CONNECTION HANDLING IN COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

摘要

Apparatus for transmitting information, by means of a communications network, to any one of a plurality of communications terminals connected to said network, which said transmission is in response to a failed communications attempt by any one of said terminals, which apparatus comprises: i) identification means for identifying a network address of a terminal making a failed communications attempt; ii) at least one storage means for storing a plurality of network addresses so identified; and iii) information transmission means for transmitting information to a terminal making a failed communications attempt; wherein said information transmission means is adapted to access said storage means, to locate a network address stored therein and to transmit said information to a network address so located.