Patent ID: 6618588
Filing Date: 2003-09-09
Classification: H04M,H04Q,H04W

Abstract:
In a communications system including a wireless network and a wireline network, the wireless network including a network element functionally connected to the wireline network, the network element also functionally connected to a location register (LR) with the LR including an entry corresponding to a wireless unit, the entry including a mobile identification number (MIN) and/or a mobile directory number (MDN) of the wireless unit, and the wireline network including a service switching point (SSP) serving a wireline unit connected to a calling line having information delivery service enabled, a method to provide the wireline unit with information corresponding to the wireless unit when the wireless unit makes a call to the wireline unit, the method comprising:A. causing the MIN and/or the MDN in the entry in the LR to be associated with the information corresponding to the wireless unit; B. with respect to receipt of the call to the wireline unit, causing the SSP to note the calling line has been enabled for the information delivery service, and based thereon, to initiate a query to be routed to the network element in the wireless network based on the MIN and/or MDN of the wireless unit for the information corresponding to the wireless unit, the query including the MIN and/or the MDN of the wireless unit; C. in response to receipt of the query by the network element, causing the network element to use the MIN and/or the MDN with the LR to find the entry in the LR including the MIN and/or the MDN; and D. based on the information being associated with the MIN and/or MDN in the entry, causing the LR to retrieve the information corresponding to the wireless unit and to provide the information to the network element; E. causing the network element to provide the information in a response routed to the SSP; and F. upon receipt of the response, causing the SSP to provide the information to the wireline unit.