MXPA06008660A - Rapid dialling - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to methods and arrangements for rapid dialling in a telecommunication system that requires an indication of a B-number termination to establish a connection. The system is communicating with a telephone set .POTS without ability to indicate such termination. The method comprises the following steps:- A B-number is dialed using said telephone set (POTS). - A B-value (719) composed of the so far dialed digits is compared with a list (MRD) of records (11,719,001877) stored in a database (DB) in the system. - Conformity is found between the composed B-value (719) and a record (719) in said list (MRD), which found record points to a numeral (7) representing the total numberof digits in the complete B-number.

Description

GB, GR, HU, IE, IT, LU, MC, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, YES, SK, For two-letter codes and olher abbreviations. refer to the "Guid-TR", OAPI (BF, BJ, CF, CG, Cl, CM, GA, GN, GQ, GW, anee Notes on Codes and Abbreviations "appearing ai the begin- ML, MR, NE, SN, TD, TG). No ofeach regular issue of the PCT Gazette. Published: - - wilh iniernalional search repon FAST MARKING TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to methods and arrangements for fast dialing in a telecommunication system that requires an indication of a B-number termination to establish a connection and when an apparatus for use in the system is used in the system. telephone with no ability to indicate said termination. DESCRIPTION OF THE RELATED TECHNIQUE Telephony networks today are based on several generations of different technologies, the traditional PSTN network and the new generations of wireless and packet-based telephony, for example GSM, 3G, VolP, SIP and H.323 . The address model of the telephone numbers (to mark any subscriber in the PSTN network) is normally from 5 to 13 digits. The number of digits depends on several parameters, for example if the call is short distance / long distance or domestic / international. A call initiative in a PSTN network starts with a user A picking up the handset (picking up) and obtaining a dial tone that tells the user to start dialing a number B. Each digit received by a call control function is immediately analyzed to channel it. When the network has received all the digits, a connection is established. The redundant digits marked by the user after the complete number are ignored. The call initiative usually does not end by pressing a "CALL" or "SEND" button. A call initiative of a new generation of wireless and packet-based telephony starts by pressing buttons to generate a B number and finally ends by pressing for example a "CALL" button. When a traditional PSTN telephone set POTS is used as a device in a new generation of GSM / 3G / SIP network, the signaling (for example DTMF signaling and Ehernet signaling) between the telephone set and the network is decoded / encoded in a device at the client's facilities. Communication in different systems and standards is disclosed in US Patent 2003 0109271. A problem arises, however, when the subscriber A using the POTS device has pressed all the digits of the number B but can not finish the call initiative by pressing a button "CALL" or "SEND". It will be difficult for the GSM / 3G / SIP network to know when all the digits of the number B have been oppressed and a connection must be established. A solution to this problem could be to have a database for all telephone numbers in the world and when a number is found, the connection is established. However, it is an unrealistic solution. Another more natural solution to end the call initiative without pressing a "CALL" button is to define a "Call waiting time" function. The "Call waiting time" function establishes a connection after a preset period from the last digit pressed. The preset time could be, for example, 10 seconds. The consequence and the problem of this is that the user has to wait 10 seconds before initiating a call initiative. This can be frustrating to involve parties what is an undesired situation. Another alternative solution is that the subscriber A has to press an emulated button when all the B number has been marked, for example, the button that has been defined as an emulated "SEND" button. This solution has other disadvantages since the subscriber A must learn how to act in different situations. COMPENDIUM OF THE INVENTION The present invention solves a problem related to the interaction between telecommunication technologies when a technology requires a measure that can not be supplied by the other technology. More specifically, a problem of this type arises, for example, when a telephone device without the possibility of indicating termination of a dialed number B is communicating with a system that requires said indication to establish a connection with a subscriber B.

Using the fact that a total length of numbers B can be identified before dialing the whole number, by analyzing the digits so far marked, the problem in accordance with the present invention is solved. In more detail, the problem is solved through a method comprising the following steps: A number B is marked using a telephone device without the ability to indicate the termination of the marked B number. - A B value consists of the digits marked so far and is compared with a list of reference values stored in a database. Compliance between the marked B value and the reference value in said list is found. The reference value found indicates a number that represents the total number of digits in the full B number. An object of the present invention is to interact different telecommunication technologies where one technology requires a measure that can not be supplied by the other technology. An advantage of the invention is that the average time for a call initiative is accelerated. Another advantage is that the general quality of service for an A subscriber is increased.

The invention will now be described in more detail with the aid of preferred embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Figure 1 shows a schematic illustration of blocks in accordance with a first embodiment and second embodiment of the invention. The figure shows a mobile home telecommunication system where a telephone device is used without the ability to indicate the termination of a number B. Figure 2 discloses a database with records such as numbers B, Minimum of Relevant Digits - MRD, Total Number of Digits - TND. Figure 3 discloses a flow chart illustrating a method for rapidly dialing in a telecommunication system in accordance with the second embodiment of the invention. Figure 4 shows a schematic block illustration of a third embodiment of the invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF MODALITIES Figure 1 shows a telecommunication system comprising a mobile home system associated with a GSM network. The GSM network comprises an MSC Mobile Services Switching Center, a BSC Base Station Controller and a BTS Base Transceiver Station. The home mobile system comprises a Team in the Customer Facilities in the form of an HBS Home Base Station located in the home of a SHL subscriber. The HBS Home Base Station communicates with the MSC through a HBSC Home Base Station Controller in a BAN broadband access network. A DB database is located in the BAN and is connected to the HBSC. In a home mobile system, the general idea is that the user can use their phone for outdoors such as GSM also when they are inside their home address SHL. On the outside, the GSM telephone is connected to the BTS Base Transceiver Station through an AI air interface while at home the GSM telephone is connected to the HBS Home Base Station through a blue interface. tooth BT. The user can therefore switch between two types of access networks. In the home location, the communication between the GSM telephone and the GSM network is carried out through a BAM Broadband Access Network while overseas the communication is carried out through the GSM transmission network. Within the home location, the HBS Home Base Station acts as an interface between the GSM telephone handset and the HBSC Home Base Station Controller. The user may, however, prefer to use his Broadband Access Network not only when using the GSM telephone but also when using a regular POTS telephone located in the home, instead of using a more expensive public network. To be able to do it, the POTS must be connected to the HBS Home Base Station through, for example, wires, and the POTS must be configured in the HBS. The signaling between the POTS and the HBS is a DTMF Multi-tone signaling signal and the control signaling has to be mapped and generated in the HBS, between the POTS device and the BAN Broadband Access Network. Since the POTS device in this example does not have a "CALL" button as the button on a GSM phone, a dialed B number can not be correctly terminated. A termination indication is required by the HBSC Home Base Station Controller to know when all digits have been dialed and when a connection must be established. Normally, it is possible to determine the total number of digits in number B before dialing all the digits - this is known as number B analysis. For example, a B number marked in Stockholm starting with "719" has a total of seven digits while a number B starting with "89" has a total of six digits and a number marked in Sweden starting with "001877" is a number from New York, United States of America, with a total of thirteen digits. Figure 2 discloses the contents of the DB database of Figure 1. The DB database comprises a MRD list of registers 11, 89, 62, 719, 0920, 031773, 001877, 08, 00468 covering possible beginnings of numbers B 112, 892229, 6290505, 7190000, 092016010, 0317731000, 0018778778890, 087190000, 00468892229. Each record indicates either a number 3, 6, 7, 7, 9, 10, 13 in a TND column that represents the total numbers of digits in the number B or a prefix PX that indicates that the digits received so far must be ignored. The purpose of the prefix is to avoid multiplying the storage of the "same" number in the database. To optimize the correspondence number with marked B numbers, the database is preferably regularly updated. A relatively small database with only a few hundred records thus covers approximately more than 98% of all telephone calls. A method of compliance with the first modality of the. invention will be described below. References that are used in the description below can be found in Figure and 2. The method will display a speed dial of a telecommunication system that requires a termination indication of a B number to establish a connection. The POTS telephone device that communicates with the system, however, does not have the capacity to indicate such termination. The method comprises the following steps: A subscriber A picks up the handset of the POTS telephone set and starts dialing a number to a subscriber B, digit by digit 0-0-1-8-7-7-8-7-7-8-8-9-0. - Each digit marked is transferred the POTS to the Home Base Station HBS. Each digit dialed is decoded from DTMF signaling in digital number in the Home Base Station HBS and transferred to the BAN Broadband Access Network from HBS to HBSC Home Base Station Controller. A value B 001877 consists of the digits marked so far and stored in the HBSC each time a digit has been dialed. - The B value marked 001877 is compared with the registers 11, 89, 62, 719, 0920, 031773, 001877, 08, 00468 in the MRD list of records stored in the DB database. - There is a correspondence between the B value marked 001877 and a record 001877 in the list MRD. The marked record points to a number "13" that represents the total number of digits in the full B number. The connection between subscriber A and subscriber B is established when "13" digits have been received by the HBSC Home Base Station Controller. As a variation of the previous example, the subscriber A instead of dialing the number B digit by digit, the subscriber A only presses a button and has access to a number B stored in the POTS. The same idea of the present invention is applicable in this case. A method of compliance with a second embodiment of the present invention will be described below. References that are used in the description below can be found in Figures 1 and 2. The method will display a speed dial when the marked number B starts with an area code and the prefix is used. The method comprises the following steps: A subscriber A picks up the POTS handset and starts dialing a number to a subscriber B, digit by digit 0-8-7-1-9-0-0-0-0. Each digit marked is transferred from the POTS to the Home Base Station HBS. - Each digit marked is decoded and transferred in the BAN Broadband Access Network from the HBS Home Base Station to the HBSC Home Base Station Controller. A value B 08 consists of the digits marked so far and stored in the HBSC. - The B value marked 08 is compared with records 11, 89, 62, 719, 0920, 031773, 001877, 08, 00468 in the MRD list of records stored in the DB database. There is correspondence between the value B marked 08 and a record 08 in the MRD list. The record found points to the PX prefix that indicates that the digits marked so far should be ignored. The digits stored so far in the HBSC, ie "0" and "8", are deleted from the HBSC. A B 719 value consists of the digits marked so far, not including the ignored digits 08, and is stored in the HBSC. The B-value marked 719 is compared with the registers 11, 89, 62, 719, 0920, 031773, 001877, 08, 00468 in the MRD list of records stored in the DB database. There is correspondence between the marked B value 719 and a record 719 in the MRD list. The record found to point to a number "7" that represents the total number of digits in the number B complete, not counting the digits ignored 08.

The connection between the subscriber A and the subscriber B is established when seven "7" digits have been received (the deleted digits "08" are not taken into account) through the Station Controller.

HBSC Home Base. Figure 3 shows some essential steps of the methods described in a flowchart. The flow chart should be read in conjunction with the figures shown above. The steps are: A number B 0-0-1-8-7-7-8-7-7-8-8-9-0 is dialed using the POTS telephone set. A block 101 discloses this step in Figure 3. - A value B 001877 is made up of the digits marked so far and stored in the HBSC. A block 102 discloses this step in Figure 3. The B value marked 001877 is compared to the records 11, 89, 62, 719, 0920, 031773, 001877, 08,00468 in the MRD list of records stored in the DB database. A block 103 discloses this step in Figure 3. There is correspondence between the value V marked 001877 and a record 001877 in the MRD list. The record found indicates a number "13" that represents the total number of digits in the full B number. A block 104 discloses this step in Figure 3. - A connection is established between the subscriber A and the subscriber B when thirteen "13" digits have been received by the Station Controller.

Address HBSC. A block 105 discloses this step in Figure 3. A method of conformance to a third embodiment of the present invention will now be described in conjunction with Figure 4. The method will display a speed dial in a telecommunication system when the database is it locates in the SHL Subscriber Home Location instead of being in the BAN Broadband Access Network. The method comprises the following steps: Subscriber A picks up the handset of the telephone set POTS and begins to dial a number B subscriber, digit by digit, 0-0-1-8-7-7-8-7-7-8 - 8-9-0. - Each digit marked is transferred from the POTS to the Home Base Station HBS. A value B 001877 consists of the digits marked so far and stored in the Home Base Station HBS. - The B value marked 001877 is compared with the registers 11, 89, 62, 719, 0920, 031773, 001877, 08, 00468 in the MRD list of records stored in the DB database. There is correspondence between the B value marked 001877 and a record 001877 in the MRD list. The record found indicates a number "13" that represents the total number of digits in the full B number; When a number of digits representing the number "13" has been received, each digit dialed is decoded and transferred in the BAN Broadband Access Network from the Home Base Station HBS to the Home Base Station Controller HBSC. - When all the dialed digits have been transferred in the BAN Broadband Access Network from the HBS Home Base Station to the HBSC Home Base Station Controller, an emulated "CALL" signal is transferred from the Home Base Station HBS at HBSC Home Base Station Controller. The emulated "CALL" signal represents an indication of the termination of the number B. A connection is established between the subscriber A and the subscriber B. As a variation of the third mode, instead of waiting for the transfer of digits from HBS to HBSC until the thirteen digits have been received by the HBS, the digits are continuously transferred to the HBSC. As another variation of the third mode, instead of transferring the emulated "CALL" signal from the HBS to the HBSC to a timer in the HBSC it reinitializes and starts each time a new digit is received in the HBSC. The connection is established when the predefined "short" time has elapsed. The predefined time is slightly longer than the time between two consecutive digits and the span will then occur after receipt of the last digit. Different variations are possible within the framework of the present invention. The network shown in the examples can be of another type than the disclosed examples of home mobile network such as 3G, VolP, SIP, H.323 or a cable television network such as DOCSIS. In another variation, the database can be located, for example, within the telephone device used or in the equipment in client installations. The broadband access network can also be of several types. The value B may be stored, for example, in the MSCk in the example of mobile home address above. The invention, in other words, is not limited to the embodiments described above and illustrated in the drawings, but may be modified within the scope of the appended claims.

Claims (12)

1. CLAIMS 1. A method for rapid dialing in a telecommunication system that requires an indication of a B-number termination to establish a connection, that system communicates with a telephone device (POTS) that can not indicate such termination, said method comprises the following steps: a B number is dialed using said telephone apparatus (POTS); said method is characterized in that: a value B (719) consisting of the digits marked so far is compared with a list (MRD) of records (11, 719, 001877, 08) stored in a database (DB) in the system. - • there is a correspondence between the marked B value (719) and a record (719) in said list (MRD), said found record points to a number (7) that represents the total number of digits in the complete B number.
2. 2. A method for rapid dialing in a telecommunication system according to claim 1, said method comprises the following additional steps: a value B (08) formed of the digits marked so far is compared with a list (MRD) of records (11, 719, 001877, 08) stored in a database (DB) in the system; there is a correspondence between the marked B value (08) and a record (08) in the list, said found record points to a prefix (PX) indicating that the digits so far marked must be ignored.
3. A method for rapid dialing in a telecommunication system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the telephone set (POTS) is connected to a Home Base Station (HBS) connected to a network (GSM) through of a Home Base Station Controller (HBSC), whereby the database (DB) is connected to the Home Base Station Controller (HBS), said method comprises the following additional steps: the marked B-value it is stored in the Home Base Station Controller (HBSC); a connection is established when a number of digits corresponding to that number has been dialed (7)
4. 4. A method for rapid dialing in a telecommunication system according to claim 1 or 2, through which the telephone set (POTS) is connected to a Home Base Station (HBS) connected to a network (GSM) through a Home Base Station Controller (HBSC), so that the database (DB) is connected to the Home Base Station (HBS), said method comprises the following additional steps: the marked B value is stored in the Station Home Base (HBS); each digit marked is transferred from the Home Base Station (HBS) to the Home Base Controller (HBSC) when a number of digits corresponding to that number has been dialed (7.).
5. 5. A method for rapid dialing in a telecommunication system in accordance with claim 4, said method comprising the following additional steps: an emulated "CALL" signal is transferred from the Home Base Station (HBS) to the Remote Controller. Home Base Station (HBSC); - a connection is established when the emulated "CALL" signal has been received.
6. 6. A method for rapid dialing in a telecommunication system according to claim 4, said method comprises the following additional steps: - a timer in the Home Base Station Controller (HBSC) reinitializes / initiates each time a digit is received; a connection is established after the lapse of a predefined period of time of the timer.
7. 7. An arrangement for rapid dialing in a telecommunication system that requires an indication of a B-number termination to establish a connection, said system is communicating with a telephone set (POTS) without being able to indicate said termination, said arrangement is characterized because it presents: a means to mark a B-value (719) of the digits marked so far; a means for comparing the marked B-value with a list (MRD) of records (11, 719, 001877, 08) stored in a database (DB) in the system; means for finding a correspondence between the value B (719) in a register (719) in said list (MRD), said found record points to a number (7) that represents the total number of digits in the complete number B.
8. 8. An arrangement for speed dialing in a telecommunication system according to claim 1, said arrangement comprising: a means to bypass the digits so far marked.
9. 9. An arrangement for fast dialing in a telecommunication system according to claim 7 or 8 through which the telephone set (POTS) is connected to a Home Base Station (HBS) connected to a network (GSM) to Through a Home Base Station Controller (HBSC) so the database (DB) is connected to the Home Base Station Controller (HBSC), said arrangement further comprises: a means to store the marked B-value in the Home Base Station Controller (HBSC); a means to establish a connection when a number of digits corresponding to said number (7) have been dialed.
10. 10. An arrangement for speed dialing in a telecommunication system according to claim 7 or 8, through which the telephone set (POTS) is connected to a Home Base Station (HBS) connected to a network (GSM) through a Home Base Controller (HBSC), whereby the database (DB) is connected to the Home Base Station (HBS), said arrangement further comprises: - a means to store the marked B-value at the Home Base Station (HBS); means for transferring each digit dialed from the Home Base Station (HBS) to the Home Base Station Controller (HBSC).
11. 11. An arrangement for speed dialing in a telecommunication system according to claim 10, said method further comprising: means for transferring an emulated "MARK" signal from the Home Base Station (HBS) to the Home Base Station Controller (HBSC); a means to establish a connection when the emulated "CALL" signal has been received.
12. 12. An arrangement for rapid marking in a telecommunication system in accordance with the claim 10, said arrangement further comprises a timer in the Home Base Station Controller (HBSC) and a means to establish a connection after the lapse of a predefined time of the timer.