| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 379142060 | Matching and retrieving stored caller ID information from a database | 81 |
| 20080247526 | SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING OPERATIONS IN AN IMS NETWORK - A system for improving operations in an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network is provided. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a Telephone Number Mapping (ENUM) system having a controller element to receive from a terminating Serving Call Session Control Function (S-CSCF) first contact information for a communication device and second contact information for the terminating S-CSCF. Additional embodiments are disclosed. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080247527 | Communication terminal apparatus - The present invention provides a communication terminal apparatus comprising: an application execution unit operable to perform prescribed operations for communications; an address book updating unit operable to update first party information included in an address book to second party information, the address book being stored on an address book storage medium and including one or more pieces of party information and one or more names in one-to-one correspondence; and an application information updating unit operable to update a piece of party information that is stored on an application information storage medium and the same as the first party information to the second party information according to the updating by the address book updating unit, the application information storage medium storing thereon one or more pieces of party information and being referred to by the application execution unit. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080267374 | TELEPHONY SERVICE INVOCATION USING SERVICE DESCRIPTORS - A method of providing telephony services can include receiving a request to query a subscriber information data store to determine service description information for a call. The service description information can specify at least one telephony service associated with a subscriber for use in processing the call. The method further can include querying the subscriber information data store to determine the service description information, receiving the service description information from the subscriber information data store, and providing the service description information to a telephony service node to implement a telephony service specified by the service description information with respect to the call. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080292078 | PHONE NUMBER IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME - A phone number identification apparatus ( | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080304642 | PHONE COMMUNICATION CONTROLLING METHOD - According to an aspect of the embodiment provides a communication terminal for communicating in a network. The terminal receives from another communication terminal a request includes an obscured call information for obscuring an identification information. The communication terminal obscures the identification information after receiving the request. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20090022292 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MESSAGES OF COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set top box having a controller to present media content to a user, receive a message, and selectively cease presentation of the media content until after the message is reviewed. Additional embodiments are disclosed. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090034705 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO ADJUST CALLER ID INFORMATION - A method for adjusting caller ID information includes receiving at a call device a caller ID message that includes a calling number. An address book associated with the call device is searched. An address book telephone number having the matching area code or local exchange number is analyzed to determine if the first digits of both address book phone number and calling number constitute a “1.” If the first digit in both numbers is the same, the calling number is stored unadjusted, while if the first digits differ, the calling number is adjusted. A method for adjusting caller ID information includes comparing the format of a received calling phone number to a set of predetermined criteria that are used to enable a “truncate” function in a context-sensitive “delete” button only when a predetermined criterion is met. Accordingly, a user is provided with a means to assure in a single pressing of a button that the proper deletion of numbers takes place for any calling number that is identified as needing truncation. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090052644 | Programmable caller ID - Methods and systems are disclosed for providing Programmable Caller ID Screening services. One method monitors a telephone call for a call screening request for commercial, residential, and other identifiers of incoming calls. An action is taken in response to the call screening request. The action could be playing an announcement, terminating the connection, forwarding to voice mail, storing the ICLID information in a database, adding the ICLID information to a Do Not Call list, updating a subscriber's profile with the ICLID information, and/or storing the ICLID information in a subscriber's blocked communications list. The call screening request may comprise a Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency, a softkey entry, and/or a data message. Subsequent incoming calls from the calling telephone number are characterized as undesirable and are screened from alerting or otherwise establishing a communications connection to the called telephone number. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090074164 | SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING A CALLING PARTY - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media content processor having a controller adapted to establish communications with a voicemail system, receive a caller identification (ID) associated with a voicemail message stored in the voicemail system, detect a match between the caller ID and one among one or more communication identifiers recorded in an entry of an address book, retrieve an image excerpt associated with the entry of the address book, present the image excerpt at a media device to identify a calling party that recorded the voicemail message. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090074165 | Method, Communication Terminal and Communication System for Displaying a Name Assigned to a Telephone Number When a Connection is Established - A displayed name is assigned to a telephone number on a first communication terminal of a communication system, the telephone number of a second communication being detected on the first terminal or the communication system during a connection between the first and second terminals. The displayed name is transmitted to the communication system and stored along with the telephone number once the displayed name has been input. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090116631 | Universal Call Control Systems and Methods - Methods and systems for providing a user with control over telecommunications services provided by a service provider. Using almost any type of communications device, a user may gain access to, view, and make changes or modifications to profile information related to the services. The changes may be made quickly and efficiently, but accuracy and thoroughness in the implementation of the changes are not sacrificed. Further, the changes to the communications services are implemented almost immediately and without involvement by the service provider. Particularly, profile information about the telecommunications service is stored on a server in a data network. A change action relating to the profile information may be received at the server from a data device (such as a wireless unit) operating on the network. The change action is implemented on the profile information to result in changed profile information, which may be provided from the server via the data network to the telecommunications system. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090147935 | PHONE MANAGING METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A phone managing method is implemented within an electronic communication device installed with a location system and having several preset regions stored with sorted received calls in different groups. The managing method includes the steps of (a) receiving a communication signal so that a phone number corresponding to the communication signal is obtained; (b) detecting the location of the electronic communication device receiving the communication signal; (c) comparing the phone number with the received calls in the preset regions; and (d) rejecting the phone number in case the phone number is excluded from anyone of the received calls in the preset regions. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090154677 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR COMMUNICATION - There is provided a communication device, comprising: a display screen; a communication unit; an image data storage unit storing of image data; a registration information storage unit to store registration information and area information in such a manner that the area information is associated with the registration information; and an output control unit to display an image corresponding to image data associated with registration information corresponding to a source which transmitted a communication request such that an area corresponding to the source is distinguished from other areas. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090190732 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CALLER IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION VIA AN INSTANT MESSAGING SERVICE - A telephone subscriber registers with a digital telephone service provider (DTSP) to obtain telephone service. The telephone subscriber also registers with an instant messaging service provider (IMSP) and receives a screen name. The telephone subscriber registers the screen name with the DTSP to receive caller identifying information (CID) via instant messaging (IM) (sometimes referred to herein as “CID IM service”). When a call to the telephone number of the telephone subscriber is received at a switch operated by the DTSP, the DTSP confirms that the telephone subscriber has registered a screen name with the DTSP and then sends the caller identification information to the IMSP. The IMSP then sends an instant message containing the caller identification information to the telephone subscriber's instant message client. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090190733 | MUSICAL CALLER ID APPARATUS AND METHOD - An incoming call prompting method is provided. The method includes the step of: providing a data storage for storing a note table, a melodic companion table, and an audio clip database; receiving an incoming call and sending the incoming call to a decoder to phone number of the incoming call; storing the phone number in the data storage; obtaining a predetermined digit set from the incoming call phone number stored in the data storage; obtaining the assigned note of each digit of the digit set, and piecing together a melodious sequence of note based upon a pre-determined algorithm guiding selection and sequencing of a combination of the primary notes and/or companion notes of the melodic companion table to edit a melody; and obtaining and outputting audio clip of each note of the edited melody in turn to generate a music. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090257575 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVED CALLER NAME IDENTIFICATION ON A TELEPHONE NETWORK - A phone network in a wireless environment that does not perform CNAM queries when a number is already stored in the receiving handsets' caller directory. CNAM query fees are charged only to obtain caller information on a new caller. The network does not make CNAM queries when the caller information is already available, whether in the contact information stored on the receiver's handset or through some other reliable source. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090268892 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COMMUNICATING STATUSES OF PHONE NUMBERS IN ELECTRONIC PHONEBOOK THEREOF - A communication terminal includes an electronic phonebook, a status requesting unit, a communication unit and an updating unit. The electronic phonebook records phone numbers, and a communicating status corresponding to each of the phone numbers. The status requesting unit generates a request of reading the communicating statuses of the monitored phone numbers in the electronic phonebook. The communication unit transmits the generated request to a communication switching center and receives the communicating statuses of the monitored phone numbers transmitted by the communication switching center. The updating unit updates the communicating statuses of the monitored phone numbers according to the received communicating statuses. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090316869 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, ADVERTISING TRANSMISSION METHOD, PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND SYSTEM - A determination unit determining whether or not a telephone number of a called side included in a received telephone call control signal is registered in an advertising contract object that is stored in a memory unit and that includes a telephone number of an advertising contractant who performs a contract with an advertising provider and advertising provider identification information identifying the advertising provider with whom the advertising contractant performs the contract, an extraction unit extracting advertising data of the advertising provider identified by the advertising provider identification information corresponding to the telephone number of the called side from a memory unit when the telephone number of the called side is determined to be registered in the advertising contract object in the determination unit, and an advertising data transmission control unit transmitting the advertising data extracted in the extraction unit to a telephone apparatus identified by a telephone number of a calling side included in the telephone call control signal are included. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100027772 | COMPUTER TELEPHONY INTEGRATION (CTI) COMPLETE HEALTHCARE CONTACT CENTER - Methods, systems, and products enable a healthcare facility to process incoming communications. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100061532 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, DISPLAYING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A system and method for selecting callers on a communication device is disclosed. When a call is received from a caller, call history data are obtained from a call history database, and presented on a display. A user may then decide based on the call history whether to receive the call. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100067678 | Method And System For Identifying Telemarketer Communications - A method and system for identifying telemarketer communications directed to a subscriber of a call screening service is provided. A link monitoring system monitors all inbound and outbound calls of a carrier network collecting data such as calling and called telephone directory numbers, and a termination status for at least each inbound call to a calling number. The data is analyzed at a telemarketer detection module to determine calling patterns of calling numbers. If a calling pattern of a calling telephone number matches a profile of telemarketer communications, the calling number is stored in a database of telephone directory numbers associated with telemarketer communications. A call is received from a calling party directed to a subscriber of the call screening service. Then a determination is made as to whether a telephone directory number of the calling party is known. If the telephone number of the calling party is known, a determination is made as to whether the telephone number of the calling party matches a telephone number stored in the database of telephone numbers associated with telemarketer communications. If a match exists, the call is intercepted from reaching the subscriber of the call screening service. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100091966 | System and Method for Providing Caller Information to a Called Party Utilizing Call Forwarding - Embodiments of the invention comprise a device, system, and method of receiving a phone call to a non-Inward WATS phone number, such as a typical non-toll free phone number, forwarding the phone call to a carrier capable of reading ANI information associated with the call, and providing ANI information to the called party. The providing of ANI information may be by way of forwarding to a toll-free number of a provider and populating caller ID data with ANI information before forwarding to the called party, or by way of forwarding the call to a provider with the ANI information, whereby the provider forwards the call and information gleaned from the ANI information to the called party. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100142691 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RETRIEVING CONTACT INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH A PARTY - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller to detect by way of an input device an entry of a communication identifier without contact information of a party associated with the communication identifier, retrieve from a database operating externally to the communication device contact information of the party according to the communication identifier, initiate a communication session according to the communication identifier, present at least a portion of the retrieved contact information and the communication identifier, and store the communication identifier in a communication log with the retrieved contact information. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100158225 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ROUTING TELEPHONY COMMUNICATIONS TOGETHER WITH MODIFIED CALLING PARTY IDENTIFIER INFORMATION - A method, comprising causing a telephony communication originating from a calling party communication device to be routed to a first called party communication device together with calling party identifier information associated with the calling party communication device. The method further comprises receiving an identification of a second called party communication device to which the telephony communication should be routed, and generating modified calling party identifier information associated with the telephony communication on the basis of modification information received from the first called party communication device. Finally, the method comprises routing the telephony communication to the second called party communication device together with the modified calling party identifier information. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100177878 | CALL RECEIVING DEVICE, CALL RECEIVING METHOD, AND CALL RECEIVING PROGRAM - A call receiving device includes an identification information acquisition part configured to acquire identification information by receiving calls each made based on identification information that is explicitly or implicitly provided in a web page and that identifies a call receiver. An information associating part is configured to associate the acquired identification information with discrimination information to discriminate each of the calls. A call connection part is configured to connect each of the calls to the call receiver. A discrimination information sending part is configured to send the discrimination information to the call receiver through the call connected to the call receiver. A discrimination information receiving part is configured to receive the discrimination information input into a predetermined device. A call related information sending part is configured to send, to the predetermined device, call related information indicated by the identification information associated with the discrimination information. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100202601 | Selective Unblocking of Caller ID Based on Security Level - A system for selectively blocking and unblocking the sending of outgoing caller ID information from a communication device comprises a communication device, a processor coupled to the communication device and a storage medium coupled to the processor containing a directory of information entries. The information entries include both telephone numbers and associated security levels. When a call is placed to a number using the communication device, the processor seeks the number in the directory of the storage medium. If an entry is found for the number by the processor, caller ID information is prevented from being sent to the number unless a security level associated with the number is at or above a predefined cut-off level. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100208878 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND REGISTRATION METHOD - A communication apparatus capable of reducing a burden caused by operation for registering a plurality of serial phone numbers is provided. A communication apparatus | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100215162 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CALLER IDENTIFICATION FOR A TDM CONFERENCE CALL - Embodiments of the disclosed invention include a method performed by a conference server for providing caller identification information for a TDM conference call. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a request from a host to set up a TDM conference call. The method further includes receiving host configuration parameters for providing the host with caller ID information of callers participating in the conference call. The method provides the host with a calling number for enabling callers participating in the conference call to call in. In response to receiving a call and caller ID information associated with a caller calling the calling number, the method connects the call to the conference call and provides the caller ID information to the host based on the host configuration parameters. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100296642 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR LAUNCHING APPLICATION TRIGGERED BY INITIATION OF TELEPHONE CALL - A telephone or telephone system launches an application upon the dialing of a trigger telephone number. The application may be an electronic message generator that sends an electronic message to one or more recipients upon a telephone number being dialed. One or more text messages may be sent by a telephone or telephone system when a user dials an emergency number with the telephone or telephone system. Real time information such as geographic location information may be automatically generated by the application and included in the electronic messages that are sent after being triggered by a telephone call. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100322401 | METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING IMAGE OF PERSON, DISPLAYING IMAGE OF CALLER AND RETRIEVING IMAGE OF PERSON, BASED ON TAG INFORMATION - A method for transmitting an image of a person based on tag information, includes the steps of: acquiring an image of a specific person; retrieving an address related to the specific person from tag information attached to the image of the specific person; and transmitting the image of the specific person to the retrieved address. As a result, the user can easily transmit the image of the person to one who has relation to the person. Moreover, methods for displaying an image of a caller, and retrieving images of a desired person based on the tag information is also disclosed. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110002454 | CALLER ID CALL MEMO SYSTEM - A system and method of saving and delivering a voice memo or text memo to identify incoming calls is provided. A user of the system of the invention is given the option of recording a memo on the calls he or she has received through a prompt on a telecommunication device. The user can choose to record a voice memo or text memo after each call. The memos are saved in connection with caller id information pertaining to the number from which the call was placed. When a user of the system receives a call from a number that has a memo saved in relation thereto, the user will be prompted to hear, and may listen to, the voice memo before answering the call. If the memo is in text form, the user can configure the system to provide various processing options. In one processing option, a text to speech audio presentation of the text of the memo is made available to permit the message to be heard over a telephone or networked audio capable PDA device. In other processing options, the user has the text of the message sent to the user's PC or emailed or sent by instant message to the user's PDA device. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110013761 | Communication System - A communication system includes a calling device, an answering device and a transmission device. The calling device is operable by a caller to make a call. The answering device includes telephones and computers corresponding to the telephones. The transmission device includes an actuating unit, a judging unit connected to the actuating unit and a database connected to the actuating unit. On receiving a call from the calling device, the judging unit provides data into the judging unit from the database so that the judging unit determines the identity of the caller. Then, the actuating unit actuates and provides the identity and data of the caller to at least one of the computers related to the call. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110019808 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC ASSIGNMENT OF OUTBOUND AND INBOUND CALL IDENTITY - A system and method for automatic assignment of outbound and inbound call identity between a salesperson and a client is disclosed. For automatic assignment of outbound call identity between a salesperson and a client, a salesperson places a call to the telephone number of the client. A phone server matches a sales group to a salesperson and an entered sales group and an NPA (i.e., area code) of the client in a database. If a match is found, the phone server substitutes a replacement caller ID for actual caller ID of the salesperson. When the client answers the call, the replacement caller ID or default caller ID is displayed on client's phone. For automatic assignment of inbound call identity between a client and a salesperson, the client places a call using the replacement caller ID. The phone server searches the database for a sales group that matches the DID of the replacement caller ID. The phone server rings the telephones of salespeople that match the sales group entry in order of the most “efficient” salesperson of the group until one of the salespeople answers their phone. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110069825 | USER-CONTROLLABLE TELEPHONE CALL PROCESSING - Embodiments of the invention include a system to process telephone calls. The system can receive a telephone call and identify the telephone number of the calling party. A database of processing instructions then specifies whether to block the telephone call, forward the telephone call to another telephone number, send the telephone call to a voicemail system or an answering machine, or ring the telephone assigned to the called number. Based on the time of the call, the instructions to be applied can differ. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110081010 | Temporary ENUM gateway - A temporary ENUM architecture assigns a temporary ENUM at call time. For an originated communication requiring routing to a party which needs a particular callback format not supported, the TempENUM provides consistency with the specific format required by the receiving party. The TempENUM is assigned for the duration of the call or communication, or for a given amount of time thereafter. The TempENUM service gateway includes a TempENUM database, a module that assigns a suitable TempENUM at the time of call routing, and a module that handles a lookup in the TempENUM database, and maps the assigned TempENUM to a calling party identifier (CgPID). The TempENUM database stores a TempENUM from a coordinator system and relates the actual calling party identifier (CgPID) for use in callback attempts. Either during the initial call or communication, or shortly thereafter, the receiving party uses the TempENUM number to return communication the initial caller. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110091028 | Automatic Integrated Escalation in a Unified Messaging System - A user is identified based at least in part on a user identification designation associated with an incoming communication. A message recipient is then determined based at least in part on the identified user and one or more address books associated with message recipients by comparing the user identification designation to one or more entries in the one or more recipient databases. The incoming communication is routed to the determined message recipient. Escalation procedures are implemented up to a configured level in the recipient organization based on various criteria. As messages are escalated and deposited in mailboxes associated with the determined message recipients, the determined message recipients are notified of the deposited messages. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110096914 | Method and System for Context Sensitive Calling - A system and method for context sensitive calling is disclosed in which context associated with a call is pulled from a file or database and forwarded with the call. In some embodiments, the context is pulled using a context reference number, and the context may be dependant upon the type of called terminal equipment available. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110110510 | SPEED DIAL LINE CALL INDICATOR - In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining information relating to a first telephone number, and determining whether the first telephone number corresponds to a first speed dial button on a device. The first speed dial button is highlighted if the first telephone number corresponds to the first speed dial button. If the first telephone number does not correspond to the first speed dial button, the method also includes determining whether the first telephone number is associated with a second telephone number, determining whether the second telephone number corresponds to the first speed dial button if the first telephone number is associated with the second telephone number, and highlighting the first speed dial button when it is determined that the second telephone number corresponds to the first speed dial button. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110116613 | AUTOMATIC NUMBER REFORMATTING - A method of handling communications may include receiving a communication having a telephone number having a country/region code associated therewith. It may be determined whether at least a portion of the received telephone number matches a telephone number associated with an address book contact. The country/region code may be stored with the address book contact when at least a portion of the received telephone number matches the telephone number associated with the address book contact. A user request to transmit a communication to the address book contact may be received. The communication may be transmitted to the address book contact using the stored country/region code. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110142219 | Method for Automatic Information Capturing of Communication Events - This invention provides a method for automatically integrating and assembling the timestamp of a communication event with the identification of the communicating parties and available event attributes, presenting prompts for user entries on a terminal or interface device, storing user annotated information related to said communication event, and transmitting saved information of said communication events to another terminal device or information system. The invention also relates to a computer program, a device, and a system encapsulating computer programs realizing the method. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110170680 | Call Screening System and Method - A system and method for screening telephone calls to a subscriber telephone number comprises a screening list of telephone numbers assigned to suspect callers and rules defining when a telephone number will be added to or removed from the screening list or ‘greylist,’ and/or modifying a screening value to be assigned to a telephone number in the greylist. Data relating to calls is received from subscribers and processed, and the telephone number is screened in accordance with the rules, based on the screening value assigned to the telephone number and optionally a selected subscriber tolerance level. Subscribers may add any telephone number to a personal list of telephone numbers to be blocked (blacklist) or telephone numbers to be accepted (whitelist). | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110182414 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING ENHANCED CALLER INFORMATION - A method and system for rendering a set of enhanced caller information of a call on a Mobile Station. The method includes, retrieving one or more identifier corresponding to the call in response to a callee receiving the call from a caller. The method further includes, retrieving the set of enhanced caller information based on the one or more identifiers. Thereafter, the method renders the set of enhanced caller information on the MS of the callee. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110206196 | Contact Management and Communication - A system and method for managing contact information is provided. In one implementation, for example, a method comprises accessing a contact record associated with a user of a user communication device, the contact record comprising at least one originating identifier identifying the user communication device and at least one contact field identifying contact information of a contact associated with the user. A contact record map is generated in which an alias identifier is assigned for the contact record. A destination identifier is selected from a plurality of available destination identifiers and assigned to the contact associated with the user. The assigned destination identifier is unique with respect to other contacts associated with the user. The alias identifier and the destination identifier are to the origination identifier identifying the user communication device within the contact record map. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110280385 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING AND MANAGING A CONNECTION OF A MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL TO A PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE - The invention relates to an internal communication terminal (iK | 11-17-2011 |
| 20120057687 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODIFYING COMMUNICATION INFORMATION (MCI) - A computer for processing a call originated by a call originator to a call target. The computer includes memory having at least one region for storing computer executable program code and processor for executing the program code stored in the memory. The program code includes code for processing a telephone number of the call target, code for accessing a database storing a plurality of outgoing telephone numbers, code for identifying one of the plurality of outgoing telephone numbers based on the telephone number of the call target, and code for originating the outbound call to the call target and including the identified outgoing telephone number into a caller ID field of the outbound call. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120106723 | METHOD FOR FILTERING INCOMING CALLS TO COMMUNICATION DEVICE - The present disclosure provides a method for filtering an incoming call to a communication device. The communication device stores a default ring duration M and a default call frequency N. The communication device may calculate the ring duration of an incoming call, and further determines whether the ring duration reaches the default ring duration M. If the ring duration does not reach the default ring duration M, the communication device determines whether a call frequency of the incoming call reaches the default call frequency N. If the call frequency reaches the default call frequency N, the communication device blocks a phone number of the incoming call. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120170732 | Methods and Devices for Providing a Called Party's Name to a Setup Message - Disclosed are communication devices and methods of a communication devices that include accessing the contact list of the memory by the controller, initiating communication based upon the contact list input by the controller and generating by the controller, a setup message that includes communication address data populating a field for a communication address and includes identification data populating a field for identification information. The disclosed method can further include transmitting a call setup message signal of a control channel, such as a stand-alone dedicated control channel including a populated field for identification information. Moreover, additional data populating a field for additional information can also be included in the call setup message signal. The additional data can represent for example, the purpose of the call, such a personal call or a business call or any other additional information. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120177190 | MULTILEVEL DIRECTORY ASSISTANCE APPARATUS AND METHOD - A method is disclosed for the presentation of telephone information about a company or other enterprise over the Internet in response to consumer searches for names or products. Department information is included. The system uses a database to determine product slightly sold my search for companies to provide advertisers or sponsors with preferential placement of their ads. Revenue is charged response to clicking on an advertisement. The system also places telephone calls over the Internet to users of the inventive search engine. Advertisers are charged for such calls. Optionally, the system may not allow direct dialing for non-advertisers. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20130034220 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED TELEPHONE CALL FUNCTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH CALLER AND/OR CALLEE INFORMATION DURING TELEPHONY RINGING SIGNAL - Method for providing caller information during a telephony ringing signal, including the procedures of storing caller information, associated with at least one of a caller and a callee, on a caller information server, installing a client application on a callee device, dialing a callee device CLI by the caller, identifying a caller device CLI by the callee device, contacting the caller information server by the callee device and providing the caller information server with at least one of the caller device CLI and the callee device CLI, retrieving, by the callee device, from the caller information server the caller information associated with at least one of the caller and the callee according to at least one of the caller device CLI and the callee device CLI, and presenting, on the callee device, the retrieved caller information. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130070918 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODIFYING COMMUNICATION INFORMATION (MCI) - A system for handling an outbound call from a call originator to a call target including a database storing a plurality of outgoing telephone numbers, each outgoing telephone number having one of two or more area codes; and an information processor controlled by the call originator. The information processor configured to process a trigger comprising at least an area code of a telephone number of the call target; select from the database a telephone number from the plurality of outgoing telephone numbers where the selected telephone number has at least an area code the same as the area code of the telephone number of the call target; set caller identification data of the outbound call to the selected telephone number; and transmit the caller identification data to the call target in connection with the outbound call. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130235990 | Method and Device for Displaying Information - A method and device for displaying information operate during a call service based on an IPTV system. When a first user terminal calls a second user terminal, a person-to-person communication enabler in the IPTV system obtains identity information of media streams of a ring tone service corresponding to the first user terminal and/or the second user terminal. The obtained identity information of the media streams of the ring tone service is sent to an Internet Protocol Television service terminal corresponding to a first user and/or a second user, for playing corresponding media streams of the ring tone service. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130287196 | Internet Protocol for IP Private Branch Exchanges - An Internet protocol query for Internet protocol private branch exchanges including a private branch exchange that is connected to the public switched telephone network for receiving a call setup request, the private branch exchange not being enabled for receiving calling name delivery information from a telecommunications circuit; at least one of an incumbent local exchange carrier switch and a competitive local exchange carrier switch in communication with the private branch exchange, the at least one of the incumbent local exchange carrier switch and the competitive local exchange carrier switch having the telecommunications circuit not enabled for calling name delivery information retrieval; a network in communication with the private branch exchange; and a calling name delivery database in communication with the network for receiving calling name delivery queries from the private branch exchange based on the call setup request. Methods for routing calls based on ENUM information is also included. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20140003593 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED TELEPHONY WITH NETWORKED COMPUTING | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140016765 | PARTY INFORMATION FOR DATA-CAPABLE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Detailed information about a party can be provided during interparty communication. Data-capable mobile devices query at least a public database to retrieve information about a set of parties engaged in communication. The results of the database query are employed to provide detailed caller identification and detail functionality to telephones or communication devices not utilizing traditional landlines or commercial caller identification service. Storage can be included to include address book function, query caching, and user preferences. An interface can be provided to facilitate display of rich caller identification information. The interface can further update displayed information without user input, or provide user selection control to request more information on a selected portion of displayed information. These features can be applied to determine the information about a party that is either receiving a communication or initiating a communication. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140029738 | System and Method for Modifying Communication Information (MCI) - A system for handling an outbound call from a call originator to a plurality of call targets, including a database storing a plurality of outgoing telephone numbers, each outgoing telephone number having one of two or more area codes. The system including an information processor configured to process at least an area code of a telephone number of the call targets, select from the database telephone numbers from the plurality of outgoing telephone numbers where the selected telephone numbers have at least an area code the same as the area code of the telephone number of the call targets, set caller identification data of the outbound calls to the selected telephone numbers, and transmit the caller identification data to the call targets in connection with the outbound calls. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140056420 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TO A SECOND PARTY, COMPUTER-NETWORK RELATED INFORMATION ABOUT A FIRST PARTY - A method and system for providing computer-network related information about a second party. First, the second party receives a telephone number of a first party. The second party's customer premises equipment (CPE) or elements in a telephone network then use the telephone number to index a database, which contains combinations of telephone numbers and computer-network addresses. Once the first party's computer-network address is retrieved, first-party-customized information present at the computer-network location specified by the computer-network address can be sent to and displayed on the second party's CPE. Also, the first party's telephone number can be sent to an application in the computer network, causing the first-party-customized information to be automatically displayed on the second party's CPE. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140105374 | PROVIDING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO CALLED PARTIES - A system, method, and computer readable medium for providing additional information to called parties comprises receiving a call from a calling party, performing a lookup of information associated with the calling party in a database, receiving the information from the database, and forwarding the information to a called party. The system comprises at least one device for receiving a call from a calling party, and at least one database for storing information associated with the calling party, wherein the at least one device is operable to perform a lookup of information associated with the calling party in a database, receive the information from the database, and forward the information to a called party. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140119524 | System and Method for Modifying Communication Information (MCI) - A system including a database storing a plurality of callback telephone numbers. The plurality of callback telephone numbers have area codes corresponding to at least two different area codes. An information processor is configured to process a trigger comprising at least an area code of a telephone number of a call target, select a telephone number from the database having at least an area code the same as the area code of the telephone number of the call target, set caller identification data to the selected telephone number for an outbound call to the call target, and transmit the caller identification data to the call target in connection with the outbound call. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140247930 | PROCESSING A PHONE CALL FROM A TRUNK INTERFACE WITH AN INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE APPARATUS - A method of processing a phone call, the method including: from a trunk interface, receiving an inbound communication from a caller, the inbound communication received at an interactive voice response system; at the interactive voice response system, receiving a number associated with the inbound communication, the number indicative of a location of the caller; querying a memory containing call referral data for each of a plurality of services, using the number, to obtain a phone number for one of the services associated with the location of the caller, the querying carried out by the interactive voice response system; and connecting, by the interactive voice response system, the inbound communication to an outbound communication line to connect the caller with the phone number for the one of the services associated with the location of the caller. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140286483 | PARTY INFORMATION FOR DATA-CAPABLE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Detailed information about a party can be provided during interparty communication. Data-capable mobile devices query at least a public database to retrieve information about a set of parties engaged in communication. The results of the database query are employed to provide detailed caller identification and detail functionality to telephones or communication devices not utilizing traditional landlines or commercial caller identification service. Storage can be included to include address book function, query caching, and user preferences. An interface can be provided to facilitate display of rich caller identification information. The interface can further update displayed information without user input, or provide user selection control to request more information on a selected portion of displayed information. These features can be applied to determine the information about a party that is either receiving a communication or initiating a communication. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140286484 | Index of Suspicion Determination for Communications Request - The risk that an incoming emergency call is a prank call is presented in real-time to the called party, in the form of, e.g., an index of suspicion. An index of suspicion aggregation server quantifies, qualifies, and aggregates risks, suspicions, and/or threats relevant to a call center to formulate a scale of suspicion. Metrics are acquired (e.g., calling device location information, device configuration information, caller information, etc.) relevant to each communications request made to a call center and uses acquired metrics to rate communications requests based on a known scale of suspicion. Once a suspicion rating is determined for a communications request, the communications request is routed to a relevant call-taker terminal, as is the index of suspicion for that incoming call. Real time presentation of the index of suspicion enables call-takers to make better call-handling decisions based on risk analysis and historical call data associated with a given caller. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140307861 | PROVIDING AUDIO ANNOUNCEMENT TO CALLED PARTIES - The present disclosure describes a system, method, and computer-readable medium for providing audio announcement of communications to a called party in a communication network. The method includes receiving communication from a calling party and performing a lookup of information relating to the calling party in a database via an Internet Protocol connection based on an identifier of at least one of the calling party and the called party. The information comprises one or more audio files. The method then provides the audio announcement to a called party based on the audio files. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140328478 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING PRANK CALL, CLIENT, SERVER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A method and a system for identifying a prank call, a client, a server, and a storage medium, and the method includes: sending a questionable telephone number to a server through a network instant message by a client; receiving a query result on the questionable telephone number from the server; adding the questionable telephone number to a contact blacklist when the query result shows that the questionable telephone number is a malicious telephone number; and identifying whether an incoming call from the questionable telephone number is a prank call according to the contact blacklist when an incoming call from the questionable telephone number is received. The present disclosure allows for effective identification of prank calls. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140348312 | DELIVERING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO RECEIVING PARTIES FOR TEXT MESSAGING BASED CALLER ID - The present disclosure describes a system, method, and computer readable medium for providing information to a receiving party in a communications network. The method includes receiving a message from a sending party and performing a lookup of information relating to the sending party in a database via an Internet Protocol connection. The lookup is based on an identifier of at least one of the sending party and the receiving party. Subsequently, the information is provided to the receiving party based on the availability of the information in the database. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140355747 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication apparatus includes a communication portion for communicating with an external device, a transmitter information acquiring portion for acquiring predetermined transmitter information for identifying the transmitter at a time of an incoming call of communication, a storage portion for storing a registered name in association with the transmitter information in advance, a registered name retrieval portion for, retrieving the registered name stored in the storage portion so as to be associated with the acquired transmitter information, a common part extraction portion for, in a case where a plurality of registered names are retrieved with respect to the acquired transmitter information when the registered name is retrieved by the registered name retrieval portion, extracting a common part among the plurality of registered names, and an output portion for outputting the common part of the registered names which is extracted by the common part extraction portion, in a predetermined system. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20150030145 | CALLER NAME IDENTIFICATION USING DATA STRUCTURE SYNCHRONIZATION OF DIFFERENT NETWORKS - A device may receive a request to enable service on a wireless network for a user device. The user device may be associated with a wired network. The device may request network provisioning information, associated with the wired network, identifying service activation parameters. The device may provision the wireless network based on the request for network provisioning associated with the wired network. The device may synchronize caller information to a first caller information device, associated with the wireless network, from a second caller information device, associated with the wired network. The caller information may include caller identification information. The device may enable the service for the user device on the wireless network based on provisioning the wireless network and synchronizing the caller information to the first caller information device from the second caller information device. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150036810 | CALLER ID MEMO SYSTEM - A system and method of saving and delivering a voice memo or text memo to identify incoming calls is provided. A user of the system of the invention is given the option of recording a memo on the calls he or she has received through a prompt on a telecommunication device. The user can choose to record a voice memo or text memo after each call. The memos are saved in connection with caller id information pertaining to the number from which the call was placed. When a user of the system receives a call from a number that has a memo saved in relation thereto, the user will be prompted to hear, and may listen to, the voice memo before answering the call. If the memo is in text form, the user can configure the system to provide various processing options. In one processing option, a text to speech audio presentation of the text of the memo is made available to permit the message to be heard over a telephone or networked audio capable PDA device. In other processing options, the user has the text of the message sent to the user's PC or emailed or sent by instant message to the user's PDA device. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150055768 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO CALLED PARTIES - A system for providing additional information to called parties, the system comprises a base unit device for sending additional information to called parties, the base unit comprises a microprocessor, at least one Ethernet port, at least one telephone port, a first transceiver, and a first wireless antenna; and a display unit for receiving the additional information from the base unit device and displaying the additional information to the called parties, the display unit comprises a second transceiver, a liquid crystal display, a second wireless antenna, and a set of keys. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150071423 | Method And Apparatus For Network-Intelligence-Determined Identity Or Persona - A method and apparatus is presented for enabling an agent to assume the identity or persona of a called party and process calls directed to the called party. In one embodiment, methods, which enable an agent to assume the identity or persona of a called party, and process calls directed to the called party are considered a call center functions and may be implemented in a call center. A call is initiated to a called party. Initiating the call generates called party information. Using the called party information a server retrieves information associated with the called party and then forward the information associated with the called party to an agent. The call is then forwarded to the agent. As a result, the agent may use the information associated with the called party to assume the identity or persona of the called party when responding to the call. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150071424 | Identifying recycled telephone numbers - An automated method begins by receiving a list of numbers that have been de-activated by a carrier. Periodically, and for each number, a request is made to identify a current carrier for the number. If the current carrier matches the carrier that provided the de-activation information, the mobile number is considered to be in a first state, i.e., shut off and returned to a pool of numbers that are available to this same carrier. Upon a determination that the number is in the first state, the provider issues a request to any opt-in database to delete any express consent or other similar data associated with the number. If, however, the number does not match the carrier of deactivation, the number is considered to be in a second state, i.e., likely to have been ported by the same user to a new carrier. This state is logged in an audit trail. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150078542 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INBOUND CALL CONTROL - An indication of an incoming call may be received at a call control unit communicatively coupled to, and/or resident within, a telephone. The indication may include identification information for the incoming call. It may be determined whether additional information regarding a caller associated with the identification information exists, and if so, a first operation may be performed on the incoming call responsively to the additional information, otherwise, a second operation may be performed on the incoming call responsively to an absence of the additional information. The additional information my include a user-configurable list of desired callers (e.g., a whitelist) and/or undesired callers (e.g., a blacklist). The additional information may also include caller identification information and/or a spam score. The first operation may be blocking the incoming call, forwarding the incoming call to a voice mailbox, transmitting the incoming call to the telephone, enabling the telephone to receive the incoming call, and/or answering the incoming call and then terminating the incoming call. In some embodiments, the first and/or second operations performed on the incoming call is/are user configurable. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150098557 | DATA ENTRY CONFIRMATION SYSTEM FOR A DEVICE OR SYSTEM WITH DIALING CAPABILITY - A Data Entry Confirmation System (DECS) is provided whereby a user with a communication device capable of communicating with the DECS is able to perform a pre-dialing operation based on contact information inputted onto the communication device and transmitted by said communication device to the DECS. Thus, the DECS is able to perform a reverse caller ID operation allowing a user to confirm identity of the party the user wishes to call prior to actually calling the party. The DECS uses the input contact information to retrieve corresponding contact information from one or more databases with which it is in communication and transmit said output contact information to the user device. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150098558 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TO A SECOND PARTY, COMPUTER-NETWORK RELATED INFORMATION ABOUT A FIRST PARTY - A method and system for providing computer-network related information about a second party. First. the second party receives a telephone number of a first party. The second party's customer premises equipment (CPE) or elements in a telephone network then use the telephone number to index a database, which contains combinations of telephone numbers and computer-network addresses. Once the first party's computer-network address is retrieved, first-party-customized information present at the computer-network location specified by the computer-network address can be sent to and displayed on the second party's CPE. Also the first party's telephone number can be sent to an application in the computer network, causing the first-party-customized information to be automatically displayed on the second party's CPE. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150124949 | Centralized Caller Profile System and Methods for Routing and Prioritizing Calls - Disclosed is a Centralized Caller Profile System and methods for routing and prioritizing calls. The disclosed systems and methods provide enhanced customer service by allowing multiple parties to update and share the same set of profile information from a centralized database. The disclosed systems and methods provide for faster, easier access to profile information, more efficient call routing, and the ability to prioritize callers in a caller queue. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150139412 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING INCOMING TELEPHONE CALLS - There is provided a monitoring system for monitoring incoming telephone calls, including telephone calls with different called numbers, the system comprising an electronic processor and an associated database containing caller details with corresponding telephone numbers and details regarding locations and/or people to visit with corresponding telephone numbers, the system being adapted to: detect the originating number of the caller and the called number to which the incoming call was made; to store the time, date and number of an incoming call the originating number of which has been detected and store data representing the number to which the incoming call was made; and to identify the location of the caller/person being visited by the caller corresponding to the detected called number by referring to the associated database, and to identify the identity of the caller corresponding to the originating number by referring to the associated database. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150326712 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCORING PHONE NUMBERS - Certain implementations of the disclosed technology include systems and methods for determining a reachability score of a phone number. A method includes receiving personally identifiable information associated with the subject; querying one or more public or private databases with the personally identifiable information; receiving, in response to the querying, phone number information related to the personally identifiable information; extracting, from the phone number information, one or more phone numbers associated with the subject; determining, with one or more computer processors, based at least in part on the one or more phone numbers, a phone type corresponding to the respective one or more phone numbers; determining, with the one or more computer processors, a reachability score for at least one of the one or more phone numbers, wherein the reachability score is based, at least in part, on the phone type; and outputting an indication of the reachability score | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150326713 | COMMUNICATION SERVER, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND METHOD OF COMMUNICATION - A communication server includes a receiving unit for receiving a first terminal ID and a second terminal number from a first terminal via an IP network, a search unit for searching for the first terminal ID and the second terminal number in a database, and a notification unit for, upon detection of a specific phone number specifying the first terminal, notifying the second terminal of the specific phone number, using the second terminal number as an addressee, the specific phone number being associated with the first terminal ID and the second terminal number. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150326714 | Method and System for Obtaining Prospective Client Information - A method and system is provided for providing an incentive for a customer to provide additional information regarding demographic and purchasing habits. Such information is then used to create a customer profile which can be used to enhance the customer experience as well as to determine rates of customer acquisition and retention. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20160044163 | SOCIAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A social communication system, comprising a telephone name parsing system which parses a name to a corresponding telephone number or parses a telephone number to a corresponding name during communication. The telephone name parsing system comprises a user identity management unit, a user telephone number unit, a user equipment number unit, a user name unit, a name detection unit, a user number name comparison table, a telephone management unit and a synchronization unit. The communication connection between any two users or among a plurality of users firstly passes through the telephone name parsing system. The telephone name parsing system enables each user to select to pack into a data packet the information and attributes disclosed to an opposite user of this communication connection, and displays same to the opposite user. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160100052 | System and Method for Providing Telephone Call Notification and Management in a Network Environment - Various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide methods and systems to receive an incoming call message via a data interface upon activation of a trigger established with a voice communication network and activated when the voice communication network receives an incoming call to a destination identified by a predetermined subscriber account; generate a call notification in response to the incoming call message; obtain a list of set-top boxes corresponding to the predetermined subscriber account; and route the call notification to the set-top boxes on the list. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160119479 | Method And Apparatus For Network-Intelligence-Determined Identity Or Persona - A method and apparatus is presented for enabling an agent to assume the identity or persona of a called party and process calls directed to the called party. In one embodiment, methods, which enable an agent to assume the identity or persona of a called party, and process calls directed to the called party are considered a call center functions and may be implemented in a call center. A call is initiated to a called party. Initiating the call generates called party information. Using the called party information a server retrieves information associated with the called party and then forward the information associated with the called party to an agent. The call is then forwarded to the agent. As a result, the agent may use the information associated with the called party to assume the identity or persona of the called party when responding to the call. | 04-28-2016 |
