claims
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23. A method of forwarding a telephone call from a caller intended to be directed to a first, fixed, telephony number toward a second, mobile, telephony number in order to render an intended responder associated with the second telephony number reachable at a mobile phone instead of a fixed telephone, comprising:
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having the caller place a call to a virtual mobile telephony number associated with the first telephony number;
receiving the call at a switching apparatus of a mobile telephony network;
conditioned by the fact that call forwarding from the first telephony number to the second telephony number is enabled, routing the call from the switching apparatus to the second telephony number; and
if the responder accepts, terminating the call from the caller at the second telephony number instead of at the first telephony number, so as to establish a direct telephone call between the caller and the responder. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A method of operating a switching apparatus of a mobile telephony network in order to forward a telephone call from a caller intended to be directed to a first, fixed, telephony number toward a second, mobile, telephony number so as to render an intended responder associated with the second telephony number reachable at a mobile phone instead of a fixed telephone, comprising:
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associating a virtual mobile telephony number with the first telephony number;
receiving a call placed to the virtual mobile telephony number at the mobile telephony network switching apparatus;
conditioned on the fact that call forwarding from the first telephony number to the second telephony number is enabled, routing the call from the switching center to the second telephony number; and
provided that the responder accepts, terminating the call from the caller at the second telephony number instead of at the first telephony number, so as to establish a direct telephone call between the caller and the responder. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38)
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39. In a telephone communications system comprising a fixed telephony network and a mobile telephony network, a system for forwarding a telephone call from a caller intended to be directed to a first, fixed, telephony number toward a second, mobile, telephony number in order to render an intended responder associated with the second telephony number reachable at a mobile phone instead of a fixed telephone, comprising:
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a database associating a virtual mobile telephony number with the first telephony number; and
a call transport layer of the mobile telephony network adapted to;
routing a call to the second telephony number in case a call forwarding from the first telephony number to the second telephony number is enabled; and
if the responder accepts, terminating the call from the caller at the second telephony number instead of at the first telephony number, so as to establish a direct telephone call between the caller and the responder. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
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