System and method for providing network information service using CID-type messages

• US 6,920,211 B2
• Filed: 07/10/2003
• Issued: 07/19/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: SBC Properties, L.P.
• Original Assignee: SBC Properties, L.P.
• Inventors: Pelletier, Karen Jeanne, Griffith, Laura Marie, Stuckman, Bruce Edward, Bennett, Raymond Walden III, Ekstrom, Gayle Roberta, Light, Jordan Howard, Pickard, Michael Steven, Israelski, Edmond W., Bossemeyer, Robert Welsey Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): TIEU, BENNY QUOC
• Application Number:
  US10/616,619
• Publication Number:
  US 20040017908A1
• Time in Patent Office: 740 Days
• Field of Search: 37920101-20105, 379/201.12, 37922108-22111, 379/230, 379/88.13, 379/88.14, 379/88.17, 379/142.01, 379/142.06, 379/142.14, 379/142.17
• US Class Current: 379/201.05
• 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 3/42017 Customized ring-back tones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42059 Making use of the calling party identifier
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/493 Interactive information services, e.g. directory enquiries ; Arrangements therefor, e.g. interactive voice response [IVR] systems or voice portals
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13345 Intelligent networks, SCP
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13376 Information service, downloading of information, 0800/0900 services
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/0029 Provisions for intelligent networking

Abstract

A network-based announcement and message delivery service for providing a landline customer with information of interest such as weather, financial market data, time/temperature, sporting event results, etc. The information is provided to the subscriber by way of information displayed on a caller-ID display and/or by way of talking caller-ID.

Claims

1. A computer-usable storage media storing a software routine to enable a computer-based telecommunications system to perform the following functions:

to use a service node/intelligent peripheral (SN/IP) of the system to monitor incoming data to determine whether the incoming data is subscriber data, to use the SN/IP to send a message to a switching control point (SCP) of the system indicating the presence of subscriber data, to use the SCP to send a message to a service switching point (SSP) of the system that instructs a connection to the subscriber, to use the SSP to establish the connection, and to use the SN/IP to format the subscriber data into a CID (caller identification) format and deliver the formatted subscriber data to CID-enabled customer premises equipment (CPE) of the subscriber.

2. The storage media of claim 1, wherein the routine is performed by more than one node of the system.

3. The media of claim 1, wherein the CID-format is an 8-bit word data stream.

4. The media of claim 1, wherein the system transmits the information to the CPE at predetermined intervals.

5. The media of claim 1, wherein the system transmits the information to the CPE in response to a change in the information.

6. The media of claim 1, wherein the system transmits the information to the CPE after at least one ring of the CPE.

7. The media of claim 1, wherein the routine further enables the system to monitor for an interrupt key from the CPE.

8. The media of claim 1, wherein the SN/IP monitors incoming data for voice mail of the subscriber.

9. The media of claim 1, wherein the SN/IP monitors incoming data for email of the subscriber.

10. The media of claim 1, wherein the SN/IP monitors for missed calls to the subscriber.

11. The media of claim 1, wherein the routine further enables the CPE to display a menu of information choices.

12. The media of claim 1, wherein the CID format follows a common channel signaling (CCS) protocol.

13. The media of claim 1, wherein the SN/IP delivers the data to the CPE via the SCP and SSP.

14. The media of claim 1, wherein the routine further enables the SN/IP to receive input from the customer via the Internet that determines what incoming data is for that customer.

15. A computer-usable storage media storing a software routine to enable a service node/intelligent peripheral (SN/IP) of a computer-based telecommunications system to perform the following functions:

to monitor incoming data to determine whether the incoming data is for a subscriber, to send a message to a switching control point (SCP) of the system indicating the presence of customer data, to connect to the subscriber in response to a message from a service switching point (SSP) of the system, to format the data into a CID (caller identification data) format, and to deliver the data to the subscriber.

16. In a system having an originating service switching point (SSP), a signaling transfer point (STP), a service node/intelligent peripheral (SNIP) and a switching control point (SCP), a method for providing information over a telephone network comprising:

automatically connecting email information for storage in a service node;

configuring a customer premises equipment (CPE) to receive and output a caller identification (CID) message;

connecting said SSP to said service node; and

providing non-CID data in said CID message from said SNIP to said CPE for output by said CPE, said non-CID data including said email information.

17. In a system having an originating service switching point (SSP), a signaling transfer point (STP), a service node/intelligent peripheral (SNIP) and a switching control point (SCP), a method for providing information over a telephone network comprising:

receiving, at the SNIP, a subscriber'"'"'s selection of message data to be delivered to the subscriber;

using the SNIP to store the message data;

configuring a customer premises equipment (CPE) to receive and output a caller identification (CID) message;

connecting said SSP to said SNIP; and

providing the message data in CID format from said SNIP to said CPE for output by said CPE.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the receiving step is performed using a computer Internet connection.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the receiving step is performed using the CPE.