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Guidance information notification apparatus in communication network system, communication network system and guidance information notification method

US7180983B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateFeb 11, 2004
Grant dateFeb 20, 2007
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Expiry dateOct 2, 2024

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W8/18
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

There is provided a guidance information notification apparatus in a communication network system which enables improvement of convenience to a user by dispensing with a particular operation other than a normal origination operation required when a user obtains a guidance message in an understandable language such as a native language, with a terminal unit, and by enabling the user to receive support from a communication operator of the user's contract network even when a roaming service is provided. If an originator inputs a destination telephone number with a normal origination operation at a mobile telephone set 18, a guidance information notification apparatus 22-1 notifies guidance message information in a language associated with the origination telephone number to the origination mobile telephone set 18. Similarly, a guidance information notification apparatus 22-2 notifies guidance message information in the language associated with the destination telephone number to the destination fixed telephone set 20. Furthermore, a direction to process guidance message information is received from a switchboard 12 or 14, and the guidance message information is notified to the telepho…

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