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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2006
Simon P a Ringland, Suffolk, GB;
Francis J Scahill, Suffolk, GB;
Simon P A Ringland, Suffolk, GB;
Francis J Scahill, Suffolk, GB;
British Telecommunications public limited company, London, GB;
Abstract
A method of establishing a communications session in a communications system is disclosed. The communications system comprises a caller terminal (), a mobile terminal () associated with the caller terminal (), a callee terminal () associated with a callee and session initiation means (). It has become common yet frustrating for users to have to maintain contact lists on a multiplicity of communications devices (e.g. the caller terminal and the mobile terminal). The method comprises: (i) identifying the callee using the mobile telephone (); (ii) responsive to identification of said callee, transferring data identifying the callee from the mobile terminal () to the session initiation means (); and (iii) in dependence on the transferred data, operating the session initiation means () to establish a communications session between the caller terminal () and the callee terminal ().