US5537467A
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Method for forwarding a call to a temporarily utilized portable telephone
Assignee: Hanger Solutions LLC
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Filing: 1994-08-23
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Granted: 1996-07-16
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Expires: 2014-08-23
Abstract
Abstract A distributed service management system for providing communication services comprises a plurality of individual service management systems operated by a plurality of different service providers. Each service management system includes its own local database and an Interactive Distributed Transaction Monitor (IDTM) that allows locally running applications to access the local database as well as remote databases belonging to remotely located service management systems. The interfaces serve to integrate multiple individual service management systems into a single multidatabase transaction management system. The distributed service management system can be used to provide special personal communication services involving multiple service providers, such as call forwarding to a temporarily rented mobile telephone.
Inventors
- 👤 Wang J. Cheng
- 👤 Lee-Tin Cheng
- 👤 Munir Cochinwala
- 👤 Kuo-Chu Lee
- 👤 Cheng-Chung Liu
- 👤 Thomas L. Wise
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-29 16:49
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04W; H04W4/00; H04W4/16; H04M; H04M15/00; H04M3/00; H04M3/42; H04M3/42229; H04M3/4228; H04M3/54; H04Q; H04Q3/00; H04Q3/0016; H04Q3/0062; H04Q2213/00; H04Q2213/13513; H04Q2213/13532; H04Q2213/13533; H04Q2213/13535; H04Q2213/13545; H04Q2213/13547; H04W8/00; H04W8/18
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 4
Claim 1
Independent Claim
226 words
In a communication system including a plurality of distinct communications service providers, each of said service providers comprising a communications network, a database, and a transaction manager in a service management system, a method for forwarding a call to a temporarily utilized portable telephone of a nomadic user at a first communications service provider from a base telephone of said user at a second communications service provider, said method comprising the steps of activating an application at the service management system of said second communications service provider, registering said application with said transaction management system of said second communications service provider, allocating a local agent to said application by said transaction management system of said second communications service provider, using said local agent, accessing the local database of said service management system of said second communications service provider and generating a customer profile record for said user, generating a request by said local agent that at least part of said customer profile record be inserted into a remote database at the service management system of said first communications service provider, determining at said remote database if said insert request is acceptable, and if said insert request is acceptable, then using the call profile record from said second communications service provider to modify the processing of the call in the network of said first communications service provider.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
226 words
In a communication system including a plurality of distinct communications service providers, each of said service providers comprising a communications network, a database, and a transaction manager in a service management system, a method for forwarding a call to a temporarily utilized portable telephone of a nomadic user at a first communications service provider from a base telephone of said user at a second communications service provider, said method comprising the steps of activating an application at the service management system of said second communications service provider, registering said application with said transaction management system of said second communications service provider, allocating a local agent to said application by said transaction management system of said second communications service provider, using said local agent, accessing the local database of said service management system of said second communications service provider and generating a customer profile record for said user, generating a request by said local agent that at least part of said customer profile record be inserted into a remote database at the service management system of said first communications service provider, determining at said remote database if said insert request is acceptable, and if said insert request is acceptable, then using the call profile record from said second communications service provider to modify the processing of the call in the network of said first communications service provider.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
68 words
The method in accordance with claim 1 wherein said step of modifying the processing of the call in said network of said first communications service provider comprises accessing a table in said first communications service provider with a group telephone number to obtain the temporary portable telephone number of the user, and forwarding the call to said portable telephone of the user using the temporary portable telephone number.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
97 words
The method in accordance with claim 1 wherein said remote database contains a mapping of base telephone numbers of a plurality of users and telephone numbers assigned to portable telephones being temporarily utilized by said users, and wherein said step of modifying the processing of the call in said network of said first communications service provider comprises using the base telephone number of said nomadic user at said second communications service provider to access said remote database to obtain the temporary telephone number of the portable telephone of said nomadic user at said first communications service provider.
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