Patent ID: 6578079
Filing Date: 2003-06-10
Classification: H04M,H04Q

Abstract:
A node for providing an information service in an intelligent communications network, the node comprising:data storage means for storing customer identities, respective customer-associated lists of identities of information items (hereinafter referred to as items) for which the respective associated customer has access rights, and identities of item-associated information sources which store the respective items; means for accessing the data storage means; signalling means for receiving and transmitting messages; means for reading an access request message received by said signalling means and providing at least a customer identity extracted therefrom; and control means responsive (a) to the provision by said reading means of a customer identity not accompanied by an item identity to retrieve, via said accessing means, a customer-associated list corresponding to said customer identity and to send a message including said retrieved list to the customer via said signalling means, and (b) to the provision by said reading means of an item identity received in a reply message from the customer to retrieve, via said accessing means, the corresponding information source identity, to retrieve the requested item from the corresponding information source, and to send a message including at least the first page of the retrieved item to the customer via said signalling means.