Call Management Service
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Abstract
An embodiment of the invention pertains to a call management service (62) for a communications system (60), configured to automatically: receive telephone call data identifying a destination end point and identifying a source end point; initiate a call-back telephone call to said source end point to set-up a first call leg responsive to receiving said telephone call data; initiate a telephone call to said destination end point to set-up a second call leg; combine (67) said first and second call legs together thereby to provide voice communication between said source and destination end points; and transmit call leg status signals for said voice communication over a separate real-time communications connections signalling link (72) to a communications client (54) associated with at least one of said end points.
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150 Claims
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1-40. -40. (canceled)
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41. A method of operating data processing apparatus for providing a call management service, comprising:
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receiving telephone call data identifying a destination end point and identifying a source end point;
initiating a call-back telephone call to said source end point to set-up a first call leg responsive to receiving said telephone call data;
initiating a telephone call to said destination end point to set-up a second call leg;
combining first and second call legs together thereby to provide voice communication between said source and destination end points; and
transmitting call leg status signals for said voice communication over a separate real-time communications connections signalling link to a communications client associated with at least one of said end points wherein said signalling link comprises a real-time communications protocol for creating, modifying and terminating a communication between end points. - View Dependent Claims (44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51)
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- 52. A method of operating data processing apparatus for providing a communications client for a communications system, comprising establishing a real time communications connections signalling link to a call management service responsive to instantiation of said communications client said signalling link separate from a voice communications channel, further comprising receiving at least one call status signal via said signalling link from said call management service and automatically providing corresponding call status information to said user.
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54. (canceled)
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- 108. A communications client for a communications system, said communications client responsive to instantiation thereof to establish a separate real-time communications connections signalling link to a call management service, said signalling link separate from a voice communications channel, and said communications client operative to communicate data messages to said call management service via a communications link, said communications client associated with a conference call participant and configured to display a call status icon for a participant call leg.
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112. A method of operating a data processing apparatus to provide a call management service for a communications system including a communications client at each of one or more conference call participants, comprising:
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automatically responding to a conference call set-up request message comprising conference call schedule information and contact information for two or more conference call participants received from said a communications client via a real time communications link to transmit a message to said two or more participants comprising a mechanism for joining said conference call; and
transmitting back to said communications client via said communications link a data message confirming scheduling of said conference call. - View Dependent Claims (113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128)
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- 136. A method of operating a data processing apparatus to provide a communications client for a communications system, comprising establishing a separate real-time communications connections signalling link to a call management service, said signalling link separate from a voice communications channel, responsive to instantiation of said method and communicating a conference call set-up request comprising conference call schedule information and contact information for two or more conference call participants to said call management service via a communications link.
- 148. A method of operating data processing apparatus for providing a communications client for a communications system, comprising establishing a separate real-time communications connections signalling link to a call management service, said signalling link separate from a voice communications channel responsive to instantiation of said method and communicating data messages to said call management service via a communications link, said communications client associated with a conference call participant and configured to display a call status icon for a participant call leg.
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150-161. -161. (canceled)
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