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  • H04Q2213/13383—Hierarchy of switches, main and subexchange, e.g. satellite exchange
• • H—ELECTRICITY
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  • H04Q—SELECTING
  • H04Q2213/00—Indexing scheme relating to selecting arrangements in general and for multiplex systems
  • H04Q2213/13389—LAN, internet

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a telephone system arrangement, including a number of wirelessly and with radio signals connected cooperating enabled telephony units or telephone devices.
• each telephony unit at call shall be clearly identifiable by the telephone system related arrangement, either via calling line identification and/or equal identification.
• subscriber telephone devices connected via fixed lines or landlines to the fixed public switched telephony network can be connected to and be a part of the telephone system related arrangement according to the present invention.
• the present invention builds on that the mobile telephone network, in a well known way, shall be adjusted to, using the mobile telephone network's inherent connection making, switching and voice transferring capabilities, connect a calling party's telephony device to a called party's telephony device, using significant information tied to the called party's telephone device, in the following descriptions exemplified by a telephone number.
• the arrangement according to the present invention with its application within a mobile telephony system related arrangement, comprises in all cases a mobile telephony device related to the mobile telephony system.
• a first category requires an occurrence of a first circuit arrangement
• voice control a user can be able to choose one of several subcribers with belonging subscriber telephone numbers stored within a memory belonging to a telephony device, while a second category are lacking this first circuit arrangement, this second category requiring keypad input to let a circuit arrangement identify the telephone number to a selected subscriber.
• a telephony device Via voice control or not, hence a telephony device can be able to reach called and clearly identified telephone devices regardless of if the devices are connected via radio communication to the mobile telephony network (e. g. GSM), or via fixed landlines to the fixed telephony network (e.g. PSTN).
• the mobile telephony network e. g. GSM
• the fixed telephony network e.g. PSTN
• the application of the present invention thus is independent of if the mobile telephone device lacks or includes said first circuit arrangement, allowing by using a, by itself well-known, voice control to transform generated sound and sound sequences to a representation of the called partys name, to be able to identify the significant information related to the called party's telephone device, and to send said significant information as a subsciber number to a, for coded radiofrequencies adapted, receiver related to the mobile telephony network.
• a mobile telephony device with voice control will be able to initiate, after controlling that the received name related sound waves identifies a stored suscriber number related to the received name, calling circuits belonging to the said mobile telephone device and send the subscriber number to the mobile telephony network, which initiates and carries out a connection to called telephone device, and establishes a voice channel.
• Said first circuit arrangement is then related to and installed in the telephone device, and via a within the telephone device resident register or memory a selected amount of possible-to-call subscriber number can be stored.
• Theese possible-to-call subscriber numbers can be related to either a mobile telephony network or to a fixed line telephony network, while theese networks are connected to each other in a well-known way.
• the appropriate wanted subscriber number can be transferred via SMS (Short Message Service) to the calling subscriber's mobile telephone device or similar device, or the telephone operator can establish a connection to the wanted subscriber, regardless if the wanted subscriber's number is related to the fixed telephony network or to the mobile telephony network.
• SMS Short Message Service
• This service can also be used in situations where the keypad belonging to the mobile telephone device is hard to utilise in the correct sequence corresponding to the wanted subscriber number. Such situations often occurs when driving a car.
• DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT INVENTION TECHNICAL PROBLEMS If the circumstance that the technical considerations a professional within the topical area must do in order to be able to offer a solution to one or more identified technical problems is partly initially a necessary knowledge about the measures and/or the sequence of measures that has to be be carried out and partly a necessary choice of the necessary means is taken into consideration, the following technical problems should be relevant at the forthbringing of the present invention.
• the present invention starts from the by the way of introduction shown known technology by utilising a telephone system related arrangement, with a number of ingoing and/or related telephone devices and a telephony network, the latter adjusted to, with telephone network based call connection means, being able to connect an incoming call from a calling party to a called party via initiation of a significant information, corresponding to the calling party, and sending this to receiver related to the telephone network, at which said telephone device is allotted a circuit arrangement to be able to via said telephone network be connected to a voice controlled telephone exchange unit with a register or memory, where this register or memory is separated from the memory or register belonging to the telephone device.
• the present invention specially shows that the known technology shall be completed with that within the voice controlled telephone exchange resident register or memory subscriber significant information is stored in a structured way for a selected number of, via voice control reachable, subscribers moreover with a for each calling and duly registered telephone device coordinated information, so that a registered calling telephone device, via voice control, shall be able to activate network belonging means in orer to be connected with one of the possible-to-call devices.
• a connected data network e.g. Internet
• a connected data network e.g. Internet
• a connected data network e.g. Internet
• a selected telephone device can be adjusted to gain access to only its own allotted memory space and via voice control let choose a subscriber number among the in that stored.
• the voice controlled telephone exchange is adjusted to choose a memory space, in the separate telephone exchange memory or register, which is at disposal to the calling party and out of which, via said voice control, one of the in that stored possible-to-call subscriber devices can be fetched or initiated.
• the voice controlled telephone exchange is adjusted to choose a memory space, in the separate telephone exchange memory or register, which is at disposal to the calling party and out of which, via said voice control, one of the in that stored possible-to-call subscriber devices can be fetched or initiated.
• a further embodiment is that a mobile telephone device can be adjusted to transfer voice control, through e.g. a mobile telephony network and an established voice channel, to said telephone exchange unit, which by using the telephone exchange memory evaluates a to the called party corresponding significant information, that this information is transferred to said call connecting means, which via the fixed and/or the mobile telephone network and their call connecting means connects the calling party device with the called party device.
• voice control through e.g. a mobile telephony network and an established voice channel
• the call significant information is structured and coordinated according to a to the calling party depending identification, such as calling line identification.
• the voice control information stored in said register or memory, can advantageously be structured as names and a more detemining identification, such as company belonging.
• the memory of the voice controlled telephone exchange is synchronised with each mobile telephone's memory and thus administrateable by using the mobile telephone.
• the exchange unit with its memory can advantageously be used by several mobile telephone devices, and with each device-belonging information be calling line structured.
• Figure 1 shows a foreseeable connection arrangement, where two mobile telephone devices, in a known way are connected to a mobile telecommunication network (e.g. a GSM network), which are connected to a data communication network (e.g. Internet) and a fixed line telephone network (e.g. PSTN), which in turn is illustrated to cooperate with a fixed line telephone device, and an IP- telephony network and with a telephone exchange with attached memory connected to the data communication network, to the fixed line telephone network and to the IP-telephony network and where the telephone exchange are voice controlled, and
• a mobile telecommunication network e.g. a GSM network
• a data communication network e.g. Internet
• a fixed line telephone network e.g. PSTN
• Figure 2 schematically shows a to the telephone exchange internal or external memory coordinated with its register or memory
• IP addresses to IP telephones shall be regarded as equivalents to subscriber telephone numbers.
• FIG 1 thus there are the foundation principles for the present invention schematically shown, and there the associated significant distinguishing features of the present invention, related to a mobile telephone device, generally are concreted, by the at present time proposed and in the following appended drawings closer shown and in the following description closer described, embodiment of a mobile telecommunication system related arrangement.
• the mobile telecommunication system 1 comprises a mobile telephony or telecommunications network 2 with a number of mobile telephone devices, where two of these have been assigned reference numbers 1a, 1b, each one connected to the telephony network 2 via a connection, to be able to via this connection transfer information carrying signals between a telephone device 1a, 1b, and the telephony network 2.
• the mobile telecommunication system 1 also comprises a fixed telephony network 11 , with one or more telephone devices, where one has been assigned reference number 1c.
• the mobile telecommunication system 1 also comprises a data communications network 10, which is illustrated as the data network "Internet”.
• the mobile telecommunications network 1 also comprises a, for the present invention significant, voice controlled telephone exchange 3, which advantageously can be constituted by e.g. a computer with attached telephony means, with an attached memory 4.
• the memory 4 is illustrated in figure 1 as an external memory but can be contituted by memory capacity within the telephone exchange.
• the mobile telecommunications network 1 also comprises a terminal 13, connected via the data communications network 10, through where the memory content in the memory 4 can be changed.
• the mobile telecommunications network 1 can also comprise an IP telephony network 12 with attached telephone devices 1d, where one has been assigned reference number 1d.
• This telephone system related arrangement 5 requires a number of ingoing and/or related mobile telephone devices, say 1a and 1b and a mobile telephony network 2, at which said telephone device 1a or 1b are each assigned a circuit arrangement to be able to via said mobile telephony network 2 be connected to a voice controlled telephone exchange unit 3, with an attached register or memory, where this register or memory 4 are shown separated from an internal memory or register 14 belonging to the telephone device 1a.
• FIG. 2 intends to illustrate, subscriber significant information stored in a structured way, for a selected number of voice controlled dialing reachable subscribers 1a and 1b moreover with a for each possible-to-call and registered telephone device coordinated information, so that registered calling telephone device 1a, via own voice control information, shall be able to activate telephone network means 11a, in order to be connected via a voice channel to one of the registered possible-to-call subscriber devices, say the telephone devices 1 b, 1c or 1d.
• the telephone exchange unit 3 with its register 4 is more detailed described in the following text.
• a connected data communications network 10 is adjusted to be able to create a synchronised cooperation between the in the in a telephone device 1a internal register or memory 14 stored possible-to-call subscriber devices 1b, 1c and/or 1d and the in the telephone exchange register or memory stored, via voice control, possible-to-call subscriber devices 1b, 1c and 1d.
• a data channel 10a can be coordinated between a telephone device 1a and an internal memory 14 belonging to this telephone device, and said memory 4 belonging to a telephone exchange, for an information transfer.
• This data channel is here illustrated with dashed lines and is connected via the data communications network 10.
• a connected data communications network 10 a synchronised cooperation between the in the internal memory 14 of the telephone device 1a stored possible-to-call subcriber devices and merely a selected number of the in the telephone device separated memory 3, belonging to the telephone exchange, stored possible-to-call subscriber devices with their subscriber numbers can be created.
• Each thus selected telephone device as the telephone device 1a, is adjusted to gain access to only its own assigned memory space and via voice control in a known way choose a subscriber number among the in this space stored subscriber numbers.
• the voice controlled telephone exchange 3 is adjusted to choose the, and only this, memory space, within the separate telephone exchange register or memory 4, which is at disposal to the calling party and from which memory 4 via said voice control one of the in here stored possible-to-call subscriber devices can be fetched or initiated.
• the voice controlled telephone exchange 3 can be adjusted to choose a memory space 41 in the separate register or memory 4, belonging to the telephone exchange, which is at disposal to the calling party and from which memory 41 via said voice control one of the in here stored possible-to-call subscriber devices can be fetched or initiated.
• a mobile telephone device 1a is adjusted to transfer information, via voice control, through a mobile telephone network 2 and an established voice channel 10b from the mobile telephone network 2, via the fixed telephone network 10 and to said telephone exchange unit 3, which by using said telephone exchange memory 4 evaluates the information against significant information corresponding to the called party, say telephone device 1b.
• This subscriber number related information is transferred to call connecting means, which at answering signal from from the telephone device 1b via the telephone networks 11 , 2 and their call connecting means 11a, 2a connects the calling party's telephone device 1a with via the voice channel 10c called telephone device 1b.
• connection of the voice channel 10c can in the shown example be made through the call connecting means 2a, thus the voice channel 10b and 10c does not need to be tromboned via the telephone network 11 and the telephone exchange 3.
• the telephone devices 1c, 1d can be called.
• call significant information in figure 2 is structured in dependence of a to the calling party corresponding identification, e.g. calling line identification, while the voice control information, stored in said register or memory 4, can be structured as name (A) and an additional significant information, such as company belonging (B) in order to increase the criteria for finding one and only one unambigous subscriber pointed out by the voice control.
• the telephone exchange 3 is adjusted to receive a call from a registered device 1a, decide that the calling device 1a is duly registered and depending on an evaluated calling line identification the account or memory area 41 belonging to the device 1a can be made available.
• the telephone exchange 3 chooses a telephone number (C), stored structured with name (A) and an additional significant information such as company belonging (B).
• This telephone number (C) is sent to be used by each telephone network's 2, 11 ,12 call connecting means 2a, 11a, 12a in order to initiate a call, and then connect a voice channel as described above.
• FIG 1 a telephone device 1c connected to the fixed telephone network 11 is shown, this device is expected to be utilised by several persons.
• a call to and a voice channel connection initiated by circuits in the telephone exchange 3 can take place in different ways.
• a first circuit arrangement within the mobile telephone devices 1a, 1b can be utilised, e.g. voice control, here can the activation of short number via the telephone devices 1a, 1b keypads take place, here can the activation of a telephone number via the telephone devices 1a, 1b keypads take place, or here can other actions take place.
• the register or memory 4 is here illustrated as a server and to which server a number of named functions are connected.
• the figure 2 intends to illustrate a telephone exchange allotted circuit arrangement 4a, where stored information is coordinated in dependence of a called line identification.
• a first memory space 41 complete infomation about subscriber device allotted voice control information valid for a first telephone device is stored, as the device referenced by the tag 1a, and which is identified automatically by the voice controlled telephone exchange using calling line identification.
• a second memory space 42 complete infomation about subscriber device allotted voice control information valid for a second telephone device is stored, as the device referenced by the tag 1 b etc.
• the voice control information structured by calling line identification and stored in said register, memory or server 4, can be structured as name "A" (first name and last name or only first name or last name or alternatively another identification), an additionally significant information such as company belonging "B”, and after an unambigous identification of the name and additional significant information, as company belonging, a corresponding telephone number "C", as to the telephone device 1b, 1c or 1d, is activated.
• figure 2 shows a circuit arrangement 31 , which is allotted to the telephone exchange unit 3, where a to the calling party's telephone device 1a corresponding calling line identification will control the availability of the relevant memory space 41.
• changed (removed or inserted) information can be added to the memory 4 and its memory space 41 , and this information will then be synchronously available via the data communications network 10 to the actual mobile telephone device 1a.
• the memory content 41 can be changed by one ore several authenticated users. The changed information will be synchronised with the mobile telephone device's memory 14.
• each shown unit or function can be combined with each other shown unit or function within the framework, to be able to achieve the technical effects and functions asked for.

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