Patent ID: 6351522
Filing Date: 2002-02-26
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
A method for providing delivery confirmations of message deliveries made in a telephone network, comprising:maintaining in a node in the telephone network subscriber-specific information on that a subscriber A has a message delivery service available that allows delivery of subscriber-specific messages, initiating a call setup from subscriber A to a subscriber B, if the call setup to subscriber B fails, automatically rerouting the call to a message delivery node, which is remote from said node maintaining the subscriberspecific information, signaling said subscriber-specific information of the subscriber A to the message delivery node along with said rerouting by the telephone network, providing from subscriber A a message addressed to the subscriber B, and temporarily storing the message at said message delivery node, making at least one attempt to deliver the stored message to the subscriber B, and after said delivery attempt, delivering a confirmation of the result of the message delivery from the message delivery node to subscriber A by routing said confirmation to said message delivery service of subscriber A on the basis of said subscriber-specific information of subscriber A signaled to the message delivery node.