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US 7,734,027 B2Granted
Call control component collection of communication device identification information for internet protocol endpoint
AssigneeAlcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
InventorsYigang Cai, Xu Chen
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Abstract
An apparatus in one example comprises one or more call control components. One or more of the one or more call control components connect an internet protocol call initiated by a communication device to an internet protocol endpoint. One or more of the one or more call control components collect identification information of the communication device and send the identification information to the internet protocol endpoint.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- one or more call control components that run on one or more processor systems;
- wherein one of the one or more call control components connects an internet protocol (IP) call initiated by a communication device to an internet protocol endpoint;
- and
- wherein the one of the one or more call control components has an interface to an IP network to a) communicatively couple a public switched telephone network (PSTN) to allow the internet protocol endpoint to communicate with at least one landline endpoint and b) allow the internet protocol endpoint to communicate with another internet protocol endpoint located in another IP domain;
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- wherein the one of the one or more call control components collects identification information of the communication device and sends the identification information to the internet protocol endpoint upon a determination that the internet protocol endpoint is authorized to obtain the identification information;
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- wherein the internet protocol endpoint comprises a call trace button;
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- wherein activation of the call trace button sends a trace initiation message to the one of the one or more call control components to initiate an internet protocol call trace service of the one of the one or more call control components that collects the identification information of the communication device;
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- wherein the one of the one or more call control components sends an error message to the internet protocol endpoint when there is insufficient internet protocol call trace service information in an internet protocol service database.
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A method, comprising the steps of:
- receiving a request from an internet protocol (IP) endpoint for identification information of a communication device that initiated an internet protocol call with the internet protocol endpoint;
- connecting to an IP network to a) communicatively couple a public switched telephone network (PSTN) to allow the internet protocol endpoint to communicate with at least one landline endpoint and b) allow the internet protocol endpoint to communicate with another internet protocol endpoint located in another IP domain;
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- collecting the identification information of the communication device to send to the internet protocol endpoint in response to the request upon a determination that the internet protocol endpoint is authorized to obtain the identification information;
- wherein the internet protocol endpoint comprises a call trace button;
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- wherein activation of the call trace button sends a trace initiation message to initiate an internet protocol call trace service that collects the identification information of the communication device;
- the method further comprising the step of:
- sending an error message to the internet protocol endpoint when there is insufficient internet protocol call trace service information in an internet protocol service database.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.