Method of conditionally routing a call made to a fixed telephone number
First Claim
1. A method of routing a call made by a calling party to a fixed telephone number of a called party, comprising:
- routing said call to one or more mobile terminals via an Internet Protocol network and a wireless access point associated with said fixed telephone number if said one or more mobile terminals are located in an area covered by said wireless access point, orrouting the call to an alternative terminating point if said one or more mobile terminals are located outside said area.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method of routing a call made by a calling party to a fixed telephone number of a called party, wherein the call is routed to one or more mobile terminals (34) via an Internet Protocol network (12) and a wireless access point (10) associated with the fixed telephone number if the one or more mobile terminals (34) are located in an area covered by the wireless access point (10), or to an alternative terminating point if the one or more mobile terminals (34) are located outside the area. A specific Service Control Point is arranged to store a list that comprises alternative terminating points for the calls to the fixed number.
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18 Claims
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1. A method of routing a call made by a calling party to a fixed telephone number of a called party, comprising:
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routing said call to one or more mobile terminals via an Internet Protocol network and a wireless access point associated with said fixed telephone number if said one or more mobile terminals are located in an area covered by said wireless access point, or routing the call to an alternative terminating point if said one or more mobile terminals are located outside said area. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. The Service node for use in a telecommunication network, said Service node being arranged to receive a routing request from a Service Switching Point of a fixed telephone network and to send a routing order to said Service Switching Point, said Service node being arranged to
means for storing for a plurality of subscribers a fixed number, one or more related areas associated with said fixed telephone number, and a list comprising one or more associated alternative terminating points and for each alternative terminating point an area presence indicator, said Service node further having means for: -
receiving entry/exit triggers from an area presence service; updating said area presence indicators based on received entry/exit triggers so that when an entry trigger is received, the area presence indicator is given a value ‘
in’ and
when an exit trigger is received, the area presence indicator is given a value ‘
out’
,determining said routing order by finding an alternative terminating point in said list for which its area presence indicator has a value ‘
in’
indicating that a the corresponding subscriber comprised in a received routing request; andsending the routing order to said Service Switching Point. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A telecommunication network comprising:
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a fixed telephone network comprising a Telephony switch comprising a Service Switching Point; an IP network in communication with said telephony switch; one or more wireless access points in communication with said IP network, said wireless access points being arranged to connect telephone calls received from said IP network via WIFI/WLAN to one or more mobile terminals, and a Service node. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18)
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