Orange

France Telecom

Sébastien Garcin

Sébastien Prouvost

Bruno Chatras

Olivier Cleuziou

The invention concerns a method for connection to IP communication entities (E, E) via a residential gateway (P). It consists in registering (A) the public identity (pu) of each connected terminal associated with the network address (z) of the residential gateway, so that any message should be addressed to said residential gateway (P) and in transferring (B) said message to all the IP communication entities connected to the residential gateway (P), thus permitting each of the latter to filter (C) the message and to determine whether the message is addressed to a public identity which is assigned thereto. The invention is applicable to IP terminals managed in accordance with SIP or H323 protocol.

Method and gateway for connecting IP communication entities via a residential gateway

This method of managing public identities in an information transmission network () of internet type implementing an SIP protocol for establishing data transmission links between said network and equipment for managing a group public identity () connected to this network is characterized in that it comprises: &#x2014;a prior step of recording a group common public identity representative of at least one group of several individual public identities managed by said management equipment (), at a public identities record management server (); &#x2014;a step of verifying a request to establish an incoming call, said request containing a numbering sequence, intended to verify whether said sequence corresponds to a recorded group public identity; and a step of sending said request to a contact address corresponding to the recorded group public identity.

Method and management of public identities in an information transmission network, server for managing public identity records, equipment for managing a group public identity and corresponding computer programs

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