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Inventors: Welling, Jr., James Brian; Chiniwala, Sima; Maxwell, Stewart Hodde; Pham, Thanh; Vaserfirer, Anatoly;
Assignee: Nortel Networks Corporation (Montreal, CA)
Primary Examiner: To; Doris H.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Carr & Storm, L.L.P.

In a telecommunications system, a subscriber station invokes a sponsored-call application service program when the subscriber station originates a call. Based upon certain criteria, service logic determines whether the call is sponsored or not. If sponsored, additional service logic utilizes the location of the call origination (i.e., location of the subscriber station) and/or other attributes of the subscriber station to select an announcement from a plurality of announcements for transmission to the subscriber station. After the announcement is transmitted (i.e., played), the subscriber station is connected to the call's desired destination. If not sponsored, the call is handled as a normal call.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION According to the present invention, there is provided an apparatus and method for selecting and transmitting a message to a user in a telecommunications system.
The apparatus (and method) performs the steps of receiving a call from a subscriber station, the call comprising call origination information; comparing the call origination information to triggering criteria and triggering if the call origination information meets the triggering criteria; selecting a message based on one or more attributes of the subscriber station in response to the triggering; and transmitting the selected message to be received by the subscriber station.
In another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for selecting and transmitting a message to a user in a telecommunications system.
The method includes the steps of receiving a call from a subscriber station, receiving location data identifying the location of the subscriber station, selecting a message in response to the location data, and transmitting the selected message to be received by the subscriber station.
In yet another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for selecting and playing an announcement to a user in a telecommunications system.
The apparatus includes a base station that receives a call from a subscriber station.
A service control processor receives location data identifying the location of the subscriber station and selects one of the plurality of announcements from a database having a plurality of announcements, in response to the location data.
The selected announcement is then played or transmitted to the subscriber station.

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