System and method for creating and accessing outgoing telephone call log

• US 7,187,760 B2
• Filed: 04/15/2005
• Issued: 03/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: AT&T Labs Incorporated (AT&T, Inc.), AT&T Services Incorporated (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Labs Incorporated (AT&T, Inc.), AT&T Services Incorporated (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Miller, James Thomas, Mueller, Stephen Mark, Brandt, Jeffrey Lewis, Mamuzic, Bojana
• Primary Examiner(s): Bui; Bing Q.
• Application Number:
  US11/106,522
• Publication Number:
  US 20050190907A1
• Time in Patent Office: 690 Days
• Field of Search: 370/352, 370/353, 379/112.01, 379/114.01, 379/114.03, 379/114.28, 379/114.29, 379/116, 379/119, 379/121.04, 379/126, 379/127.01, 379/230
• US Class Current: 379/126
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/12 intelligent networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/2218 Call detail recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42068 where the identifier is used to access a profile
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0036 where the data service is an information service
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/126 Interworking of session control protocols

Abstract

Outgoing call log data associated with a call from a subscriber'"'"'s terminal is provided by a system including a switch, which receives the call from the subscriber'"'"'s terminal and launches a query in response to the call, and a service controller, which receives the query and forwards call data to an interface server in response to the query. The switch continues to process the telephone call after querying the service controller. The interface server obtains additional information from a directory database based on at least the received call data. An outgoing call log database receives and stores the call data and the additional information from the interface server as the outgoing call log data. A web server retrieves the outgoing call log data from the outgoing call log database, in response to a query from a web client, and displays the outgoing call log data at the web client.

Claims

1. A system for providing outgoing call log data associated with a call from a subscriber'"'"'s terminal, the system comprising:

a service controller that receives a query from a switch in response to the call, and forwards call data to an interface server in response to the query, the interface server obtaining additional information from a directory database based on at least the received call data; and

an outgoing call log database that receives and stores the call data and the additional information from the interface server as the outgoing call log data;

wherein the outgoing call log data is retrievable from the outgoing call log database via a web server, in response to a query from a web client.

2. The system for providing outgoing call log data according to claim 1, wherein the switch continues to process the telephone call after querying the service controller.

3. The system for providing outgoing call log data according to claim 1, the call data received by the interface server comprising at least a called party number.

4. The system for providing outgoing call log data according to claim 3, the call data received by the interface server further comprising a call start date, a call start time, a call stop date and a call stop time;

wherein the interface server calculates a call duration based on the call data and wherein the call log data received and stored by the outgoing call log database further comprises the call duration.

5. The system for providing outgoing call log data according to claim 4, the additional information received by the interface server comprising at least a called party name corresponding to the called party number.

6. The system for providing outgoing call log data according to claim 5, wherein the web server displays at the web client at least the called party name, the called party number and the call duration.

7. The system for providing outgoing call log data according to claim 6, wherein the web server enables the subscriber to initiate a repeat call to the called party number by selecting the called party number from the display at the web client.

8. The system for providing outgoing call log data according to claim 5, further comprising a personal directory database that stores at least the called party name and the called party number in response to the subscriber providing the called party name in association with the called party number at the web client.

9. A method for providing outgoing call log data associated with a call from a subscriber'"'"'s terminal, the method comprising:

receiving call data from a service controller in response to the call from the subscriber'"'"'s terminal via a data interface, the call data being related to the call;

retrieving additional information from a database based on at least the call data; and

storing at least the call data and the additional information as the outgoing call log data,

the outgoing call log data being accessible to a web client associated with the subscriber via a web server.

10. The method for providing outgoing call log data according to claim 9, wherein the call continues to be processed by the service controller.

11. The method for providing outgoing call log data according to claim 9, wherein the call data comprises at least a called party number.

12. The method for providing outgoing call log data according to claim 11, further comprising calculating a call duration based on the received call data, wherein the call data further comprises a call start date, a call start time, a call stop date and a call stop time.

13. The method for providing outgoing call log data according to claim 11, the additional information comprising at least a called party name corresponding to the called party number.

14. The method for providing outgoing call log data according to claim 13, in which the additional information database comprises at least one of a public directory database and a personal database of names associated with directory numbers, the method further comprising:

retrieving the called party name associated with the called party number from the personal database when the called party number is in the personal database.

15. The method for providing outgoing call log data according to claim 14, further comprising:

retrieving the called party name associated with the called party number from the public directory database when the called party number is not in the personal database.

16. The method for providing outgoing call log data according to claim 12, wherein the called party name, the called party number and the call duration are displayed at the web client.

17. The method for providing outgoing call log data according to claim 16, further comprising initiating a repeat call to the called party number by receiving a selection of the called party number from the display at the web client.

18. A computer readable medium that stores a program for providing outgoing call log data associated with a call from a subscriber'"'"'s terminal to a called party number, the computer readable medium comprising:

a receiving code segment that receives call data from a network service controller in response to the call from the subscriber'"'"'s terminal, the call data being related to the call;

a retrieving code segment that retrieves additional data from at least one database based on at least the call data; and

a storing code segment that causes at least the call data and the additional data to be stored as the outgoing call log data, the outgoing call log data being accessible to a web client associated via a web server.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 18, further comprising:

a calculating code segment that calculates a call duration based on the received call data, wherein the call data further comprises a call start date, a call start time, a call stop date and a call stop time.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 18, wherein the at least one database comprises a public directory database and a personal database of names associated with directory numbers, and

wherein the additional data comprises a called party name associated with the called party number, the called party name being retrieved from the personal database when the called party number has been previously stored in the personal database and retrieved from the public directory database when the called party number has not been previously stored in the personal database.