Method And Management Of Public Identities In An Information Transmission Network, Server For Managing Public Identity Records, Equipment For Managing A Group Public Identity And Corresponding Computer Programs

• US 20090296690A1
• Filed: 07/06/2007
• Published: 12/03/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: 3G Licensing S.A. (Fineur International S.A.)
• Original Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Inventors: Garcin, Sebastien, Cleuziou, Olivier, Prouvost, Sebastien
• Granted Patent: US 8,493,967 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4535 using an address exchange platform which sets up a session between two nodes, e.g. rendezvous servers, session initiation protocols [SIP] registrars or H.323 gatekeepers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4557 Directories for hybrid networks, e.g. including telephone numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]

Abstract

This method of managing public identities in an information transmission network (11) of internet type implementing an SIP protocol for establishing data transmission links between said network and equipment for managing a group public identity (10) connected to this network is characterized in that it comprises: —a prior step of recording a group common public identity representative of at least one group of several individual public identities managed by said management equipment (10), at a public identities record management server (12); —a step of verifying a request to establish an incoming call, said request containing a numbering sequence, intended to verify whether said sequence corresponds to a recorded group public identity; and a step of sending said request to a contact address corresponding to the recorded group public identity.

Claims

1. A method of managing group public identities for initiating data transmission links between a network and a group public management item of equipment connected to this network, comprising:

a prior step of defining and registering said group public identity representing at least one group of several individual public entities managed by said management item of equipment on an identity registration management server;

a step of verifying a request to initiate an incoming call, said request containing a numbering sequence, intended to verify if said sequence corresponds to a registered group public identity;

a step of sending said request to a contact address corresponding to the registered group public identity.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of defining the group common public identity comprises the step of defining a rule for associating said several individual public entities in a group and in that the verification step comprises a step of verifying if said numbering sequence complies with the defined association rule.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of registration of the group common public identity comprises the step of registering this group public identity in a location database of said network.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein said group public identity is associated with identification information of the latter as a common group identity in the location database.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the group common public identity is formed by a common part of the several individual public entities of the group.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein said contact address corresponding to that of said group public management item of equipment, said method comprises, following the receipt of said request to initiate an incoming call by said item of equipment:

a step of analysis by said item of equipment of this group public identity in order to extract from it the corresponding individual public identity;

a step of routing said request to a corresponding addressee to the individual public identity extracted and connected to this item of equipment, if said numbering sequence is complete; and

a step of sending a message to said network indicating that the number is incomplete, if said numbering sequence is partial.

9. A computer program product downloadable from a communications network and/or stored on a support which can be read by a computer and/or executed by a microprocessor of a public identity registration management server comprising program code instructions for implementing the method according to claim 1.

10. A computer program product downloadable from a communications network and/or stored on a support which can be read by a computer and/or executed by a microprocessor of a group public identity management item of equipment comprising program code instructions for implementing the method according to claim 6.

7. An item of equipment for managing a group public identity in an internet-type information transmission network using a SIP protocol to initiate data transmission links between said equipment and said network, comprising:

means for sending a registration request of a group common public identity representing at least one group of several individual public entities in a location database linked to a server for managing public identity records associated with said network;

means for analyzing a request to initiate an incoming call, said request containing a group public identity registered in said location database, for extracting the corresponding individual public identity;

the item of equipment being able to implement;

means for routing said request to an addressee corresponding to the individual public identity extracted, and connected to said group public management item of equipment, if said numbering sequence of the request is complete; and

means for sending a message to said network indicating that the number is incomplete, if said numbering sequence is partial.

8. A server for managing public identity registrations for an internet-type information transmission network using a SIP protocol for initiating data transmission links between said network and a group public identity management item of equipment connected to this network, said server being linked to a registration location database, the server comprising:

means for defining and registering said group common public identity representing at least one group of several individual public entities managed by said group public management equipment;

means for verifying a request to initiate an incoming call, said request containing a numbering sequence, suitable for verifying if said sequence corresponds to a registered group public identity in the location database; and

means for sending said request to a contact address corresponding to the registered group public identity.