Patent ID: 6757533
Filing Date: 2004-06-29
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
A telecommunications system utilizing rich calling line handling in call setup signaling to forward RCLIP (Rich Calling Line Identification Presentation) data, the system comprising:a calling party terminal of a caller; a network, the calling party terminal being selectively connected thereto; and a called party terminal of a called party, the network being selectively connected to the called party terminal; wherein, upon the caller desiring to initiate a call to the called party without RCLIP data, the calling party terminal forwards at least one call setup signal without attached RCLIP data via the network to the called party terminal; and wherein, upon the caller desiring to initiate a call to the called party with RCLIP data with caller generated RCLIP data, the calling party forwards at least one call setup signal with attached RCLIP data to the network which in turn forwards the at least one call setup signal with attached RCLIP data to the called party terminal; and wherein, upon the caller desiring to initiate a call to the called party with RCLIP data stored in an RCLIP database in the network, the calling party forwards at least one call setup signal with an indicator wherein the indicator is included within a header forwarded from the calling party terminal to the network indicating which part of RCLIP data is to be forwarded to the called party to the network and the network accesses a RCLIP database to recover part of RCLIP data corresponding to the indicator forwarded by the calling party and forwards this RCLIP data attached to the at least one call setup signal to the called party terminal.