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Details

Inventors: Bedingfield, James C.;
Assignee: BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation (Wilmington, DE)
Primary Examiner: Tieu; Binh
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP

A system for monitoring incoming communications to a telecommunications device. The system includes a switch and a service control point in communication with each other. The switch is for detecting an incoming communication to the telecommunications device from a calling party, wherein the switch is in communication with the telecommunications device by a first communications link. The service control point is for receiving a first message from the switch regarding detection of the incoming communication and for sending a second message to a data communications device, the second message containing information regarding the calling party, wherein the service control point is in communications with the data communications device by a second communications link.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention is directed to a method for monitoring incoming communications to a telecommunications device.
According to one embodiment, the method includes detecting an incoming communication on a first communications link to the telecommunications device, wherein the incoming communication is from a calling party.
The method further includes retrieving information regarding to the calling party in response to detection of the incoming communication, and sending a message to a data communications device via a second communications link.
The message contains the information regarding the calling party.
Detection of the incoming communication to the telecommunications device may be performed by a signal switching point (SSP) switch provisioned with a terminating attempt trigger specific to the service.
When the SSP switch detects the incoming communication, it may send a message to a first service control point (SCP).
The first service control point may retrieve information regarding the party placing the incoming communication.
This information may be sent to a second SCP which, upon receiving the information from the first SCP, may retrieve an address for a data communications device, such as a personal computer (PC), and send the information to the data communications device at the retrieved address.
The address may be an internet protocol (IP) address, and the message may be sent to the data communications device via a network employing, for example, the transport control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP) suite of communications protocols to route packets of data.
The data communications device may then display the information regarding the calling party to a user of the data communications device.
According to another embodiment, the present invention is also directed to a system for monitoring incoming communications to a telecommunications device.
According to one embodiment, the system includes a switch and a service control point in communication with each other

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