Method for using AIN to deliver caller ID to text/alpha-numeric pagers as well as other wireless devices, for calls delivered to wireless network

• US 7,403,768 B2
• Filed: 06/18/2002
• Issued: 07/22/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: At&T Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc. (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Bedingfield, James C. Sr., Levine, David A., Simpson, Anita
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Duc
• Assistant Examiner(s): Genack; Matthew W
• Application Number:
  US10/174,566
• Publication Number:
  US 20040248560A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,226 Days
• Field of Search: 455/412.1, 455/412.2, 455/413, 455/414.1, 455/414.2, 455/414.3, 455/414.4, 455/415, 455/417, 455/418, 455/419
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/551 Call history
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/2218 Call detail recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/537 Arrangements for indicating the presence of a recorded message , whereby the presence information might include a preview or summary of the message
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/14 Backbone network devices

Abstract

A remote call notification system for incoming calls to a wireless telecommunications device. The system includes a switch, a service control point, an intelligent server, a monitoring module, and a wireless terminating trigger used on a mobile switching center. All components are in communication with each other. The remote call notification is transmitted to a remote communication device such as a PC, an interactive pager, and a mobile phone. The call notification includes a calling number, the name of a calling party, time and date identifiers, status identifiers that provides a real-time status of the incoming communication, a disposition identifier, and a priority identifier. A remote call notification method including detecting an incoming communication to a subscriber'"'"'s wireless communication device, creating a remote call notification, assigning an access address associated with a remote communication device, and forwarding the remote call notification to the remote communication device.

Claims

1. A remote call notification system, comprising:

means for detecting an incoming communication on a communications link to a subscriber'"'"'s communication device, wherein the means for detecting the communication is in communication with the communication device by the communication link;

means for monitoring the status of the incoming communication; and

intelligent server in communication with means for detecting an incoming communication, the intelligent server originating the remote call notification and automatically initiating a communication of the remote call notification to a remote communications device, the remote call notification comprising (1) a calling number associated with the incoming communication, (2) a name of a calling party associated with the calling number, (3) a first time identifier that provides the time that the incoming communication is first detected, (4) a second time identifier that provides the time that incoming communication is terminated, (5) a length identifier that provides the length of the incoming communication, (6) a date identifier that provides the date that incoming communication is received, (7) a status identifier that provides a real-time status of the incoming communication, (8) a disposition identifier that provides a disposition of the incoming communication, and (9) a priority that indicates the importance of the incoming communication;

a module in communication with the intelligent server operable for monitoring traffic in a communication network of voice-mail platforms that serve a service area of the intelligent server; and

interface means for providing an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and a Voice Extensible Markup Language (VXML) interface for retrieving call log information, wherein the interface means allows the subscriber to check the call log and to request that the call log be sent to a fax number, and wherein the subscriber can erase one or more call log entries on the IVR interface such that the one or more erased call log entries are still available over the Internet via the VXML interface.

2. The system of claim 1, the intelligent server further serving subscriber requests for information of a call log, updating the module, performing administrative functions for the subscriber, returning queries for the call log information with appropriate data, and notifying the subscriber of pertinent call events according to the remote communications device specified by the subscriber.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

means for presenting the remote call notification to the remote communications device in a format, wherein the format comprises an audio format, a text format, a short message format, a video format, and a markup language format.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the remote communications device comprises a wireless telephone, a cellular telephone, a computer, a pager, and a personal digital assistant.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the remote call notification is communicated through the communications network to an access address associated with the remote communications device using wireless communication signals.

6. The system of claim 1, the status identifier comprising a call state of the communications device, the call state comprising idle, ringing, answered, busy, and disconnected.

7. The system of claim 1, the disposition identifier comprising new, stored, deleted, restored, and forwarded.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the communications network comprises a celestial communications network and a terrestrial communications network.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

means for scrolling through a plurality of the remote call notifications presented on the remote communications device;

means for selecting one of the remote call notifications to retrieve a communications message of the incoming communication; and

means for presenting the communications message of the incoming message on the remote communications device.

20. The system of claim 1, the means for detecting the incoming communication on the communications link to the subscriber'"'"'s communication device comprising a wireless terminating trigger used on mobile switching center, the wireless terminating trigger communicating with the mobile switching center to detect the incoming communication to the subscriber'"'"'s communications device, the subscriber'"'"'s communications device comprising a wireless communications device.

10. A remote call notification method, comprising:

detecting an incoming communication on a communications link to a subscriber'"'"'s wireless communication device;

creating a remote call notification, the remote call notification comprising (1) a calling number associated with the incoming communication, (2) a name of a calling party associated with the calling number, (3) a first time identifier that provides the time that incoming communication if first detected, (4) a second time identifier that provides the time that the incoming communication, (6) a dated identifier that provides the date that the incoming communication is received, (7) a status identifier that provides a real-time status of the incoming communication, (8) a disposition identifier that provides a disposition of the incoming communication, and (9) a priority identifier that indicates the importance of the incoming communication;

determining an access address associated with a remote communication device;

automatically sending the remote call notification through a communications network to the access address associated with the remote communication device;

presenting the remote call notification to the remote communication device in a format, wherein the format comprises and audio format, a text format, a short message service format, a video format, and a markup formats and

providing an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and a Voice Extensible Markup Language (VXML) interface for retrieving call log information wherein the interface means allows the subscriber to check the call log and to request that the call log be sent to a fax number, and wherein the subscriber can erase one or more call log entries on the IVR interface such that the one or more erased call log entries are still available over the Internet via the VXML interface.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the remote communication device comprises a wireless phone, a cellular phone, a computer, a pager, and a personal digital assistant.

12. The method of claim 11, the pager comprises an interactive pager, the interactive pager communicating the remote call notification.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the remote call notification is communicated through the communications network to the access address associated with the remote communication device using wireless communication signals.

14. The method of claim 10, the status identifier comprising a call state of the communications device, the call state comprising idle, ringing, answered, busy, and disconnected.

15. The method of claim 10, the disposition identifier comprising a description of a disposition of the remote notification, the disposition comprising new, stored, deleted, restored, forwarded, and system administration.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the communications network comprises a celestial communications network and a terrestrial communications network.

17. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

associating the access address with a plurality of communications devices.

18. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

scrolling through a plurality of the remote call notifications presented on the remote communication device;

selecting one of the remote call notifications to retrieve a communications message of the incoming communication; and

presenting the communications message of the incoming message on the remote communication device.

19. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

creating a call log associated with the remote call notification; and

retrieving the call log;

wherein retrieving the call log comprises one of the following;

retrieval via a web page, retrieval via wireless, retrieval via Interactive Voice Response (IVR), and retrieval via FAX.

21. The method of claim 10, the step of detecting the incoming communication on the communications link to the subscriber'"'"'s communication device further compromising detecting and answered communications link with the subscriber'"'"'s communication device.