DE19806726A1 - Apparatus for buildup on minimum cost telephone connection - Google Patents

Apparatus for buildup on minimum cost telephone connection

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DE19806726A1
DE19806726A1 DE19806726A DE19806726A DE19806726A1 DE 19806726 A1 DE19806726 A1 DE 19806726A1 DE 19806726 A DE19806726 A DE 19806726A DE 19806726 A DE19806726 A DE 19806726A DE 19806726 A1 DE19806726 A1 DE 19806726A1
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Kuehne
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M15/00—Arrangements for metering, time-control or time indication ; Metering, charging or billing arrangements for voice wireline or wireless communications, e.g. VoIP
    • H04M15/80—Rating or billing plans; Tariff determination aspects
    • H04M15/8044—Least cost routing
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/26—Devices for calling a subscriber
    • H04M1/27—Devices whereby a plurality of signals may be stored simultaneously
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/26—Devices for calling a subscriber
    • H04M1/27—Devices whereby a plurality of signals may be stored simultaneously
    • H04M1/274—Devices whereby a plurality of signals may be stored simultaneously with provision for storing more than one subscriber number at a time, e.g. using toothed disc
    • H04M1/2745—Devices whereby a plurality of signals may be stored simultaneously with provision for storing more than one subscriber number at a time, e.g. using toothed disc using static electronic memories, e.g. chips
    • H04M1/27485—Appending a prefix to or inserting a pause into a dialling sequence
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M15/00—Arrangements for metering, time-control or time indication ; Metering, charging or billing arrangements for voice wireline or wireless communications, e.g. VoIP
    • H04M15/28—Arrangements for metering, time-control or time indication ; Metering, charging or billing arrangements for voice wireline or wireless communications, e.g. VoIP with meter at substation or with calculation of charges at terminal
    • H04M15/30—Arrangements for metering, time-control or time indication ; Metering, charging or billing arrangements for voice wireline or wireless communications, e.g. VoIP with meter at substation or with calculation of charges at terminal the meter or calculation of charges not being controlled from an exchange
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M2215/00—Metering arrangements; Time controlling arrangements; Time indicating arrangements
    • H04M2215/42—Least cost routing, i.e. provision for selecting the lowest cost tariff
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M2215/00—Metering arrangements; Time controlling arrangements; Time indicating arrangements
    • H04M2215/74—Rating aspects, e.g. rating parameters or tariff determination apects
    • H04M2215/745—Least cost routing, e.g. Automatic or manual, call by call or by preselection

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Signal Processing (AREA)
  • Computer Networks & Wireless Communication (AREA)
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Abstract

The telephone apparatus has added functions, such as automatic recall of tariff tables, e.g. from a mailbox, and their storing, and for the input call numbers, including preselection is arranged a minimum cost connection. The call numbers may be manually dialed or read-out from a ROM, and the connection is built up based on stored tables w.r.t. the time, distance and part of the day. Then the selection is carried out accordingly.

Description

Beschreibung des derzeitigen ZustandesDescription of the current state

Telefonkunden können aus mehreren Anbietern wählen, um ihre Gespräche zu führen. Dazu ist die Kenntnis des gültigen Tarifes erforderlich, wobei dieser entfernungs- und verbindungs- und tageszeitabhängig zwischen den Anbietern variiert. Um kostenminimale Verbindungen herzustellen, muß der Telefonkunde
Telephone customers can choose from several providers to conduct their calls. This requires knowledge of the applicable tariff, which varies depending on the distance, connection and time of day between the providers. In order to establish minimum-cost connections, the telephone customer must

  • 1. über die gültigen Tariftabellen verfügen,1. have the applicable tariff tables,
  • 2. den entfernungs- und tageszeitabhängig günstigsten Anbieter auswählen und2. Select the cheapest provider depending on the time of day and
  • 3. die dazu erforderliche Vorwahl kennen und benutzen.3. Know and use the required area code.

Diese Umstände erschweren oftmals die Nutzung des kostenminimalen Anbieters.These circumstances often make it difficult to use the low-cost provider.

Beschreibung des neuen VerfahrensDescription of the new process

Erfindungsgemäß wird der Apparat so konstruiert, daß er sich automatisch zu vorbestimmten Zeiten von einem Anbieter im Telefonnetz (mailbox-Betreiber) die dort gespeicherten Tarife aller verfügbaren Leistungsanbieter im Telefonverkehr abruft und in einen wiederbeschreib­ baren nichtflüchtigen Speicher einschreibt.According to the invention, the apparatus is constructed in such a way that it automatically becomes predetermined Times from a provider in the telephone network (mailbox operator) the tariffs stored there retrieves all available service providers in the telephone traffic and rewrites them in one writable non-volatile memory.

Wünscht der Nutzer eine Telefonverbindung herzustellen, so hat er die Rufnummer in gewohnter Weise mit Vorwahl, jedoch ohne zusätzliche Eingabe von Vorwahlnummern alternativer Leistungsanbieter einzugeben. Die Vorwahl und Rufnummer, eingegeben mittels der Tastatur (1) oder abgerufen aus einem Kurzwahlspeicher (2), werden in eine mikroelektronische Baugruppe (3) eingelesen. Diese Baugruppe ermittelt aus der Vorwahl den Bestimmungsort des Anrufes und sucht selbständig aus gespeicherten Tariftabellen (4) nach dem Minimalprinzip in Abhängigkeit der aktuellen Tageszeit den zum Zeitpunkt billigsten Anbieter für diese Verbindung. Zur Herstellung der Verbindung wird der eingegebenen Vorwahl und Rufnummer selbständig zusätzlich die weitere Vorwahl für diesen billigsten Anbieter vorangestellt und die so erzeugte erweiterte Rufnummer der Wahlhandlung (5) zugrunde gelegt.If the user wishes to establish a telephone connection, he has to enter the phone number in the usual way with the area code, but without the additional area code of alternative service providers. The area code and phone number, entered using the keyboard ( 1 ) or retrieved from a speed dial memory ( 2 ), are read into a microelectronic module ( 3 ). This module determines the destination of the call from the area code and independently searches from stored tariff tables ( 4 ) according to the minimal principle depending on the current time of day the cheapest provider for this connection at the time. To establish the connection, the entered area code and phone number are automatically preceded by the additional area code for this cheapest provider and the extended phone number generated in this way is used as the basis for the dialing action ( 5 ).

Damit wird auch erreicht, daß für in Kurzwahlspeichern eingespeicherte Rufnummern die Vorteile des kostenminimalen Verbindungsanbieters genutzt werden können.This also ensures that for phone numbers stored in speed dial memories Advantages of the minimum cost connection provider can be used.

Der Effekt für den Nutzer besteht in der Minimierung der Verbindungskosten durch Nutzung des im Zeitpunkt kostenminimalen Anbieters.The effect for the user is to minimize the connection costs through use of the provider that is cost-minimal at the time.

Ändern sich Tarifstrukturen der Anbieter, so wird durch den automatischen update der Tariftabellen diese neue Tarifstruktur ab dem Zeitpunkt des updates zugrunde gelegt. If the tariff structures of the providers change, the automatic update changes the Tariff tables based on this new tariff structure from the time of the update.  

Erläuterung der Baugruppen und Beschreibung ihrer Bestandteile und FunktionenExplanation of the modules and description of their components and functions

Claims (1)

Ein Apparat mit den Grundfunktionen eines Telefones, erweitert um die Eigenschaften,
  • 1. Tariftabellen in einem automatischen Verfahren abzurufen (z. B. aus einer mailbox) und zu speichern,
  • 2. für eingegebene Rufnummern einschließlich Vorwahlen, seien diese manuell eingegeben oder aus einem Festspeicher ausgelesen, auf der Grundlage von intern gespeicherten Tariftabellen zum Zeitpunkt der vom Nutzer gewünschten Verbindungsaufnahme entfernungs- und tageszeitabhängig die kostenminimale Verbindung zu ermitteln und die dazu erforderliche Wahlhandlung durchzuführen mit dem Ziel, die kostenminimale Verbindung herzustellen.
    Die Anwendung der Verfahren aus 1. und 2. auf allen Gebieten des Telefon- und Datenverkehrs einschl. Fax, Modem, digitaler Verbindungen (ISDN) und anderer Dienste, die tageszeit- und entfernungsabhängig unterschiedliche Anbieter mit dem Ziel nutzen können, die Kosten der Verbindung zu minimieren.
A device with the basic functions of a telephone, extended by the properties,
  • 1.Retrieve and save tariff tables in an automatic process (e.g. from a mailbox)
  • 2.for entered phone numbers including prefixes, be they manually entered or read from a fixed memory, on the basis of internally stored tariff tables at the time of the connection establishment desired by the user to determine the cost-minimal connection and the time of day and to carry out the required dialing action with the aim to establish the lowest cost connection.
    The application of the procedures from 1. and 2. in all areas of telephone and data traffic including fax, modem, digital connections (ISDN) and other services that can be used by different providers depending on the time of day and distance, with the aim of reducing the cost of the connection to minimize.
DE19806726A 1998-02-18 1998-02-18 Apparatus for buildup on minimum cost telephone connection Withdrawn DE19806726A1 (en)

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Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2863803A1 (en) * 2003-12-16 2005-06-17 France Telecom Extracted data converting process for establishing telephone call, involves applying transformation rules to extracted data to convert data in one format into another format directly used by telecommunications server

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2863803A1 (en) * 2003-12-16 2005-06-17 France Telecom Extracted data converting process for establishing telephone call, involves applying transformation rules to extracted data to convert data in one format into another format directly used by telecommunications server

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