Terminal and method for offering termination-side services

摘要

A terminal and a method are described herein for offering termination-side services to a user. In one embodiment, the terminal (e.g., cellular terminal, enterprise or residential wireline device, mobile device) is configured to provide one or more termination-side services (e.g., color ring back tone, voice mail, call diversion, hold before answer) to the user. The terminal is further configured to enable the user to directly setup and manage the one or more termination-side services without interacting with the telecommunication network.

主权项

1. A terminal used by a user and configured to interact with a telecommunication network, the terminal comprising:
a network interface which is configured to interact with the telecommunication network; a user interface; a processor; and a memory that stores processor-executable instructions where the processor interfaces with the memory and executes the processor-executable instructions to implement a user agent that performs the following operations:
provide one or more termination-side services to the user; andenable, if needed, the user by utilizing the user interface to directly setup and manage the one or more termination-side services without interacting with the telecommunication network; wherein the one or more termination-side services comprises a handset-based context-driven call diversion service and the user agent performs the following operations: enable the user by utilizing the user interface to directly setup and manage the handset-based context-driven call diversion service by indicating one or more situations during which if an incoming call is received from a calling party then the incoming call is to be diverted from the user; after the enable operation, intercept the incoming call from the calling party; determine a status of the user by interfacing with one or more information providers on the terminal; compare the status to the one or more situations; if there is a match between the status and the one or more situations, then answer the incoming call and inform the calling party that the user is not currently answering calls; and if there is not a match between the status and the one or more situations, then alert the user via the user interface about the incoming call.