Sending incoming calling ID to devices after initiation of a call

• US 8,788,704 B1
• Filed: 04/18/2007
• Issued: 07/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Chen, Henry, Sanders, Jeffery, Zhuang, Jiahe, Desjardins, Tom, Liou, Jerry
• Primary Examiner(s): Nawaz, Asad
• Assistant Examiner(s): HARLEY, JASON A
• Application Number:
  US11/737,113
• Time in Patent Office: 2,652 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 709/240
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1045 Proxies, e.g. for session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/203 composed of PSTN and data network, e.g. the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42042 Notifying the called party of information on the calling party details within substation equipment H04M1/57, signalling details H04Q3/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13091 CLI, identification of calling line
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13204 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13348 Channel/line reservation
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13389 LAN, internet

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes sending a call invite message to initiate a call with one or more callee devices. In one example, the call invite message may be a session initiation protocol (SIP) INVITE message. The invite message may be sent to a multi-line system that is shared between multiple callee devices (e.g., a key system). A calling identifier (ID) may then be received by a callee device after sending the call invite message. The calling ID is then sent in an update message to the one or more callee devices. For example, the update message may be a SIP UPDATE message. The callee devices can then use the calling identifier to perform an action, such as displaying the calling ID for a callee to view. Accordingly, a method for providing a calling ID to a callee device is provided when a call invite message has already been sent.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a network device and from a network node in a public switched telephone network (PSTN), network information indicating a call request from a calling device associated with the PSTN to callee devices associated with an Internet Protocol (IP) network, wherein the network information is received using a telephony protocol;

responsive to receiving the network information, sending, by the network device, a call invite message to a server in the IP network to initiate a call with the callee devices, wherein the callee devices are on a shared line and the call invite message is forwarded by the server to the callee devices simultaneously;

receiving, at the network device, a ringing message from the server that indicates that at least one callee device has received the call invite message;

subsequent to sending the call invite message to the server in the IP network, receiving, at the network device and from the network node in the PSTN using the telephony protocol, a calling identifier for the calling device;

based on receiving the calling identifier for the calling device, generating, by the network device, an update message that includes the calling identifier; and

sending, by the network device, the update message to the server, wherein the update message is forked into a number of update messages that corresponds to a number of the callee devices and forwarded to the callee devices such that the calling identifier is configured to be displayed simultaneously by the callee devices while the callee devices are ringing.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the call invite message includes a session initiation protocol (SIP) INVITE message that initiates the call.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the update message includes a SIP UPDATE message that is sent after initiation of the call.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the network node includes a central office (CO) associated with a plain old telephone service (POTS) that is provided by the PSTN, and wherein receiving the network information indicating the call request from the calling device includes receiving a ringing voltage from the CO.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the update message is a SIP UPDATE message and the calling identifier is a telephone number of the calling device, and wherein including the calling identifier in the update message comprises inserting the telephone number of the calling device in a header or session description protocol (SDP) of the SIP UPDATE message.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the server in the IP network includes a SIP proxy device that is configured to send the update message to the callee devices.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the network device includes a foreign exchange office line interface (FXO), the method comprising:

configuring the network device to serve as a gateway device between the PSTN and the IP network using the FXO.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving, from the network node in the PSTN using the telephony protocol, a calling identifier for the calling device comprises receiving one of a caller identification (CID) or a caller number identification (CNID) from the network node using a telephony intelligent network service.

9. An apparatus comprising:

one or more processors; and

logic encoded in one or more non-transitory tangible media for execution by the one or more processors and when executed operable to cause the one or more processors to perform operations including;

receiving, at a network device and from a network node in a public switched telephone network (PSTN), network information indicating a call request from a calling device associated with the PSTN to callee devices associated with an Internet Protocol (IP) network, wherein the network information is received using a telephony protocol;

responsive to receiving the network information using the telephony protocol, sending, by the network device, a call invite message to a server in the IP network to initiate a call with the callee devices, wherein the callee devices are on a shared line and the call invite message is forwarded by the server to the callee devices simultaneously;

receiving, at the network device, a ringing message from the server that indicates that at least one callee device has received the call invite message;

subsequent to sending the call invite message to the server in the IP network, receiving, at the network device and from the network node in the PSTN using the telephony protocol, a calling identifier for the calling device;

based on receiving the calling identifier for the calling device, generating, by the network device, an update message that includes the calling identifier; and

sending, by the network device, the update message to the server, wherein the update message is forked into a number of update messages that corresponds to a number of the callee devices and forwarded to the callee devices such that the calling identifier is configured to be displayed simultaneously by the callee devices while the callee devices are ringing.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the call invite message includes a session initiation protocol (SIP) INVITE message that initiates the call.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the update message includes a SIP UPDATE message that is sent after initiation of the call.

12. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the network node includes a central office (CO) in the PSTN and wherein receiving the network information indicating the call request from the calling device includes receiving a ringing voltage from the CO.

13. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the update message is a SIP UPDATE message and the calling identifier is a telephone number of the calling device, and wherein the logic when executed is operable to insert the telephone number of the calling device in a header or session description protocol (SDP) of the SIP UPDATE message.

14. The apparatus of claim 9, the server in the IP network includes a SIP proxy device that is configured to send the update message to the callee devices.

15. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the network device includes a foreign exchange office line interface (FXO), and wherein the logic is operable to cause the one or more processors to perform operations including:

configuring the network device to serve as a gateway device between the PSTN and the IP network using the FXO.

16. A method comprising:

receiving, at a network server, a call invite message from a network device indicating a request from a calling device associated with a public switched telephone network (PSTN) to initiate a call with callee devices associated with an Internet Protocol (IP) network;

determining, by the server, that the callee devices are on a shared line;

based on determining that the callee devices are on a shared line, sending, by the server, the call invite message simultaneously to the callee devices on the shared line;

receiving, at the server, ringing messages from one or more callee devices, wherein the ringing messages indicate that the at least one corresponding one or more callee devices have received the call invite message;

forwarding, by the server, one of the ringing messages to the network device;

subsequent to forwarding one of the ringing messages to the network device, receiving, at the server, an update message from the network device, wherein the update message includes a calling identifier for the calling device;

forking, by the server, the update message into a number of update messages that corresponds to a number of the callee devices; and

forwarding, by the server, the number of update messages simultaneously to the callee devices such that the calling identifier is displayed simultaneously by the callee devices while the callee devices are ringing.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the call invite message includes a session initiation protocol (SIP) INVITE message that initiates the call, and wherein the update message includes a SIP UPDATE message that is sent after initiation of the call.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the calling identifier is a telephone number of the calling device, and wherein the telephone number of the calling device is included in a header or session description protocol (SDP) of the SIP UPDATE message.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the server in includes a SIP proxy device and the network device includes a foreign exchange office line interface (FXO), the method comprising:

configuring the network device to serve as a gateway device between the PSTN and the IP network using the FXO and the SIP proxy device.

20. An apparatus comprising:

one or more processors; and

logic encoded in one or more non-transitory tangible media for execution by the one or more processors and when executed operable to cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

receiving, at a network server, a call invite message from a network device indicating a request from a calling device associated with a public switched telephone network (PSTN) to initiate a call with callee devices associated with an Internet Protocol (IP) network;

determining, by the server, that the callee devices are on a shared line;

based on determining that the callee devices are on a shared line, sending, by the server, the call invite message simultaneously to the callee devices on the shared line;

receiving, at the server, ringing messages from one or more callee devices, wherein the ringing messages indicate that the corresponding one or more callee devices have received the call invite message;

forwarding, by the server, one of the ringing messages to the network device;

subsequent to forwarding one of the ringing messages to the network device, receiving, at the server, an update message from the network device, wherein the update message includes a calling identifier for the calling device;

forking, by the server, the update message into a number of update messages that corresponds to a number of the callee devices; and

forwarding, by the server, the number of update messages simultaneously to the callee devices such that the calling identifier is displayed simultaneously by the callee devices while the callee devices are ringing.

21. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein the call invite message includes a session initiation protocol (SIP) INVITE message that initiates the call, and wherein the update message includes a SIP UPDATE message that is sent after initiation of the call.

22. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein the calling identifier is a telephone number of the calling device, and wherein the telephone number of the calling device is included in a header or session description protocol (SDP) of the SIP UPDATE message.

23. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein the server in includes a SIP proxy device, and wherein the network device includes a foreign exchange office line interface (FXO) that is configured to serve as a gateway device between the PSTN and the IP network using the FXO and the SIP proxy device.

24. A computer program product, suitably embodied in a non-transitory machine-readable medium and including instructions for execution by a processor that when executed, are configured to cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

receiving, at a network device and from a network node in a public switched telephone network (PSTN), network information indicating a call request from a calling device associated with the PSTN to callee devices associated with an Internet Protocol (IP) network, wherein the network information is received using a telephony protocol;

responsive to receiving the network information, sending, by the network device, a call invite message to a server in the IP network to initiate a call with the callee devices, wherein the callee devices are on a shared line and the call invite message is forwarded by the server to the callee devices simultaneously;

receiving, at the network device, a ringing message from the server that indicates that at least one callee device has received the call invite message;

subsequent to sending the call invite message to the server in the IP network, receiving, at the network device and from the network node in the PSTN using the telephony protocol, a calling identifier for the calling device;

based on receiving the calling identifier for the calling device, generating, by the network device, an update message that includes the calling identifier; and

sending, by the network device, the update message to the server, wherein the update message is forked into a number of update messages that corresponds to a number of the callee devices and forwarded to the callee devices such that the calling identifier is configured to be displayed simultaneously by the callee devices while the callee devices are ringing.

25. The computer program product of claim 24, wherein the call invite message includes a session initiation protocol (SIP) INVITE message that initiates the call, and wherein the update message includes a SIP UPDATE message that is sent after initiation of the call.

26. The computer program product of claim 24, wherein the update message is a SIP UPDATE message and the calling identifier is a telephone number of the calling device, and wherein the instructions are configured to cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

inserting, by the network device, the telephone number of the calling device in a header or session description protocol (SDP) of the SIP UPDATE message.

27. The computer program product of claim 24, wherein the network device includes a foreign exchange office line interface (FXO), and wherein the instructions are configured to cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

configuring the network device to serve as a gateway device between the PSTN and the IP network using the FXO.

28. A computer program product, suitably embodied in a non-transitory machine-readable medium and including instructions for execution by a processor that when executed, are configured to cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

receiving, at a network server, a call invite message from a network device indicating a request from a calling device associated with a public switched telephone network (PSTN) to initiate a call with callee devices associated with an Internet Protocol (IP) network;

determining, by the server, that the callee devices are on a shared line;

based on determining that the callee devices are on a shared line, sending, by the server, the call invite message simultaneously to the callee devices on the shared line;

receiving, at the server, ringing messages from one or more callee devices, wherein the ringing messages indicate that the corresponding one or more callee devices have received the call invite message;

forwarding, by the server, one of the ringing messages to the network device;

subsequent to forwarding one of the ringing messages to the network device, receiving, at the server, an update message from the network device, wherein the update message includes a calling identifier for the calling device;

forking, by the server, the update message into a number of update messages that corresponds to a number of the callee devices; and

forwarding, by the server, the number of update messages simultaneously to the callee devices such that the calling identifier is displayed simultaneously by the callee devices while the callee devices are ringing.

29. The computer program product of claim 28, wherein the call invite message includes a session initiation protocol (SIP) INVITE message that initiates the call, and wherein the update message includes a SIP UPDATE message that is sent after initiation of the call.

30. The computer program product of claim 29, wherein the calling identifier is a telephone number of the calling device, and wherein the telephone number of the calling device is included in a header or session description protocol (SDP) of the SIP UPDATE message.

31. The computer program product of claim 28, wherein the server in includes a SIP proxy device, and wherein the network device includes a foreign exchange office line interface (FXO) that is configured to serve as a gateway device between the PSTN and the IP network using the FXO and the SIP proxy device.