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some phone services do not allow a call to be dialled if a current call if active equally if there |
is no cellular signal an attempt to origi nate a call will fail |
chapter telephony and media control |
a tbs instance can indicate whether the local hold and join functions are supported by |
using the call control optional opcodes characteristic this is a bit field which a call control |
client can read to determine whether it should issue these commands the values in this field |
are normally static for at least the duration of a session and generally for the lifetime of the |
device if the operation is successful the call state characteristic is notified informing the |
clien t of the current state and callindex in the case where the opcode was originate x |
this is the first time the client will be made aware of the callindex |
when a write to the tbs call control point characteristic by a client fails the call control |
point characteristic notifies the result of the opcode write using the following format |
requested opcode |
octet callindex |
octet result code |
octet |
figure tbs call control point characteristic notification format |
the resultcode indicates success or provides the reason for the failure of the operation |
these codes are listed in table of the tbs specification |
incoming calls inband and out of band ringtones |
in traditional telephony design the first thing that a user knows about an incoming call is the |
phone ringing as soon as you introduce a bluetooth connection this becomes more |
complicated the phone can still audibly ring or the ring may happen in your earbuds if |
youre wearing them or it can happen on both |
there is a further complication the ringtone that you hear in your earbuds may be id entical |
to the sound on your phone or it may be a locally generated ringing tone produced by the |
earbud which will be different if its the same as the sound of your phone it requires the |
presence of an audio stream from the phone which carries the s ame ringtone audio that is |
being played on your phones speaker thats called an inband ringtone the problem with |
an inband ringtone is that you need to set up the audio stream to carry it which may mean |
tearing down an existin g audio stream to another device imagine the use case where youre |
using your earbuds to listen to your tv and your phone rings for an inband ringtone your |
earbuds will probably need to terminate the audio stream with the tv and replace it with an |
audio stream from your phone if you accept the call thats not a problem but if you reject |
it you will need to reconnect to the tv which is a poor user experience |
the alternative is for the phone to notify its incoming call characteristic to your earbu ds this |
contains the callindex and uri ie the uri scheme and the caller id of the incoming call |
the call control client in your earbud can generate a local ringing tone alerting you to the |
call if you accept the call the call control client will write an accept opcode x to the |
phones call control point characteristic that instructs your earbud to terminate the audio |
stream with the tv and the phone which is a different initiator will establish a bidirectional |
audio stream to carry the call |
section tbs and ccp |
if you reject the call your audio stream with the tv remains as it has not been interrupted |
your earbud will simply have mixed its locally generated ringtone with the tv audio its a |
much cleaner user experience but it does mean that your earb uds will make a different ringing |
sound to your phone |
the use of out of band ringtones can be enhanced if the earbud can perform text tovoice |
conversion allowing it to speak the phone number contained in the incoming call |
characteristic as part of the c all alert if the phone supports the optional friendly name |
characteristic which contains the text of the caller name from your contact list on the phone |
this could also be spoken within the earbud |
one final subtlety to call alerts is that the phone ca n be set into silent mode where an incoming |
ringtone is not sent to the phone or pcs speaker but where the announcement is left to the |
acceptor a call control client can determine this along with whether the phone supports |
an inband ringtone by re ading the status flags characteristic shown in table |
bit description value |
inband ringtone disabled |
enabled |
silent mode disabled |
enabled |
rfu reserved for future use |
table status flags characteristic for ringtone mode support |
if the inband ringtone is disabled the call control client would normally announce an |
incoming call at the point when it is notified that the call state characteristic has transitioned |
to the incoming state note that this includes call control client s which are not acceptors |
for instance a smart watch that included a call control client might vibrate or ring although |
it could not accept an audio stream this highlights the fact that the call control state |
machine has no immediate connection to an as e state machine one does not directly trigger |
the other it is entirely up to the telephony application or operating system to link the call |
control states to audio stream management |
if the status flags characteristic shows that silent mode is enabled it means that the ringtone |
will not be played on the phone depending on the state of the inband ringtone bit it |
may be sent to the acceptor using an audio stream or as an out of band ringtone or both |
if both are enabled it is up to the acceptor to decide which to use |
it is worth remembering that accepting or rejecting the call along with all other state |
transitions can be performed on the call control server ie the phone or pc as well as on |
a call control client all connected call cont rol client s have equal access any action that |
changes the state will generate a notification |
chapter telephony and media control |
terminat ing c alls |
a call can be terminated by any call control client by a user action on the phone or by the |
remote caller it can also be lost for a variety of reasons such as a fault or loss of signal on |
the telephone bearer network whenever a call is terminated the call control server will use |
the termination reason characteristic to notify the call control client s of the reaso n for the |
termination like similar characteristics it includes the callindex to identify the call and the |
termination reason as shown in figure |
callindex |
octet reasoncode |
octet |
figure termination reason characteristic |
if multiple calls are terminated as might happen in the case of a network issue on a joined |
call then a separate termination reason notification is sent for each callindex the |
termination reasons are shown in |
reasoncode reason |
x incorrectly forme d uri for originating call |
x the call failed |
x the remote party ended the call |
x the server ended the call |
x line busy |
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