Method and arrangement for complementing a telephone connection with additional information

• US 6,408,063 B1
• Filed: 10/05/1999
• Issued: 06/18/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones UK Limited (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Karppanen, Arto, Slotte, Sverre
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Harry S.
• Application Number:
  US09/412,926
• Time in Patent Office: 987 Days
• Field of Search: 379/142.01, 379/142.04, 379/201.01, 379/207.02, 379/207.11, 379/207.14, 379/207.15, 379/229, 379/230, 379/234, 379/235, 379/236, 379/237, 370/522
• US Class Current: 379/230
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/663 Preventing unauthorised calls to a telephone set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42314 in private branch exchanges
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 11/0457 Connection protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13091 CLI, identification of calling line
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13096 Digital apparatus individually associated with a subscriber line, digital line circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13098 Mobile subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13103 Memory
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13106 Microprocessor, CPU
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13176 Common channel signaling, CCS7
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13204 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13206 User-to-user signaling, UUS
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13209 ISDN
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/1322 PBX
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13336 Store & forward, messaging systems email H04Q2213/13375
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13405 Dual frequency signaling, DTMF
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/62 for connecting to private branch exchanges
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/72 Finding out and indicating number of calling subscriber

Abstract

For complementing a telephone connection with additional information a first telecommunication device transmits to a second telecommunication device a request for setting up a telephone connection (102, 302, 402). In association with said request, a first signalling message (103, 303, 403) is transmitted. The receiver of the first signalling message (104, 304, 404) makes a decision about how to handle the call on the basis of the information received in said first signalling message (105, 305, 405).

Claims

1. A method for complementing a telephone connection with additional information, comprising the steps of:

transmitting from a first telecommunication device to a second telecommunication device a request for setting up a telephone connection,

transmitting, from said first telecommunication device to the second telecommunication device a certain first signalling

message associated to the call the setting up of which was requested by said request, and

making a decision about how to handle the call the setting up of which was requested by said request, on the basis of the information received in said first signalling message,

wherein the step of making a decision about how to handle the call comprises the substep of directing the request from the second telecommunication device further on the basis of the information received in said first signalling message.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein said second telecommunication device is a Private Automated Branch Exchange, whereby the step of making a decision about how to handle the call comprises the substep of directing to the request to a certain extension selected on the basis of the information received in said frist signalling message.

3. A method according to claim 2, wherein the step of making a decision about how to handle the call additionally comprises the substep of retrieving previously stored data from a database on the basis of the information received in said first signalling message.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of transmitting a certain first signalling message comprises the substep of reading previously stored data from a memory and inserting the read data as a part of said first signalling message.

5. A method according to claim 4, wherein the step of transmitting a certain first signalling message additionally comprises the substep of selecting the previously stored data to be read from the memory on the basis of the telephone number to which the request for setting up a telephone connection will be transmitted.

6. A method according to claim 4, wherein the step of transmitting a certain first signalling message additionally comprises the substep of selecting the previously stored data to be read from the memory regardless of the telephone number to which the request for setting up a telephone connection will be transmitted.

7. A method according to claim 4, wherein the step of transmitting a certain first signalling message additionally comprises the substep of selecting a first piece of previously stored data to be read from the memory on the basis of the telephone number to which the request for setting up a telephone connection will be transmitted and a second piece of previously stored data to be read from the memory regardless of the telephone number to which the request for setting up a telephone connection will be transmitted.

8. A method according to claim 4, wherein the step of transmitting a certain first signalling message additionally comprises the substep of selecting the previously stored data to be read from the memory as a response to a user-given command indicating the selection of a certain piece of data from a previously stored list of mutually alternative pieces of data.

9. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of transmitting a certain first signalling message comprises the substeps of:

prompting a user to enter the characters to be included in the first signalling message, and

composing the first signalling message from characters entered by a user.