Patent ID: 6140912
Filing Date: 2000-10-31
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
A method of forwarding a telephone call from a first telephone service subscriber to a second telephone service subscriber and billing a third subscriber for said call, wherein a first subscriber telephone is connected to a second subscriber telephone via a telephone network, said method comprising the steps of: placing a telephone call by dialing on the first subscriber telephone a prefix followed by a third subscriber number corresponding to a third subscriber, dialing on the first subscriber telephone a second subscriber number selected by a caller calling from the first subscriber telephone and corresponding to a second subscriber telephone, connecting the call via said telephone network to a computer unit associated with the third subscriber telephone number and connected to the telephone network, forwarding the call to said second subscriber via the computer unit to connect said first subscriber with said second subscriber, detecting said prefix within the telephone network, billing the cost of the call between the first subscriber and the second subscriber to the third subscriber, transmitting information during the call established between the first subscriber and the second subscriber at given time intervals, wherein said computer unit transmits stored information having different information contents to each of the first and the second subscribers, respectively, when the first and the second subscriber telephones are located in different places.