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System and method transmitting data

US6456616B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateAug 11, 1998
Grant dateSep 24, 2002
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Expiry dateAug 11, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W4/12
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed is a system and method to transmit data to a company's data system by a mobile phone connected to a mobile communications network, and receive an acknowledgment to the same mobile phone from the company's data system. A preset target number dialed by a mobile phone is directed to an intelligent network center. The target number is decoded into data which is transmitted to a company's data system during the connection. The intelligent network center uses the caller's identifying number to check whether the caller is entitled to use the service, and to check to which information system of which company the data has been sent. The intelligent network center transmits a telecommunications network signaling the target number, caller's number and address of the company's to a voice server computer capable of identifying telephone numbers and formulate voice messages. The voice server converts the target number into data and transmits the data and the caller's number to the company's data system using a data network protocol. The company's data system stores the data in the data system and formulates a return message, which includes an acknowledgment of the received data and fur…

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