Recovering from a disconnected phone call

• US 7,233,788 B2
• Filed: 10/12/2004
• Issued: 06/19/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: SanDisk IL Ltd. (Western Digital Corporation)
• Original Assignee: SanDisk Corporation (Western Digital Corporation)
• Inventors: Kedem, Noam
• Primary Examiner(s): Trinh; Sonny
• Application Number:
  US10/961,048
• Publication Number:
  US 20060019650A1
• Time in Patent Office: 980 Days
• Field of Search: 455/404.1, 455/412.1, 455/412.2, 455/414.1, 455/423, 455/450, 455/435.1, 455/435.3, 455/67.11, 455/421, 455/445
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup

Abstract

A method for handling an interruption of a telephone call in a mobile telephone network between a first user of a first telephone and a second user of a second telephone. The method includes detecting the onset of an interruption in a telephone connection. The detection is performed either manually by the first user or autonomously by the first telephone. When an onset of interruption is detected, a message is recorded and sent from the first user to the second user. The recording is performed either in a mobile telephone or in a server for handling interrupted calls.

Claims

1. A method for handling an interruption of an ongoing telephone call between a first telephone in use by a first user and a second telephone in use by a second user, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) monitoring for an onset of the interruption;

(b) upon detecting said onset, recording a message from the first user for the second user;

wherein said detecting is performed by mobile communications equipment operatively connected to the first telephone and to the second telephone;

(c) upon said detecting, initiating said recording by said mobile communications equipment;

wherein said initiating includes transferring the telephone call to a handle-dropped-call server operatively connected to said mobile communications equipment; and

(d) sending the message for the second user.

2. The method, according to claim 1, wherein the first user participates in said detecting.

3. The method, according to claim 1, wherein said sending is initiated when the second telephone becomes available to the mobile telephone network.

4. The method, according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

(e) recording a second message from the first user for the second user; and

(f) sending said second message to the second user, thereby appending said second message to said first message.

5. The method, according to claim 1, wherein said recording is performed by handle-dropped-call server operatively connected to said mobile communications equipment.

6. The method, according to claim 1, wherein said sending is initiated by handle-dropped-call server operatively connected to said mobile communications equipment.

7. A method for recovering from an interrupted connection between a first mobile telephone and a second mobile telephone, in a mobile telephone network, when a link between the mobile telephones is interrupted, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) receiving the connection from the first mobile telephone, by a handle-dropped-call server installed in the mobile telephone network; and

(b) upon said receiving, storing a message from the first mobile telephone intended for a user of the second mobile telephone, wherein said storing a message is performed by said handle-dropped-call server.

8. The method, according to claim 7, further comprising the step of:

(c) sending said message to said user of the second mobile telephone, wherein said sending is performed by said handle-dropped-call server.

9. The method, according to claim 8, wherein said sending is initiated when the second mobile telephone becomes available to the mobile telephone network.

10. A handle dropped call server which the performs method steps of claim 7.

11. A server for recovering from an interrupted call between a first mobile telephone and a second mobile telephone in a mobile telephone network when a link between the telephones is interrupted, the server operationally connected to a mobile switching center, the mobile switching center operatively connected to the first mobile telephone, the server comprising:

(a) a processor for receiving the call from the first mobile telephone; and

(b) a memory;

wherein upon detecting an onset of the interruption, said processor receives the call and stores in said memory a message from the first mobile telephone intended for a user of the second mobile telephone.

12. A method for handling an interruption of an ongoing telephone call between a first telephone in use by a first user and a second telephone in use by a second user, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) monitoring for an onset of the interruption;

(b) upon detecting said onset, recording a first message portion from the first user for the second user;

(c) providing an option to the first user to append a second message portion to the first message portion;

(d) recording said second message portion by the first user; and

(e) sending a message to the second user, said message including said second message portion appended to said first message portion.