Apparatus and method for displaying numbers in a communication network

• US 6,035,024 A
• Filed: 05/12/1997
• Issued: 03/07/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Unify GmbH & Co. KG (Atos SE)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Information And Communication Networks, Inc. (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Stumer, Peggy
• Primary Examiner(s): Kuntz, Curtis A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, DUC MINH
• Application Number:
  US08/854,424
• Time in Patent Office: 1,030 Days
• Field of Search: 379/127, 379/142, 379/157, 379/88.19-88.21, 379/93.23, 379/120, 379/354, 455/414, 455/415, 370/259, 370/271
• US Class Current: 379/142.06
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/56 Arrangements for indicating or recording the called number at the calling subscriber's set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20

Abstract

The present invention concerns a method and apparatus for displaying numbers of users involved in a connection on a display associated with a station. The network users have a specific device number, whereby each number may consist of a plurality of partial numbers. The number of the user involved in a connection will be compared to the specific device number and as a result, the shortest possible number will be displayed.

Claims

1. A method for displaying a network number of an user involved in a connection on a display associated with a device having a specific network number, whereby each number may consist of a plurality of partial numbers, whereby the number of the user involved in a connection will be compared to the specific device number and as a result the shortest possible number will be displayed, including the steps:

a) extracting a most significant partial number out of the number of the user and out of the number of the specific device,

b) comparing both most significant partial numbers,

c) if there is a match then repeating steps a through c for the remaining partial number until no match occurs,

d) evaluating whether there is an overlap offset in the last matching partial number, and if there is an overlap offset

e) displaying the overlap offset followed by the remaining partial number with no match, and if not

f) displaying the complete number or the remaining partial number.

2. A method as in claim 1 whereby the comparison is done by means of comparison table.

3. A method as in claim 1 whereby each partial number represents a single digit.

4. An apparatus for displaying a number of an user involved in a connection on a display associated to a device having a specific device number, whereby each number may consist of a plurality of partial numbers, whereby the apparatus comprises means to compare the number of the user involved in a connection with the specific device number whereby said means set up the shortest possible number of the incoming call upon this comparison and represent said shortest possible number on said displays, comprising:

means for extracting a most significant partial number out of the number of the user involved in a connection and out of the number of the device,

comparing means for comparing both most significant partial numbers, whereby the comparing means generate a matching signal if a match occurs,

means for repeating the extracting and comparing with the remaining partial number until no matching signal will be generated,

means for displaying the complete number or the remaining partial number,

evaluating means for evaluating whether there is an overlap offset in the last matching partial number, which add the offset number as a preceding part to the remaining partial number.

5. An apparatus as in claim 4 comprising:

evaluating means for evaluating whether there is an overlap offset in the last matching partial number which add the offset number as a preceding part to the remaining partial number.