Nokia Technologies Oy

Alcatel

Piotr Jan Wencel

Lieve Maria Marcella Rosemarijn Bos

Laurent Jean André Thiebaut

Telecommunication systems with packet-switched multimedia terminals and nodes for packet-switched multimedia sessions and with servers for exchanging multimedia signaling information for the packet-switched multimedia sessions and with terminating units are provided with gateways for in response to transferral messages originating from the packet-switched multimedia terminals and arriving at the servers transferring packet-switched multimedia sessions between packet-switched multimedia terminals and nodes to circuit-switched calls between gateways and circuit-switched terminals via switches, to continue possibly interrupted sessions via replacing calls. The servers send invitation messages to gateways, which send setup messages to switches for setting up circuit-switched calls via partly alternative communication paths. The servers send information messages to terminating units for bringing the terminating units from session level to call level. Preferably, a packet-switched multimedia terminal and a circuit-switched terminal are one and the same terminal.

Telecommunication system with packet-switched-multimedia-session-to-circuit-switched-call transferral

Telecommunication systems with packet-switched multimedia terminals () and nodes () for packet-switched multimedia sessions and with servers () for exchanging multimedia signaling information for the packet-switched multimedia sessions and with terminating units () are provided with gateways () for in response to transferral messages originating from the packet-switched multimedia terminals () and arriving at the servers () transferring packet-switched multimedia sessions between packet-switched multimedia terminals () and nodes () to circuit-switched calls between gateways () and circuit-switched terminals () via switches (), to continue possibly interrupted sessions via replacing calls. The servers () send invitation messages to gateways (), which send setup messages to switches () for setting up circuit-switched calls via partly alternative communication paths. The servers () send information messages to terminating units () for bringing the terminating units () from session level to call level. Transferral messages are session Initiation Protocol REFER messages comprising predefined Uniform Resource Locators to be converted into call numbers defining circuit-switched terminals (). Preferably, a packet-switched multimedia terminal () and a circuit-switched terminal () are one and the same terminal ().

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Jaroszowiec, Poland

Piotr Jan Wencel