Method and apparatus to use a telephone number stored a mobile terminal for establishing a call between two other terminals

摘要

A method of establishing a communications session in a communications system is disclosed. The communications system comprises a caller terminal (103), a mobile terminal (101) associated with the caller terminal (103), a callee terminal (115) associated with a callee and session initiation means (111,113). 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 (101);(ii) transferring data identifying the callee from the mobile terminal (101) to the session initiation means (111,113); and(iii) in dependence on the transferred data, operating the session initiation means (111,113) to establish a communications session between the caller terminal (103) and the callee terminal (115).