US 2010/0142697 A1 · Method of conditionally routing a call made to a fixed telephone number

Abstract

The invention relates to a method of routing a call made by a calling party to a fixed telephone number of a called party, said method comprising: —checking if the called party is a subscriber to a routing service; —if the called party is a first subscriber: checking if the first subscriber is located in a first area covered by one or more wireless access points; —checking if the calling party is a subscriber to said routing service; —if the calling party is a second subscriber: checking if the second subscriber is located in a second area covered by one or more further wireless access points; —routing said call to one or more mobile terminals associated with said fixed number via an IP network and one of said wireless access points in the case wherein said first subscriber is located in said first area or both said first subscriber and said second subscriber are located in their respective first and second areas, or otherwise routing said call to a predetermined alternative terminating point. A specific Service Control Point is arranged to store a list that comprises alternative terminating points for the calls to the fixed number.

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Dependent claims

A method of routing a call made by a calling party to a fixed telephone number of a called party, said method comprising:

checking if the called party is a subscriber to a routing service;
if the called party is a first subscriber:
checking if the first subscriber is located in a first area covered by one or more wireless access points;
checking if the calling party is a subscriber to said routing service;
if the calling party is a second subscriber;
checking if the second subscriber is located in a second area covered by one or more further wireless access points;
and
routing said call to one or more mobile terminals associated with said fixed number via an IP network and one of said wireless access points in the case wherein said first subscriber is located in said first area or routing the call from the calling party via an IP network and one of said further access points and routing the call to one or more mobile terminals associated with said fixed number via an IP network and one of said wireless access points in the case that both said first subscriber and said second subscriber are located in their respective first and second areas, or otherwise routing said call to a predetermined alternative terminating point.

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A telecommunication network comprising:

a fixed telephone network comprising a Telephony switch;
an IP network in communication with said telephony switch;
one or more wireless access points in communication with said IP network, said wireless access points being arranged to connect telephone calls received from said IP network via WIFI or WLAN to one or more mobile terminals.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method of conditionally routing a call made to a fixed telephone number

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Method of conditionally routing a call made to a fixed telephone number

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Abstract

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