Method and system for establishing connection to called terminal

• US 8,320,534 B2
• Filed: 03/05/2009
• Issued: 11/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Inventors: KIM, Kunsik, Lee, DooHyoung, Choi, Hyukjae
• Primary Examiner(s): Gauthier, Gerald
• Application Number:
  US12/398,607
• Publication Number:
  US 20090225960A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,363 Days
• Field of Search: 370/352, 370/356, 370/395.21, 370/401, 379/88.13, 379/142.01, 379/207.16, 379/202.01, 455/414.1, 455/445, 709/231, 713/162
• US Class Current: 379/88.13
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1106 Call signalling protocols; H.323 and related
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/50 Telephonic communication in combination with video communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42017 Customized ring-back tones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0039 where the data service is provided by a stream of packets which are rendered in real time by the receiving terminal network streaming of media packets H04L65/60
• 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 method for connecting a calling terminal to a called terminal includes establishing a first session to a video server and a call connection request to the called terminal, receiving ringback tone (RBT) video data from the video server using the established first session during a waiting time before a response from the called terminal for the request is received, generating a setup flag to set a connection environment with the called terminal to perform a fast setup between the calling terminal and the called terminal, and transmitting the generated setup flag to the called terminal through a second session established by the called terminal. A system to perform the method includes an establishing unit to establish the first session, an RBT video data receiving unit to receive the RBT video data, a setup flag generating unit, and a setup flag transmitting unit.

Claims

1. A method for connecting a calling terminal to a called terminal, comprising:

establishing a first session to a video server and a call connection request to the called terminal;

receiving ringback tone (RBT) video data from the video server using the first session to the video server during a first waiting time, the first waiting time being a time before a response from the called terminal for establishing a second session is received in response to the call connection request;

generating a setup flag to set a connection environment with the called terminal to perform a fast setup between the calling terminal and the called terminal; and

transmitting the setup flag to the called terminal through the second session established by the called terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the setup flag to the called terminal comprises:

transmitting the setup flag during a second waiting time, the second time being a time before a first session to the called terminal is established.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the setup flag comprises:

generating the setup flag based on a generation period of stuffing data, the stuffing data being transmitted to the video server through the first session to the video server.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the setup flag comprises:

generating stuffing data along with generating the setup flag to be transmitted to the video server through the first session to the video server.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting, to the video server, the setup flag through the first session to the video server while the first session to the video server is maintained.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

canceling the first session to the video server;

performing the fast setup between the calling terminal and the called terminal after transmitting the setup flag to the called terminal through the second session; and

establishing a first session to the called terminal.

7. A computer readable medium recording a program to implement the method of claim 1.

8. A computer comprising a memory and a processor, the computer to read from the memory or a readable medium a program to implement the method of claim 1.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the setup flag is arranged between first stuffing data and second stuffing data.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting, to the video server, the setup flag through the first session to the video server before receiving the response from the called terminal for establishing the second session, the setup flag being transmitted periodically.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

switching the transmission of the setup flag to the called terminal if the second session is established by the called terminal.

12. A system for connecting a calling terminal to a called terminal, comprising:

a session establishing unit to establish a first session to a video server and a call connection request to the called terminal;

a ringback tone (RBT) video data receiving unit to receive RBT video data from the video server using the first session to the video server during a first waiting time, the first waiting time being a time before a response from the called terminal for establishing a second session is received in response to the call connection request;

a setup flag generating unit to generate a setup flag to set a connection environment with the called terminal to perform a fast setup between the calling terminal and the called terminal; and

a setup flag transmitting unit to transmit the setup flag to the called terminal through the second session established by the called terminal.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the setup flag transmitting unit transmits the setup flag during a second waiting time, the second waiting time being a time before a first session to the called terminal is established.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the setup flag generating unit generates the setup flag based on a generation period of stuffing data, the stuffing data being transmitted to the video server through the first session to the video server.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the setup flag generating unit generates the setup flag along with generating stuffing data to be transmitted to the video server through the established first session.

16. The system of claim 12, wherein the setup flag transmitting unit transmits the setup flag to the video server through the first session to the video server while the established first session to the video server is maintained.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein the fast setup is performed after the setup flag is transmitted to the called terminal through the second session.

18. The system of claim 12, wherein the setup flag is arranged between first stuffing data and second stuffing data.

19. The system of claim 12, further comprising:

transmitting, to the video server, the setup flag through the first session to the video server before receiving the response from the called terminal for establishing the second session, the setup flag being transmitted periodically.

20. The system of claim 19, further comprising:

switching the transmission of the setup flag to the called terminal if the second session is established by the called terminal.