Patent ID: 6393278
Filing Date: 2002-05-21
Classification: H04M,H04Q,H04W

Abstract:
In association with a telephone network including a switch equipped as a service switching point and a service control point, a method for transmitting calling party identification information to a pager, comprising the steps of:receiving, at the switch, a call offered from a calling party to a called party; transmitting a message from the switch to the service control point after a call termination attempt occurs, wherein the service control point is notified of the call at a predetermined time during the processing of the call; retrieving calling party identification information at the service control point; transmitting a signal from the service control point to the switch to instruct the switch to process the call, wherein the switch processes the call; transmitting a signal to a paging service provider including the calling party identification information so that the calling party may be identified by the called party; and transmitting a page including the calling party identification information via the paging service provider to a pager associated with the called party.