WO2007129225A2 - Système et procédé de téléphonie utilisant des noms de domaine internet et des adresses web - Google Patents

Système et procédé de téléphonie utilisant des noms de domaine internet et des adresses web Download PDF

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WO2007129225A2
WO2007129225A2 PCT/IB2007/002447 IB2007002447W WO2007129225A2 WO 2007129225 A2 WO2007129225 A2 WO 2007129225A2 IB 2007002447 W IB2007002447 W IB 2007002447W WO 2007129225 A2 WO2007129225 A2 WO 2007129225A2
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    • H04M2203/15—Aspects of automatic or semi-automatic exchanges related to dial plan and call routing
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  • This invention relates to telephony, and in particular to a system and method for telephony using Internet domain names and web addresses.
  • SMS short message service
  • It is a method of communication that sends text between cell phones, or from a PC or handheld to a cell phone.
  • short refers to the maximum size of the text messages: 160 characters (letters, numbers or symbols in the Latin alphabet). For other alphabets, such as Chinese, the maximum SMS size is 70 characters.
  • chatter Even if you are not talking on your cell phone, your phone is constantly sending and receiving information, referred to as chatter. It is talking to its cell phone tower over a pathway called a control channel. The reason for this chatter is so that the cell phone system knows which cell your phone is in, and so that your phone can change cells as you move around. Periodically, your phone and the tower will exchange a packet of data that lets both of them know that everything is OK.
  • Your phone also uses the control channel for call setup.
  • the tower sends your phone a message over the control channel that tells your phone to play its ring tone.
  • the tower also gives your phone a pair of voice channel frequencies to use for the call.
  • the control channel also provides the pathway for SMS messages.
  • SMSC Short Message Call Control Channel
  • the message flows through the SMSC, then to the tower, and the tower sends the message to your phone as a little packet of data on the control channel.
  • your phone sends it to the tower on the control channel and it goes from the tower to the SMSC and from there to its destination.
  • URL uniform resource locator
  • a uniform resource locator or part of it, or an e-mail address is employed as an indicia for dialing a voice call from a cellular phone to a party associated with the specific URL or e-mail address.
  • An automated name translation is performed from a URL, or part of it, or the e-mail address, to a target telephone number in response to requests initiated within the telephone system by a calling party.
  • a party having a presence on the Internet achieves improved availability to the public via voice telephone calls because URL names and e-mail addresses are convenient, familiar, and meaningful to customers.
  • the system and method receive the request when the request originates from a cellular telephone, and the system and method consult the Whois database, or a database especially established for this purpose, to discover the telephone number of the called party.
  • the present invention has the advantage of allowing a voice telephone call to be placed to an entity having a presence on the internet (owning a domain name or e-mail address), when the calling party does not know the telephone number of the called party.
  • the request for the start of the call is initiated by the sending of an SMS through the caller's cellular phone, and neither the caller nor the called party needs to be connected to the internet.
  • the calling party provides the URL, part of it, or the email address of the other party through the sending of an SMS with the URL, or part of it, or e-mail address of the called party.
  • the invention receives the request and processes it.
  • the invention can optionally take into account the calling party's current location, the location of the called party, whitelist, blacklist, office hours or other preferences stated by the called party so that the chosen telephone target is the most efficient for his or her operation.
  • the current time and date of the placing of the call from the caller, as well as the time and date of the target telephone can be taken into account, as well as requests made and maintained by the owner of the domain name to change its current telephone number, since these requests can have the date and time they are to begin or be immediately executed.
  • the telephone target will be passed on to the telephone company so that it may put the calling party in touch with the called party.
  • This contact may occur through a call-back system originated by either of the parties or by the telephone company, or through an SMS reply with the telephone number of the other party, or through any other means that the telephone company believes to be most efficient and user-friendly for connecting the parties.
  • the use of the method and system of the invention is facilitated by the publicizing and increased availability of the domain registrations, email addresses connected to the registration of domains and the use of cellular telephones capable of sending SMS .
  • the widespread adoption of these technologies by the market has created the technological, cultural and economic critical mass that will achieve the beneficial results of this invention.
  • the term "telephone” means any known communication device, including a cell phone, a laptop, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a pager, an Internet communicating device, etc.
  • PDA personal digital assistant
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration of the system of the present invention
  • FIG. 2 is a simplified flow diagram that illustrates interactions of the main components of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic that illustrates the processing of requests coming from the calling parties with the objective of making a telephone connection between the parties;
  • FIG. 4 is a schematic that illustrates the functioning of the process to determine the location or area code of the target telephone.
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic illustration of an alternative embodiment of the present invention for checking availability of a domain name and send the domain name owner's data in the WHOIS database or a database especially established for this purpose via SMS.
  • the system and method of the present invention employ a uniform resource locator (URL), or part of it, or an e-mail address as an indicia for dialing a voice call from a cellular phone to a party associated with the specific URL or e-mail address.
  • URL uniform resource locator
  • e-mail address an indicia for dialing a voice call from a cellular phone to a party associated with the specific URL or e-mail address.
  • a telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating telephone number ranges to countries, regions, areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks such as mobile phone networks.
  • the area code is only necessary for telephone connections dialed from outside the code area, from mobile phones, and (especially within North America) from within overlay plans. Area codes usually indicate geographical areas within one country that are covered by perhaps hundreds of telephone exchanges. It must usually be preceded in the dial string by either the national access code or the international access code and country code.
  • ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
  • ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • ccTLDs allow you to create an in-language Web site and display different site content to visitors from various cultures around the world. You can also register ccTLDs to prevent unauthorized use of trademarks, brands and licensed names around the world.
  • COUNTRY CODE OF THE TELEPHONE NUMBER Country codes are short numeric geographical codes (geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. The term country code frequently refers to international dialing codes, the E.164 country calling codes.
  • DNS domain name system
  • Domain names are hostnames that provide more memorable names to stand in for numeric IP addresses. They allow for any service to move to a different location in the topology of the Internet (or an intranet), which would then have a different IP address, for example: www.Microsoft.com
  • ENUM unifies traditional telephony and next-generation IP networks, and provides a critical framework for mapping and processing diverse network addresses. It transforms the telephone number, the most basic and commonly-used communications address, into a universal identifier that can be used across many different devices and applications (voice, fax, mobile, email, text messaging, location-based services and the Internet).
  • a generic top-level domain is a top-level domain used by a particular class of organization. These are three or more letters long, and are named for the type of organization that they represent (for example, .com for commercial organizations).
  • the following gTLDs currently exist:
  • GPS Global Positioning System
  • IP ADDRESS An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a unique address that devices use in order to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet Protocol standard, or in simpler terms, a computer address. Any participating network device, including routers, computers, time-servers, printers, Internet fax machines, and some telephones, can have their own unique address. Also, many people can find personal information through IP addresses.
  • IP Internet Protocol
  • RFC Request for Comments
  • a top-level domain is the last part of an Internet domain name; that is, the letters which follow the final dot of any domain name.
  • the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority IANA
  • IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
  • gTLD Generic top-level domain
  • sTLD sponsored top-level domains
  • uTLD unsponsored top-level domains
  • PSTN public switched telephone network
  • ITU-T ITU-T
  • E.163/E.164 addresses known more commonly as telephone numbers
  • Roaming is a general term in wireless telecommunications that refers to the extending of connectivity service in a location that is different from the home location where the service was registered. Roaming occurs when a subscriber of one wireless service provider uses the facilities of another wireless service provider.
  • SMS Short Message Service
  • a Pocket PC a mobile device
  • desktop computers that permits the sending of short messages, also known as text messages, or more colloquially SMSes, texts or even txts, between mobile phones, other handheld devices and even landline telephones.
  • SMS center is responsible for handling the SMS operations of a wireless network.
  • SMSC Short Message Service Center
  • SMS gateway An SMS center
  • Voice over Internet Protocol also called VoIP, IP Telephony, Internet telephony, Broadband telephony, Broadband Phone and Voice over Broadband is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet or through any other IP -based network.
  • Telco is a generic term for one or more telephone companies.
  • URL Uniform Resource Locator is the address for a resource or site (usually a directory or file) on the World Wide Web and the convention that Web browsers use for locating files and other remote services.
  • WHOIS WHOIS is a directory of domain name information. When a domain name is registered, the registrant's postal address, e-mail address and phone number are automatically published in the public WHOIS database.
  • ICANN Assigned Names and Numbers
  • the method of the invention is applied to establish a voice connection via telephone between the originating cellular telephone and another target telephone, whether it is a cellular, fixed-line, ENUM or VOIP connection, without providing the originating cellular telephone with the telephone number of the target.
  • the system 10 of the present invention has a first user 12 using an originating cell phone 14 to establish and conduct telephone calls.
  • the first user 12 enters Internet-based information, such as a URL, or part of it, or an e-mail address of a second user 36 into an input device 16 of the originating cell phone 14 to establish a telephone connection with the second user 36.
  • the originating cell phone 14 generates and transmits an SMS message 18 through an SMS center 20 to a computer-based system 22 for processing to establish the desired telephone connection.
  • the input device 16 can include any type of input means, including known types of telephone and cell phone keypads, as well as a specialized key which is pushed to activate a function button created especially for this purpose to generate and output the SMS message 18 having the inputted Internet-based information.
  • the input device 16 can incorporate touch screen technology to provide icons which are touched on a display to function as the equivalent of keypad buttons.
  • the input device 16 can include a voice recognition system, or any other means that facilitates the sending of the SMS message 18.
  • the computer-based system 22 includes a processor 24 for executing predetermined software 26 of the present invention to perform the various functions and features of the present invention, as described herein.
  • the computer-based system 22 also includes a memory 28 for storing data and various databases as described herein.
  • the processor 24 of the computer-based system 22 determines the corresponding telephone number of the second user 36 associated with the URL, or part of it, or e-mail address inputted by the first user 12, and if a matching telephone number is found in the memory 28, the computer-based system 22 subsequently generates and outputs a request 30 to the telephone company 32 to establish communication between the originating cell phone 14 and the target telephone or telco 34 corresponding to the matching telephone number associated with the second user and matching the inputted URL, or part of it, or e- mail address.
  • the originating cellular telephone 14 must send an SMS message 18 to a telephone number or specific short number in which the body of the message will contain a URL, or part of a URL, or an e-mail, associated with the other party.
  • the cellular telephone can include a specific button or function, or an icon in its display, to make it easier to send the SMS message 18, so that the owner 12 of the originating cellular telephone 14 need not know or dial a telephone number, whether or not it is a short number, to use the process of the invention.
  • This SMS is received by SMS center 20 and is captured by computer-based system 22 of the present invention, which processes the request for a connection. The processing of the request for a connection is illustrated in FIG.
  • telco 32 the computer-based system generates a request to the telephone company, or telco, 32 to establish a connection to the target telephone 34, and once established, the connection between the originating cell phone 14 and the target telephone 34 is directly provide by the telco 32.
  • the computer-based system 22 receives the SMS message 18 and analyzes it in step 37 by parsing the body of the SMS message 18. If it is an invalid message as determined in step 38, for example, if the message has special characters not corresponding to a valid URL or e-mail address, the computer-based system 22 will send an error SMS message 39 back to the originating cellular telephone 14 to the first user 12.
  • the computer-based system 22 will complete the URL with the most appropriate top level domain in steps 41, 42 and 43.
  • the selection of the most appropriate top level domain can be done in one of two ways: either by using the ccTLD of the originating cell phone 14 in step 42, or by querying the telephone company 32 for the location of the originating cell phone 14 in step 43.
  • the computer-based system 22 can be set in step 41 to use a predetermined method, for example, to simplify implementation without verification with the telephone company in steps 41 and 42, or to require greater accuracy by verifying with the telephone company in steps 41 and 43.
  • the computer-based system 22 receives a response from the telephone company 32 or any other telephone company indicating in which country the originating cellular telephone 14 is currently located. It is important to emphasize that the originating cellular telephone 14 can be in any country and in roaming mode. If the computer-based system 22 receives together with SMS 18 the information in which country the originating cellular telephone 14 is currently located, the step 43 can be eliminated.
  • the computer-based system 22 determines the location of the originating cellular telephone from the ccTLD. For example, if the number of the originating cellular telephone is +55 11 9999-9999, and 55 is the telephone country code for Brazil, then the computer-based system 22 will determine the country to be Brazil, even if the originating cellular telephone is in roaming mode and in another country.
  • the system 22 After determining what country code the computer-based system 22 will use, whether using in the more complete method in step 43, or in the simplified method in step 42, the system 22 then verifies what type of domain name registration is most common in the selected country to complete step 40 and proceed to step 46.
  • completion of the URL can depend on the ccTLD, which is to say, if the most common type of domain name registration is with the extension of two letters that represent each country, for example, .FR for France, .DE for Germany, .BR for Brazil, etc., or if the majority of registrations are done with gTLDs, which is to say, top level domains that have an extension with three or more characters, for example, .COM, .NET, .ORG, etc. Accordingly, the URL input by the user 12 via the input device 16 is completed in step 40 with the most common type of top level domain in that country.
  • the computer-based system 22 will choose the ccTLD of that country to complete the incomplete URL contained in the SMS message 18. Alternately the computer-based system 22 can be pre-conf ⁇ gured to override this decision with other defined Top Level Domains to complete the URL.
  • the computer-based system 22 verifies in step 46 whether the domain is listed in a specific database 45 in the memory 28, with definitions inserted by the owner or user 36 of the target telephone 34 into the customer definition database 45.
  • the targeted user 36 such as an individual or company, can register with the system 10 of the present invention, allowing the user 36 to populate the customer definition database 45 used by the system 10 of the present invention in order to facilitate being able to be easily connected by cell phone users, such as user 12 and other potential contacts, using the system 10 of the present invention.
  • the targeted user 36 is allowed to insert various alternative contact telephone numbers in a database 50, associated with the URL, part of it or e-mails, for the purpose of better meeting the contact expectations of the originating cellular telephone 12.
  • the targeted user 36 can specify alternative telephone numbers by date and time of his availability (user 36), e-mails associated with his domain name (user 36), and further: user 36 can also insert a whitelist of telephone numbers of users which the computer-based system will answer and a blacklist of telephone numbers of users which the computer-based system will not answer.
  • the current time and date of the placing of the call from the caller as well as the time and date of the target telephone can be included in the process, as well as requests made and maintained by the owner of the domain name, or e-mails associated with a domain, to change its current telephone number, since these requests may have the date and time they are to begin or be immediately executed.
  • step 46 proceeds to step 57, described below.
  • the system 10 proceeds to consult the database 45, to allow the owner 36 of the target telephone 34 to be connected to by the user 12. If the computer-based system 22 determines in step 48 that there are special or predetermined definitions involving the current geographic location or country and area code of the originating cellular telephone 12, then the first step will be to determine the location or use of the country code and area code of the originating cellular telephone 14 in step 49 and is described in greater detail in FIG. 4 in connection with a subsystem 49 for finding a country code and area code or geographic location of the originating cell phone 14. Referring to FIGS.
  • the subsystem 49 can have a predetermined setting which is checked in step 52 whether to verify or not verify the location of the originating cell phone 14, with verification being more accurate while non- verification being simpler to implement. If the subsystem 49 is set to verify with the telephone company 32, then a request is generated and sent in step 53 to the telephone company 32, or any other telephone company that has this information, to determine the location of the originating cell phone 14, in the form of the current country code and area code of the originating cellular telephone 14. In other words, if the originating cellular telephone 14 is roaming, the telephone company 32 will provide the country code and area code where the originating cellular telephone 14 is at that exact moment.
  • Such country codes and area codes of the originating cellular telephone 14 are generated and sent by the telephone company 32 to select the alternative phone number in step 50.
  • step 52 If the subsystem 49 is set in step 52 to not verify with the telephone company 32, then the subsystem 49 automatically uses the country code and area code of the originating cell phone 14 in step 54, which is then sent to select the alternative phone number in step 50.
  • the SMS message 18 When an SMS message 18 is sent, the SMS message 18 carries the sender's complete telephone number, including the country code and area code, and so step 54 is simpler to implement.
  • step 51 if no definition existed, then a the choice of the target telephone 34 is done through the current geographic location of the originating cellular telephone 14, and the telephone company 32 of the originating cellular telephone 14, or any other telephone company that has the current location of the originating cellular telephone 14, is consulted in step 55 by generating a request to the telephone company 32 for the present geographic location of the originating cellular telephone 14.
  • the telephone company 32 will determine the geographic location of the originating cellular telephone 14 through the identification of the antennas/radio bases where the originating cellular telephone 14 is located, or by the use of the Global Positioning System (GPS) installed in the originating cellular telephone 14 or any other method that allows for the determination of its geographic location.
  • GPS Global Positioning System
  • step 50 the computer-based system 22 verifies whether the owner of the target telephone 34 made other specifications, described above, according to the following criteria:
  • the identification of the target telephone 34 should be retrieved as a function of time, in other words, that the target telephone 24 better serves the contact expectations of the originating cellular telephone 14 taking into account, for example, the day of the week, month, holidays, and the time of day at the moment in which the system 10 of the present invention is processing the call initiated by the SMS message 18.
  • a common use of this option is the definition of telephones that will be active, for example, during a weekend.
  • B. A list of prohibited or accepted telephone numbers.
  • the owner of the target telephone 34 can register a whitelist, protected or not by a password, or a blacklist of originating telephone numbers 14 from which he accepts or does not accept calls.
  • C. If there is a specific target telephone 34 for the e-mail input by the user 12 through the input device 16. If the originating cellular telephone 14 has sent an SMS message 18 with an e-mail address in its body, the specific customer definition database 45 must contain identification of which target telephone 34 is the correct one to be provided for the corresponding e-mail address. If there are not specific target telephones 34 registered for the inputted e-mail address, the system 10 will choose the default target telephone 34 associated with the domain with which the e-mail is associated.
  • any combination of the factors (A)-(C) above, and of the location data determined by the subsystem 49, providing geographic or country code/area code data, of the originating cellular telephone 14, will also be valid.
  • the best target telephone 34 in the form of a telephone number, output in step 56 in FIG. 3, to be provided as a function of time, the location provided by the subsystem 49, and whether the originating cellular telephone 14 is not on a blacklist.
  • step 46 if the domain name or URL input by the user 12 is not in the specific customer definition database 45, the target telephone 34 must be retrieved from the WHOIS database.
  • the computer-based system 22 determines in step 57 if the domain name data is available from the WHOIS database. If not available in the WHOIS database, the system 22 will send an error SMS message in step 39 back to the originating cellular telephone 14, and the user 12 must enter a new input to attempt to establish a connection with the user 36 and/or the target telephone 34. However, in step 46, if the target telephone 34 associated with the inputted domain name is determined in step 57 to be available in the WHOIS database, the telephone number in the WHOIS database is retrieve and output in step 56 to be defined as the telephone number that will be used.
  • the next step is for the computer-based system 22 to generate a request in step 30 to a telephone company to complete the call between the originating cellular telephone 14 and the target telephone 34, either to inform the telephone company of the originating cellular telephone 14, or the telephone company associated with the telephone target 34, or a telephone company or an alternative communication company, to place the originating cellular telephone 14 in contact with the target telephone 34.
  • the telephone company 32 can put the originating cellular telephone 14 and the target telephone 34 in contact through alternative processes: A. Through a call-back system originated by either of the parties or by the telephone company 32.
  • FIG. 5 another feature of the present invention is the verification of the availability of a domain registration, or checking the information regarding the owner of a domain in the WHOIS database, via use of the SMS message 18. For this use it will only be necessary to create a specific telephone number, to which the originating cellular telephone must send the SMS message 18.
  • the operations of the computer-based system 22 and the flow of data in the alternative embodiment of FIG. 5 are basically the same as the system and steps described in connection with FIG. 3.
  • the originating cellular telephone 14 sends an SMS message 18 which will contain a URL or part of a URL in the body of the message 18.
  • This SMS message 18 will be received by the computer-based system 22, which will analyze and process the request for information for that domain by parsing the SMS message body in step
  • step 38 determining in step 38 if the message 18 is valid.
  • step 37 if the SMS message 18 is determined to be valid, the computer-based system 22 determines if the URL in the SMS message 18 is complete in step 40. If the URL is not incomplete as inputted by the user 12, the system 22 does not complete the URL, as in FIG. 3, but instead proceeds to step 58 in FIG. 5 to determine if the domain inputted by the user 12 is available, as described below.
  • the selection of the most appropriate top level domain is performed, which can be done in two distinct ways: either by using the ccTLD of the originating cell phone 14 in step 42, or by querying the telephone company 32 for the location of the originating cell phone 14 in step 43.
  • the computer-based system 22 can be set in step 41 to use a predetermined method, for example, to simplify implementation without verification with telephone company in steps 41 and 42, or to require greater accuracy by verifying with the telephone company in steps 41 and 43.
  • the computer-based system 22 receives a response from the telephone company 32 or any other telephone company indicating in which country the originating cellular telephone 14 is currently located. It is important to emphasize that the originating cellular telephone 14 can be in any country and in roaming.
  • the computer-based system 22 determines the location of the originating cellular telephone from the ccTLD. For example, if the number of the originating cellular telephone is +55 11 9999-9999, and 55 is the telephone country code for Brazil, then the computer-based system 22 will determine the country to be Brazil, even if the originating cellular telephone is in roaming and in another country.
  • the system 22 After determining what country code the computer-based system 22 will use, whether using the more complete method in step 43, or the simplified method in step 42, the system 22 then verifies what type of domain name registration is most common in this country to complete step 40 and proceeds to step 58.
  • completion of the URL can depend on the ccTLD, which is to say, if the most common type of domain name registration is with the extension of two letters that represent each country, for example, .FR for France, .DE for Germany, .BR for Brazil, etc., or if the majority of registrations are done with gTLDs, which is to say, top level domains that have an extension with three or more characters, for example, .COM, .NET, .ORG, etc.
  • the URL input by the user 12 via the input device 16 is completed in step 40 with the most common type of domain in that country. For example, if the country has a greater ratio of ccTLD domains than gTLDs, then the computer-based system 22 will choose the ccTLD of that country to complete the incomplete URL contained in the SMS message 18. Alternately the computer-based system 22 can be pre-configured to override this decision with other defined Top Level Domains to complete the URL.
  • the computer-based system 22 consults in step 58 the availability of the domain name input by the user 12. If the domain name is registered in the WHOIS database, the system 22 consults the information in step 57 regarding who owns the domain in the WHOIS database. If there is no domain data available for the specified domain in the WHOIS database, as determined in step 57, the computer- based system 22 sends an SMS message back to the user 12 with an error message. This can indicate that the WHOIS database is incomplete, or the domain owner bought a privacy protection service which will hide his contact information in the WHOIS database, or that the domain owner supplied incorrect information.
  • step 57 if domain data is available for the specified domain in the WHOIS database, the computer-based system 22 determines a phone number defined by the WHOIS data in step 56, and generates and sends an SMS message with the WHOIS data in step 60 to the first user 12 indicating who owns the domain name and what is the owner's phone number.
  • step 58 if the domain is available for registration but is not yet registered, the computer-based system 22 invention will generate and send an SMS message in step 59 to the originating cellular telephone 14 stating the availability of the domain name.
  • the system 10 and methods of the present invention are capable of receiving a domain name or e-mail address and either connecting the first user 12 with the appropriate user 36 associated with the domain name or e-mail address to either establish a telephone connection or determining the availability of the domain name or e-mail address for registration by the first user 12.
  • the communications involving the system 10 and its components can also include devices capable of voice over IP (VOIP) using the Internet.
  • VOIP voice over IP

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La présente invention concerne un localisateur uniforme de ressource (URL), ou une partie dudit URL, ou une adresse électronique, qui sont utilisés en tant qu'indice afin de composer le numéro pour un appel vocal à partir d'un téléphone cellulaire vers une partie associée à l'URL ou à l'adresse électronique spécifique. On effectue une traduction automatique de nom à partir d'un URL, ou d'une partie dudit URL, ou de l'adresse électronique, vers un numéro de téléphone de contact cible en réponse aux demandes lancées dans le système téléphonique par une partie appelante. Une partie étant présente sur Internet parvient à améliorer sa disponibilité pour le public via les appels téléphoniques vocaux car les noms d'URL et les adresses électroniques sont pratiques, familiers et significatifs pour les clients. Le système et le procédé reçoivent la demande lorsqu'un téléphone cellulaire lance la demande, et le système et le procédé consultent la base de données WHOIS, ou une base de données spécialement établie à cet effet, pour découvrir le numéro de téléphone de la partie appelée.
PCT/IB2007/002447 2006-05-05 2007-05-04 Système et procédé de téléphonie utilisant des noms de domaine internet et des adresses web Ceased WO2007129225A2 (fr)

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