Method and apparatus for event notification for wireless devices
First Claim
1. A server for sending a notification to a client over a telephone network that the server has received a message for the client, the server comprising:
- a message detector for detecting when the server has received a message for the client; and
a controller for initiating a telephone call to the client over the telephone network, the controller further for inserting an assigned telephone number, other than the telephone number of the server initiating the telephone call, indicative of a message waiting notification, into a calling party telephone number field of caller identification information transmitted to the client from the server over the telephone network in association with the initiated telephone call, the controller still further for inserting information pertaining to characteristics of the received message in a calling party name field of the caller identification information transmitted to the client from the server over the telephone network in association with the initiated telephone call.
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Abstract
To provide message waiting notification in a wireless client/server environment, the server initiates a telephone call to the client using a telephone number assigned for message waiting notification. The server inserts a telephone number assigned for message waiting notification into a calling party number field and information pertaining to the message received into a calling party name field of the sent caller identification information. The telephone network then pages the client in response to the initiated telephone call. The server then terminates the telephone call.
Upon receiving the page, a caller identification device positioned within the client receives the caller identification information sent with the initialed telephone call. The client compares the telephone number contained within the calling party member field of the caller identification information against the assigned telephone number. A match indicates that the call is a message waiting notification. The client further reads the calling party name field of the caller identification information to receive the information pertaining to the received message.
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15 Claims
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1. A server for sending a notification to a client over a telephone network that the server has received a message for the client, the server comprising:
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a message detector for detecting when the server has received a message for the client; and
a controller for initiating a telephone call to the client over the telephone network, the controller further for inserting an assigned telephone number, other than the telephone number of the server initiating the telephone call, indicative of a message waiting notification, into a calling party telephone number field of caller identification information transmitted to the client from the server over the telephone network in association with the initiated telephone call, the controller still further for inserting information pertaining to characteristics of the received message in a calling party name field of the caller identification information transmitted to the client from the server over the telephone network in association with the initiated telephone call. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A client for receiving notification from a server over a telephone network that the server has received a message for the client, the client comprising:
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a caller identification device for identifying a calling party telephone number inserted in caller identification information by the server initiating an incoming telephone call and received within the incoming telephone call to the client over the telephone network; and
a controller for comparing the identified telephone number inserted in the caller identification information by the server initiating the incoming telephone call with an assigned telephone number other than a telephone number of the server indicative of message waiting notification wherein a match between the telephone number inserted in the caller identification information by the server initiating the incoming telephone call and the assigned telephone number provides notification of the existence of the received message, the controller still further for reading a calling party name field inserted in the caller identification information by the server initiating the incoming telephone call, the calling party name field containing information pertaining to characteristics of the received message. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. The method for sending a message notification from a server to a client over a telephone network that the server has received a message for the client, comprising the steps of:
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assigning, at the server, a telephone number, other than the telephone number of the server, for use in notifying the client over the telephone network of the received message, the telephone number indicative of the existence of the received message;
inserting, at the server, the assigned telephone number indicative of the message waiting notification into a calling party telephone number field of caller identification information created when the telephone call is initiated; and
calling the client the client over the telephone network. - View Dependent Claims (12)
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13. A method for receiving a message waiting notification from a server at a client that the server has received a message for the client, comprising the steps of:
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programming the client with an assigned telephone number for identifying the message waiting notification to the client, the assigned telephone number indicative of the existence of the received message waiting notification and not corresponding to a telephone number of the server;
receiving a call at the client from the server over the telephone network;
reading a calling party telephone number field included in caller identification information of the received call; and
comparing, at the client, a telephone number contained in the calling party telephone number field of the received call against the assigned telephone number, other than the number of the server initiating the call, indicative of the message waiting notification, to identify a match providing an indication of the existence of the received message at the server. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15)
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Specification