METHOD AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE FOR EXCHANGING DATA DURING OR AFTER A COMMUNICATION CONNECTION

• US 20100260073A1
• Filed: 09/10/2008
• Published: 10/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Unify Patente GmbH & Co. KG (Atos Se)
• Original Assignee: Unify GmbH & Co. KG (Atos SE)
• Inventors: Monitzer, Arnold, Jager, Hubert, Zeiner, Johann
• Granted Patent: US 8,391,187 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/259
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/066 Telephone sets adapted for data transmision
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0057 Services where the data services network provides a telephone service in addition or as an alternative, e.g. for backup purposes, to the telephone service provided by the telephone services network

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for exchanging data between a first and a second communication terminal device (EG1, EG2). The first (EG1) and the second (EG2) communication terminal devices are connected to a data network (DN). In a first step, acoustically coded address information is transmitted by the first to the second communication terminal device (EG2) during a communication connection between the first and the second communication terminal device (EG1, EG2) and, in a second step, the data are transmitted to the first communication terminal device (EG1) from the second communication terminal device (EG2) via the data network using the address information.

Claims

1. A method for exchanging data between a first communication terminal and a second communication terminal, wherein the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal are connected to a data network, comprising:

during a communication connection between the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal, transmitting acoustic coded address information from the first communication terminal to the second communication terminal; and

sending data over the data network from the second communication terminal to the first communication terminal using the acoustic coded address information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the data is selected from the group consisting of of an electronic business card for the second communication terminal and an electronic business card for a user of the second communication terminal.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the data network is the Internet.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the acoustic coded address information is coded and transmitted as DTMF signals.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the acoustic coded address information is selected from the group consisting of an e-mail address for the first communication terminal and an e-mail address for a data bank assigned to the first communication terminal.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the acoustic coded address information is selected from the group consisting of a globally valid Internet address for the first communication terminal and a globally valid Internet address for a data bank assigned to the first communication terminal.

7. The method of claim 1, comprising sending additional data by the first communication terminal over the data network to the second communication terminal following the step of sending data over the data network from the second communication terminal to the first communication terminal.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the additional data is selected from the group consisting of an electronic business card for the first communication terminal and an electronic business card for a user of the first communication terminal.

9. The method of claim 7, comprising, prior to the step of sending additional data, sending a query to at least one of the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal, wherein the data transmission is approved, initiated, or approved and initiated by a user of at least one of the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal.

10. The method of claim 1, comprising during transmission of the acoustic coded address information, sending an acoustic signal masking the transmission to at least one of the communication terminals.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of sending data over the data network takes place during the communication connection.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of sending data over the data network takes place after the communication connection is terminated.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal is a voice data terminal.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal is a mobile telephone, and the data is transmitted to the mobile telephone in a text message.

15. The method of claim 1, comprising, during transmission of the acoustic coded address information, transmitting a limited-validity access code with the acoustic coded address information from the second communication terminal together with the data to the first communication terminal.

16. A communication terminal for voice communication or multimedia communication comprising a communication terminal equipped for acoustic transmission of an address valid for a data network using an acoustic communication channel wherein the address is assigned to a member of the group consisting of the communication terminal and a data bank assigned to the communication terminal.