Telecommunication system, and switching means, and memory means, and method

US6028918A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• ALCATEL · FR

Inventors

• Markus Lehmacher · Stuttgart, DE
• Stephan Rupp · Forchheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 5, 1998
• Grant date: Feb 22, 2000
• Expiry date: Jun 5, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04W8/26
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Known telecommunication systems according to which a calling subscriber can reach a user, whereby a part of the costs have to be paid by said calling subscriber and another part of the costs have to be paid by said called user, are unsufficiently suitable for business purposes. By making said user reachable via at least two different ways, or in other words, via at least two different numbers, with each way and number having its own billing method, said telecommunication system becomes sufficiently suitable for business purposes.