Telecom Italia S.p.a.

Davide Mamino

Giuseppe Catalano

Marco Marchisio

Agostino Cotevino

Mario Madella

Roberto Gullino

Giorgio Bruno

A method allows the selection of a user-preferred visited mobile network for a roaming mobile terminal of a subscriber of a home network. The method includes, at the home network, the steps of receiving information on the location of the roaming mobile terminal, and receiving from the roaming mobile terminal service information including at least a choice of a service and controlling the selection of the visited mobile network for the roaming mobile terminal on the basis of the received service information and location information.

Method for interactive mobile network selection

Communication method between a first terminal and a second terminal on a communications network includes establishing a first connection between the terminals, the first connection being of a first media type at the first terminal and of a multimedia type at the second terminal; establishing a second connection between a repository apparatus and the second terminal, the second connection being coupled to the first connection and being of a second media type at the repository apparatus different from the first media type; said multimedia type including the first and the second media types; disabling the second connection after a request for a third connection between the terminals, the third connection being of the second media type at the first terminal; and establishing the third connection, the first and third connections forming a combinational session at the first terminal and a multimedia type connection at the second terminal.

Communications method between a combinational terminal and multimedia terminal

Methods and apparatuses for efficiently accessing and downloading web pages on high-latency communication networks are provided. After a user requests a web page, the web page is retrieved from a web server, image portions of the web page are separated from non-image portions, and an image-free web page comprising the non-image portions of the original web page is prepared such that the images of the original web page are replaced in the image-free web page by correspondingly sized and positioned placeholders. Additionally, an image including the non-image portions of the original web page is created such that the non-image portions are made transparent, and the original images are grouped into a single composite image while maintaining their positions and sizes. The image-free page and the image are then superimposed to form an optimised web page suitable for downloading to a user.

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Turin, Italy

Davide Mamino