Enabling combinational services in a communications network

摘要

A combinational service is made enjoyable on the terminal of a user of a communication network in a simplified way. The user establishes a call on the circuit domain, and on his/her terminal, menu options are made available related to the enjoyment of the combinational service in consequence of the establishment of such call on the circuit domain.

主权项

1. A method of enabling the use of at least one combinational service in at least a first terminal of a first user of a communication network, the communication network comprising a server configured to communicate with the first terminal and a second terminal, comprising:
establishing a first connection in a circuit domain of said communication network from said first terminal to said second terminal of a second user of said communication network; receiving at said first terminal, an acknowledgement of the establishing of said first connection; automatically connecting said first terminal with a packet domain of said communication network in consequence of the reception of said acknowledgement; receiving from the server a first address of said first terminal in said packet domain of said communication network, said first address being associated with a first identifier of said first terminal in said circuit domain of said communication network; in consequence of the reception of said first address from the server, automatically sending a first request from said first terminal to an apparatus included in said packet domain of said communication network for a second address of said second terminal in said packet domain of said communication network, said first request including one or more packets for establishing a second connection in said packet domain of said communication network between said first terminal and said second terminal, comprising:
the first address; anda second identifier associated with said second terminal in said circuit domain of said communication network; receiving a peer-to-peer message from the second terminal containing the first address and the second address, the peer-to-peer message being a packet message in response to the first request; engaging in the second connection in said packet domain of said communication network with said second terminal, said second connection being a peer-to-peer connection based on a first association between said first identifier and said first address and of a second association between said second identifier and said second address; and in response to receiving said peer-to-peer message from the second terminal, automatically activating on said first terminal at least one menu option related to at least one service viewable through said second connection after the establishment of said second connection, wherein said at least one menu option is activatable on said first terminal by said first user.