Telecommunications system subscriber profile updating

摘要

Personal telephone number service is provided by an adjunct within a communications network to provide a number of functionalities, one of which allows associated subscribers to customize the way in which they receive telephone calls. In particular, each subscriber may dynamically specify a number of caller identifiers and a different call treatment for each such identifier as well as a particular billing mode. A call treatment may include, for example, a specification to forward an associated call to an (a) particular telephone number, (b) default telephone number, or (c) messaging service. A profile defining information about how services are to be carried out for a particular subscriber is created and/or updated via an arrangement which receives the information in facsimile form and then uses character recognition technology to "read" the information contained thereon and to update the profile.