Method and Apparatus for Accessing Service Resource Items That are For Use in a Telecommunications System
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Abstract
Service resource items for use in call setup in a telephone system are held on servers that are connected to a computer network which is logically distinct from the telephone system infrastructure; this computer network may, for example, make use of the Internet. Each service item is locatable on the network at a corresponding URI and is associated with a particular telephone number. A mapping is provided between telephone numbers and the URIs of associated service resource items. When it is desired to access a service resource item associated with a particular telephone number, this mapping is used to retrieve the corresponding URI which is then used to access the desired service resource item.
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40 Claims
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17. A method, comprising:
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forming, by a computing system, a uniform resource identifier (URI) based on a host component and a second portion of a resource code, wherein the host component is based on a first portion of the resource code, and wherein the first portion of the resource code comprises a numeric string; and retrieving information from a service resource associated with the URI. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19)
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20. An intransient computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for performing a method, the method comprising:
forming a uniform resource identifier (URI) based on a host component and a second portion of a resource code, wherein the host component is based on a first portion of the resource code, and wherein the first portion of the resource code comprises a numeric string. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23)
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24. An apparatus for facilitating accessing a target entity identified at least in part by a number string, in which a domain name system (DNS) of a packet-switched network stores records each associated with a corresponding domain name and holding a URI of an entity associated with the domain name, each said domain name being related to a respective number string from which it can be derived by a process including parsing at least a portion of the number string into at least a part of said domain name, said apparatus comprising:
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a processor; and an intransient computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions, which when executed cause the apparatus to; apply said process to said number string identifying the target entity to form the related domain name, and supply the domain name to the DNS to retrieve the URI held in the corresponding record, the URI being that of the target entity. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. An intransient computer readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for performing a method, the method comprising:
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forming, from a number string identifying a target entity, a domain name by a process including parsing at least a portion of the number string into at least a part of said domain name; and supplying the domain name to a domain name system of a packet-switched network and receiving back from the domain name system a resource record including a uniform resource identifier (URI) of the target entity. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. An intransient computer readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for performing a method, the method comprising:
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forming, from a number string identifying a target entity, a domain name by a process including parsing at least a portion of the number string into at least a part of said domain name; and supplying the domain name to a database and receiving back from that database a resource record including a uniform resource identifier (URI) of the target entity. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. An apparatus, comprising:
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a network interface; a processor; and a database storing a plurality of resource records that each provides a mapping from a domain name to a uniform resource identifier (URI) for locating a target entity associated with the domain name, at least a portion of each domain name being in the form of a number string that has been parsed into plural domain-name labels, wherein the processor is configured to, in response to an input identifying one of the domain names, output an associated one of the URIs stored in the database to the network interface. - View Dependent Claims (40)
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Specification