Method and system for connecting a voice call using a domain name database

• US 7,813,723 B2
• Filed: 01/24/2010
• Issued: 10/12/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Alexander Y. Bredikhin
• Original Assignee: Alexander Y. Bredikhin
• Inventors: Bredikhin, Aleksandr Yurevich, Sergeichev, Nikolai Evgenevich
• Primary Examiner(s): Cho, Un C
• Application Number:
  US12/692,616
• Publication Number:
  US 20100124218A1
• Time in Patent Office: 261 Days
• Field of Search: 455/412.1, 455/412.2, 455/414.2, 455/414.3, 379/218.01, 379/93.12, 707/3, 707/6, 707/708, 709/218, 709/219, 705/14.67
• US Class Current: 455/414.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0271 Personalized advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/30 Managing network names, e.g. use of aliases or nicknames name-to-address mapping H04L61/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/301 Name conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4552 Lookup mechanisms between a plurality of directories; Synchronisation of directories, e.g. metadirectories
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4557 Directories for hybrid networks, e.g. including telephone numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0075 Details of addressing, directories or routing tables
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support

Abstract

A method for connecting a telephone call includes receiving, at a server, from a communication terminal, a first message including at least one word corresponding to a name of an individual or an organization, wherein the first message is transmitted using an Internet-compatible protocol; searching for the at least one word in a server database; at the server, comparing the at least one word with domain names stored in the database and, if domain names are found such that at least a part of the domain name matches the word, transmitting to the communication terminal a list of domain names, each domain name including an identifier of an Internet resource; receiving, at the server, a second message containing the domain name selected by the user from the list; identifying a phone number associated with the selected domain name; at the server, transmitting the phone number to the communication terminal; and connecting the communication terminal to the phone number via the communications network.

Claims

1. A method for connecting a telephone call, the method comprising:

receiving, at a server, from a communication terminal, a first message including at least one word corresponding to a name of an individual or an organization, wherein the first message is transmitted using an Internet-compatible protocol;

searching for the at least one word in a server database;

at the server, comparing the at least one word with domain names stored in the database and, if domain names are found such that at least a part of the domain name matches the at least one word, transmitting to the communication terminal a list of domain names, each domain name including an identifier of an Internet resource;

receiving, at the server, a second message containing the domain name selected by the user from the list;

at the server, identifying a phone number associated with the selected domain name;

at the server, transmitting the phone number to the communication terminal; and

connecting the communication terminal to the phone number via a communications network.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the connecting step uses a VoIP connection.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the communications network is a GSM network.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein, after the voice call is completed, software installed on a communication terminal removes the phone number received from the server from the communication terminal memory.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein multiple subscribers'"'"' phone numbers correspond to a single domain name in the server database, with different phone numbers corresponding to different time intervals of the day, different days of the week, different months, current year, or different geographical locations, and wherein the server transmits a selected subscriber'"'"'s phone number to the user'"'"'s communication terminal, depending on the time when the first or second message is received and current geographic location of the mobile communications terminal.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein, if the at least one word matches a single domain name or a single e-mail address, the selecting step and the second search are omitted and the user is connected to the subscriber via the voice call.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the domain name is part of a URL.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the domain name is part of a URI.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the connection is made based on selection, by the user of the communication terminal, of least expensive connection mode.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the connection is made based on selection, by the user of the communication terminal, of a cost of connection.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the connection is made based on selection, by the user of the communication terminal, of quality of the connection.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting step also transmits an advertisement to the communication terminal.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the word includes a telephone number of a subscriber, and the search in the database identifies domain names corresponding the telephone number.

14. A method for connecting a mobile telephone call, the method comprising:

receiving, at a server, from a communication terminal, a first message including at least one word corresponding to a name of an individual or an organization, wherein the first message is transmitted using an Internet-compatible protocol;

searching for the at least one word in a server database;

at the server, comparing the at least one word with data stored in the database, the data including any of domain names, nicknames, owner information, and description of the domain, and, if at least a part of the data matches the at least one word, transmitting to the communication terminal a list of domain names, each domain name including an identifier of an Internet resource;

receiving, at the server, a second message containing the domain name selected by the user from the list;

at the server, identifying a phone number associated with the selected domain name;

at the server, transmitting the phone number to the communication terminal; and

connecting the communication terminal to the phone number via a communications network.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein, after the voice call is completed, software installed on a communication terminal removes the phone number received from the server from the communication terminal memory.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein multiple subscribers'"'"' phone numbers correspond to a single domain name in the server database, with different phone numbers corresponding to different time intervals of the day, different days of the week, different months, current year, or different geographical locations, and wherein the server transmits a selected subscriber'"'"'s phone number to the user'"'"'s communication terminal, depending on the time when the first or second message is received and current geographic location of the mobile communications terminal.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein, if the at least one word matches a single domain name or a single e-mail address, the selecting step and the second search are omitted and the user is connected to the subscriber via the voice call.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the connection is made based on selection, by the user of the communication terminal, of a least expensive connection mode.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the transmitting step also transmits an advertisement to the communication terminal.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein the word includes a telephone number of a subscriber, and the search in the database identifies domain names corresponding the telephone number.