Patent ID: 6571100
Filing Date: 2003-05-27
Classification: H04M,H04Q,H04W

Abstract:
A method of providing a personal communications service to subscribers (A) having at least one fixed terminal (TE2) and at least one mobile terminal (MTE1, MTE2) registered in a communications network (KOM) consisting of two or more fixed networks (FN1) and mobile radio networks (MN1, MN2), in which method a service control point (SCP) is triggered by a service switching point (SSP1) when the service switching point (SSP1) detects a call (C1) directed to such a subscriber, and controls the routing of the call (C1) through the service switching point (SSP1) to one of the subscriber's registered terminals which was selected by the service control point (SCP), characterized in that, when being triggered for a call (C1) directed to a particular subscriber (A) by the reception of a service request message (M2), the service control point (SCP), by exchanging signaling messages (M3 to M8), requests status data about the at least one mobile terminal (MTE1, MTE2) associated with the particular subscriber (A) from the respective radio network (MN1, MN2) in which the respective at least one mobile terminal associated with the particular subscriber (A) is registered, and that by means of the respective status data, the service control point (SCP) selects that terminal of the particular subscriber (A) to which the call (C1) for which the service control point (SCP) has been triggered is to be routed.