Method to provide and perform a telephone service

• US 6,574,322 B1
• Filed: 06/28/1999
• Issued: 06/03/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Teligent AB (Altruist Educational Services Pvt Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Teligent AB (Altruist Educational Services Pvt Ltd.)
• Inventors: Larsson, Conny
• Primary Examiner(s): TIEU, BENNY QUOC
• Application Number:
  US09/284,260
• Time in Patent Office: 1,436 Days
• Field of Search: 379/201-1-2, 379/207-2-2, 379/211.01, 379/211.02, 717/107, 717/144, 717/162
• US Class Current: 379/207.02
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42 Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers specially adapted for wireless communication networks H04W4/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/54 Arrangements for diverting calls for one subscriber to another predetermined subscriber based on the calling party profile H04M3/42059; based on location H04M3/42348; based on presence H04M3/42365; to voice mail H04M3/53308

Abstract

A method of providing and performing a telephone service, in which a computer system senses a calling subscriber number, and in which the computer system is constructed to perform a telephone service ordered by the subscriber of the calling subscriber number, in accordance with a data program. The invention is characterized in that the computer system includes a storage device which is caused to contain a predetermined number of transactions in the form of parts of a data program; in that the computer system fetches from the storage device a number of transactions which together form a data program for performing said service; in that when the subscriber orders a service, the service is stored in the form of codes that correspond to certain transactions from a multitude of transactions; in that said codes are caused to be stored in affiliation with the subscriber number, and in that when the subscriber number is sensed, or read, the computer system is caused to fetch said transactions through the medium of said codes and to execute said transactions and therewith perform said service.

Claims

1. A method of providing and performing a telephone service, in which a calling subscriber number is sensed by a computer system, and wherein the computer system is constructed to perform a telephone service ordered by a subscriber of the subscriber number in accordance with a data program, the computer system comprising:

a storage device which is caused to contain a predetermined number of transactions in the form of parts of a data program;

wherein the computer system fetches from the storage device a number of transactions which are combined together to form a data program for defining and performing said service;

wherein when the subscriber orders a service, the service is stored in the form of codes that correspond to certain transactions from a multitude of transactions;

wherein said codes are stored in affiliation with the subscriber number; and

, wherein when the subscriber number is sensed, or read, the computer system fetches said transactions through the medium of said codes and executes said transactions thereby perform said service.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein when the subscriber number is sensed, the computer analyzes the service profile to which the subscriber number belongs.

3. A method according to claim 2, wherein said transactions include program instructions or program statements.

4. A method according to claim 2, wherein said transactions include information that does not constitute program instructions or program statements.

5. A method according to claim 2, wherein said one or more services include one or more time windows within which the service is different to the service within remaining time windows.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein when the subscriber number is sensed, the computer system analyzes the service profile that belongs to an individual code given by the user to the computer system.

7. A method according to claim 6, wherein said transactions include program instructions or program statements.

8. A method according to claim 6, wherein said transactions include information that does not constitute program instructions or program statements.

9. A method according to claim 6, wherein said one or more services include one or more time windows within which the service is different to the service within remaining time windows.

10. A method according to claim 1, wherein said transactions include program instructions or program statements.

11. A method according to claim 10, wherein said transactions include information that does not constitute program instructions or program statements.

12. A method according to claim 10, wherein said one or more services include one or more time windows within which the service is different to the service within remaining time windows.

13. A method according to claim 1, wherein said transactions include information that does not constitute program instructions or programs statements.

14. A method according to claim 13, wherein said transactions contain speech information which can be listened to by the subscriber or some other in the execution of the service.

15. A method according to claim 13, wherein said one or more services include one or more time windows within which the service is different to the service within remaining time windows.

16. A method according to claim 14, wherein said one or more services include one or more time windows within which the service is different to the service within remaining time windows.

17. A method according to claim 1, wherein said service includes one or more services including one or more time windows within which the service is different from the service within remaining time windows.

18. A method of providing and performing a telephone service, in which a calling subscriber number is sensed by a computer system, and wherein the computer system is constructed to perform a telephone service ordered by a subscriber of the subscriber number in accordance with a data program, the computer system comprising:

a storage device which is caused to contain a predetermined number of transactions in the form of parts of a data program;

wherein the computer system fetches from the storage device a number of transactions which are combined together to form a data program for defining and performing said service;

in which transactions constitute program instructions which, in coaction with a superordinate data program, cause at least one of the programs defined by the transactions to be executed, wherein when the subscriber orders a service, the service is stored in the form of codes that correspond to certain transactions from a multitude of transactions;

wherein said codes are stored in affiliation with the subscriber number; and

, wherein when the subscriber number is sensed, or read, the computer system fetches said transactions through the medium of said codes and executes said transactions thereby perform said service.