Method and system for identifying and transmitting calling party information as part of a paging signal

• US 6,192,218 B1
• Filed: 09/30/1997
• Issued: 02/20/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Qwest Communications International Incorporated (Lumen Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Qwest Communications International Incorporated (Lumen Technologies, Inc.)
• Inventors: Laufmann, Steven C., McIver, William J. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bost, Dwayne D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): WASHINGTON, ERIKA ALISE
• Application Number:
  US08/941,118
• Time in Patent Office: 1,239 Days
• Field of Search: 455/415, 455/414, 455/412, 455/31.1, 455/31.2, 455/32.1, 455/458, 455/459, 455/466, 340/825.44, 340/311.1, 379/142
• US Class Current: 340/7.53
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 5/227 with call or message storage means
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/022 One-way selective calling networks, e.g. wide area paging

Abstract

A method of identifying and transmitting predetermined calling party information as part of a messaging signal is provided for use in a communications network having a messaging processor serving at least one messaging device. At least one database is provided in communication with the messaging processor. The database includes a list of calling party telephone numbers and corresponding calling party names. A message request signal is received at the messaging processor and includes a data field including a message generated by a calling party. The message is parsed to extract possible calling party telephone numbers which are thereafter compared to a stored list of calling party telephone numbers to identify the name of the calling party. A messaging signal is then generated for receipt by the messaging device. The messaging signal includes a data field for identifying the calling party name.

Claims

1. For use in a communications network having a paging processor serving at least one paging device and at least one calling party, a method of identifying and transmitting calling party information as part of a paging signal, comprising:

providing at least one database in communication with the paging processor, the at least one database and the paging processor servicing the communications network, the at least one database having a profile for each calling party, each profile including the corresponding calling party'"'"'s telephone number, a list of predetermined messages and associated message codes, and corresponding calling party information;

receiving at the paging processor a page request signal having data fields including a calling party telephone number and a message including at least one message code generated by the calling party;

parsing the page request signal at the paging processor to extract the calling party'"'"'s telephone number and the at least one message code from the paging request signal;

comparing at the paging processor the extracted at least one message code to the stored list of predetermined messages and associated message codes provided in the at least one database for the corresponding profile to identify the corresponding calling party information and the corresponding at least one predetermined message; and

generating a paging signal at the paging processor for receipt by the at least one paging device, the paging signal having a data field including the calling party information and including the at least one predetermined message.

2. A method as in claim 1, wherein the message generated by the calling party is a text message including at least one message code that is extracted during parsing.

3. A method as in claim 1, wherein the message generated by the calling party is a voice message including at least one message code that is extract during parsing.