Making a telephone connection to a mobile communication terminal with the calling party controlling how the call should be established

摘要

The invention relates to a method for establishing a telephone connection to a mobile communications terminal device (11) via a mobile communications network (5, 7, 9), with at least one mobile telephone number being assigned to the mobile communications terminal device (11), wherein a supplement i.e. prefix or suffix as a control parameter is added to the mobile telephone number, the supplement being independent from the mobile telephone number. Before establishing the telephone connection an analysis of this supplement is made and the reachability of the mobile communications terminal device (11) is determined. The “reachability” is that the calling party only wants to make the call if the called party is available in real time i.e. does not want to be forwarded to voice-mail. Another example is that the call should only be established for calls that remain in the same network, so as to save costs. The supplement indicates whether the establishment of a telephone connection shall be initiated or suppressed. The establishment of the telephone connection is then initiated dependent upon the supplement only if there is a certain reachability case of the called mobile communications terminal device (11), the reachability case being indicated by the supplement.

主权项

1. A method of controlling establishment or suppression of a telephone connection between a calling terminal of a calling part and a called mobile communications terminal via a mobile communications network with the calling party determining in which case or cases of reachability of the called mobile terminal the telephone connection is to be established or suppressed, at least one mobile telephone number being assigned to the mobile communications terminal, the method comprising the steps of:
the calling party calling the mobile terminal using the mobile telephone number thereof; adding to the called telephone number a supplement as a control parameter that is independent from the called mobile telephone number and that indicates a case of reachability of the called mobile terminal depending on which the telephone connection is to be established or suppressed; determining the reachability of the mobile communications terminal at least by checking the establishment of an alternate call routing; analyzing if the determined reachability corresponds to the case of reachability indicated by the supplement; establishing the telephone connection only if the determined reachability corresponds to the case of reachability indicated by the supplement; and logging the mobile communications terminal
into a definable mobile communications network, or
within a definable group of mobile communications networks orinto a definable mobile communications network area.