Method and system for control over call handling
AssigneeSprint Spectrum L.P.
InventorsBaoquan A. Zhang, Von McConnell
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Abstract
Methods and a system are provided for allowing a subscriber to control the call handling at a customer premises equipment. A calling party can place a call from anywhere in a carrier network to a subscriber at a customer premises equipment. The carrier network prompts the subscriber with call information and a list of call processing choices. The subscriber can select one of the choices and the call is handled properly by the system. The methods and system allow the subscriber to interact with the carrier network in real-time.
Claims16
A method for providing real-time service provisioning at a customer premises equipment, the method comprising:
- receiving an incoming call to the customer premises equipment at a switch in a carrier network, and responsively sending a query for call handling instructions from the switch to a service control node in the carrier network;
- providing one or more choices corresponding to handling of the incoming call for selection at the customer premises equipment in response to receipt of the query for call handling instructions at the service control node;
- receiving at the service control node an indication of a choice selected at the customer premises equipment, and providing a response to the query from the service control node to the switch, wherein the response to the query includes call handling instructions corresponding to the selected choice;
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- processing the incoming call at the switch according to the response received from the service control node.
A method for providing real-time service provisioning, the method comprising:
- receiving at a mobile switching center an incoming call from a first mobile station to a second mobile station, and responsively sending a query for call handling instructions from the mobile switching center to a service control node;
- providing one or more choices corresponding to handling of the incoming call for selection at the second mobile station in response to receipt of the query for call handling instructions at the service control node;
- receiving at the service control node an indication of a choice selected at the second mobile station, and formulating a response to the query according to the selected choice;
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- transmitting the response to the query from the service control node to the mobile switching center, wherein the response includes instructions for handling the incoming call at the mobile switching center, the instructions corresponding to the selected choice.
A system for providing service provisioning in real time, the system comprising:
- a mobile switching center for receiving an incoming call from a first mobile station to a second mobile station, and for sending a query for call processing instructions in response to the received call;
- a service control node for receiving the query for call processing instructions from the mobile switching center and for pushing information corresponding to the received call into the Internet domain in response to receipt of the query;
- a web-server for receiving the information in the Internet domain from the service control node and (i) for providing one or more choices corresponding to processing of the incoming call for selection at the second mobile station, (ii) for receiving from the second mobile station an indication of a choice selected from the one or more choices, and (iii) for providing the indication of the selected choice to the service control node;
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- wherein the service control node responds to the query by providing the mobile switching center with processing instructions corresponding to the selected choice, and wherein the mobile switching center processes the received call according to the processing instructions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.