Method and system for providing calling name identification requery

• US 6,975,716 B2
• Filed: 03/13/2003
• Issued: 12/13/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: SBC Properties, L.P. (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kovarik, Jim, Urban, Ron, Wojtczak, Bill
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Harry S.
• Application Number:
  US10/389,227
• Publication Number:
  US 20040052351A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,006 Days
• Field of Search: 379/127.01, 379/142.01, 379/142.06, 379/201.01, 379/207.02, 379/220.01, 379/221.08, 379/221.09, 379/230
• US Class Current: 379/207.02
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/06 Recording class or number of calling , i.e. A-party or called party , i.e. B-party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/38 Displays
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/12 intelligent networks
• 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 3/42051 where the notification is included in the ringing tone
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42068 where the identifier is used to access a profile
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13091 CLI, identification of calling line
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13103 Memory
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13176 Common channel signaling, CCS7
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13204 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13345 Intelligent networks, SCP
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13387 Call gapping
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/0029 Provisions for intelligent networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/72 Finding out and indicating number of calling subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/74 Identification of subscriber calling from a party-line

Abstract

A method for determining the name of a calling party where the calling party'"'"'s name and corresponding telephone number are found in a remote database. The method first identifies whether the calling party'"'"'s telephone number is contained within the local database. When it is determined that the telephone number is not within the local database, the method attempts to locate the telephone number in a remote database. A query is formed according to a basic signal transmission protocol to ensure that a database which receives the query will be able to respond to it. The query requesting the name associated with the telephone number is sent across a network. The method receives a response to the inquiry and checks to ensure that a name was returned to the local database before delivering the name to the called party.

Claims

1. A method of identifying a name that corresponds to a telephone number, the method comprising:

(a) receiving, from a switch, a first query that requests a name that corresponds to a telephone number;

(b) formulating a second query that requests the name that corresponds to the telephone number, where the second query is based upon information that was included in the first query; and

(c) transmitting the second query to a remote location.

2. The invention of claim 1, wherein the first query includes the telephone number.

3. The invention of claim 1, wherein the second query includes the telephone number.

4. The invention of claim 1, wherein the remote location comprises a service control point.

5. The invention of claim 1, wherein (a) comprises receiving a first query from a service switching point.

6. The invention of claim 1, wherein (b) comprises formulating a second query in accordance with a TR1188 signaling protocol.

7. The invention of claim 1, wherein (c) comprises transmitting the second query in accordance with a TR1188 signaling protocol.

8. The invention of claim 1, further comprising determining whether the remote location is able to process the second query prior to (c).

9. The invention of claim 1, further comprising identifying the name that corresponds to the telephone number.

10. The invention of claim 1, further comprising transmitting the name that corresponds to the telephone number from the remote location.

11. The invention of claim 1, further comprising transmitting the name that corresponds to the telephone number to a called party.

12. A system for identifying a name corresponding to a telephone number, the system comprising:

means for formulating a second query that requests a name that corresponds to a telephone number in response to the receipt of a first query that is transmitted from a switch and requests the name that corresponds to the telephone number, where the second query is based upon information that was included in the first query; and

means for transmitting the second query to a remote location.

13. The invention of claim 12, further comprising means for determining whether the remote location is able to process the second query.

14. The invention of claim 12, wherein the remote location includes means for identifying the name that corresponds to the telephone number.

15. The invention of claim 12, further comprising means for transmitting the name that corresponds to the telephone number to a called party.

16. The invention of claim 12, wherein the remote location comprises a service control point.

17. A computer usable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein for identifying a name that corresponds to a telephone number, the computer readable program code comprising:

computer readable program code for causing a computer to formulate a second query that requests a name that corresponds to a telephone number in response to the receipt of a first query that is transmitted from a switch and requests the name that corresponds to the telephone number, where the second query is based upon information that was included in the first query; and

computer readable program code for causing a computer to transmit the second query to a remote location.

18. The invention of claim 17, further comprising computer readable program code for causing a computer to determine whether the remote location is able to process the second query.

19. The invention of claim 17, wherein the remote location includes computer readable program code for causing a computer to identify the name that corresponds to the telephone number.

20. The invention of claim 17, wherein the remote location includes computer readable program code for causing a computer to transmit the name that corresponds to the telephone number to another location.

21. The invention of claim 17, further comprising computer readable program code for causing a computer to transmit the name that corresponds to the telephone number to a called party.