Fujitsu Corporation

Toshihiro Morikawa

Yohji Fukuzawa

Kouki Shigaki

Hirofumi Mitome

Ryoji Yokoyama

An apparatus and method for permitting temporary use of a telephone number which promptly permit temporary use of a different telephone number without requiring a telephone installation fee. Virtual telephone number notification unit assigns a virtual telephone number to a subscriber terminal at the request of the subscriber terminal, and virtual telephone number registration unit registers the thus-assigned virtual telephone number in association with connection information on the subscriber terminal. In response to call initiation by another subscriber terminal by means of the virtual telephone number, call connection unit refers to the virtual telephone number registration unit to read out the connection information associated with the virtual telephone number and, based on the connection information, connects the calling subscriber terminal to the first-mentioned subscriber terminal.

Apparatus and method for permitting temporary use of a telephone number

A system is provided for enabling a subscriber using a credit call service to utilize a telecommunication service subscribed by the subscriber himself or herself. The credit call service system is provided with a service switcher station for registering telecommunication service information for identifying the telecommunication service that each terminal subscribes, a service controller for registering the telecommunication service information of the telecommunication service that the subscriber who subscribes the credit call service subscribes by himself or herself, and a service information replacement unit for replacing the telecommunication service information registered in the service switcher station by the telecommunication service information registered in the service controller upon the receipt the credit call service request from the subscriber. As a result, the subscriber may receive the telecommunication service that the subscriber subscribed, irrespective of the telecommunication service that the used terminal subscribes.

Credit calling service system

A communication network having intelligent network functions which collects traffic data for call services without requiring alteration of or addition to programs in all of the service switching nodes in the communication network even if a new call service is introduced as an intelligent network service. For this reason, a service control node (SCN) has a unit assigning a call service identification information (ID) to a new call service and the service switching node provides a registration table receiving the identification information (ID) and registering the same in it. If a call service requested by the calling party is in the registration table, the traffic data is collected for the call service.

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Fukuoka, Japan

Toshihiro Morikawa