Patent ID: 6678533
Filing Date: 2004-01-13
Classification: H04M,H04W

Abstract:
A method for connecting a call coming into a first wireless communication device to a terminal apparatus that can be operated both as a wireless terminal apparatus of the first wireless communication device and as a mobile radio telephone terminal apparatus of a mobile radio telephone network, the method comprising the steps of:communicating, given current availability of the terminal apparatus in the mobile radio telephone network, a message concerning the current availability of the terminal apparatus to the first wireless communication device; storing in the first wireless communication device an item of information concerning the current availability of the terminal apparatus in the mobile radio telephone network; communicating, given the current availability of the terminal apparatus via the first wireless communication device, a message concerning the current availability of the terminal apparatus to the mobile radio telephone network; storing an item of information concerning the first wireless communication device in which the terminal apparatus can be reached in the mobile radio telephone network; checking whether an item of information concerning the current availability of the terminal apparatus via the mobile radio telephone network is stored in the first wireless communication device; forwarding the call coming into the first wireless communication device to the mobile radio telephone network when the item of information concerning the current availability of the terminal apparatus in the mobile radio telephone network is stored in the first wireless communication device; and revising the stored information concerning the current availability of the wireless communication device if the terminal apparatus is detected as available within the first wireless communication device.