Method of announcing an internet call
First Claim
1. A method of completing an Internet-telephony call carried at least in part over the Internet or an Internet-like packet-based network initiated by a calling party to a called party comprising the steps of:
- in response to initiation of the Internet-telephony call from a terminal of the calling party, automatically transmitting a page to a pager associated with the called party, the page providing a message to the called party that an Internet-telephony call is present on the Internet or Internet-like packet-based data network for the called party; and
in response to the page, receiving information originating from a terminal of the called party onto the Internet or Internet-like packet-based data network for establishing a connection at least in part over the Internet or Internet-like packet-based data network between the calling and called party'"'"'s terminals to complete the Internet-telephony call whereby a live communication between the calling party and the called party commences.
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Abstract
A called party is alerted to the presence of a voice call on the Internet (110) by a page that is automatically transmitted to the called party'"'"'s pager (120) upon initiation of the call by a calling party from his terminal (101) running Internet voice communications software and equipped with a microphone (102) and speaker (103). The page is transmitted in response to a message sent by a service provider (115) on the Internet, which receives from the calling party'"'"'s terminal on the Internet, information for identifying the called party'"'"'s pager. The called party, upon receiving the page, connects to the called party on the Internet through his home terminal (105) that is running that same voice communications software and is also equipped with a microphone (106) and speaker (107), or through any such similarly equipped portable or fixed terminal (125) at any location from which the Internet can be accessed. Alternatively, the called party can answer the call on the Internet with a standard station set (131) by calling an Internet-savvy platform (130), which converts the packetized voice signal of the calling party into an analog signal and the analog voice signal of the called party into packets for transmission on the Internet.
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23 Claims
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1. A method of completing an Internet-telephony call carried at least in part over the Internet or an Internet-like packet-based network initiated by a calling party to a called party comprising the steps of:
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in response to initiation of the Internet-telephony call from a terminal of the calling party, automatically transmitting a page to a pager associated with the called party, the page providing a message to the called party that an Internet-telephony call is present on the Internet or Internet-like packet-based data network for the called party; and
in response to the page, receiving information originating from a terminal of the called party onto the Internet or Internet-like packet-based data network for establishing a connection at least in part over the Internet or Internet-like packet-based data network between the calling and called party'"'"'s terminals to complete the Internet-telephony call whereby a live communication between the calling party and the called party commences. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method of completing an Internet-telephony call carried at least in part over the Internet or an Internet-like packet-based data network initiated by a calling party to a called party comprising the steps of:
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in response to the initiation of the Internet-telephony call from a terminal of the calling party to the called party, establishing a connection over the Internet or the Internet-like packet-based data network to a service provider having an associated database having stored information that associates the identity of a called party with paging information that includes a paging supplier associated with that called party;
retrieving from the database the paging information for the called party;
automatically transmitting a message to the paging supplier associated with the called party that includes the retrieved paging information for sending a message to the paging supplier to page the called party;
in response to the message, transmitting a page to the called party'"'"'s pager that indicates to the called party that an Internet-telephony call for the called party is present on the Internet or Internet-like packet-based data network; and
in response to the page, receiving information originating from a terminal of the called party onto the Internet or Internet-like packet-based data network for establishing a connection at least in part over the Internet or the Internet-like packet-based data network between the calling and called party'"'"'s terminals to complete the Internet-telephony call such that a live communication between the calling party and the called party commences. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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