Method and system for providing voice dialing service in a SIP-based network

• US 8,320,532 B1
• Filed: 09/22/2006
• Issued: 11/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Robbins, David C
• Primary Examiner(s): SHAH, ANTIM G
• Application Number:
  US11/534,227
• Time in Patent Office: 2,258 Days
• Field of Search: 348/14.01, 370/328, 370/465, 370/352, 370/353, 379/88.04, 379/88.17, 379/355.04, 379/216.01, 379/355.01, 379/88.01, 379/88.03
• US Class Current: 379/88.03
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1076 Screening of IP real time communications, e.g. spam over Internet telephony [SPIT]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1096 Supplementary features, e.g. call forwarding or call holding systems providing special services or facilities to telephony subscribers H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27 Devices whereby a plurality of signals may be stored simultaneously
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/04 with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/006 Networks other than PSTN/ISDN providing telephone service, e.g. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) , including next generation networks with a packet-switched transport layer H04L65/00 takes precedence; aspects not specific to the type of network H04M3/00; special services in those networks H04M3/42

Abstract

A system and method may include establishing a processing data session over a data network based on a processing data session request from a remote communication device, identifying a dialing directory based on the processing data session request, the dialing directory including multiple complete addresses, and receiving address information over the data network via the processing data session. The system and method may further include processing the address information to determine whether the address information corresponds to one of the plurality of complete addresses, and providing the corresponding one of the plurality of complete addresses over the data network to the remote communication device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

establishing a processing data session over a data network based on a processing data session request from a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) device, wherein the processing data session request includes identification information;

identifying a dialing directory of a user of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) device, using a processing module, based on the identification information in the processing data session request, the dialing directory comprising a plurality of complete addresses;

receiving address information, at a communication module, over the data network via the processing data session;

determining, using the processing module, an input type of the address information;

processing, using the processing module, the address information to determine whether the address information corresponds to one of the plurality of complete addresses, wherein determining whether the address information corresponds to one of the plurality of complete addresses utilizes one or more packets of digitized voice signals in the event the input type is determined to be one or more packets of digitized voice signals, and wherein determining whether the address information corresponds to one of the plurality of complete addresses utilizes one or more packets of digitized coded signals transmitted as events to identify address information in the dialing directory in the event the input type is determined to be one or more packets of digitized coded signals;

providing the corresponding one of the plurality of complete addresses over the data network to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) device if the address information corresponds to one of the plurality of complete addresses;

providing functionality for the user to modify the identified dialing directory for a plurality of addresses of communication recipients; and

providing functionality to verify a complete address input into the identified dialing directory, wherein verification is performed by the processing module using a dialing plan.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the input type indicates that the address information comprises digitized coded signals including at least one of:

digital representations of Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) signals and pulse dialing signals.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining that the address information does not correspond to one of the plurality of complete addresses;

and

generating error information after determining that the address information does not correspond to one of the plurality of complete addresses.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating prompt information for instructing the generation of a prompt message for prompting a user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the address information comprises shortened address information.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the shortened address information comprises one or more packets of a digitized voice signal.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the shortened address information comprises one or more packets of digitized coded signals.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the dialing directory associates the shortened address information with a complete address.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising identifying the one of the plurality of complete addresses in the dialing directory based on the shortened address information.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising generating complete address information based on the one of the plurality of complete addresses.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to providing the corresponding one of the plurality of complete addresses over the data network to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) device, initiating at the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) device a data session based on the corresponding one of the plurality of complete addresses.

12. The method claim 1, wherein the processing data session request comprises a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) INVITE message, and providing the corresponding one of the plurality of complete addresses includes sending a SIP REFER message containing the corresponding one of the plurality of complete addresses to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) device.

13. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising code to perform the acts of the method of claim 1.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) device contains the dialing directory, the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) device comprises equipment located at a user location and wherein processing the address information may be performed on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) device.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the events comprise Request For Comments (RFC) 2833 events.

16. A system comprising:

a communication module to establish a processing data session over a data network with a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) device associated with a user based on a processing data session request and to receive address information over the data network via the processing data session, wherein the processing data session request includes identification information; and

a processing module communicatively coupled to the communication module and configured to identify a dialing directory of the user based on the identification information in the processing data session request, the dialing directory comprising a plurality of complete addresses, the processing module further configured to process the address information to determine whether the address information corresponds to one of the plurality of complete addresses and to determine an input type of the address information, wherein determining whether the address information corresponds to one of the plurality of complete addresses utilizes one or more packets of digitized voice signals in the event the input type is determined to be one or more packets of digitized voice signals, wherein determining whether the address information corresponds to one of the plurality of complete addresses utilizes one or more packets of digitized coded signals transmitted as events to identify address information in the dialing directory in the event the input type is determined to be one or more packets of digitized coded signals, and wherein the processing module is further configured to receive instructions from the user to modify the identified dialing directory and to perform one or more modifications to the identified dialing directory for a plurality of addresses of communication recipients, wherein the processing module is configured to verify, using a dialing plan, a complete address input into the identified dialing directory.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the address information comprises shortened address information.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the processing module identifies the one of the plurality of complete addresses based on the shortened address information.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) device contains the dialing directory, the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) device comprises equipment located at a user location and wherein processing the address information may be performed on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) device.

20. A system comprising:

a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) gateway device communicatively coupled to a communication device, wherein the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) gateway device is configured to receive instructions from a user to modify a dialing directory for a plurality of addresses of communication recipients and to perform one or more modifications to the dialing directory; and

a server communicatively coupled to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) gateway device, the server comprising;

a communication module configured to establish a processing data session with the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) gateway device over a data network based on a processing data session request and to receive address information over the data network from the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) gateway device via the processing data session, wherein the processing data session request includes identification information; and

a processing module communicatively coupled to the communication module and configured to identify a dialing directory of the user based on the identification information in the processing data session request, the dialing directory comprising a plurality of complete addresses, the processing module further configured to process the address information to determine whether the address information corresponds to one of the plurality of complete addresses and to determine an input type of the address information,

wherein if the processing module determines that the address information corresponds to one of the plurality of complete addresses, the processing module is further configured to provide the corresponding one of the plurality of complete addresses to the communication module and the communication module is further configured to send the corresponding one of the plurality of complete addresses to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) gateway device over the data network, wherein determining whether the address information corresponds to one of the plurality of complete addresses utilizes one or more packets of digitized voice signals in the event the input type is determined to be one or more packets of digitized voice signals, and wherein determining whether the address information corresponds to one of the plurality of complete addresses utilizes one or more packets of digitized coded signals transmitted as events to identify address information in the dialing directory in the event the input type is determined to be one or more packets of digitized coded signals, wherein the processing module is configured to verify, using a dialing plan, a complete address input into the identified dialing directory.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) gateway device generates a connection request based on the corresponding one of the plurality of complete addresses.

22. The system of claim 20, wherein if the processing module determines that the address information does not correspond to one of the plurality of complete addresses, the processing module is further configured to provide an error indication to the communication module and the communication module is further configured to send a message based on the error indication to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) gateway device over the data network, and the gateway device generates an audio signal for producing an error message at the communication device.

23. The system of claim 20, wherein the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) gateway device contains the dialing directory.