231 results about "Local call" patented technology

A billing system for a telecommunications network uses a monitoring software agent to monitor messages, indicative of individual calls on the network, passing between a service switching point and a service control point. Call record information is extracted and is stored in a local call record database. Information from each call record database is then passed on to a central database, using updating mobile agents, the central database being accessible to such agents and report building agents which can extract billing information as requested by an operator. By monitoring the messages as they pass, the system can provide real time billing information without needing to poll the switch at the service switching point.

A system for managing of mobile phones at a roaming network, each mobile handset having a first handset number from its home network. The roaming network assigns a second number to a detected roamer, which number is local to the roaming network. The second number is not known directly to the handset, which continues to identify itself using the first number. The handling unit acts as a local home location register for handling local management of the roaming handset using both the second number and the first number, thus allowing the handset to identify itself using the first number but be called using the second number at local call rates.

A mechanism and method for updating local call information databases for calls to be placed by predictive dialers deployed at different geographic locations within a communications network.

The invention relates to a telecommunication system, to a local media gateway, to an MSC server, to a radio base station and to a radio network controller for set-up, release and control of local calls in the telecommunication system. The telecommunication system comprises a core network and at least a radio access network (10, 11, 12), an MSC server (18), a central media gateway (MGW) (20) having a point of interconnection to the public switched telecommunication network and at least a radio access gateway (25, 26, 27) to each respective radio access network. A characteristic feature o the invention is that it comprises at least a local MGW (22; 23; 24) provided with switch means and geographically separated from the central MGW. The radio access gateway and the MSC server are provided with control logic for set-up and release of local calls in the respective radio access networks using the local MGW as switch. The local MGW is located in each radio access gateway or in base stations or in a RBS aggregation site connected to a plurality of radio base stations. Thereby the two legs of a local call need not be transported all the way to the MSC. Instead they are interconnected in the local MGW or the RBS aggregation site, thereby reducing costs and trombone effects.

A web-based hosted solution through which business entities create and manage communications campaigns, such as interactive campaigns that afford target recipients an opportunity to be connected to a third party call center. A web interface is provided to enable a business entity customer to create a set of one or more rules that, when triggered during the campaign, cause the hosted solution to take certain control actions in real-time, based on campaign performance. Preferably, this “campaign performance” is measured indirectly, i.e. without requiring a direct connection to an on-premises call center ACD. Rather, preferably all information about the call center's performance during the campaign is derived from information (gathered by the hosted solution) about calls delivered, or attempted to be delivered, to the call center. In effect, the call center performance is inferred, and this performance is then exposed to the business entity customer through a web-based interface. In particular, the interface provides the business entity customer with a convenient and easy-to-use display that identifies any rule that has been (or may be getting ready to be) triggered, together with a then current status of the campaign. The system is programmed to take a given control action (e.g., campaign suspension, adjusting an outbound call rate, or the like) when a customer-configurable rule is triggered.

The invention relates to a method for realizing intelligent safe driving of an automobile. Far-off illumination values, sidewalks, front vehicles, road signs, the smoking state of a driver, the steering wheel holding state, the safety belt binding state, the human fatigue state and the designated driving condition are detected through cameras; a hard disk video recorder is provided to store detected information and is used during local call and remote video call; a VSCC (vehicle safety certification center) controller is provided to collect vehicle signals and also control the use of a taximeter according to the designated driving condition; and a GPS (global positioning system) module is provided and is connected with a vehicle-mounted computer, and the vehicle-mounted computer gives an alarm when the vehicle signals, the GPS position and the detected information exceed a threshold value and transmits the vehicle signals, the GPS position and the detected information to a remote monitoring center. By adopting the method, vehicle interior fatigue safety detection, vehicle exterior safety detection and vehicle state safety detection can be realized, so the safety of the driver is guaranteed.

In operational environments where local loop generation equipment is used, communication interruptions between a central office and a customer premises device is minimized by using a dedicated communications link between the local loop generation equipment and the central office. A processing mechanism at the central office determines if, when, and under what circumstances the customer premises device will be notified in response to the activation of local loop generation equipment. This eliminates the need to place local loop generation equipment in series with a communications path that runs between the central office and the customer premises. The central office may provide the dedicated communications link in the form of a telephone line which is equipped to place outgoing local calls, but not equipped to receive incoming calls, and not equipped to place long-distance calls.

A Set Top Box includes processing circuitry, a tuner, a user interface, a remote control interface, a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) interface, and a packet data network interface. The processing circuitry receives a first call setup request from the PSTN via the first interface, selectively prepares a second call setup request based upon the first call setup request, and sends the second call setup request to the Internet via the second interface. The processing circuitry may obtain and use bridging instructions to prepare the second call setup request. The processing circuitry may receive the first call setup request via the PSTN interface or packet data network interface. The processing circuitry may send the second call setup request via the PSTN interface or the packet data network interface. The bridging computing device may bridge a corresponding call and / or enable another bridging device to bridge the call.

A method and apparatus for reducing the cost of long distance phone calls is disclosed. Accordingly, an originating phone network is operatively connected to a first intermediate point, and a receiving phone network is operatively connected to a second intermediate point. Each intermediate point is operatively connected to communicate via a data network. Users on the originating and destination phone networks may communicate based on virtual numbers. The virtual number is preferably within the local calling area of the originating phone network. The first and second intermediate points route calls to any geographic location, regardless of distance, over the data network based on the virtual number. This provides the advantage of allowing a user on the originating phone network to access a user at a distant location for a price that is substantially similar to the price of a local call.

Methods and apparatus are described for maintaining established local calls at an access module in case of change of the call control for a distributed PBX over a communications network, e.g. WAN or LAN, especially an IP network. In accordance with a first main embodiment, the system is composed of one Call Server controlling the call processing of other PBX access modules in a normal situation. These access modules have the ability to operate in Stand Alone or Survival mode if the link to the Call Server is down for any reason. In a second main embodiment, two call servers may be used, an active call server and a hot-standby server. The active call server controls the call processing of the access modules. In case the link between one access module and the active call server fails, the hot-standby Call Server can take over the control of the access module. Therefore, each module can operate in normal mode of the active call server 1 or in normal mode of the hot-standby call server or, as an alternative to either of these, in stand alone or survival mode.

The invention relates to a method and a system for realizing multimedia interaction during a telephone call. By applying the system, when a user makes a telephone call, the multimedia interaction information customized by the other party is displayed / played on the telephones of the two parties; the multimedia interaction information supports formatted texts, sound, pictures, video, motion pictures, games, lantern slides, webpages, website links, a combination thereof, and the like; the system comprises an application server, a file server, a database server and a telephone client software; theclient software is used, the user uploads the local arbitrarily supported file and the information to the server, and the file and the information are customized into multimedia interaction information; when a telephone call is made, the telephones of the two parties for communication are used for querying and downloading the content of the multimedia interaction information of the other party respectively from the server, then the content is stored to the local call and displayed / played to the user; and the user can perform response interactive operation respectively to the multimedia interaction information, such as viewing, WEB browsing, editing, preservation, commenting, and the like.

An RFID telephone system that includes an RFID reader that reads RFID tags contained on wristbands worn by inmates. The system uses the RFID reader to monitor and control telephone calls conducted over the inmate telephone, including the creation of records associating each telephone call with a particular inmate identifier read from an RFID tag in connection with the telephone call. The RFID reader obtains an authorized inmate identifier read from an RFID tag placed in close proximity to the inmate telephone and enters the inmate identifier in a record that associated that inmate identifier with the telephone call. The RFID telephone system inserts the personal identifiers read from RFID tags into the CLID field of a calling directory number service, and may also include a local call monitoring system that stores the personal identifiers in association with audio recordings of the telephone calls.

A call related information detector / receiver system which is capable of downloading call related information received at that device to another call related information detector / receiver system remote from the system which initially received the call related information, back over the telephone line. Thus, a remote user while away from the home or office can receive and synchronize call related information at a system other than the one which initially received the call related information. Thus, a remote user can update a local call related information system and review past callers to their home or business telephone at their leisure. Upon establishment of a telephone call between customer premises equipment respectively associated with the two relevant call related information detector / receiver systems, a remote call related information system will request download of call related information logged from another call related information system using the established telephone call. In the disclosed embodiment, the request signals are encoded with DTMF tones, which the receiving call related information system monitors for. Upon acceptance of a request to transmit logged call related information, previously logged call related information is retrieved from its log, formatted for transmission together with suitable header information such as the identity of the transmitting call related information system, and FSK modulated for transmission back over the telephone line. Preferably, the speaker or earpiece of off-hook customer premises equipment will be muted or suppressed during transmission of the data corresponding to the call related information. The particular call related information transmitted may be particularly or generally requested by the remote call related information system, either by pre-stored commands based on a power up configuration of the requesting call related information system, and / or in response to a direct command input by the remote user using DTMF tones.

The invention discloses a suspiciousness degree calculation method and a suspiciousness degree calculation system. The suspiciousness degree calculation method comprises the steps of acquiring communication behavior data of a user, wherein the communication behavior data includes a voice call list and a short message service list; acquiring a communication behavior characteristic value of the user according to the communication behavior data, wherein the communication behavior characteristic value includes a calling ratio, a called number non-repetition rate and an average call time period; and calculating the suspiciousness degree by using a preset weighing algorithm according to the communication behavior characteristic value. According to the method, international interconnect bypass fraud calls can be effectively identified, and other call fees, besides local call fee, also can be charged in the international call service, so that the call fee of the international call service is increased, loss of call fees of telecommunication operators is reduced, and the operating income of the telecommunication operators is increased. The network resources of a region in which an SIMBox apparatus is not occupied for long, so that the network service quality is improved, user complaint rate is lowered, and the network information security is improved.

A method and apparatus for establishing a point-to-point-to-point telephone connection between a remote telephone and a desired called telephone. The method and apparatus use a two-line base telephone unit, e.g., a home or office telephone, as an intermediary point in the telephone call to reduce long distance rates and / or to utilize features and / or information stored in the base telephone unit when the user is away from the home or office. In a first embodiment, the remote telephone makes a local call to the base telephone unit and instructs the base telephone unit to establish a telephone call with, and interconnect the remote telephone to, a called third party. In a second embodiment, the remote telephone makes a quick call to the base telephone unit instructing the base telephone unit to establish and interconnect both a telephone call back to the remote telephone and a second telephone call to the desired called telephone. In a third embodiment, the instructions from the remote telephone to the base telephone unit are transmitted through an external communication link such as a paging system or the Internet.

The invention relates to a telecommunication system, to a local media gateway, to an MSC server, to a radio base station and to a radio network controller for set-up, release and control of local calls in the telecommunication system. The telecommunication system comprises a core network and at least a radio access network (10, 11, 12), an MSC server (18), a central media gateway (MGW) (20) having a point of interconnection to the public switched telecommunication network and at least a radio access gateway (25, 26, 27) to each respective radio access network. A characteristic feature o the invention is that it comprises at least a local MGW (22; 23; 24) provided with switch means and geographically separated from the central MGW. The radio access gateway and the MSC server are provided with control logic for set-up and release of local calls in the respective radio access networks using the local MGW as switch. The local MGW is located in each radio access gateway or in base stations or in a RBS aggregation site connected to a plurality of radio base stations. Thereby the two legs of a local call need not be transported all the way to the MSC. Instead they are interconnected in the local MGW or the RBS aggregation site, thereby reducing costs and trombone effects.

A method of providing media content, such as music and video, to callers on hold involves the generation of the media content locally in the environment of the held caller, rather than the transmission of the content over the network. The local call server of the held caller is signalled when the call has been placed on hold by the server which has placed the call on hold. The caller's server then activates a music-on-hold server (or other media content generator) to provide the media content directly to the caller's telephony terminal. The advantage of this is that the media content is not transmitted across the network, allowing a higher bandwidth to be used locally for the media content without utilizing wide area network resources. This results also in the media content being provided in a higher quality format to the caller, avoiding the loss of quality associated with transmitting music using compressive voice codecs over packet-based networks.

The invention provides a distributed remote calling method based on zookeeper and netty. A server module which is used for providing remote services and allowing clients to call and a client module for encapsulating local calls are included; the server module is used for conducting service encapsulation to encapsulate services and provide unique access points and conducting service publishing andservice registration; and the client module is used for conducting dynamic proxy, service seeking and service calling, wherein in dynamic proxy, service implementations of servers are acquired by calling proxy classes, in service seeking, IPs and ports of registration services are acquired from the Zookeeper by means of interfaces and methods which are called by requests, the service with a minimum weight value is selected, and meanwhile the weight is set as a maximum value in a same service cluster, and in service calling, client requests are initiated through the Netty, a processing class assembly line is bound, request objects are encapsulated and serialized and then sent to the server module, and the server module responds to data serialization and then transmits data to service logics.

A network call center system is composed of multiple local call centers and an intelligent routing center connected between multiple local call centers for transferring the call between local call centers, so uniformly distributing network resources.

An embodiment of the invention provides a call process method, which includes steps as follows: receiving calling request information sent by calling exchange system, searching local call sign according with said calling request information; indicating said calling exchange system processing said calling according with said local call sign if local call sign is searched. In addition, the invention also provides a call process device. The method and device can realize accounting through auto-select number assigned to user visit position by system when user with one card and a plurality of numbers is used for calling or called.

The invention discloses a simulation test remote control method based on network; by simplifying implementation method, adopting dynamic compiling technology and registering a function library, the invention realizes remote call of core technology, abandons COM / DCOM, CORBA enormous and complex interface description language (IDL); the main work module is complied by C++ language; the invention can run spanning platforms and supports Windows, Linux, VxWorks and other operating systems. Simultaneously, considering real time, lightweight and expandable requirement at plural places such as local call branch, Python, Java interface and the like, the invention performs optimization treatment, being especially suitable for an embedded system and meeting the real time requirement.

When a user of a subscriber unit (SU) originates a dispatch, or Push-to-Talk (PTT), non-local call with a target SU, a communication system serving the originating SU notifies the originating SU that the call is a non-local call before establishing the call. By notifying the originating SU as to whether the call is a non-local call, a user of the originating SU may make an informed decision as to whether to incur costs associated with a non-local dispatch or PTT call before completing the call.

The invention discloses a downlink active noise reduction device and method and a mobile terminal. The device includes: a first sound wave collector used for collecting an environmental noise signal, obtaining a reference signal, and outputting the reference signal to a self-adaptive controller; a self-adaptive controller used for calculating a secondary signal used for implementing sound wave counteraction based on the received reference signal and forwardly or reversely adjusting the amplitude and phase of the secondary signal based on a received error signal; a secondary sound field transmitter used for sending out the secondary signal adjusted by the self-adaptive controller in a sound wave form; and a second sound wave collector used for collecting the environment noise signal and the secondary signal, superposing the two signals, obtaining an error signal and outputting the error signal to the self-adaptive controller. Through the downlink active noise reduction device, active noise reduction is applied to a mobile phone, thereby improving a local call receiving effect, and the downlink active noise reduction device has good market prospects.

The invention discloses a micro-service calling method, which is applied to a home terminal service node, a local calling agent is deployed on the home terminal service node, and the method comprisesthe following steps of: starting a home terminal micro-service deployed on the home terminal service node; obtaining a calling request initiated by the home terminal micro-service and used for requesting to call a target micro-service through the local calling agent; determining a target service node from opposite-end service nodes which currently provide the target micro-service through the localcalling agent; and sending the calling request to the target service node through the local calling agent, so that the home terminal micro-service calls the target micro-service from the target service node. According to the invention, the technical problem of high complexity of the micro-service is solved.

A cellular telephone maintains a screening list of calling party numbers, and specifies call handling therefor. A mobile switching center is responsive to selected types of the specified call handling. The call handling can depend on whether the call is local or non-local, which is affected by the location of the cellular telephone. The call handling can also depend on the time at which the call is made. A subscriber updates his or her screening list via personal computer, and transmits via a communication network the updated screening list to a message center which sends the updated screening list to the cellular telephone via wireless communication. A calling party number can be specified as a wildcard.

Call related information regarding a called party (i.e., callee information) is provided back to the calling party using a telephone capable of receiving information regarding a called party back from either the central office, from the called party's telephone itself, or in limited applications from a local identification module capable of confirming the identity of the called party based on the dialed telephone number. The receiving telephone may be capable of determining or storing local call related information for transmission back to select callers. The callee ID information may be transmitted using conventional FSK techniques, e.g., between the second and third rings, to avoid collision with conventional transmissions of caller ID information.

The invention discloses wireless communication equipment and a method for controlling backlight, a touch screen and a keyboard. The method comprises the following steps of: judging a calling state of a telephone and feeding back that the telephone is in the calling state when the telephone gets through; monitoring and analyzing a contact temperature change at a telephone receiver in real time and feeding back an answering mode of the telephone; and switching working states of the backlight, the touch screen and the keyboard of the telephone according to the answering mode of the telephone. Because a technical measure that the contact temperature change at the telephone receiver is monitored and analyzed in real time by adopting a temperature sensing module so as to control the states of the backlight, the touch screen and the keyboard is adopted when the telephone gets through, the states of the backlight, the touch screen and the keyboard are correspondingly changed in real time according to the answering mode of the telephone, therefore, the states of the backlight, the touch screen and the keyboard can be intelligently switched in the calling process, and the calling experience of users is optimized; in addition, By means of the invention, the misoperation phenomenon which is easily generated by directly using a local calling mode is effectively prevented, and the electric quantity of a battery is effectively saved.