Device for the management of communications by the selection of terminals and the communication medium

Abstract

A device is dedicated to the management of communications between communication terminals (TMi, TFi and PCi). This device includes a memory (M) which stores user identifiers in correspondence with lists of at least one communication terminal identifier, and processing means (PM) which are charged, when they receive a call request to a user, known as the called user, from another user, known as the calling user, to access the memory (M) in order to extract from it the lists of identifiers associated with the calling and called users, and then to determine, from these extracted lists, a callingand a called terminal which are likely to establish a call between them that will satisfy the call request, in accordance with at least one availability criterion.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the field of communication between communication terminals, and more particularly, the present invention relates to establishing a communication or a call between communication terminals on request. Background technique [0002] Currently, many people have different types of communication terminals offering different types of services (such as fixed or mobile telephony, or telephony via the Internet, transmission of text data, voice, fixed or changing images or multimedia data). This is especially true for many companies with private networks. [0003] Based on this situation, when the caller wishes to directly send a specific type of data to the called party, three conditions must be met: the called party must be able to access, the calling party and the called party must have available terminals at the same time, and be able to exchange the same The type of data, as well as the communication network resources in whic...

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Finally, even if the terminal is allowed to handle a certain type of exchange, there is still no guarantee that the applied network can handle the transfer of the medium (e.g. two mobile phones can handle MMS type exchange, but cannot exchange digital images because their GPRS / GPM type network no MMS server), even if the network is able to handle the call setup

In other words, not only does the caller have to perform each action manually, but he has no way of knowing whether his attempts will actually succeed

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