Patent ID: 6785368
Filing Date: 2004-08-31
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
In a telecommunications system, a method for logging calling party information for incoming telephone calls to a telephone line and storing the calling party information for later retrieval, the method comprising the steps of:receiving an incoming telephone call at a telephone line of a called party; triggering an advanced intelligent network (AIN) terminating attempt trigger (TAT) at a terminating central office switch (SSP) associated with the telephone line; sending a TAT query with a calling party number associated with the incoming telephone call and a called party number associated with the telephone line of the called party to a service control point (SCP) associated with the terminating SSP; determining, at the SCP, that the called party subscribes to a caller ID on demand service and, if so, then using the calling party number associated with the incoming telephone call to launch a query to retrieve a calling party name from a caller ID with name CNAM database; storing the calling party information for the incoming telephone call at the SCP; after storing the calling party information for the incoming telephone call at the SCP, receiving a call from a subscriber to the calling party information; receiving an access code from the subscriber wherein the access code is associated with the on-demand caller ID service; executing a trigger and sending a query with a subscriber number to an SCP associated with a subscriber telephone; recognizing at the SCP based on the subscriber number that the subscriber subscribes to the caller ID on demand service; routing the call from the subscriber to a service node; locating the stored calling party information based on the subscriber number; sending the stored calling party information to the service node; and providing the calling party information to the subscriber.