TELEPHONE NOTIFICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM, SIGNALING MONITORING UNIT AND SERVER

• US 20120076282A1
• Filed: 12/18/2009
• Published: 03/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Wang, Xianguang, Lai, Tianjian
• Application Number:
  US13/259,067
• Publication Number:
  US 20120076282A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/88.22
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/2016 Call initiation by network rather than by subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/2072 Schedules, e.g. personal calendars
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42195 Arrangements for calling back a calling subscriber when the wanted subscriber ceases to be busy H04M3/48
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42365 Presence services providing information on the willingness to communicate or the ability to communicate in terms of media capability or network connectivity
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/432 Arrangements for calling a subscriber at a specific time, e.g. morning call service
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/48 Arrangements for recalling a calling subscriber when the wanted subscriber ceases to be busy
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/53333 Message receiving aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/537 Arrangements for indicating the presence of a recorded message , whereby the presence information might include a preview or summary of the message
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/30 Connection release

Abstract

A telephone notification method and system, a signaling monitoring unit and a server are disclosed. The telephone notification method comprises that: acquiring a hang-up signal of a target user terminal from a signaling network and then sending a notification message to a server; and after receiving the notification message, the server calls the target user terminal when determining there is a telephone notification task for the target user terminal. According to the embodiments of the present invention, a server can timely initiate a telephone notification for the target user, and the success rate of the telephone notification can be increased.

Claims

1. A telephone notification method for a server to initiate a telephone notification to a target user terminal, comprising:

acquiring a hang-up signal of the target user terminal from a signaling network, and then sending a notification message to the server; and

after receiving the notification message, the server calling the target user terminal when determining there is a telephone notification task for the target user terminal.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

discarding the received notification message when determining there is no telephone notification task for the target user terminal.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the telephone notification task comprises at least one of voice mailbox, dunning and automatic callback.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the notification message includes parameters which include:

an identifier of the target user terminal and/or an indicator indicating a state switching of the target user terminal from a current active state to an idle state.

13. The method according to claim 2, wherein the telephone notification task comprises at least one of voice mailbox, dunning and automatic callback.

14. The method according to claim 2, wherein the notification message includes parameters which include:

an identifier of the target user terminal and/or an indicator indicating a state switching of the target user terminal from a current active state to an idle state.

5. A signaling monitoring unit, comprising:

an acquisition module configured to acquire a hand-up signal of a target user terminal from a signaling network; and

a sending module configured to send a notification message to a server according to the hang-up signal acquired by the acquisition module.

6. The signaling monitoring unit according to claim 5, wherein the notification message includes parameters which include:

an identifier of the target user terminal and/or an indicator indicating a state switching of the target user terminal from a current active state to an idle state.

7. A server for initiating a telephone notification to a target user terminal, comprising:

a receiving module configured to receive a notification message including an indicator indicating a state switching of the target user terminal from a current active state to an idle state; and

an execution module configured to call the target user terminal to execute a call notification task after the notification message is received by the receiving module.

8. The server according to claim 7, further comprising:

a determining module configured to determine whether there is a telephone notification task for the target user terminal and trigger the execution module when determining there is a telephone notification task for the target user terminal.

9. A telephone notification system, comprising:

a signaling monitoring unit configured to monitor a target user terminal in a signaling network and send a notification message to a server after monitoring a hang-up signal of the target user terminal; and

a server configured to execute a telephone notification task for the target user terminal after receiving the notification message sent by the signaling monitoring unit.

10. The telephone notification system according to claim 9, wherein the signaling monitoring unit comprises:

an acquisition module configured to acquire a hand-up signal of the target user terminal from a signaling network; and

a sending module configured to send a notification message to the server according to the hang-up signal acquired by the acquisition module; and

the server comprises;

a receiving module configured to receive a notification message including an indicator indicating a state switching of the target user terminal from a current active state to an idle state; and

an execution module configured to call the target user terminal to execute the call notification task after the notification message is received by the receiving module.

11. The telephone notification system according to claim 10, wherein the notification message includes parameters which include:

an identifier of the target user terminal and/or an indicator indicating the state switching of the target user terminal from the current active state to the idle state.

12. The telephone notification system according to claim 10, wherein the server further comprises:

a determining module configured to determine whether there is a telephone notification task for the target user terminal and trigger the execution module when determining there is a telephone notification task for the target user terminal.