TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES APPARATUS AND METHODS
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Abstract
A mobile communications system network (2) includes video services equipment (8) that is configured to be able to receive a video call and to record it. A user can set up an association between a virtual mobile number for use to connect to the video call recording video services equipment (8), and an intended recipient delivery email address for a call made using that virtual mobile number. The user can then place a video call to the allocated virtual mobile number to record and send a video message to the indicated delivery email address. The video services equipment (8) prepares the recorded video message as an email attachment and forwards it by email to the indicated deliver email address.
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51 Claims
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32. A communications system, comprising:
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a database system that stores associations between numbers that can be dialed using a communications terminal to establish a communications connection and delivery addresses to which communication is to be delivered when such a number is dialed or used; the database system includes a controller that allows a user of the communications terminal who intends to use a particular number of the numbers that can be dialed to establish a communications connection to deliver a communication to an associated delivery address to establish an association between the particular number and the associated delivery address. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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38. A communications apparatus, comprising:
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means for storing associations between numbers that can be dialed using a communications terminal to establish a communications connection and delivery addresses to which communication is to be delivered when such a number is dialed or used; and means for allowing a user of a communications terminal who intends to use a particular number that can be dialed to establish a communications connection to deliver a communication to an associated delivery address to establish an association between the particular number that can be dialed to establish a communications connection and a delivery address for that particular number. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41)
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42. A method of operating a communications system in which numbers that can be dialed using a communications terminal to establish a communications connection may be associated with delivery addresses to which communication can be delivered when such a number is dialed or used, the method comprising:
establishing an association between a number that can be dialed to establish a communications connection and a delivery address for that number, the establishing is performed by a user of a communications terminal who intends to use the number that can be dialed to establish a communications connection to deliver a communication to the associated delivery address. - View Dependent Claims (43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
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51. A processor readable storage device having processor readable code stored thereon, the processor readable code for programming a processor to perform a method comprising:
establishing an association between a number that can be dialed to establish a communications connection and a delivery address for that number.
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