Method and means for transmitting a service page in a communication system

• US 6,542,489 B1
• Filed: 04/01/1998
• Issued: 04/01/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones UK Limited (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones UK Limited (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Kari, Janne, Rautila, Heikki
• Primary Examiner(s): Hsu, Alpus H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tran, Thien D
• Application Number:
  US09/053,419
• Time in Patent Office: 1,826 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/217, 709/218, 709/219, 370/352, 370/354, 370/328, 370/338, 370/389, 379/88.17, 379/93.01, 379/93.05, 379/93.07, 379/93.17, 379/258, 379/265, 379/309
• US Class Current: 370/338
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/575 Means for retrieving and displaying personal data about calling party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42042 Notifying the called party of information on the calling party details within substation equipment H04M1/57, signalling details H04Q3/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42076 where the identifier is a Uniform Resource Locator
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4228 in networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4931 Directory assistance systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/006 Networks other than PSTN/ISDN providing telephone service, e.g. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) , including next generation networks with a packet-switched transport layer H04L65/00 takes precedence; aspects not specific to the type of network H04M3/00; special services in those networks H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/12 for working between exchanges having different types of switching equipment, e.g. power-driven and step by step or decimal and non-decimal
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13091 CLI, identification of calling line
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13097 Numbering, addressing
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13098 Mobile subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13103 Memory
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13175 Graphical user interface [GUI], WWW interface, visual indication
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13204 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/1326 Consultation call, broker's call, call hold, toggling
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13389 LAN, internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/72 Finding out and indicating number of calling subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/20 Manipulation of established connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/22 Processing or transfer of terminal data, e.g. status or physical capabilities

Abstract

The transmission of a service page according to the present invention provides for versatile data to be displayed on a display of a terminal, which is in contact with a telecommunication network, on the basis of CLIP or CoLP identifier information. This is implemented, for example, so that after having received (31) the CLIP identifier information, characteristic of a subscriber A, a subscriber B contacts a server (32), through a telecommunication network, and transmits (33) to it the CLIP information on the subscriber A. On the basis of this, the server transmits to the subscriber B the address of a service page (37), characteristic of the subscriber A, provided that it is located in a database (34, 35). After this, the subscriber B retrieves (38), from an Internet address (37) it has received, the service page, characteristic of the subscriber A, and displays it on its display (39).

Claims

1. An information transmission system comprising:

a first terminal, a second terminal and means for setting up a communication connection between said first terminal and said second terminal and that said communication connection set-up means have been arranged to transmit a first telephone network subscriber identifier identifying a calling line, characteristic of said first terminal, to said second terminal, wherein, said communication connection set-up means have been arranged to transmit, in addition, a second telephone network subscriber identifier identifying a connected line, characteristic of said second terminal, to said first terminal; and

said information transmission system further comprises a server connected to said communication connection, said server capable to store and further transmit service pages to said first terminal and to said second terminal; and

that said communication connection set-up means have been arranged to substantially simultaneously transmit a specified service page to

said first terminal on the basis of said second telephone network subscriber identifier and to said second terminal on the basis of said first telephone network subscriber identifier.

2. An information transmission system according to claim 1, wherein said first telephone network subscriber identifier comprises CLIP (Calling Line Identification Presentation) information and said second telephone network subscriber identifier comprises COLP (Connected Line Identification Presentation) information.

3. An information transmission system according to claim 1, wherein, in addition, it comprises a reference database for storing the telephone network subscriber identifier, characteristic of said first terminal, and the telephone network subscriber identifier, characteristic of said second terminal, and address information of said server and that said reference database is located in one of the following parts of the information transmission system:

said first terminal and said server.

4. An information transmission system according to claim 3, wherein, in addition, it comprises a mobile services switching centre and storage means and that said reference database is located in said storage means.

5. An information transmission system according to claim 3, wherein said communication connection set-up means have been arranged to transmit said service page from an address specified by said address information stored in said reference database.

6. An information transmission system according to claim 4, wherein it comprises means for editing said reference database and for rendering the editing rights and that one of the following has been arranged to edit said reference database:

said first terminal, said second terminal and said server.

7. A method for transmitting information, comprising the steps of:

setting up a communication connection between a first terminal and a second terminal,

transmitting a first telephone network subscriber identifier, identifying a calling line, characteristic of said first terminal, to said second terminal,

transmitting a second telephone network subscriber identifier, identifying a connected line characteristic of said second terminal, to said first terminal,

substantially simultaneously transmitting a specified service page to;

said first terminal on the basis of said second telephone network subscriber identifier and to said second terminal on the basis of said first telephone network subscriber identifier.

8. A method for transmitting information according to claim 7, wherein said first telephone network subscriber identifier comprises CLIP (Calling Line Identification Presentation) information and said second telephone network subscriber identifier comprises COLP (Connected Line Identification Presentation) information.

9. A method for transmitting information according to claim 7, wherein said service page is transmitted on the basis of telephone network subscriber identifiers and address data stored in a separate reference database.

10. An information transmission system comprising:

a first terminal, a second terminal and means for setting up a communication connection between said first terminal and said second terminal and that said communication connection set-up means have been arranged to transmit a first telephone network subscriber identifier as a Calling Line Identification Presentation (CLIP), characteristic of said first terminal, to said second terminal, wherein, said communication connection set-up means have been arranged to transmit in addition, a second telephone network subscriber identifier as a Connected Line Identification Presentation (COLP), characteristic of said second terminal, to said first terminal;

a first server connected to said first terminal by an independent communication connection for storing and transmitting service pages to said first terminal;

a second server connected to said second terminal by an independent communication connection for storing and transmitting services pages to said second terminal;

wherein said service pages are substantially simultaneously transmitted to said first terminal on the basis of said COLP identifier and to said second terminal on the basis of said CLIP identifier.

11. An information transmission system according to claim 10, wherein, said first server includes a reference database for storing the COLP identifier correlated to a related service page, of said second terminal, and said second server includes a reference database for storing the CLIP identifier correlated to a related service page, of said first terminal.

12. An information transmission system according to claim 10, further comprising a mobile services switching center having storage means and that at least one of said reference databases is located in said storage means.

13. An information transmission system according to claim 10, further means for editing said reference databases by operation of said first terminal, said second terminal or both.

14. A method for transmitting information, comprising the steps of:

setting up a communication connection between a first terminal and a second terminal, transmitting a first telephone network subscriber identifier as a Calling Line Identification Presentation (CLIP), characteristic of said first terminal;

transmitting a second telephone network subscriber identifier as a Connected Line Identification Presentation (COLP), characteristic of said second terminal;

storing and transmitting a service page on a first server connected to said first terminal by an independent communication connection;

storing and transmitting a service page on a second server connected to said second terminal by an independent communication connection;

wherein said service pages are transmitted to said first terminal on the basis of said COLP identifier; and

wherein said service pages are transmitted to said second terminal on the basis of said CLIP identifier.