Method and communication terminal device for exchanging data during or after a communication connection

• US 8,391,187 B2
• Filed: 09/10/2008
• Issued: 03/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Unify Patente GmbH & Co. KG (Atos Se)
• Original Assignee: Unify GmbH & Co. KG (Atos SE)
• Inventors: Zeiner, Johann, Jager, Hubert, Monitzer, Arnold
• Primary Examiner(s): PHAN, MAN U
• Application Number:
  US12/679,699
• Publication Number:
  US 20100260073A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,637 Days
• Field of Search: 370212-227, 370259-352, 370432-466, 379/93.26, 379/93.27, 379/386, 455415-426, 709219-224
• US Class Current: 370/259
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/066 Telephone sets adapted for data transmision
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0057 Services where the data services network provides a telephone service in addition or as an alternative, e.g. for backup purposes, to the telephone service provided by the telephone services network

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for exchanging data between a first and a second communication terminal device (EG1, EG2). The first (EG1) and the second (EG2) communication terminal devices are connected to a data network (DN). In a first step, acoustically coded address information is transmitted by the first to the second communication terminal device (EG2) during a communication connection between the first and the second communication terminal device (EG1, EG2) and, in a second step, the data are transmitted to the first communication terminal device (EG1) from the second communication terminal device (EG2) via the data network using the address information.

Claims

1. A method for exchanging data between a first communication terminal and a second communication terminal, wherein the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal are connected to a data network, comprising:

establishing a voice communication connection between the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal via a voice communication network to which the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal are connected, the voice communication network being a network that is at least logically different than the data network;

transmitting acoustic coded address information from the first communication terminal to the second communication terminal via the voice communication connection; and

sending data over the data network from the second communication terminal to the first communication terminal using the acoustic coded address information; and

wherein the sent data comprises at least one of an electronic business card for the second communication terminal and an electronic business card for a user of the second communication terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising sending additional data by the first communication terminal over the data network to the second communication terminal following the step of sending data over the data network from the second communication terminal to the first communication terminal, the additional data comprising at least one of an electronic business card for the first communication terminal and an electronic business card for a user of the first communication terminal.

3. A method for exchanging data between a first communication terminal and a second communication terminal, wherein the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal are connected to a data network, comprising:

during a communication connection between the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal, transmitting acoustic coded address information from the first communication terminal to the second communication terminal;

sending data over the data network from the second communication terminal to the first communication terminal using the acoustic coded address information;

sending additional data by the first communication terminal over the data network to the second communication terminal following the step of sending data over the data network from the second communication terminal to the first communication terminal; and

prior to the step of sending additional data, sending a query to at least one of the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal, and wherein the sending of the data is approved, initiated, or approved and initiated by a user of at least one of the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the data is selected from the group consisting of an electronic business card for the second communication terminal and an electronic business card for a user of the second communication terminal.

5. The method of claim 3 wherein the data network is the Internet.

6. The method of claim 3 wherein the acoustic coded address information is coded and transmitted as DTMF signals.

7. The method of claim 3 wherein the acoustic coded address information is selected from the group consisting of an e-mail address for the first communication terminal and an e-mail address for a data bank assigned to the first communication terminal.

8. The method of claim 3 wherein the acoustic coded address information is selected from the group consisting of a globally valid Internet address for the first communication terminal and a globally valid Internet address for a data bank assigned to the first communication terminal.

9. The method of claim 3 wherein the additional data is selected from the group consisting of an electronic business card for the first communication terminal and an electronic business card for a user of the first communication terminal.

10. The method of claim 3 comprising during transmission of the acoustic coded address information, sending an acoustic signal masking the transmission to at least one of the communication terminals.

11. The method of claim 3 wherein the step of sending data over the data network takes place during the communication connection.

12. The method of claim 3 wherein the step of sending data over the data network takes place after the communication connection is terminated.

13. The method of claim 3 wherein at least one of the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal is a voice data terminal and wherein the communication connection is a voice communication connection formed via a carrier method communication network.

14. The method of claim 3 wherein at least one of the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal is a mobile telephone, and the data is transmitted to the mobile telephone in a text message.

15. The method of claim 3 comprising, during transmission of the acoustic coded address information, transmitting a limited-validity access code with the acoustic coded address information from the second communication terminal together with the data to the first communication terminal.

16. A communication terminal for voice communication or multimedia communication comprising a communication terminal equipped for acoustic transmission of an address valid for a data network using an acoustic communication channel of a voice communication network wherein the address is assigned to a member of the group consisting of the communication terminal and a data bank assigned to the communication terminal, wherein the communication terminal:

establishing a voice communication connection between the communication terminal and another communication terminal via the voice communication network to which the first communication terminal and the other communication terminal are connected, the voice communication network being a network that is at least logically different than the data network;

receiving acoustic coded address information from the other communication terminal via the voice communication connection formed over the voice communication network;

sending data to the other communication terminal via a data network to which the communication terminal is connected, the sent data being sent based upon the acoustic coded address information sent to the communication terminal, the data network being a network that is logically different from the voice communication network; and

wherein the sent data comprises information from at least one of an electronic business card for the communication terminal and an electronic business card for a user of the communication terminal.

17. The communication terminal of claim 16 wherein the acoustic coded address information is coded and transmitted as DTMF signals.

18. The communication terminal of claim 16 wherein the acoustic coded address information is selected from the group consisting of an e-mail address for the other communication terminal and an e-mail address for a data bank assigned to the other communication terminal.

19. The communication terminal of claim 16 wherein the acoustic coded address information is selected from the group consisting of a globally valid Internet address for the other communication terminal and a globally valid Internet address for a data bank assigned to the other communication terminal.

20. A communication system comprising:

a data network;

a voice communication network that is logically different than the data network;

a first communication terminal connected to the data network and the voice communication network; and

a second communication terminal connected to the data network and the voice communication network; and

the first communication terminal establishing a voice communication connection with the second communication terminal via the voice communication network; and

the first communication terminal transmitting acoustic coded address information to the second communication terminal via the voice communication connection; and

the second communication terminal sending data over the data network to the first communication terminal using the acoustic coded address information; and

wherein the sent data comprises information from at least one of an electronic business card for the second communication terminal and an electronic business card for a user of the second communication terminal.