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US 7,548,614 B2Granted
Audible announcement played to calling party before establishment of two party stable call
AssigneeAlcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
InventorRanjan Sharma
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Abstract
An audible announcement is played to a calling party, upon initiation of a call to a called party, before establishment of the call as a two party stable call between the calling party and the called party. The audible announcement comprises one or more of: a number of the called party; a name of the called party; and/or a rate for the call between the calling party and the called party.
Claims18
A method, comprising the step of:
- arming an origination trigger on a mobile switching center for a calling party, wherein the calling party is a subscriber to a called number information service;
- receiving a call setup message that indicates digits dialed by the calling party to place a call to a called party;
- triggering the origination trigger to send an origination request to a service control point, wherein the origination reciuest comprises the digits dialed;
- accessing a database with the digits dialed by the calling party through employment of a web service call to acquire a billing rate for the call, wherein the database comprisies a public, externally hosted called party information database;
- playing, by the intelligent peripheral, an audible announcement to the calling party,
- before establishment of the call as a two party stable call between the calling party and the called party, wherein the audible announcement comprises the billing rate for the call.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- an intelligent peripheral;
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- a service control point that sends a temporary local directory number of the intelligent peripheral to a mobile switching center to direct to the intelligent peripheral a call initiated by a calling party for a called party;
- wherein the intelligent peripheral plays to the calling party an audible announcement of
- a billing rate for the call between the calling party and the called party,
- before establishment of the call as a two party stable call between the calling party and the called party;
- wherein the intelligent peripheral accesses a database with a number of the called party through employment of a web service call to acquire the billing rate for the call;
- wherein the database comprises a public, externally hosted called party information database.
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An article, comprising:
- one or more computer-readable signal-bearing media;
- means in the one or more media for arming an origination trigger on a mobile switching center for a calling party, wherein the calling party is a subscriber to a called number information service;
- means in one or more media for receiving a call stepup message that indicates digits dialed by the calling party to place a call to a called party;
- means in the one or more media for triggering the origination trigger to send an origination request to a service control point, wherein the origination request comprises the digits dialed;
- means in one or more media for accessing a database with the digits dialed by the calling party through employment of a web service call to acquire a billing rate for the call, wherein the database comprises a public, externally hosted called party information database;
- means in the one or more media for playing, by the intelligent peripheral, an audible annoucement to the calling party,
- before establishment of the call as a two party stable call between the calling party and the called party, wherein the audible announcement comprises the billing rate for the call.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.