US 10,477,002 B2Granted

Communication server and communication terminal

AssigneeLINE Corporation

InventorsKenichi Sugimoto, Shinobu Senoo, Do-hyung Kwon

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Abstract

A communication server includes a receiving unit receiving a conversation request signal including a phone number of a receiving terminal in a PSTN (public switched telephone network) via an IP network; a specifying unit specifying transmitting user information on a user using a transmission terminal transmitting the request signal, and assigning an address on the IP network to the transmission terminal; a first transmission unit transmitting the address and the request signal to a communication carrier having a gateway between the PSTN and the IP network; and a second transmission unit transmitting the phone number and the transmitting user information to a transfer server transferring information to a designated terminal.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A communication server, comprising:

a memory storing computer readable instructions;
and
at least one processor configured to execute the computer readable instructions to,
receive a call request including a phone number of a receiving terminal on a public switched telephone network (PSTN) via an IP network;
specify transmitting user information of a transmitting user using a transmission terminal transmitting the call request;
transmit an address of the transmission terminal on the IP network and the call request to a communication carrier having a gateway between the PSTN and the IP network;
and
transmit the transmitting user information to the receiving terminal on short message service (SMS) via a transfer server or notify the transmitting user information to an application installed in the receiving terminal, wherein
the receiving terminal receives the transmitting user information in a case where the receiving terminal did not respond to a call based on the call request, and
the transmitting user information includes at least one of a name of the transmitting user, a nickname of the transmitting user and a phone number of the transmission terminal.

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A communication method, comprising:

receiving, using at least one processor, a call request including a phone number of a receiving terminal on a public switched telephone network (PSTN) via an IP network;
specifying, using the at least one processor, transmitting user information of a transmitting user using a transmission terminal transmitting the call request;
transmitting, using the at least one processor, an address of the transmission terminal on the IP network and the call request to a communication carrier having a gateway between the PSTN and the IP network;
and
transmitting, using the at least one processor, the transmitting user information to the receiving terminal on short message service (SMS) via a transfer server or notify the transmitting user information to an application installed in the receiving terminal, wherein
the receiving terminal receives the transmitting user information in a case where the receiving terminal did not respond to a call based on the call request, and
the transmitting user information includes at least one of a name of the transmitting user, a nickname of the transmitting user and a phone number of the transmission terminal.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/942,857Filed 2 Apr 2018 · continuation
Priority: JP 2014-03467625 Feb 2014
Published: US 2018/0227404 A19 Aug 2018
Granted: 12 Nov 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H04M 1/575
Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set: means for retrieving and displaying…
H04M 3/42042
Calling party identification service: notifying the called party of information on the calling party
H04M 7/006
Arrangements for interconnection between switching centres: networks other than PSTN/ISDN providing telephone service, e.g. Voice over Internet…
H04L 61/106
Of different types: across networks, e.g. mapping telephone numbers to data network addresses

Family

Application14/630,397Parent of this continuation · filed 24 Feb 2015
US 2018/0227404 A1Pre-grant publication · published 9 Aug 2018
US 9,967,384 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2015/0244847 A1Published application
US 10,477,002 B2This patent

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