EP 1078503 A4 20050413 - ADVERTISING METHOD BY USING RING-BACK TONE

Title (en)

ADVERTISING METHOD BY USING RING-BACK TONE

Title (de)

WERBEVERFAHREN MIT RÜCKRUFTON

Title (fr)

PROCEDE PUBLICITAIRE UTILISANT UN SIGNAL DE RAPPEL

Publication

EP 1078503 A4 20050413 (EN)

Application

EP 00905432 A 20000218

Priority

KR 0000131 W 20000218
KR 19990005344 A 19990218

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO0049793A1] An advertising method by using a ring-back tone is provided. A controller employed in a sender-side switching system recognizes a sender's telephone number and a receiver's telephone number dialed at the sender's telephone set. Then the receiver's telephone number is transmitted to a receiver-side switching system at a calling stage. The receiver-side switching system checks the state of the receiver's telephone, e.g., ready or busy, and, subsequently, send, e.g., a ring-back tone in conformity to the state to the sender-side switching system. The sender-side switching system receives the ring-back tone. In case the ring-back tone is a busy tone, the sender-side switching system forwards the busy tone to the sender's telephone set. Otherwise, that is, the ring-back tone is a ringing tone which implies that the receiver's telephone is ready to receive a call, the sender-side switching system searches registered member information by consulting a database linked to the controller and checks if the receiver's telephone number matches a registered member in the database. If the sender is determined not to be a registered member, the sender-side switching system forwards the ring-back tone; otherwise, it sends a predetermined advertisement message stored in an advertisement memory to the sender's telephone set. If a response, e.g., a hook-off, from the receiver's telephone is perceived or if the sender terminates the call, the sender-side switching system stops the sending of the advertisement message.

IPC 1-7

H04M 3/42; H04M 3/487

IPC 8 full level

H04M 3/42 (2006.01); H04M 3/487 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP KR)

H04M 3/42 (2013.01 - KR); H04M 3/42017 (2013.01 - EP); H04M 3/4878 (2013.01 - EP); H04M 3/42068 (2013.01 - EP)

Citation (search report)

[X] US 4811382 A 19890307 - SLEEVI NEIL F [US]
[X] US 5557658 A 19960917 - GREGOREK MARK R [US], et al
[X] WO 9832271 A1 19980723 - BRITISH TELECOMM [GB], et al
[A] WO 9836585 A2 19980820 - NORTHERN TELECOM INC [US]
[PX] EP 0920165 A1 19990602 - BONANNO ALFIO [IT], et al
See references of WO 0049793A1

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 0049793 A1 20000824; AU 2697200 A 20000904; AU 753459 B2 20021017; CA 2329195 A1 20000824; CN 1294811 A 20010509; EP 1078503 A1 20010228; EP 1078503 A4 20050413; JP 2002537730 A 20021105; KR 20000030035 A 20000605; KR 20010042763 A 20010525; RU 2195081 C2 20021220

DOCDB simple family (application)

KR 0000131 W 20000218; AU 2697200 A 20000218; CA 2329195 A 20000218; CN 00800152 A 20000218; EP 00905432 A 20000218; JP 2000600418 A 20000218; KR 19990005344 A 19990218; KR 20007011496 A 20001016; RU 2000129526 A 20000218