Methods and systems for different mid-call announcements to both served and non-served parties at the same time

A communication node for generating announcement information, the communication node comprising:

• a processor configured to generate a first announcement information associated with a first user;
• the processor configured to generate a second announcement information associated with a second user;
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• a communication interface configured to transmit the first and second announcement information to a telephony application server, wherein the first announcement information and the second announcement information include at least one different element of data, further wherein both the first and second announcement information are used to generate or select announcements which are transmitted to the first and second users during a call between the first and second users characterized in that the first and second announcement information include an announcement data attribute value pair (AVP) which includes the fields of announcement-information AVP, announcement-priority AVP, repeat-in-loop AVP.

A method for controlling announcements to both a first user and a second user during a call between the first user and the second user, wherein the controlling is performed by a communication node, the method comprising:

• receiving instructions associated with transmitting a first announcement to a first user and a second announcement to a second user during a call between the first user and the second user, wherein the first announcement and the second announcement are different;
• instructing at least one node to transmit the first announcement to the first user and to transmit the second announcement to the second user, wherein the first announcement and the second announcement are played at a same time;
• monitoring the transmission of the first announcement and the transmission of the second announcement, wherein one of the two announcements is a priority announcement and the other of the two announcements is a non-priority announcement;
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• instructing the at least one node to stop transmission of the non-priority announcement when the priority announcement is finished.

A communication node configured to control announcements to both a first user and a second user during a call between the first user and the second user, the communication node comprising:

• a communication interface configured to receive instructions associated with transmitting a first announcement to a first user and a second announcement to a second user during a call between the first user and the second user, wherein the first announcement and the second announcement are different;
• a processor configured to instruct at least one node to transmit the first announcement to the first user and to transmit the second announcement to the second user, wherein the first announcement and the second announcement are played at a same time;
• the processor configured to monitor the transmission of the first announcement and the transmission of the second announcement, wherein one of the two announcements is a priority announcement and the other of the two announcements is a non-priority announcement;
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• the processor configured to instruct the at least one node to stop transmission of the non-priority announcement when the priority announcement is finished.