Patent ID: 8644802

Claim:
A method for control of calls terminated without answering at a roaming user roaming on a network apart from a respective home network of said user, said home network generally connecting a call to said roaming user via an outgoing international leg to said roaming network, and using late call forwarding for routing the call to the voicemail of the roaming user if a call has not been answered by creating a return international leg from said roaming user to said home network, said home network having a roaming control node; the method comprising at the home network: per user, deactivating late call forwarding at a home location register of said roaming user; upon placement of a call to a roaming user: identifying the call being placed to a roaming user; arming a roaming user trigger for call release, the trigger to operate upon receipt of a call release signal from said network apart from a respective home network of said user, the call release signal indicating non-continuation of the call; routing the call to the roaming network to reach the roaming user; at the roaming control node detecting release of the call when unanswered, via said trigger for call release; and at the roaming control node, upon said call release detection, connecting the origin leg of said call locally to a voicemail of said roamer, thereby connecting a caller directly to said voicemail without creating either said outgoing international leg to the roamer or said return international call leg from said roamer.