WO1997048233A2 - Conference member identification for a telephone system - Google Patents
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- WO1997048233A2 WO1997048233A2 PCT/US1997/008508 US9708508W WO9748233A2 WO 1997048233 A2 WO1997048233 A2 WO 1997048233A2 US 9708508 W US9708508 W US 9708508W WO 9748233 A2 WO9748233 A2 WO 9748233A2
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- H—ELECTRICITY
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- H04M3/42—Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers
- H04M3/56—Arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities
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- H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
- H04M1/57—Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
- H04M2201/00—Electronic components, circuits, software, systems or apparatus used in telephone systems
- H04M2201/38—Displays
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
- H04M3/00—Automatic or semi-automatic exchanges
- H04M3/42—Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers
- H04M3/48—Arrangements for recalling a calling subscriber when the wanted subscriber ceases to be busy
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
- H04M3/00—Automatic or semi-automatic exchanges
- H04M3/42—Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers
- H04M3/50—Centralised arrangements for answering calls; Centralised arrangements for recording messages for absent or busy subscribers ; Centralised arrangements for recording messages
- H04M3/53—Centralised arrangements for recording incoming messages, i.e. mailbox systems
- H04M3/537—Arrangements for indicating the presence of a recorded message, whereby the presence information might include a preview or summary of the message
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
- H04M3/00—Automatic or semi-automatic exchanges
- H04M3/42—Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers
- H04M3/56—Arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities
- H04M3/563—User guidance or feature selection
- H04M3/564—User guidance or feature selection whereby the feature is a sub-conference
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- the present invention concerns telephone systems and pertains particularly to facilitating identification of members of a telephonic conference.
- an identity of each party to the conference call is stored. For example, an identity and directory number of each party to the conference call is stored within a database within a telephone system.
- An identity of a second party to the conference call is displayed on a display of a first telephone used by a first party to the conference call. If the display on the first telephone is large enough, all the parties in the conference can be displayed. Alternatively, the first telephone displays only one party to the conference at a time.
- a scroll feature is used to scroll through all the parties to the conference.
- a private consultation may be conducted between the first party and the second party.
- the first party and the second party are temporarily disconnected from the conference call, and are temporarily connected to each other in a point-to-point call.
- the consultation feature button on the first telephone In response to the first party again depressing the consultation feature button on the first telephone, the first party and the second party are disconnected from the point-to-point call and reconnected to the conference call.
- a callback feature between the first party and the second party may be implemented.
- a callback between the first party and the second party is executed upon completion of the conference call and the first telephone being idle and a second telephone for the second party being idle.
- a message waiting feature may be implemented.
- the telephone system indicates to the second party that there is a message waiting from the first party.
- a save re-dial feature can be implemented.
- the telephone system In response to the first party depressing a save re-dial feature button on the first telephone, the telephone system stores the directory number of the second party in a re-dial memory of the first telephone.
- the various embodiments of the present invention allows for the implementation of versatile features for use by parties to a conference call.
- Figure 1 shows a telephone system with the ability to provide conferencing of telephones in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
- Figure 2 shows a block diagram which illustrates the set-up of a conference.
- Figure 9 and Figure 10 show the information exhibited on displays as a user engages in a private consultation during a telephone conference in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
- Telephone 31 Connected to telephone system 20, whether directly or indirectly through other switches, are a telephone 31 , a telephone 36, a telephone 41 and a telephone 46. While Figure 1 shows only telephones 31 , 36, 41 and 46, these are representative of any number of telephones which may be directly or indirectly connected to telephone system 20. While each of telephones 31 , 36, 41 and 46 may have a variety of features and configurations, when utilized according to embodiments of the present invention, at least one of telephones 31 , 36, 41 and 46 will have a display.
- telephone 31 includes a display 32.
- telephone 31 has a feature button 33, a feature button 34 and a feature button 35.
- Telephone 36 includes a display 37.
- telephone 36 has a feature button 38, a feature button 39 and a feature button 40.
- Telephone 41 includes a display 42.
- telephone 41 has a feature button 43, a feature button 44 and a feature button 45.
- Telephone 46 includes a display 47.
- telephone 46 has a feature button 48, a feature button 49 and a feature button 50.
- Displays 32, 37, 42 and 47 are, for example, light emitting diode (LED) displays.
- displays 32, 37, 42 and 47 may be liquid crystal diode (LCD) displays or another type of display. While the description herein describes the use of feature buttons, the invention also may be implemented, for example, using the buttons (digits) on the keypad or by some other data entry method on a telephone.
- Telephone system 20 includes, for example, a line card 25.
- Line card 25 serves as an interface between a device handler 21 and telephones 31 , 36, 41 and 46.
- Device handler 21 receives, through line card 25, input from telephones 31 , 36, 41 and 46.
- the input for example, is information from telephone keypad digits, feature buttons and, so on.
- Information to process calls, activate features and etc., received by device handler 21 are forwarded to a CPU 22 to be processed.
- Device handler 21 also forwards information to telephones 31 , 36, 41 and 46 for display by displays 32, 37, 42 and 47, respectively.
- CPU 22 processes input from device handler 21 to create connections between telephones and to activate and deactivate features such as callback and message waiting. In some embodiments of the present invention, CPU 22 can perform the functionality of Device handler 21 so that device handler 21 is not necessary.
- a switching matrix 26, responsive to CPU 22, implements voice/data connections between telephones for two-party connections.
- a conference bridge 24 is used to make connections (talk paths) between a group of telephones, where a group is three or more telephones.
- a database 23 is used to store information on each telephone. This information includes, for example, the directory number and a name associated with the directory number. In addition, for current call connections, database 23 holds information about the connection. This includes, for example, an indication of a type of call as well as a listing of the parties to a conference call.
- a conference can be set up on telephone system 20 in one of a number of standard ways. For example, a user of telephone 31 goes off hook and dials the directory number of telephone 36. For example the user of telephone 31 is Michael Smith at directory number 73733 and the user of telephone 31 is Lee Jones at directory number 73700. When Lee Jones answers telephone 36, switching matrix 26 establishes a two party connection between telephone 31 and telephone 36.
- CPU 22 stores in database 23 a record of the type of connection (e.g., 2 way) and a listing of the parties to the connection (Michael Smith at directory number 73733 and Lee Jones at directory number 73700).
- the user of telephone 31 presses a FLASH button (e.g., feature button 33) which temporarily places Lee Jones on hold. Michael Smith then dials the directory number of telephone 41.
- the user of telephone 41 is Carol Burns at directory number 73855.
- switching matrix 26 establishes a two party connection between telephone 31 and telephone 41.
- a CONFERENCE button e.g., feature button 34
- switching matrix 26 and conference bridge 24 are used to establish a conference between telephone 31 , telephone 36 and telephone 41.
- CPU 22 stores in database 23 a record of the type of connection (e.g., conference) and a listing of the parties to the connection (Michael Smith at directory number 73733, Lee Jones at directory number 73855 and Carol Burns at directory number 73855).
- a record of the type of connection e.g., conference
- a listing of the parties to the connection e.g., Carol Burns at directory number 73855.
- the user of telephone 31 presses the FLASH button (e.g., feature button 33) which temporarily places Lee Jones and Carol Burns on hold. Michael Smith then dials the directory number of telephone 46.
- the user of telephone 46 is Robert Jackson at directory number 73800.
- switching matrix 26 establishes a two party connection between telephone 31 and telephone 46.
- the CONFERENCE button e.g., feature button 34
- switching matrix 26 and conference bridge 24 are used to establish a conference between telephone 31 , telephone 36, telephone 41 and telephone 46.
- CPU 22 stores in database 23 a record of the type of connection (e.g., conference) and a listing of the parties to the connection (Michael Smith at directory number 73733, Lee Jones at directory number 73855, Carol Burns at directory number 73855 and Robert Jackson at directory number 73800).
- conference bridge 24 is shown providing connection for the four-way conference described above.
- FIG. 2 is a block diagram which shows a conference member 51 (Michael Smith at directory number 73733), a conference member 52 (Lee Jones at directory number 73855), a conference member 53 (Carol Burns at directory number 73855) and a conference member 54 (Robert Jackson at directory number 73800) connected together by a conference 55.
- Figure 3 shows four entries 60 in database 23 for the four-way conference between Michael Smith at directory number 73733, Lee Jones at directory number 73855, Carol Burns at directory number 73855 and Robert Jackson at directory number 73800. Each entry includes a directory number and a party for the directory number.
- CPU 22 accesses, for each telephone connected in the conference, the directory number and the party from a section of database 60 which lists directory number and party for each telephone connected to telephone system 20.
- the preferred embodiment present invention allows each member of the conference to track who is in the conference and to facilitate party members to contact one another during and after the conference.
- parties to the conference, and/or associated directory numbers for each of the parties to the conference may be displayed on one or more of display 32 for telephone 31 , display 37 for telephone 36, display 42 for telephone 41 and display 47 for telephone 46. If the displays are large enough, all the parties in the conference can be displayed on each of displays 32, 37, 42 and 47.
- the parties within a conference may be accessed/displayed by a scroll feature on the telephone.
- display 32 is shown to include two display lines.
- each telephone does not display a party and directory number for itself.
- the user of telephone 31 can scroll through a list of the other conference parties by depressing the appropriate button (e.g., a conference button, scroll forward button, keypad digit, etc.) on telephone 31.
- the appropriate button e.g., a conference button, scroll forward button, keypad digit, etc.
- the appropriate button e.g., a conference button, scroll forward button, keypad digit, etc.
- the name and directory number for Lee Jones is displayed, as shown in Figure 6.
- the name and directory number for Carol Burns is displayed, as shown in Figure 7.
- the name and directory number for Robert Jackson is displayed, as shown in Figure 8.
- the conference party first displayed is displayed again.
- CPU 22 of telephone system 20 is responsible to control the contents of displays 32, 37, 42 and 47.
- the depression of the appropriate button e.g., a conference button, scroll forward button, keypad digit, etc.
- CPU 22 accesses database 23 to obtain from entries 60 (shown in Figure 3) the next entry of entries 60 and forwards the entry through device handler 21 to the appropriate display.
- telephone system 20 allows conference members to conduct private consultations during the conference. After privately consulting, the members can rejoin the conference. Additionally, the initiator of the consultation can toggle between the conference and the party with whom the private consultation is held. Another feature implemented in the preferred embodiment is callback.
- a party to the conference selects another telephone user in the conference and selects a feature button which indicates to telephone system 20 that this party is to be automatically called back.
- Telephone system 20 will automatically execute the callback after both the initiator and the other member have disconnected from the conference, and have gone idle.
- message waiting is implemented.
- a party to the conference selects another telephone user in the conference and selects a feature button which directs telephone system 20 to leave a message waiting indication against a conference member. This can be done without the initiator leaving the conference.
- the conference member with the message waiting can, when it is convenient, call back the party that left the message waiting. The callback is performed, for example, after the conference is completed.
- CPU 22 accesses database 23 to obtain from entries 60 (shown in Figure 3) the next entry of entries 60 and forwards the entry through device handler 21 to the appropriate display.
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