FI112901B - A method for controlling telecommunications in a telecommunications network - Google Patents

Description

112901

A method for controlling telecommunications in a telecommunications network

The invention relates to a method for controlling communication in a telecommunications network according to the preamble of claim 1, wherein the method sets at least two different address book addresses as client identity specific destination addresses in the telecommunications network 5. These addresses are network addresses used in the telecommunications network. Such a destination address may be, for example, an address of a packet network, such as an IP network, or an address of a circuit switched network, such as a public telephone network (PSTN) or a mobile network (PLMN).

Various messaging services are implemented in the telecommunications network. In these messaging services, a target attempt message indicating a failed target attempt is stored in the telecommunication network 10 if the telecommunication network does not receive the desired response signal from the network address bound to the target identity of the telecommunication connection request. Existence information about the reach attempt message, which may include at least part of the message, is subsequently delivered to at least one web address defined in the reach profile. For example, the target attempt message may be a voice message received from the subscriber who sent the call, i.e., the connection request, e.g., the call connection request. The target company message may also be a standard message stored in the telecommunications network.

The availability service is provided by means of an access profile set in the telecommunications network. service to reach an object defined in the reach profile. AVAILABILITY !!! The profile 20 is a definition of the network identity, i.e. the network address, of the at least one receiving interface stored in the telecommunication network, by which the telecommunication network directs the · · · # communication connection between at least one calling subscriber line and at least · · *. may also restrict the · · * * allowed network addresses of the calling subscriber line.

t »* 25 One reach profile is the reach chain. This refers to the network identities of the receiving subscriber stored in the telecommunications network ···, to which the ·; 'subscriptions to which connection requests are sent in response to the calling subscriber connection:'. · To the received connection request. Connection requests are sent in the order in which they are set. This is continued until at least one is involved; ; 30290101, which directs the telecommunication network to establish a communication link between the calling subscriber line and at least one of the respective availability chain subscriptions, or until the entire access chain has been processed without receiving any of the subscriptions defined therein.

5 A problem with prior art is the dissemination of the existence information of the target company message. It is desirable for the client utilizing the messaging service to be able to read the presence information of the target company message from several terminals. This is the case, for example, in a situation where the client is using a workstation and a mobile station and wants the client to be informed of the existence of a target attempt message from the terminal device he / she happens to use. 10 The prior art message existence information is sent to all terminals from which the client wishes to read it, thereby requiring the client to further acknowledge the presence attempt message existence information. In known availability services, the telecommunication system that sends connection requests to destination addresses does not include information about which of the 15 network addresses defined in the availability profile are connected to the telecommunication network by the desired communication. In this way, access chains are used and the telephone network is overburdened with call setup requests which are sent to network addresses for which there is no prerequisite to receive the desired response. In addition, the connection time experienced by the user of the telecommunications network is prolonged.

. It is an object of the invention to solve the prior art problem described above and this, ···. purpose of providing a completely new type of method of communication. to control the telecommunications network.

The invention is based on maintaining a destination address database which maintains, by client identity, information on which of the network addresses defined as destination addresses are connected to the telecommunications network by any desired communication.

The destination address database also maintains the priority order of the destination addresses. The database retrieves the highest priority destination address from which the desired telecommunications connection is made to the telecommunications network, followed by the transmission of controlled communications to this address: · '.

More specifically, the method for controlling communications in a telecommunications network according to the invention is characterized in what is disclosed in the characterizing part of claim 1.

The invention provides considerable advantages. The need for acknowledgment of the existence information of the additional target company messages 5 is eliminated, thereby reducing the number of actions to be performed by the accessibility service user and, in this respect, reducing the load on the telecommunications network. The use of the availability chains can be replaced by the method of controlling the communication in the telecommunications network according to the invention, whereby the extra load caused by the use of the availability chains can be eliminated and the connection time experienced by the telecommunications network customer is reduced.

The invention will now be described by way of example and with reference to the accompanying drawing.

Figure 1 illustrates a method for controlling communications in a teleservice message service according to the invention.

In the method of Figure 1, a destination address database is maintained in the telecommunications network, where possible destination addresses of target company messages are defined as client identity specific message management information structures. In the message management data structures, a priority sequence is specified for the destination addresses in the database and whether the terminal connected to that address, · · ·, is in a desired telecommunication connection.

···, 20 In the case of a messaging service, a desired communication connection is one in which the destination address has the ability to receive a message containing the presence information of the target attempt message. Such a connection may be, for example, a mobile station signaling connection. The message management data structure may be, for example, a "table or other data structure with similar functionality:

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Customer Identity X

Destination Address Communication Connection Priority GSM Number Y On / off 1 IP Address a.b.c.d On / Off 2

Backup item e.f.g.h On / off 3 Email address i.j@k

Figure 1 shows the following numbered elements.

Mobile subscription 10 is a subscription in a GSM network. The MSC exchange 11 is a hub of a mobile communication network 5 and the HLR exchange 12 has a home location register of a mobile communication interface 10. The SMS center 13 is a center for transmitting short messages in a mobile network. The message server

14 is a system that stores target business messages. Control system MC

15 is a system that maintains certain network addresses and status information of certain telecommunications connections in telecommunications networks. Certain telecommunication connections are telecommunication connections from 10 specific network addresses, and certain network addresses are defined as possible destination addresses for the presence information of the target company messages. The MC 15 and / or message server 14 may also be software implemented elements. The IP terminal 16 is a workstation, a mobile station, connected to the IP network. or other device. The IP server 17 is a server configured to monitor the IP address assigned to the IP terminal 16 and / or transmitted from the IP address of the IP terminal 16; the data traffic.

The method of Figure 1 has the following steps. Step 101 is performed to determine the desired control logic for the messaging service: »20 101) Mapping the identity of the mobile communication interface 10 and the IP address of the IP terminal 16 to the client identity specific destination addresses of the MC 15. In addition, the identity of the mobile communication interface 10 is set to the first priority and the IP address of the IP terminal 16 to the second, priority, message management data structure.

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Steps 102 to 104 are performed by a control system for setting the MC 15 in a state corresponding to the communication link state of the mobile communication interface 10.

102) Receiving in the HLR exchange 12 a signal from the MSC exchange 11 indicating a mobile subscriber connected to a signaling connection to the mobile communication network.

103) Information is transmitted from the HLR exchange 12 to the MCs 15 about the connection of the mobile station 10 to the signaling connection.

104) In response to the received information, the MC 15 is set to a state indicating that the mobile subscriber interface 10 is on a signaling connection, and requesting from the MC 15 15 to the message server 14 a request for targeted client messages targeted to a particular client identity. The described state can be determined by setting the identity of the mobile communication interface 10, such as a communication connection element attached to a GSM number, in the message management data structure to be on.

Steps 105 to 106 are performed to send existence information of the target attempt messages 15 targeted to the customer identity in the direction of the mobile communication interface 10.

105) Receiving the presence information sent from the message server 14 in the MC 15 from at least one target attempt message.

106) Sending (steps 106a-106c) from MC 15, existence information from at least one target attempt message via the SMS exchange 13 and the MSC exchange 11 •.:.: 20 in the direction of the mobile communication interface 10.

···. If the message server 14 then stores a target attempt message directed to a customer identity for which a method for controlling the message service according to the invention is set, steps 107 and 108 of the method are performed.

107) Receiving and retrieving existence information from the target attempt message in MC 15; · * 25 In the target address database of 25 MCs, the first destination address having the communication link element in the message management -, ...: data structure is in the order of priority. Therefore, the destination address to be retrieved is mobile; interface 10 identity.

112901 108) Transmitting (steps 108a-108c) from MC 15, existence information from the target attempt message via SMS center 13 and MSC center 11 in the direction of mobile interface 10.

If the signaling connection of the mobile subscriber line 10 to the telecommunications network is lost, the next 5 steps of the method are performed.

109) Receiving information in the HLR exchange 12 from the MSC 11 about disconnecting the signaling connection to the mobile communication interface 10.

110) Receiving in the MC 15 information from the direction of the HLR exchange 12 on disconnecting the signaling connection to the mobile communication interface 10. In response to the received information 10, the MC 15 is set to a state indicating that the mobile communication interface 10 is not on the signaling connection. The described state can be determined by setting the communication connection element attached to the identity of the mobile communication terminal 10, such as a GSM number, in the message management data structure to off.

Thereafter, existence messages 15 describing the target attempt messages to be stored on the message server 14 are sent to the object defined in the client identity specific message management data structure, which is the first of the set items in the order of priority. If all the objects defined in the message management data structure are off, the presence attempt message message existence information is left to the message server 14 or the MC 15 to wait for the object defined in the message management data structure 20 to go on.

In the message management data structure, when the target IP terminal 16 is connected to a telecommunications network, the following operations are performed: 111) The IP server 17 detects the IP terminal 16 being connected to the desired communication connection.

112) Receiving in the MC 15, from the direction of the IP server 17, a message indicating the IP • '· terminal 16 is in a desired communication connection.

113) In response to the received message, the MC 15 puts itself in a state indicating that the IP terminal 16 is on a desired communications connection. Thereafter, an inquiry is sent from the 7112901 MC 15 to the message server 14 about the target attempt messages targeted to a particular client identity. The described state can be determined by setting the communication connection element attached to the IP address 16 of the IP terminal 16 in the message management data structure to on.

114) Receiving the presence information sent from the message server 14 in the MC 15 from at least one target attempt message.

115) Sending (steps 115a-115b) from MC 15, existence information from at least one possible target attempt message via the IP server 17 in the direction of the IP terminal 16.

Thereafter, existence messages informing the target server messages to be stored on the message server 14 are sent to the IP terminal 16 if this is the first of the set items in the message management data structure in the order of priority. Information about the possible exit of the IP terminal 16 from the desired communication connection is provided to the MC 15 in the order 15 of method steps 111-113.

The telecommunication service user may be provided with the ability to modify the message management data structure associated with his customer identity in the control system MC 15. In this case, the destination addresses of the message management data structure and their priorities are set by control received t ': <: DTMF, WAP, or WWW.

A customer identity specific target company message may be formed to the message server 14 directly or recursively to a specific destination address or to a specific destination address. · · · As a result of a communication request from you. The target attempt message may be generated to the message server 14 if the target address does not provide the desired response to the telecommunications network. This requires active on some systems: “'; 25 actions from the direction of the element that sent the communication request: '':.

Within the scope of the invention, solutions other than those described above may also be contemplated. The availability service can be set up to operate by the method of the invention. In this case, the telecommunication connection request 8112901 is directed to target the desired destination address with the functionality similar to that used in the example to target the existence information of the target attempt messages. The message management data structure described above is used as an availability profile and the communication connection request 5 directed to the customer identity is routed to the highest priority active target identity in the message management structure. In the case of the availability service, the desired communication connection is such that based on the communication status, the logic acting in the direction of the target identity can be interpreted as being ready to receive a communication request according to the availability profile.

The invention is mainly directed to directing fixed communication to a destination address. Fixed telecommunications refers to short messages, e-mails or similar messages.

Claims (9)

A method for controlling data traffic in connection with a messaging service realized in a telecommunications network, wherein a method - in the telecommunication system (101) provides at least two addresses from separate address lists as customer identity-specific object addresses to a customer of the messaging service - to the message the customer customer is received in the message service, - to the customer at his customer identity-specific object address data traffic is sent, which contains (108) existence data on a contact request message, characterized in that - the object addresses are arranged (101) in the order of priority and the information is maintained, star in the desired data traffic connection, and - data traffic containing (108) existence data on the contact attempt message, (106) is sent to the first object address in the order of priority, with which one starred in the desired data traffic connection, wherein: - in a control system (15) received (107) existence data on at least one possible:.: Contact attempt message from the direction of a message server (14), - from the control system (15), (107) is retrieved in the first order. 20. the telecommunications network is controlled (108) to transmit controllable data traffic containing (106, 108) existence data on the contact attempt message to the retrieved object address; A method according to claim 1, characterized in that it is in the control system. : (15) operating in the telecommunications network, information on which object address is interfered with in the desired data traffic connection is provided (101) as a customer identity-specific object address, a mobile telephone: connection identity, such as a mobile telephone connection number, 3 112 9 Ο Ί - in the control system (15) ) (103) information is received about the connection of the mobile telephone connection (10) to signaling connection with the mobile telephone network or from the signaling connection to the mobile telephone network, and - in response to the received information, the control system (15) is brought into a state indicating that the mobile telephone connection ( 10) is coupled to a signaling connection or from a signaling connection. Method according to Claim 1 or 2, characterized in that information in the control system (15) operating in the telecommunications network is maintained about which of the object addresses which are starred in the desired data traffic connection, address as object address, - in the control system (15), (112) is received from the direction of an IP server (17) information that, in the desired data traffic connection with the particular IP address, or with that particular IP address, there is no desired data traffic connection, and - in response to the received information, the control system (113) is brought into a state indicating that the desired data traffic connection is interfering with the particular IP address or that the desired IP address is not being interrupted. data traffic connection with the particular IP address. 20 A method according to any of claims 1-3, characterized in that: ": the data traffic connection is controlled to be formed between a network address and an object address. Method according to any of claims 1-4, characterized in that: the data traffic connection, which is controlled to be formed between a network address and an object address, is a telephone connection. i4 112901 Method according to any of claims 1-5, characterized in that at least one object address is arranged in response to one in the control system (15) via a customer interface, such as a DTMF, WAP or a WWW interface, received control. 5 A method according to any of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the priority address of the object addresses is processed in response to one received via a customer interface, such as a DTMF, WAP or a WWW interface. Method according to any of claims 1-7, characterized in that at least one object address is a selectable telephone network address and at least one other object address is a different address from the selectable telephone network address, e.g. an IP address. Method according to any of claims 1-8, characterized in that the controllable data traffic has a fixed form, such as the form of an SMS card message.