Telecom Italia S.p.a.

Bruno Bottiero

Gianni Guglielmi

Andrea De Martin

Francesco Baietto

Sergio Collesei

Luca Bosonetto

Alessandro Porta

Dario Sestito

Giorgio Castelli

Daniele Franceschini

Andrea Varesio

Andrea Calvi

Stefano Oldrini

A combinational service is made enjoyable on the terminal of a user of a communication network in a simplified way. The user establishes a call on the circuit domain, and on his/her terminal, menu options are made available related to the enjoyment of the combinational service in consequence of the establishment of such call on the circuit domain.

Enabling combinational services in a communications network

A video-communication service in a mobile communication network using a packet-switched connection, in which a monitoring of a radio channel portion is performed at the mobile stations of the users involved in the communication. Parameters of the video communication (e.g. the coding rate) are adjusted based on a result of the monitoring of the radio channel portion.

Video-communication in mobile networks

Reliable and interactive communication between parties is allowed even in those cases in which an incoming call cannot be answered due to inconvenience, inopportunity and/or impoliteness, e.g., during an important meeting, a conference or a ceremony. A packet-switched connection between the called party and the calling party is established in response to an action intended for terminating an incoming call performed at the called party's terminal.

Method for handling unanswered calls

For establishing a multimedia session with a remote user's terminal, a terminal starts a signaling intended to establish the multimedia session addressed to the remote user's terminal. Predetermined acknowledgement messages indicate to the terminal and to the remote terminal that the multimedia session is established. The terminal and/or the remote terminal run at least a module of a multimedia application before reception of the predetermined acknowledgement messages.

Method for establishing a multimedia session with a remote user of a communications network

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Turin, Italy

Bruno Bottiero