Patent ID: 6807268
Filing Date: 2004-10-19
Classification: H04M,H04Q

Abstract:
A method for establishing a telecommunication connection from a caller to a called party via at least one telecommunication network, comprising the steps of:storing a plurality of telephone numbers at which the called party can possibly be reached in the telecommunication network and storing a universal telephone number in the telecommunication network for a telecommunication subscriber; successively attempting to set up a telecommunication connection to the called party by dialing in each case one of the stored telephone numbers of the called party until a telecommunication connection to the called party has been successfully set up, said step of successively attempting being performed when the universal number is dialed by a caller and including first dialing a mobile number of the called party and subsequently dialing a second telephone number as the telephone number which was stored as the last successful telephone number of the called party; storing, when a telecommunication connection has been successfully set up, the telephone number of the called party on which the successful setting-up took place in the telecommunication network; and effecting a connection from the caller to the called party.