APPLICATION SERVER ALLOWING THE DISTRIBUTION OF A CALL INTENDED FOR A TERMINAL CONNECTED TO A GATEWAY TO ALL TERMINALS CONNECTED TO THIS GATEWAY

• US 20090252158A1
• Filed: 03/31/2009
• Published: 10/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Daigremont, Johann, Maag, Maria Laura
• Application Number:
  US12/414,933
• Publication Number:
  US 20090252158A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1036 at the edge
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1093 by adding participants; by removing participants
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4038 with floor control

Abstract

According to the invention, an application server (AS) for a telecommunication network (IPN) supporting the SIP protocol, includes:

• • means for receiving (41) a request to set up a call to a number identifying a gateway (RGW),
  • means for then interrogating (42) another device (LS) in such a way as to receive (43) from this other device (LS) a number for each mobile telephone (T1) connected to this gateway,
  • and means for requesting (47) that a call control device (CC) sets up a call to one or more telephones (T1) identified by numbers selected from among the numbers received in this way.

Claims

1. ) Application server for a telecommunication network supporting the SIP protocol, comprising:

means for receiving a request to set up a call to a number identifying a gateway,

means for then interrogating another device by sending it the number identifying this gateway, and so as to receive from this other device at least one number designating a telephone connected to this gateway,

and means for requesting that a call control device sets up at least one call to at least one telephone identified by a number received in this way;

and in which the means for requesting that a call control device set up at least one call comprise means for selecting at least one number from a range of numbers respectively designating telephones connected to this gateway, then requesting the setup of a call to each telephone designated by a number selected in this way.

2. ) Server according to claim 1, also comprising means for allowing a user to configure this server in such a way as to select in advance one or more telephones from among the telephones connected to said gateway.

3. ) Location server for terminals connected to a gateway, for a telecommunication network supporting the SIP protocol, comprising:

means for storing and associating;

a gateway identifier,

and a range of numbers respectively identifying a range of telephones connected to this gateway,

means for receiving, from another device, a request containing a gateway identifier,

and means for sending, in this case to this other device, a range of numbers identifying telephones connected to the gateway identified by this gateway identifier, with these numbers being read in the storage means.