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20080200156 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PROVIDE MEDICAL INFORMATION USING A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus to provide medical information using a communication system are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a caller ID number and providing access to personal medical information based on the caller ID number. | 08-21-2008 |
20080214168 | Cell phone with Personalization of avatar - An avatar is selected by a user. That avatar is then used as part of their personalized identification information with a call to a remote file. The avatar selected on the local phone is displayed on the remote phone when calling. | 09-04-2008 |
20080220752 | Portable Multifunction Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Managing Communications Received While in a Locked State - A computer-implemented method, performed at a portable multifunction device with a display, includes: receiving a plurality of communications via a plurality of communication modalities while the device is in a locked state; and detecting an unlock interaction by the user with the device. In response to detecting the unlock interaction, the method further includes unlocking the device and presenting a communication, or information about the communication, in the plurality of communications that was received while the device was in the locked state. The presented communication or information is presented in accordance with the corresponding communication modality. | 09-11-2008 |
20080233932 | Pre-Programmed Subscriber Response - Methods and apparatuses are disclosed herein for providing pre-programmed responses to received communications. A communication is received and identified. The communication is associated with a pre-programmed response and a response to the communication is generated using the pre-programmed response. Additionally, a context for the pre-programmed response can be established and the pre-programmed response can be based on the context and the communication identification. The communication can include a voice call, text message, Voice-Over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) call, or push-to-talk (PTT) call. | 09-25-2008 |
20080242282 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A USER INTERFACE FOR MANAGING CALLS RECEIVED AT A MOBILE DEVICE - Embodiments of a system and method for providing a user interface for managing calls received at a mobile device is described. The user interface provides an incoming call screen to the user, where the incoming call screen comprises a caller identification data field for displaying data associated with incoming calls and at least one key label field in which labels for mobile device keys (e.g. send and end keys) are displayed. The area of the caller identification data field is substantially greater than the area of the at least one key label field, enabling more information pertaining to incoming calls to be displayed to the user. In at least one embodiment, this is facilitated by providing user-selectable options for responding to incoming calls in an options menu, which can be accessed by a user but is not initially displayed to the user when an incoming call is first received. | 10-02-2008 |
20080242283 | Methods, Systems and Computer Program Products for Enhancing Communications Services - Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, and/or computer program products for enhancing communication services. In some method embodiments, an originating device of a call transmitted to a communication device is identified and a location of the originating device is determined. An identification of the originating device and the location of the originating device is sent to the communication device. | 10-02-2008 |
20080242284 | INTUITIVE DEVICE IDENTIFICATION - A method and system for making it easy for users to identify their mobile device and the applications available for their device is provided, referred to as a device identification system. The device identification system simplifies the process of determining the device a user is using and the applications available for that device. Users are generally much more familiar with their device's features than they are with information such as the model number. Thus, the device identification system makes it easy for users to determine their device type by asking them questions to which they are likely to know the answer. Other features and alternatives are described. | 10-02-2008 |
20080248790 | System and method for providing caller name or caller information to a callee via call signaling - A system for transferring alphanumeric information to a mobile device, embedded with the call signaling, where the mobile device is able to extract the information from the incoming call and display it on the device, the information containing at least one of: {caller's name, caller's brand name, caller's information, caller's brand information}, the information is being added to the call by a network server controlling the call using IN triggers, or being added to the call directly by the caller's mobile device. | 10-09-2008 |
20080261575 | Method for Forming an Audiovisual Call Identifier, a Mobile Communication Device and a Call Identifier - In the invention, an audiovisual call identifier including image and sound is formed for a mobile communication device. The call identifier is repeated on the display and in the loudspeaker of the communication device when a call comes in, i.e. it functions in the same way as an ordinary ring tone when it is used. The first step in the method is to take a shot including moving image and sound by a video camera. The shot taken is saved in the memory of the communication device as a video clip and set as a call identifier of the communication device. The video clip can be taken either by a video camera belonging to the communication device or by a separate device. The call identifier can be set as a general notification sign or it can be associated with a certain phone number or numbers in the phone memo of the communication device, in which case the video clip is repeated on the display and in the loud-speaker of the communication device when a call comes from the phone number(s) in question. The call identifier or a part thereof can also be used as a notification of a phone call arrived in the communication device, which has not been answered. | 10-23-2008 |
20080268823 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR INITIATING, MAINTAINING, AND DELIVERING PERSONALIZED INFORMATION BY COMMUNICATION SERVER - Systems and methods are disclosed for personalized information retrieval related to identified objects, prompted by a coded activation message (AM), containing Object Identifiers (OIs), and necessary message-source's identifiers. Decoded AMs identify the required information recipients and their communication devices (RIDs) and direct a communication server to a site containing identified object-related information, formatted for personalized delivery defined by RID features and preset preferences of relevant entities. The PCWS interactively monitors and directs information flow through selected, preferred communication links, reestablishing flow upon disruptions or per AMs. Alternatively, the system can include sensors for detecting events associated with relevant objects and potential recipients, and submitting AMs on behalf of relevant recipients. Recipients can use keypad or voice commands for online interactive remote-control of PCWS information retrieval, routing and storage. | 10-30-2008 |
20080268824 | System and method for integrating an outgoing cellular call as an enterprise call in an IMS environment - In one embodiment, an IMS network node is operable, responsive to receiving a SIP INVITE request from an enterprise user to initiate origination of an outgoing cellular call to a called party, for establishing a first call leg to the enterprise user by sending a SIP INVITE message back to the enterprise user. The IMS network node includes functionality for establishing a second call leg to the called party. The first and second call legs are patched to establish an end-to-end communications path between the enterprise user and the called party, wherein an enterprise address instead of a non-enterprise address of the enterprise user is presented to the called party as a calling line identity with respect to the outgoing cellular call from the enterprise user. | 10-30-2008 |
20080268825 | System and method for integrating an outgoing cellular call as an enterprise call - In one embodiment, a network node is operable, responsive to receiving a request from an enterprise user to initiate origination of an outgoing cellular call to a called party, for establishing a first call leg to the enterprise user by sending a circuit-switched call that identifies an enterprise address of the enterprise user as a calling line identity. The network node includes functionality for establishing a second call leg to the called party upon receiving an indication from the enterprise user that the first call leg has been established. The first and second call legs are then patched to establish an end-to-end communications path between the enterprise user and the called party, wherein the enterprise address instead of the non-enterprise address is presented to the called party as a calling line identity with respect to the outgoing cellular call from the enterprise user. | 10-30-2008 |
20080280599 | CALL PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A mobile communication terminal is provided. A storage unit stores a disconnect cause associated with caller information. A communication unit receives an incoming call. A controller determines whether the incoming call is associated with the caller information, disconnects the incoming call if the incoming call is associated with the caller information, and sends a disconnect message indicating the disconnect cause to a network station relaying the incoming call. | 11-13-2008 |
20080280600 | Geographic Mobile Address Book - A mobile device is provided that comprises a processor and an address book configured to provide a display to display a current geographic location of a contact associated with an entry in the address book. | 11-13-2008 |
20080280601 | System and Method for Spoken Caller Identification in a Cellular Telephone Headset - A spoken caller identification system comprises a headset and mobile communication device. The mobile communication device sends the caller identification to the headset upon a determination that the headset is in communication with the mobile communication device. | 11-13-2008 |
20080318560 | Device Method and System for Handling Incoming Calls - According to some embodiments of the present invention there is provided a communication device including a call handling unit adapted to handle a given incoming call (i.e. voice calls, video calls, sms, etc.) based on a device operation profile (e.g. general, meeting, silent, outdoor, etc.) and based on an exception parameter associated with an identifier of the given call. The exception parameter may be stored as part of the device operation profile or the exception parameter may be stored as part of contact data associated with the identifier of the given call. | 12-25-2008 |
20090005022 | Methods, Apparatuses and Computer Program Products for Providing a Party Defined Theme - An apparatus for providing a party defined theme may include a processing element. The processing element may be configured to receive an indication of a communication between parties comprising an initiator and a receiver of the communication, identify theme information associated with and defined by one of the parties, and render the identified theme information at the other of the parties in response to receipt of the indication. | 01-01-2009 |
20090005023 | Method and Apparatus for Acquiring Further Information About Caller Using Caller Id - On receiving the caller ID, a request for further information is sent from the called party to a server that searches its database for information that is associated with the caller ID of the calling party so as to obtain further information about the caller, eg, name, image, movie, ring tone, address or map showing the address or personal information. This information is then given to the called user before actually answering the call. Functionality also known as Enhanced caller ID. | 01-01-2009 |
20090011749 | CALL REJECTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME - A call rejecting system ( | 01-08-2009 |
20090017806 | Communication device - According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a communication device including: a communication unit configured to communicate with an opponent by an electric communication network; a vibration unit configured to generate a vibration at a predetermined vibration pattern; a storage unit configured to store identification information about the opponent; a display unit configured to listing the identification information; an operation unit configured to accept an operation for moving a cursor which points at one of identification information listed by the display unit; and a control unit configured to activate the vibration unit in accordance with the one of identification information pointed at with the cursor. | 01-15-2009 |
20090036107 | METHOD, CALLEE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING CALL TRANSFER FUNCTION - A method is provided for transferring an incoming call. The method includes determining whether the incoming call is answered or transferred, converting caller information of the incoming call in a first network to yield converted caller information in a second network for the incoming call being transferred is not answered, sending the converted caller information to a server in the second network, and checking the converted caller information stored in the server. Moreover, a callee station having a callee terminal, and a communication system are used for implementing the method. | 02-05-2009 |
20090042550 | ENHANCED CALL RETURN IN A WIRELESS TELEPHONE NETWORK - A method for enabling enhanced call return in a wireless network comprising receiving an incoming telephone call from a caller, wherein the incoming telephone call identifies a mobile subscriber (MS) as a callee thereof; capturing caller-specific information for the caller, wherein the caller-specific information includes at least one of the name of the caller and the telephone number of the caller; and storing the caller-specific information into an intelligent peripheral (IP) within the wireless network. The method further comprises allowing the MS to access the caller-specific information stored in the IP. The present invention thus allows the mobile subscriber (MS) to subscribe to an enhanced call return (ECR) feature as part of the mobile telephone service plan. The ECR feature allows the mobile subscriber to access caller-specific information for a predetermined number of past callers and also to return calls from those past callers. The caller-specific information may include caller's name, caller's telephone number and the date/time the call was received from the caller. | 02-12-2009 |
20090075636 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING THE IDENTITY OF A USER IN A MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - The invention consists of a method and a system arranged to transmit an identity of a user from a terminal to a database adapted to permanently store information of said user, in a mobile telecommunications network, comprising: inputting means adapted to allow said user to input said identity at said terminal, whereby said identity is modified on a permanent basis by said user; transmitting means adapted to transmit in the form of a message, said identity from said terminal to said database; storing means adapted upon reception of said message to store said identity at said database. | 03-19-2009 |
20090075637 | Communication systems and method - Users can make landline, wireless and/or internet calls from a conventional landline communication device. If the communication device is on a wireless call, that call may be placed on hold to answer an incoming call on the landline. Likewise, if the communication device is on a landline call, that call may be placed on hold to answer an incoming call on the wireless telephone. Wireless and landline calls may also be conferenced together. | 03-19-2009 |
20090088140 | Method and apparatus for enhanced telecommunication interface - A telecommunications system including a telephone including a calling party identification receiver and a peripheral device transceiver; and a headset configured to communication with the telephone via the peripheral device transceiver and configured to deliver calling party identification information to a user as audio information. | 04-02-2009 |
20090098864 | NUMBER TO A NAME - Embodiments disclosed may include a mobile terminal for communication in a wireless communication network comprising a transmitter for transmitting a contact message, a user interface for entering contact information sent in the contact message, a processing unit for executing commands entered by means of the user interface and a visual presentation unit for displaying the user interface and contact message to be transmitted. The user interface is adapted for providing means for adding to the contact message a selectable contact identifier which represents a contact and wherein the processing unit is adapted for associating the selectable contact identifier with a contact number. Also, embodiments disclosed include a method and computer program as well as a signal in a wireless communication network operating along the lines outlined for the mobile terminal. | 04-16-2009 |
20090104898 | A TELEPHONE USING A CONNECTION NETWORK FOR PROCESSING DATA REMOTELY FROM THE TELEPHONE - A system of connection between computers. First and second computers are connected over a network. The network preferably uses an existing channel, such as a wireless connection or a telephone line. The first computer may be a PDA or a cell phone. One aspect may take speech into the telephone, send it over the network connection to the second computer, where it is recognized, and return the recognized speech to the first computer. | 04-23-2009 |
20090111441 | PRIVACY-ENABLED TELEPHONE DIRECTORY - A privacy-enabled telephone directory is disclosed that is implemented through a contact facilitator. The contact facilitator receives a contact request from a caller which includes the name of the party to be called and disambiguation information to distinguish the called party. The contact facilitator applies the disambiguation information to entries in a disambiguation database to select the mobile telephone user corresponding to the contact request information. The contact facilitator then accesses a profile database to retrieve the called party's profile which contains directions for processing the request. Possible directions include immediately connecting the caller with the called party, batching the call, or following other specific instructions regarding the contact request. Profile instructions may be changed by the mobile telephone user at any time. | 04-30-2009 |
20090111442 | System and Method for Playing User-Defined Ring Tones Over a Cellular Telephone Headset - A caller identification system comprises a headset and a mobile communication device. The headset is operably configured to play a ring tone caller identification to a user. The mobile communication device is operably configured to send the ring tone caller identification to the headset upon a determination that the headset is in communication with the mobile communication device. | 04-30-2009 |
20090117886 | Caller ID Messaging - Methods, systems, and apparatuses for caller identification messaging are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a calling party uses a Caller ID Messaging Device that supplants the incoming calling line identification (ICLID) signal with a Caller ID Messaging Signal and transmits the Caller ID Messaging Signal to a destination communications address. An alternate embodiment provides that the calling party may use a conventional telephone to access a communications network, activate Caller ID Messaging Services, compose or retrieve a stored Caller ID Message of the Caller ID Messaging Signal, and transmit the Caller ID Messaging Signal to the destination communications address. The Caller ID Message and Caller ID Messaging Signal may include text, video, voice, and/or digital data. | 05-07-2009 |
20090124242 | Mobile terminal and multimedia message processing method thereof - A mobile terminal and multimedia message processing method thereof is provided for efficiently processing a multimedia message composed of multiple pages. A multimedia message processing method of the present invention includes receiving a message arrival alert containing a preview page selected among multiple pages constituting a multimedia message; displaying the preview page; determining whether an event allowing or rejecting download of the remaining pages of the multimedia message is received; and rejecting, when an event for rejecting download of the remaining pages of the multimedia message is received, download of the remaining pages of the multimedia message. The multimedia message processing method of the present invention allows a user to determine whether to download the entire multimedia message after viewing a preview page carried by a message arrival alert, thereby avoiding download of unwanted multimedia message, resulting in reduction of data service cost and improvement of memory utilization. | 05-14-2009 |
20090156186 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING CONTACTS IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - An improved method, device and computer-readable medium for managing contacts in a mobile communications device are presented. A contact manager receives a telephone call in a mobile communications device and identifies a telephone number associated with the telephone call. If the user attempts to add the number to a contact list, the contact manager consults a contact list policy which is used to determine whether the number is a temporary number. If the telephone number is a temporary number, the telephone number is automatically marked as temporary and automatically assigned a triggering event. The telephone number is automatically removed from the contact list upon an occurrence of the triggering event. | 06-18-2009 |
20090163191 | Method and apparatus for providing a wireless portable communcation device with the ability to selectively display picture and video images - Unwanted picture or video images are inhibited from being displayed by wireless communication devices based on the identity of the message originator, be that identity a phone number, an e-mail address, a website, a blocked message originator identification signal, the absence of a message originator identifier associated with the wireless picture message, or an electronic serial number of the message originator's device. | 06-25-2009 |
20090163192 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR CALL ALERTING - A method of operating a communication system comprises receiving an incoming call, wherein a caller identification is associated with the incoming call, generating an alert message for the incoming call, wherein the alert message includes the caller identification, transmitting the alert message from a wireless base station to a mobile communication device, in response to the alert message, receive a response message from the mobile communication device, wherein the response message indicates a destination for the incoming call, processing the destination in the response message to generate routing instructions for the incoming call, and routing the incoming call based on the routing instructions. | 06-25-2009 |
20090170486 | Urgent communications - A communications system by which a user may provide inputs using an accessory device is provided. The accessory device may provide instructions to the communications device over any suitable wired or wireless communications path. The accessory device may include any suitable input mechanism for providing an input, including for example one or more switches, sliders, knobs, keys, motion sensing components, environmental sensing components, or any other input mechanism that the user may actuate. A communications system by which a communications device may transmit urgent communications requests is provided. The user may select an urgent option when transmitting a communications request to cause the recipient communications device to enable an urgent mode in which the recipient communications device may change the notification scheme to ensure that the recipient receives the urgent communications request. | 07-02-2009 |
20090170487 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING CALLER INFORMATION - The present invention discloses a method and device for displaying caller information. The method includes: obtaining caller identification from a received traffic request; searching for the caller information corresponding to the caller identification, according to the caller identification; and displaying the caller information in a display format preset by a user. The method and device of the present invention can realize displaying information desired by the user, according to the presetting of the user, and satisfy the diverse requirement of the user. | 07-02-2009 |
20090176484 | Method for Displaying Caller Information of Portable Device - A method of displaying a caller information in a portable device includes setting up an item of the caller information of each caller, and displaying the caller information based on the set item of the caller information of a caller corresponding to a phone number of the caller when the portable device receives an incoming call. Accordingly, caller information desired by the user of the portable device may be displayed, and thus various and personalized caller information may be displayed. | 07-09-2009 |
20090197583 | Apparatus and Method for Providing Visual Information Identifying a Stored Voicemail - A system and method are provided for generating a visual display of information identifying the origin of a voicemail message targeted at a particular user. The visual display is presented to the user on the screen of the user's mobile device or handset. At least a portion of the information identifying the origin of the voicemail is captured from information sent with the telephone call when the call is placed. | 08-06-2009 |
20090209240 | AUTO MESSAGING TO CURRENTLY CONNECTED CALLER - A messaging application and a telephony application can be activated on a mobile device for sending messages to a connected party while a telephone connection is established between the mobile device and the connected party. A user can compose a message or send a file from the mobile device to the connected party based on the caller details associated with the connected party. | 08-20-2009 |
20090209241 | ENHANCED CALLER ID INFORMATION BASED ON ACCESS DEVICE INFORMATION VIA A BROADBAND ACCESS GATEWAY - A system and method for providing enhanced information to a user is described. A broadband access gateway communicatively coupled to a plurality of access devices may collect information about multimedia content available on the access devices and/or information exchanged with access devices. The gateway may search the collect information upon receiving information identifying a called or calling party, to find information that may be associated with the called or calling party. Selected items of the information associated with the called or calling party may then be delivered to the access device of the called or calling party. Information accessible to the gateway via a broadband connection may also be made available to the user of the access device. | 08-20-2009 |
20090264112 | METHOD AND ARCHITECTURE TO DELIVER PRE-CUSTOMIZED BUSINESS CARD MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS THROUGH IMS-BASED PLMNS FOR IMPROVING THE EXISTING CALLING LINE IDENTIFICATION SERVICE - An improved Calling Line Identification (CLI) service is implemented inside a cellular telephony network connected to the IMS platform for delivering IP-based multimedia services to the end users. The new architecture is based on a multimedia CLI-dedicated server (MM-CLI) connected to the IMS and the packet switched (PS) domain of the core network. The MM-CLI comprises: a Control server, media storage, and a web interface. The control server is devoted to handle the SIP signalizing flow including a SIP element called MESSAGE carrying in its body either the multimedia contents of the so-called business card or HTTP address link to retrieve the components of said multimedia contents. The media storage stores multimedia contents of the business cards and/or said HTTP address links according to respective user's profiles. The web interface web allows the end users to download the multimedia components of the business cards through the addressed HTTP links. The handsets include a client application for monitoring the line status of the caller and transmitting the SIP MESSAGE at the very initial instant of the call setup. The client further monitors both the line status of the callee and the incoming SIP stack for synchronizing the CLI information and either get or retrieve the multimedia components of the business card. A player internal to the user phone renders and plays the business cards. | 10-22-2009 |
20090275316 | Minimal Distraction Capture of Spoken Contact Information - Real-time automatic capturing and storing is described for contact information such as a telephone number or other well-structured contact information spoken during a conversation over the mobile telephone. A user input is received to capture contact information contained in recent audio data processed by the mobile device. Speech in the recent audio data is identified that corresponds to the contact information. Then speech recognition is used to extract the contact information from the identified speech. The contact information is stored in mobile device memory storage. | 11-05-2009 |
20090280785 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING PROXIMITY BASED ROUTING OF A PHONE CALL - A method, system, and computer program for routing an incoming voice call in real time is presented. A call is received from a caller to an intended receiving wireless telecommunication device. In response to the call failing to connect to the intended receiving wireless telecommunication device, a short range wireless query signal is transmitted to determine if an other wireless communication device is within a predefined proximity to the intended receiving wireless telecommunication device. If the intended receiving wireless telecommunication device receives a response from the other wireless telecommunication device indicating that the other wireless telecommunication device is within the predefined proximity to the intended receiving wireless telecommunication device, then the call is rerouted to the other wireless telecommunication device. | 11-12-2009 |
20090280786 | UPDATING CONTACT INFORMATION FOR MOBILE TRAFFIC - A system for managing contact information between mobile devices. A notification is received any time a mobile device initiates or terminates a communication. The receiving mobile device is prompted to obtain the contact information of the caller. Based on permissions set by the caller, the receiving mobile device may obtain the caller's public contact information, private contact information, none of the caller's contact information or some combination of the caller's public and private contact information. In one embodiment, a subset of the caller's contact information is displayed in the screen of a receiving mobile device coincidentally while receiving the phone call to provide a caller-identification feature. | 11-12-2009 |
20090298486 | CALL SWITCHING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONNECTING CALL THEREIN - A call switching system having a plurality of mobile terminals, each having individual identification information for connecting a call, and a method of connecting a call therein are provided. The method includes displaying, by a second mobile terminal, when a call is connected between a first mobile terminal and the second mobile terminal, previously stored identification information, transmitting, by the second mobile terminal, if one of the displayed identification information is selected, the selected identification information to the first mobile terminal, and releasing, by the first mobile terminal, when the selected identification information is received, the connected call and connecting another call using the received identification information. Therefore, in a call switching system, a mobile terminal can connect a call through another mobile terminal. | 12-03-2009 |
20090311998 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STORING A CONTACT DETAIL IN A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method and system for storing a contact detail in a communication device is provided. The device receives Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) signals from another device during a communication session with the other device. The received DTMF signals correspond to the contact detail entered at the other device. The received DTMF signals are decoded at the device to obtain the contact detail. Thereafter, the decoded contact detail is then stored in a list in the device. The device user may have the option to accept or reject the contact detail and where to store the contact detail. | 12-17-2009 |
20090311999 | Customized ring tones for mobile phones based on context information - A method in one embodiment includes receiving, by a mobile client device, an incoming call sent by a caller, a caller ID being associated with the incoming call. A node connected to a packet-based network is accessed to obtain information about the caller. Information about the caller is then received from the node by the mobile client device. This information is applied to a set of client rules that selects a specific ring tone from a plurality of ring tones stored on the mobile client device. Finally, the specific ring tone is generated on the mobile client device to announce the incoming call. | 12-17-2009 |
20090325558 | METHOD OF COMPILING A LIST OF IDENTIFIERS ASSOCIATED WITH A MOBILE DEVICE USER - A method of compiling a list of IDs associated with a mobile device user, the method including the steps of: a) identifying and recording a first subscriber ID and a first device ID; b) using one of the first IDs as a key to identify one or more second IDs, each of which has been associated with the key in a mobile device communication; and c) recording the second ID(s). | 12-31-2009 |
20090325559 | USING CALLER ID FOR SERVICE BASED TWO-WAY VOICE HYBRID DATA AND VOICE REPORTING - A method is presented for providing alarm notification and two-way voice communication for a hybrid data/voice system. In one embodiment, the method comprises sending an alarm notification from a communication device to an alarm forwarding service, recognizing an ID of the communication device, using said ID to create a three-way call among the alarm forwarding service, the communication device and a central station, and initiating a two-way voice communication between said communication device and the central station. In another embodiment, the method comprises sending an alarm notification from a communication device to an alarm forwarding service, establishing a connection from said alarm forwarding service to said communication device, using said connection to create a three-way call among the alarm forwarding service, the communication device and a central station, and initiating a two-way voice communication between the communication device and the central station. | 12-31-2009 |
20090325560 | SYSTEM AND MOBILE TERMINAL FOR DISPLAYING CALLER INFORMATION AND METHOD THEREOF - Caller information display system includes a caller terminal, a service system and a receiver terminal. The caller terminal stores caller information and transmits data including the caller information during a call. The service system receives the data including the caller information from the caller terminal and transmits the data to a receiver terminal. The receiver terminal receives the data from the service system, stores the caller information to be linked with a telephone number of the caller terminal, and displays the caller information when a paging signal is received. | 12-31-2009 |
20100009664 | METHODS, TELECOMMUNICATIONS NODE, AND USER EQUIPMENT FOR TRANSMISSION OF USER IDENTIFIER - A method, telecommunications node, and User Equipment (UE) are provided for transmitting a user identifier such as a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in a presence document of a user, and for using that URL for handling communications. When an a first user, e.g. an IMS user communicates with a second user, e.g. an IMPS user, oftentimes the first user only knows the Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Number (MSISDN) of the second user, and not also his URL. The invention allows for the transmissions of the second user's URL inside a presence document relative to that second user. The first user subscribes to presence information relative to the second user, and receives a presence document that includes, along the second user's presence information, also the second user's URL. Then, the first user uses the URL for handling communications with the second user, including initiating outgoing communications, or handling incoming communications from the second user. | 01-14-2010 |
20100015963 | Establishment of Communications Connections Between Vehicles - A method for setting up communication links between a first vehicle and at least one second vehicle using telematics units, wherein the telematics unit is activated by the respective driver, and the driver of the first vehicle uses the telematics unit to input registration identifiers into the telematics unit in the first vehicle, and the telematics unit in the first vehicle sets up a communication link to at least one second telematics unit in a second vehicle, and the registration identifier is checked by the telematics unit in the second vehicle via the communication link, and the registration identifier of the first vehicle is output to the driver of the second vehicle via the telematics unit in the vehicle, with setup of a communication link to the first vehicle being confirmed by an input, requested by the driver of the second vehicle, using the telematics unit in the second vehicle. | 01-21-2010 |
20100015964 | Method and System for Call Switching During Multi-Party Calling - A method and system for call switching during multi-party calling are disclosed. The method of call switching during multi-party calling includes: receiving, by a base station, a call switch request signal from a first mobile terminal; placing, by the base station in response to the call switch request signal, a second mobile terminal in call active state from call waiting state as to the first mobile terminal, and sending a call switch response signal containing number digit information of the second mobile terminal to the first mobile terminal; and extracting, by the first mobile terminal, number digit information contained in the received call switch response signal, and displaying the number digit information on a display unit. The call switch response signal further includes an indication of number digit inclusion. Hence, the user of a mobile terminal can visually identify the counterpart through a displayed phone number. | 01-21-2010 |
20100015965 | INTEGRATED HANDHELD COMPUTING AND TELEPHONY DEVICE - A method and apparatus for an organizer that may receive a cellular portion to form a cellular telephone is provided. An organizer comprises an organizer component, including a microphone. The organizer further includes an area for receiving an additional component. The area is designed to receive a cellular component, and a connection element is designed to mate the microphone in the organizer component with the cellular component, to use the organizer as a part of a cellular telephone. | 01-21-2010 |
20100029256 | CELL PHONE LOCATOR METHOD - A method of locating a cellular phone on an aircraft includes detecting a cellular phone transmission of a passenger on an aircraft, logging a subscriber number and a serial number of the phone, transmitting the subscriber number and the serial number of the phone to a common carrier for caller identification information, attempting to match the caller identification information with a database, displaying a name and a seat number of the passenger if a match was found between the caller identification information and the database, and recording all information related to the cellular phone transmission. | 02-04-2010 |
20100029257 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - In a cellular phone | 02-04-2010 |
20100029258 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING COMPREHENSIVE ORIGINATOR IDENTIFICATION SERVICES - A method for transmitting enhanced originator information over a communications network includes retrieving a service profile for a recipient terminal from a service profile database in response to initiation of a communication by an originator terminal to the recipient terminal. The service profile specifies a service plan and a terminal capability of the recipient terminal to retrieve the enhanced originator information from the originator terminal. The method also includes retrieving multiple information elements associated with the originator terminal from a network database based upon the service plan and the terminal capability of the recipient terminal, and transmitting a communication including the multiple information elements to the recipient terminal prior to establishing a communications session with the recipient terminal. The service plans are stored in a dual format that accommodates both graphically-enabled caller identification devices and caller identification devices that are not graphically enabled. | 02-04-2010 |
20100029259 | Providing Location Information For Wireless Devices Using Name Service - A caller number is provided to a network element that associates name information with the caller number. The network element receives location information for the caller and provides the location information and name information as a response to being provided the caller number. | 02-04-2010 |
20100035591 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION USING IDENTIFICATION NUMBER ALLOCATED TO COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and system for providing information for using an identification number, which is a user-by-user information DB, is provided to individual user when each user desires, thereby preventing inconvenience due to the indiscriminately provided information, and simultaneously providing and efficiently delivering the information to the providers. A system for providing information for using identification number comprising: a user terminal for calling an identification number corresponding to information of a user's interest; a user-by-user information DB constructed such that the user matches to information data of the user's interest; a server for setting and changing a correspondence relation between the user and information data of the user's interest in the user-by-user information DB according to an identification number call from the user terminal; and a message center for transmitting an interest information message corresponding to the information data of user's interest to the user terminal, responding to the request of server. | 02-11-2010 |
20100035592 | SERVICE PROCESSING METHOD, SERVICE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND SERVICE CONTROL POINT - A service processing method, a service processing system, and a service control point (SCP) are provided. The service processing method includes the following steps. A processing request from a user is received. It is determined whether the user is a switched service user or not according to a user number of the user, if the user is not the switched service user, the processing request is processed locally, and if the user is not the switched service user, the processing request is forwarded to a home location of the user after switching the service for processing. In the present invention, it is determined whether a user who sends a service processing request has switched service or not, and if the user has switched the service, the request is forwarded to a home SCP and a processing device of the user after switching the service for processing. Thereby, the management process of the original service is maintained, and updates can be performed in real time with high efficiency and low operating cost. | 02-11-2010 |
20100048190 | MOBILE TERMINAL EQUIPPED WITH MULTIPLE DISPLAY MODULES AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF THE MOBILE TERMINAL - Provided is a method of controlling the operation of a mobile terminal equipped with first and second display modules provided on first and second surfaces, respectively, of a main body of the mobile terminal. The method includes choosing an operation menu; displaying a first image corresponding to the chosen operation menu on a first display module; and displaying a second image corresponding to the chosen operation menu on a second display module. Therefore, it is possible to effectively control the operation of the mobile terminal using the first and second display modules. | 02-25-2010 |
20100056119 | AUTOMATED MOBILE INTELLIGENT CALL PROCESSING SYSTEM - A system and method for providing enhanced information to a mobile telephone regarding a calling device is described. The system and method includes receiving an incoming call request at a mobile telephone including the identifier of the calling device. An information request is then formulated including the identifier of the calling device. The information request is transmitted from the mobile phone to the query processing center via a data communication channel. A response is then obtained from the data processing center and transmitted to the mobile phone via the data communication channel. The response received from the data processing center includes the requested information related to the calling device. | 03-04-2010 |
20100056120 | METHOD AND SERVER FOR FILTERING TELEPHONE CALLS - The present relates to a method and server for collecting call information associated with an incoming call to a user terminal attached to said telecommunication network. The server comprises determining means for determining a set of answering options to be provided to the user terminal based at least on said call information, and transmitting means for transmitting information indicating the determined set of answering options to the user terminal. | 03-04-2010 |
20100075644 | DELIVERY OF CALLER IDENTIFICATION DATA TO A MOBILE DEVICE USING APPLICATION DIRECTED SHORT MESSAGING SERVICE - Caller name (CNAM) query results obtained from a traditional CNAM service are sent during call processing on a carrier network to the subscriber's mobile handset over a Short Message Service (SMS) channel on a mobile carrier network. A call page is received at a network carrier associated with a recipient of the received call page. A caller name (CNAM) query is performed, and the result of the performed CNAM query is sent to the recipient device before sending the call page to the recipient device. The CNAM query result is displayed on a display of the recipient device. | 03-25-2010 |
20100075645 | MOBILE DEVICE AND LOCATION-INFORMATION NOTIFICATION METHOD - A mobile phone A and a mobile phone B are in a call process and are capable of performing voice communication with each other. In such a state, the mobile phone A activates a GPS and acquires location information when an instruction to determine the location information about a location of the mobile phone A is received from an owner of the mobile phone A during a call process to the mobile phone B. Thereafter, the mobile phone A reads out aloud the acquired location information to audibly notify the mobile phone B using a voice communication line connected to the mobile phone B. | 03-25-2010 |
20100093329 | PORTABLE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING EVENTS ACCORDING TO ENVIRONMENT SET IN THE PORTABLE TERMINAL - An event displaying method and a portable terminal adapted to the method are provided. The method displays events in the portable terminal whose environments are set according to pieces of user information. The method includes setting an environment of the portable terminal based on an environment selected from among the pieces of information, identifying, if a communication event is received by the portable terminal while it is operated in the set environment, connecting information included in the received communication event, determining whether the identified connecting information is included in the selected user information, determining, if it is determined that the identified connecting information is not included in the selected user information, whether the identified connecting information exists in other user information, and displaying, if it is determined that the identified connecting information exists in other user information, the other user information and the communication event. | 04-15-2010 |
20100112992 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN IDENTITY TO A USER EQUIPMENT AND APPARATUS THEREOF - In a radio communications system, the identity of user equipment is provided upon receiving an access node a first message from at least one user equipment of a plurality of user equipment, where the first message includes information relating to the at least one user equipment. An identity for the at least one user equipment is generated by the access node based upon the information received. A second message that includes the identity is transmitted by the access node to the at least one user equipment, where a payload size for the identity is constant. | 05-06-2010 |
20100112993 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE IDENTIFICATION - A method, a device, and a system for message identification are provided. The method for message identification includes: receiving an MO message carrying a calling identifier and a calling party address; obtaining a VMSC address of a subscriber corresponding to the calling identifier; and determining whether the calling party address is consistent with the obtained VMSC address or not, and if not, the MO message is a spoof message. The device and the system are a device and a system corresponding to the method for message identification, which are capable of realizing effective identification of message spoofing behaviors. | 05-06-2010 |
20100112994 | HANDS-FREE DEVICE - A hands-free device which is possible to establish a session for hands-free and a session for obtaining phonebook data by short-range wireless communication, obtains phonebook data via the session for obtaining phonebook data and stores the phonebook data. The hands-free device retrieves phonebook data obtained from a device to which the hands-free device is connected by the hands-free session. | 05-06-2010 |
20100124914 | LOCATION-BASED ENABLING/DISABLING OF CALLER ID/CALLER ID BLOCKING FEATURES FOR MOBILE DEVICE - A mobile device including a location module configured to determine a location of the mobile device, and a caller identification (ID) and/or caller ID blocking module configured to provide caller ID and/or caller ID blocking features by sending and/or receiving a signal with caller ID and/or caller ID blocking information. The caller identification and/or caller ID blocking module is configured to enable and disable the caller ID and/or caller ID blocking features based upon the location of the mobile device determined by the location module. | 05-20-2010 |
20100124915 | CONTACT-CENTRIC USER-INTERFACE FEATURES FOR COMPUTING DEVICES - Embodiments described herein provide a system, method and technique for operating a communication device. According to an embodiment, information contained in a contact record is displayed, where the information includes a plurality of entries. Each entry is associated with one of a plurality of communication types and includes an identifier for use with an application of the associated communication type. An input is detected corresponding to a user's selection of one of the plurality of entries. In response to the user's selection, the application of the communication type associated with the selected entry is automatically executed by initiating a communication using the identifier included in the selected entry. | 05-20-2010 |
20100130185 | DISCLOSURE OF COMMUNICATION INFORMATION - A user can have a contract with a mobile communication provider such that a limited number of communication minutes can be used overall or a limited number of minutes can be used with other providers. When incoming call identification information is disclosed, additional information can be presented relating to the contract, such as what provider the incoming call uses and how many free minutes the user has with an incoming provider. The user, in determining if the incoming communication should be engaged, can employ the additional information and make an appropriate decision. | 05-27-2010 |
20100151843 | Transmission Of Contact Information About An Initiating Communication Partner To A Receiving Communication Partner In The Course Of A Call - A method for the at least partially automatic determination of contact information of at least one communication partner in the context of a communication connection between at least two communication partners in a communication network is proposed, wherein at least one contact information of the communication partner initiating the communication connection is communicated to the at least one receiving communication partner. The at least one contact information is predetermined by the communication partner initiating the communication connection. Furthermore, a terminal for the use in a communication network is provided, preferably a mobile network according to a GSM, GPRS and/or UMTS radio network standard, which terminal is designed and/or adapted to at least partially carry out the method. Furthermore, a network node in a communication network is provided, preferably a mobile network according to a GSM, GPRS and/or UMTS radio network standard, which node at least contributes to the establishment, the holding and/or the disconnection of the communication connection. | 06-17-2010 |
20100178904 | MESSAGING SERVICE SUBSCRIPTION - A messaging service system, including a call component for receiving a voice call from a caller and transmitting call data associated with the call, the call data including caller identification (ID) data; and a subscription server for receiving the call data, causing the call component to send a subscription acceptance message to the caller, and storing the caller ID data in association with data representing a messaging service identified by the called number of the call data. | 07-15-2010 |
20100178905 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING CALL SERVICE - A method and a device for supporting a call service are provided. In the process of performing communication with another mobile communication terminal, a network identification number is detected from SID information received from a base station, a service provider of the other mobile communication terminal is determined based on the detected network identification number, and a subscriber information module that can use a communication service based on the determined service provider is recommended in the case of communicating with the other mobile communication terminal. | 07-15-2010 |
20100184417 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFECTING DATA COMMUNICATIONS WITH A WIRELESS DEVICE - A method for effecting data communications with a wireless communication device includes: (a) configuring the wireless communication device for responding to at least one predetermined alert for initiating the data communications with at least one predetermined communicant; (b) transmitting the at least one predetermined alert to the wireless communication device; and (c) operating the wireless communication device in response to recognizing the at least one predetermined alert to initiate a data session for effecting the data communications with the at least one predetermined communicant. | 07-22-2010 |
20100197287 | TECHNIQUE FOR REQUESTING AND PROVIDING IN-CALL SERVICES - A technique for requesting and providing in-call services encompasses a method of calling an information service during an ongoing call between two or more call parties. The method comprises the steps of receiving, during the ongoing call, a message from a first call party, determining that the message requests the provision of information associated with a second call party, obtaining a first identifier indicative of the second call party and sending a service request including the first identifier to the information service. | 08-05-2010 |
20100203874 | MOBILE DEVICE WITH ENHANCED TELEPHONE CALL INFORMATION AND A METHOD OF USING SAME - A mobile device with enhanced telephone call information and a method of using same are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method of providing enhanced phone call information on a mobile communication device, comprising: receiving an incoming call on the device; identifying a contact name in an address book stored in a memory of the device in accordance with a phone number associated with the incoming call when the contact name is not provided with the incoming call; identifying a contact name in a remote contact source in accordance with a phone number associated with the incoming call when the contact name is not provided with the incoming call and not found in the address book stored in a memory of the device; and displaying the identified contact name in a user interface screen on a display screen of the device. | 08-12-2010 |
20100216440 | Privacy Stamp for Cover UI - A privacy stamp for preventing the automatic display of private data items stored in a memory of a mobile telecommunications apparatus. The telecommunications apparatus is provided with user operable means to selectively associate a privacy stamp with the stored data items such that a processor prevents the data items associated with the privacy stamp from being automatically displayed on a user interface. | 08-26-2010 |
20100216441 | METHOD FOR PHOTO TAGGING BASED ON BROADCAST ASSISTED FACE IDENTIFICATION - An electronic device, method, and system for obtaining data to be associated with a digital photograph captured with the device. The device includes a photograph management application for associating data with a digital photograph captured with the device. The photograph management application is configured to extract facial images from a photograph, determine a faceprint for the facial image, transmit the faceprint to remote mobile devices within a communication zone of the device that captured the image, receive data from a remote device recognizing the transmitted faceprint, and associate the data received from the remote device with the digital photograph. | 08-26-2010 |
20100216442 | INFORMATION UPDATE IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A method of updating contact information stored in one or more phone book entries stored in a mobile communication terminal comprises receiving caller id information; comparing the received caller id information with contact information stored in the one or more phone book entries; and displaying the contact information in one of said phone book entries, if the contact information at least partially matches the caller id information. | 08-26-2010 |
20100222044 | System and Method for Providing Identifying Information to a Mobile Device - A system and method for providing identifying information about the source of an incoming communication to a mobile device is provided. An incoming communication is received by an enterprise network and a connection is established to the mobile device. A DTMF message is sent to the mobile device by the enterprise network. If the source of the incoming communication has an enterprise-assigned number then the DTMF message comprises an identifying key corresponding to the key field of a profile list comprising enterprise-assigned numbers and an identifying information entry for each enterprise-assigned number in the list. If the source of the incoming communication does not have an enterprise-assigned number, the DTMF message comprises an identifying number for the source of the incoming communication. If DTMF is not available on the mobile device, similar logic may be employed using, for example, ANI manipulation. | 09-02-2010 |
20100234003 | WHO-CALLED SYSTEM FOR DETECTING AND REPORTING SLAMDOWN CALLS IN A MOBILE NETWORK - A system and method to detect and provide information related to slamdown calls placed to a subscriber's mobile device. In one embodiment, a who-called server is implemented as part of a GSM network that uses a CAMEL protocol. The who-called server receives a CAMEL-based trigger when an incoming call placed to the subscriber's mobile device is deflected to a forwarded entity. In some instances, the who-called server ensures that the incoming call was deflected because the subscriber's mobile device was unreachable. The who-called server then determines whether the calling party abandons the incoming call before incoming call is answered by the forwarded entity. If the calling party does abandon the incoming call, the who-called server captures the calling party's identification information. The who-called server, in some instances, transmits the identification information to the subscriber after the subscriber's mobile device switches from the unreachable state to a reachable state. | 09-16-2010 |
20100234004 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CELLULAR CALL GATING VIA A FEMTO CELL - Embodiments of the disclosed invention include a system and method for providing cellular call gating. For example, in one embodiment, a femto cell is disclosed that includes a transceiver configured to send and receive signals associated with a registered cellular device; a processing unit configured to execute instructions to enable call gating function associated with the registered cellular device; a network interface configured to receive an incoming call to the registered cellular device; a caller identification module configured to identifying a caller ID associated with the incoming call; a data storage unit containing a list of allowed caller IDs associated with the registered cellular device; and a call gating module configured to route the incoming call to the registered cellular device if the caller ID associated with the incoming call is on the list of allowed caller IDs. | 09-16-2010 |
20100248703 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PICTURE CALLER IDENTIFICATION FEATURE - An apparatus having a picture caller identification (“CID”) feature provides enhanced entertainment value and is also capable of preventing screen burn. According to an exemplary embodiment, the apparatus includes a memory operative to store data indicating an association between a first plurality of pictures and a first phone number, and a processor operative to enable display of the first plurality of pictures in response to receiving a phone call from the first phone number. | 09-30-2010 |
20100267373 | METHOD OF DETECTING INCORRECT CELL IDENTITY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - By transmitting the Measurement cell identity (MCI), in addition to the PCI PLMN cell identity (PCI), in a request to a node, an MCI to PCI mismatch is early discovered by the node and reported to the source eNode B. The handover procedure can be aborted in an earlier stage, saving time and resources. The node can then also include information in the response to the source eNode B, which makes it possible for the source eNode B to blacklist MCIs and MCI to PCI combinations. This way faulty or faked MCIs or PCIs can be discovered already in the source eNode B, saving even more time and resources. | 10-21-2010 |
20100273465 | OUTGOING CALLER IDENTIFICATION - Systems, products, and methods are disclosed for performing a method of enabling a mobile device to perform a method of automatically associating a string with an outgoing-called number. One embodiment of the method includes, incident to at least initiating an outgoing call, establishing a communications link between a mobile device and a remote computing device through a wireless telecommunications network. The method further includes sending to the remote computing device an indication or phone number associated with the outgoing call when a label is not associated with that phone number. This label would otherwise identify an entity associated with said phone number. An embodiment continues in which a string that was identified based on the phone number is received at the mobile device. Finally, the mobile device modifies (which can including initializing) a label associated with the former mere phone number based on the string received. | 10-28-2010 |
20100279671 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - There are provided a communication apparatus and a communication method that enable notification of caller information in an oversea call. A portable phone | 11-04-2010 |
20100291909 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CALLER RECOGNITION BASED ON BIOMETRIC DATA AND BIOMETRIC MOBILE DEVICE ADDRESS BOOK - Mobile devices transmit biometric data with a call initiation request to enable caller recognition within a contacts database so that caller information can be displayed even if the incoming telephone number is not recognized. A mobile device used to place a call gathers biometric data, such as a fingerprint scan. To protect user identity information the biometric data may be distorted or otherwise modified. The caller biometric data may be communicated as part of a call initiation process. The called mobile device may include a contacts database which includes within the data records stored biometric data associated with contacts. The called mobile device compares received biometric data to biometric data stored within the contacts database to determine if there is a match. If a match or partial match is determined, the contact record associated with that matching biometric data can be accessed and the associated contact information displayed. | 11-18-2010 |
20100297988 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A USER INTERFACE FOR MANAGING CALLS RECEIVED AT A MOBILE DEVICE - Embodiments of a system and method for providing a user interface for managing calls received at a mobile device is described. The user interface provides an incoming call screen to the user, where the incoming call screen comprises a caller identification data field for displaying data associated with incoming calls and at least one key label field in which labels for mobile device keys (e.g. send and end keys) are displayed. The area of the caller identification data field is substantially greater than the area of the at least one key label field, enabling more information pertaining to incoming calls to be displayed to the user. In at least one embodiment, this is facilitated by providing user-selectable options for responding to incoming calls in an options menu, which can be accessed by a user but is not initially displayed to the user when an incoming call is first received. | 11-25-2010 |
20100304729 | IN-CALL CONTACT INFORMATION DISPLAY - Call control information regarding a phone call that a user of a mobile communications device is currently engaged in with an individual is displayed on a screen. A request to display in-call contact information is received, and in response to the request the in-call contact information regarding the individual is displayed. This request can be a single user input, and the in-call contact information can include information obtained by the mobile communications device from a social networking service. | 12-02-2010 |
20100330970 | Displaying Caller Information on Wireless Local Network Connected Device - A method, a computer program, a computer program product and a user equipment ( | 12-30-2010 |
20110003584 | TERMINAL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PHONE-BOOK MANAGEMENT METHOD - A terminal device includes a deletion reason-registration unit configured to register deletion target information and deletion reason information with a storage unit storing information relating to a communication destination and a communication processing unit configured to acquire the deletion reason information registered by the deletion reason-registration unit from the storage unit upon receiving information about a communication connection request issued from a device of a communication destination corresponding to the deletion target information stored in the storage unit, and executes communication processing based on the acquired deletion reason information. | 01-06-2011 |
20110014900 | ADVANCED INTERNET-BASED CALLER ID INFORMATION/DATA FOR MOBILE PHONES AND MOBILE NETWORKS - A method to implement CID enhancement performed by mobile phone software, running on a user/subscriber's mobile phone, in communication with a response server of a Website during an incoming call. The method includes alerting the Website by transmission of an initiation command from the mobile phone upon receipt of the incoming call, extracting the caller number from the phone ringing feature of the mobile phone, connecting the mobile phone over the Internet to the response server and responding to the initiation command, such that the caller's ID is displayed with said relevant caller information and said other caller data in real time, and is provided within the few seconds elapsed before the user/subscriber answers the phone call. | 01-20-2011 |
20110028135 | VIRTUAL SIM MONITORING MODE FOR MOBILE HANDSETS - A system and methods that inform users of calls placed to a mobile device via a currently disabled VSIM subscription include identifying the VSIM subscription that is currently enabled on the mobile device and sending an alert to the mobile device via the currently enabled VSIM subscription informing the user of the received call attempt. In an embodiment, the user may switch the enabled VSIM subscription in order to receive the incoming call. If the user switches enabled VSIM subscriptions to the subscription corresponding to the dialed number, the caller's service provider network may be informed so that a communication can then be established between the caller and the mobile device. | 02-03-2011 |
20110034156 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISAMBIGUATING ENTRIES IN A CONTACTS LIST DATABASE IMPLEMENTED ON A MOBILE DEVICE - Methods and systems for disambiguating entries within a contacts listing database of a mobile device detect newly created contact records having a same data element (e.g., a telephone number) and alert the user. Other contact records storing the same data element may be identified. Matching contact records may be grouped and provided a group label so that when a call is received from a member of the group, the mobile device can identify the caller using the group label. Call logs can similarly be disambiguated by informing a user when a call has been made to or received from a number that matches values in data fields of more than one contact record and enabling the user to edit or augment information recorded in the call log to properly reflect the identity of the other party to the call. | 02-10-2011 |
20110065426 | METHOD AND NETWORK FOR DISPLAYING A CALLER ID IN WiMAX/GSM INTEGRATED SUPPORT TERMINAL - A method of displaying a caller ID in a WiMAX/GSM integrated support portable terminal is provided. When a service is requested from a portable terminal, a message is transmitted for confirming whether to perform a caller ID (CID) display service through a corresponding channel through which the service has been requested. If the CID display service is determined to be performed after the message is received through the channel through which the service has been requested, the corresponding inherent identification information of the portable terminal in an SMS for transmission, and a subscriber identification information of the corresponding portable terminal is confirmed through the received SMS. The inherent identification information included in the SMS is extracted and the extracted inherent identification information to the subscriber identification information is matched. The matched identification information stored and a caller ID service is registered for a subsequent identification purpose. | 03-17-2011 |
20110076995 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MULTIMEDIA OBJECT LINKED TO MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A system and method for providing a multimedia object linked to the mobile communication network is provided. The method includes: (a) the mobile device detecting a ringing signal or call signal of a call; (b) the mobile device extracting a phone number from the detected ringing signal or call signal; (c) the mobile device requesting the expression object server for a multimedia expression object corresponding to the extracted phone number; (d) the expression object server searching a multimedia expression object corresponding to the extracted phone number and transmitting it to the mobile device; and (e) the mobile device displaying the multimedia expression object at least one of the times for originating a call, receiving a call, in the middle of a call and at the end of a call. | 03-31-2011 |
20110124323 | COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT FEATURES - A method for answering a communication includes the steps of receiving an incoming communication sent by a sender and intended for a communication device of a recipient and answering the communication with an injected audio, video, text, and/or graphic message. The injected message indicates to the sender, in effect, that the recipient is presently unable to respond to the communication but is or will be made aware of the communication. The method further includes the step of providing a promise fulfillment feature that alerts the recipient to the communication and any promise to follow-up with the sender made in the injected message. | 05-26-2011 |
20110130130 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PORTABLE APPARATUS USED IN A TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK, AND ASSOCIATED PORTABLE APPARATUS - A method for controlling a portable apparatus used in a telecommunication network includes: receiving a phone call from the telecommunication network; parsing a phone number from received information of the phone call; and displaying reference information including a calling history corresponding to the phone number during the phone call. An associated portable apparatus for being used in a telecommunication network includes a wireless communication module, a control circuit, and a user interface module. The wireless communication module is arranged to perform wireless communication. In addition, the control circuit is arranged to receive a phone call from the telecommunication network by utilizing the wireless communication module, wherein the control circuit parses a phone number from received information of the phone call. Additionally, the user interface module is arranged to display reference information including a calling history corresponding to the phone number during the phone call. | 06-02-2011 |
20110151849 | Geographically constrained network services - A method and system are disclosed for determining the geographic location of a user communicating on a communications network such as the Internet. In one embodiment, a provider of a product or service: (a) receives the user's phone number (or other identification for contacting the user's station), and (b) supplies the user's station with a distinctive identifier. The provider then supplies a location determining service with the user's phone number (or other identification). A phone call is made to the phone number by the location determining service for retrieving the distinctive identifier from the network station having the phone number. If the distinctive identifier is retrieved, and the location determining service determines that the user's station is within an appropriate geographical area (or not within an inappropriate area), then the provider can provide the requested product or service to the user. | 06-23-2011 |
20110151850 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR AUTOMATICALLY SAVING INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH ONE OR MORE UNKNOWN CONTACTS - An apparatus for generating information associated with an unknown contact(s) may include a processor and a memory storing executable computer program code that causes the apparatus to at least perform operations including determining if a communication identifier(s) is in contact data responsive to determining that a communication is based on the communication identifier. The computer program code may cause the apparatus to detect information relating to the communication identifier, which may include data indicating whether previous communications of the communication identifier are identified. The data includes details of the previous communications. The computer program code may cause the apparatus to provide the detected information to a display of the apparatus in response to initiation of an outgoing/incoming communication and may determine whether to complete initiation of the outgoing communication or ignore the incoming communication based on data of the previous communications. Corresponding computer program products and methods are also provided. | 06-23-2011 |
20110159859 | METHOD FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATION TRAFFIC OF DEVICES BASED ON AVAILABLE POWER RESOURCES - The present disclosure is a method and system for managing communication traffic of devices based upon available power for a device. A method for managing communication traffic may include receiving available power resource information from a device and routing communication intended for the device based upon available power of the device. | 06-30-2011 |
20110183657 | VERIFYING AND IDENTIFYING INCOMING PBX CALLS ON MOBILE DEVICES - Aspects relate to provision of enterprise call capabilities to mobile devices. For example, a mobile device can indicate, over a data channel, that a PBX is to make a call on its behalf to a called party. The PBX can call back the mobile device, call the called party, and bridge those call legs to establish the call. The mobile device can employ mechanisms that a particular incoming call is made by the PBX. These mechanisms can include using ANI information, sending, and receiving audible verification codes over the voice channel established after answering the incoming call. The verification codes can be selected based on different behaviors of the mobile devices and the network or networks used by the device(s). | 07-28-2011 |
20110189983 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEM, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SWITCHING DEVICE, SUBSCRIBER INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - In a communication control system | 08-04-2011 |
20110201320 | AUTOMATED CALLER IDENTIFIER FROM CONTACT LISTS OF A USER'S CONTACTS - When a call or message is received from an unidentified sender on the user's communication device, the caller identifier application launches a text-based messaging application and causes it to send an “invisible” text-based message to the user's contacts. The message includes the metadata (e.g., telephone number) associated with the call or message that the user received. The invisible message is a short message whose headers are programmed in a particular manner so that the receiving mobile phone acknowledges the receipt of the message and the receiving mobile phone displays no behavior perceptible by the user. When the invisible message is received by the corresponding caller identifier application on one of the user's contact's mobile phone, the application searches the contact's contact list maintained in his or hers contact application. If the metadata provided to the contact's mobile phone is located in the contact list, the contact details (e.g. Name) or the contact card, if available, is sent back to the user's mobile phone in a second invisible message. Upon receiving the second invisible message, the caller identifier application causes some or all of the contact details to be displayed on the user's mobile phone or otherwise presented to the user in any appropriate manner. | 08-18-2011 |
20110201321 | MANAGING MULTIPLE CLI IDENTITIES - A caller identity provision system comprises a receiver component that receives a call request, the call request originates from a mobile handset that is associated with multiple numbers. An analysis component analyzes the call request and selects a caller line identification (CLI) from amongst a plurality of CLIs to provide to a called party that is a subject of the call request. For instance, the mobile handset and/or a network server can comprise the receiver component and/or the analysis component. | 08-18-2011 |
20110212712 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A CONTACT ASSOCIATED WITH AN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION - A method is provided on an electronic communications device having a subscriber identifier, the method for identifying a contact entry associated with an electronic communication specified by a communication identifier. The method comprises searching an address book associated with the device; in response to finding a first and a second contact entry each having a respective first contact communication identifier matching the communication identifier, comparing a second contact communication identifier with the subscriber identifier; and identifying the second contact entry associated with the electronic communication if the second contact communication identifier in the first contact entry matches the subscriber identifier. | 09-01-2011 |
20110212713 | Outbound Call Correction for Non-Telematic Mobile Directory Number Dialed by Telematic Operator - The described principles provide a method and system for enabling a telematic operator to determine that an outbound call has been placed to a non-telematic mobile directory number by the telematic operator in error. In one aspect, the invention allows the telematic operator to create an identification of all non-telematic MDN's stored by the wireless carrier which the telematic operator continues to believe are active and are associated with a pending transaction. Improved synchronization of records between the wireless carrier and telematic operator is provided to minimize incidents involving transactional differences between MDN values stored by the wireless carrier and telematic operator when an assigned MDN is processed in error between the two entities. The use of unique modem telephone numbers by the telematic operator allows identification of the affected MDN (by the telematic operator) while providing the customer data privacy needed for the wireless carrier. | 09-01-2011 |
20110223896 | Meeting mode for cell phones - A cellular telephone or other portable communication device is provided with program instructions which cause the device to be set into a “meeting mode” by a user. When in this mode, callers are provided with a message indicating the meeting status. The called party is preferably then provided with the option of responding to questions from the caller by selectably activating button icons on a user interface which cause an audio transmission to the called party which is not also transmitted to the device's external speaker. The icons are labeled with such short responses such as: NO, YES, MAYBE, OKAY, MORE, LESS, TODAY, TOMORROW, and NEVER. | 09-15-2011 |
20110223897 | COMMUNICATION ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH PROSPERITY MARKETING - A communication assistance system includes a database having a plurality of listings therein, each of the listings includes a least one contact name and a contact information. A means is provided for receiving incoming communications from a plurality of requesters seeking a listing. A table stores past requested listings of the requesters, where the system reviews the table for storing past requested listings and, based on contents contained in the past requested listing table, develops a list of requesters to target a promotion to, whereupon when a requester who is among the list of requesters contacts the system, they are provided with the promotion. | 09-15-2011 |
20110223898 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AQUIRING AN IMEI ASSOCIATED TO AN IMSI - A method comprises the steps of establishing a call between a first user equipment and a second user equipment, acquiring the identity of the second user equipment, and providing the identity of the second user equipment to the first user equipment. The invention has the advantage that it enables a law enforcement agent (for example a police officer or investigator) to track the equipment that is used by a person for a particular call. When a suspect call is received, a law enforcement agent can easily return a call to that phone, even when the SIM card of that phone is swapped. When placing a call to a suspect number, the law enforcement officer can easily determine on which device the call is answered and then determine which other persons (MSISDNs) have been using that device. | 09-15-2011 |
20110237233 | System and method for providing called party awareness information - A system and phone for providing called party awareness information to a calling party. As disclosed, a communication service provider can receive identification information associated with a called device from the keypad of the phone. The communication service provider can determine whether the called device is associated with the communication service provider or not. The communication service provider can use the identification information to determine the local time when the called device is not associated with the phone system. Alternatively, the communication service provider can use offsets to determine the local time generated by the called device when the called device is associated with the communication service provider. The offsets can be provided by fixed phone locations or non-fixed phone locations. Thereafter, the communication service provider can return the local time to the phone where it can be displayed. | 09-29-2011 |
20110244840 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH CALLER IDENTIFICATION MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a communication system includes: obtaining a current location for locating a calling device; identifying a caller number for identifying the calling device; and selecting a caller location label based on the caller number and the current location for personalizing a description of the current location of the calling device and for displaying on a receiving device. | 10-06-2011 |
20110250874 | ENHANCED TELEPHONY SERVICES - Techniques for providing a smart dial controller for enhancing a telephone voice call using a data connection. In an exemplary embodiment, a dial controller may be provided in a calling device for calling another user, and/or a called device for receiving a call from another user. Techniques are provided for both the calling device and the called device to access a content server storing profiles of the calling user and/or the called user, subject to user-determined privacy settings. Such profiles may include, e.g., multi-media information on the status, location, or preferences of the users. In an exemplary embodiment, the dial controller may delay the establishment of a voice connection pending user review and approval of the other user's profile. According to an advantage of the present disclosure, no modifications are required on the network side to implement the techniques described herein. | 10-13-2011 |
20110263234 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING A CALL RECEIVED AT A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method, apparatus and system for handling a call received at a mobile communication device, in association with an automated number identification (ANI) number are provided. The ANI number is compared with a list of ANI numbers associated with an applications server, the list stored at the mobile communications device. When the ANI number is not in the list, a tone is provided on the call. When a corresponding tone is detected on the call in response to the tone, the call is handled as a call associated with the applications server and otherwise the call handled as a typical mobile communication call. | 10-27-2011 |
20110263235 | IN-CALL, AUDIBLE CALL WAITING - A handsfree device is disclosed that offers additional wireless telephone services to the user of a wireless device in a minimally distracting manner. A call-waiting notification of a second call is presented acoustically via the handsfree device to a user. A responsive action by the user to request caller-ID information yields an audible presentation of caller-ID information related to the second call. The user may then elect to answer the second call. | 10-27-2011 |
20110263236 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION RECORD LOGGING - A method for maintaining a log of communications initiated or received at a portable electronic device of a first party. The communications include at least one of short message service (SMS) messages, personal identification number (PIN) messages and cellular telephone calls. The method includes receiving a data record for each of the communications, extracting information from the data record, and storing the information in a log file. | 10-27-2011 |
20110269439 | METHOD, DEVICES AND SYSTEM HAVING OUT OF OFFICE BASED PRESENCE - A communication device receives an out-of-office message regarding a first contact. An application executing on the communication device displays a name of the first contact and an out-of-office indication regarding the first contact without displaying said out-of-office message. | 11-03-2011 |
20110281568 | MANAGEMENT OF INCOMING TELEPHONY COMMUNICATIONS IN A LOCAL MEDIA NETWORK - Systems and methods are provided for locally managing incoming telephony communication events on a user equipment display. In one embodiment, a user equipment device may include an input/output interface, a notification module, and a display device. The input/output interface may be configured to receive an indication of a communication event directed to a user telephony device over a short-range wireless connection. The notification module may be configured to generate a notification message in response to receiving the indication of a communication event. The indication of the communication event may include sender information, which may be included in the notification message. The display device may be configured to display the notification message so that it overlays a currently displayed video program. | 11-17-2011 |
20110294478 | Telephone Caller Classification - In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for identifying telephone spam. An indication of an incoming telephone call and a calling device telephone number for the incoming telephone call is received. An indication that the calling device telephone number has been determined to be a source of telephone spam based on identifications by one or more users, other than a user of a mobile telephone, that the calling device telephone number is a source of telephone spam is received. A secondary alert is output to the user of the mobile telephone that is different than a default alert. The default alert is output to the user of the mobile telephone if the calling device telephone number is not determined to be a source of telephone spam. | 12-01-2011 |
20110294479 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSIGNING A SENDERID - A method for sending Short Message Service (SMS) messages includes receiving a request to generate a senderID, determining senderIDs based on a business name, and receiving a selected senderID from the senderIDs. The method further includes receiving a request to send an SMS message using the selected senderID, and sending a request to an SMS server to send the SMS message using the senderID. | 12-01-2011 |
20110306328 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR LINKING COMMUNICATIONS WITH LOCATION DATA - An electronic device includes a communication component; a location-determining component; a display; and a computing device all housed within a portable, handheld housing or other enclosure. The communications component transmits and receives mobile communications over a wireless communication network or path and provides identification information to the computing device. The location determining component determines locations of the electronic device as it is carried or driven from place to place and provides corresponding location data to the computing device. The computing device links the identification information with the location data to indicate the location of the device when a communication was made or received. The identification information and location data may be linked by adding a geocode or geotag to the identification information or by cross-referencing the information and data in a database. The computing device may also display a representation of the location data alongside a representation of the communication on a cartographic map and then display some of the identification information for the communication when a user scrolls over or otherwise selects either of the representations. | 12-15-2011 |
20110319061 | Automated Mobile Intelligent Communication Processing System - A system and method for providing enhanced information to a mobile communication device regarding a calling device is described. The system and method includes receiving an incoming call request at a mobile communication device including the identifier of the calling device. An information request is then formulated including the identifier of the calling device. The information request is transmitted from the mobile communication device to the query processing center via a data communication channel. A response is then obtained from the data processing center and transmitted to the mobile phone via the data communication channel. The response received from the data processing center includes the requested information related to the calling device. | 12-29-2011 |
20110319062 | Telecommunications Network - In a telecommunications network including a plurality of mobile terminals, a method of analysing missed call events in relation to at least one of the plurality of mobile terminals, the method including: determining the occurrence of a missed call event; recording the missed call event in a database, including an identity relating to the called terminal; determining and allocating a status of the called mobile terminal to the missed call event, the status selected from a plurality of options, with at least one option relating to an unreachable terminal situation; and analysing the missed call event data relating to unreachable situations to identify the existence of any patterns relating to a particular called terminal/user, called terminal type, location and/or time period. The method may also be embodied in a network element, such as a Call Alert Application Server. | 12-29-2011 |
20120015638 | Handheld Electronic Device Having Improved Phone Call Log and Associated Method - An improved handheld electronic device and an associated method provide an improved call list that presents information relating to logged phone calls in a collapsed manner. A single entry is displayed on the call list to represent a call log of phone calls from the same phone number. | 01-19-2012 |
20120015639 | Telephone Caller Classification - In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for identifying telephone spam. An indication of an incoming telephone call and a calling device telephone number for the incoming telephone call is received. An indication that the calling device telephone number has been determined to be a source of telephone spam based on identifications by one or more users, other than a user of a mobile telephone, that the calling device telephone number is a source of telephone spam is received. A secondary alert is output to the user of the mobile telephone that is different than a default alert. The default alert is output to the user of the mobile telephone if the calling device telephone number is not determined to be a source of telephone spam. | 01-19-2012 |
20120021730 | INBOUND CALL IDENTIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT - Examples of inbound call identification and management are described including a call management system that includes one or more repositories that can include data representing call action policies and data representing attributes associated with the caller devices and the callee devices. Further, the call management system can include one or more computing devices that include a call identifier (“IDer”) configured to characterize the attributes of the caller devices to form characterized attributes, a call management system controller configured to match the characterized attributes against routing criteria specified in the data representing the call action policies, and a call management system router configured to route calls from the caller devices to the callee devices responsive to a match between the characterized attributes and the routing criteria. | 01-26-2012 |
20120058753 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING USSD SERVICES IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method for providing services in a telecommunication network with the use of USSD channel, comprising of a step of receiving ( | 03-08-2012 |
20120064871 | Apparatus for a Receiving Party - Apparatus comprising at least one processor configured to compare an identifier of a calling party with one or more contacts of a receiving party to determine privilege information associated with the calling party, the privilege information providing one or more authorised receiving party location-based responses. The apparatus further comprising at least one processor configured to determine a location of the receiving party and provide an associated authorised response to the calling party. | 03-15-2012 |
20120064872 | METHOD FOR FORMING AN AUDIOVISUAL CALL IDENTIFIER, A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND A CALL IDENTIFIER - Disclosed is an audiovisual call identifier including image and sound for a mobile communication device. The call identifier is shown on the display and audibly reproduced through the loudspeaker when a call is received by the communication device. | 03-15-2012 |
20120077478 | SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION FOR MOBILE TERMINATED MOBILE INTIATED CALLING - Availability of a call for a mobile device can be signaled over a data channel; to avoid unnecessary airtime charges, an audio channel for the voice call is setup only if a user of the mobile device accepting the call. Responsive to the user accepting the call, the mobile device can signal to a network to establish the audio channel. Establishing the audio channel takes some time. The time in which the audio channel is established is used to output, at the mobile device, supplemental information received over the data channel, such as information about a calling party, such as directory information, organization information, and call history. The outputting of such information during this time period makes a user experience better, because the user is less likely to think that a call has failed by observing an unfilled delay between when the call was accepted through the user interface and when the audio channel is actually available to service the call. | 03-29-2012 |
20120077479 | IN-CALL CONTACT INFORMATION DISPLAY - Call control information regarding a phone call that a user of a mobile communications device is currently engaged in with an individual is displayed on a screen. A request to display in-call contact information is received, and in response to the request the in-call contact information regarding the individual is displayed. This request can be a single user input, and the in-call contact information can include information obtained by the mobile communications device from a social networking service. | 03-29-2012 |
20120094642 | ENHANCED MISSED CALL NOTIFICATION - An enhanced missed call notification system and method is disclosed which generates enhanced missed call notification messages, which may be transmitted by the cellular carrier, e.g. the carrier associated with the calling device, the called device, or both, to the user's cellular device using, for example, the SMS notification system, in which the notification message is augmented with additional information relating to the caller derived from sources which, for example, may provide more accurate information about the calling party or other information about the calling party, which may be more useful to the called party. In particular, the disclosed system and method detects that a user has missed a call, independent of the called device's ability to receive a call, identifies the caller, accesses one or more carrier-independent databases of information for additional information about the caller and generates an enhanced missed call notification message which includes the additional and/or more accurate information, or a reference thereto, and which is subsequently provided to the carrier for delivery to the user's cellular/mobile device using, for example, the SMS notification service. | 04-19-2012 |
20120100839 | SENDER IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A database is queried based upon data contained in a message to obtain sender identification information, at least part of which is not contained in the message as it was sent. The sender identification information is presented to a recipient, which can send a signal accepting or rejecting the message based upon the sender identification information. If an accept signal is entered, the message can be forwarded to the recipient and/or rendered to the recipient. | 04-26-2012 |
20120100840 | Methods and systems for automatically presenting users with option to call sender responsive to email message - A mail server collects messages from a number of user accounts and presents them to the user from a single location. Forwarded messages are automatically reformatted for the receiving device, while a copy of the original message is retained. Messages may be reformatted to include the phone number of the message sender. The reformatted message can then present the user with an option to return the message via a phone call. The reformatted message can include more than one phone number, in which case the sender's phone numbers can be prioritized for presentation to the user. The reformatted message can also present the user with an option to review notes or other contact-specific information prior to responding to the message. | 04-26-2012 |
20120108221 | AUGMENTING COMMUNICATION SESSIONS WITH APPLICATIONS - Embodiments include applications as participants in a communication session such as a voice call. The applications provide functionality to the communication session by performing commands issued by the participants during the communication session to generate output data. Example functionality includes recording audio, playing music, obtaining search results, obtaining calendar data to schedule future meetings, etc. The output data is made available to the participants during the communication session. | 05-03-2012 |
20120108222 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR USING ALTERNATIVE NUMBERS FOR ROUTING VOICE CALLS AND SHORT MESSAGES IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A system, method and computer-readable medium for allowing the use of an alternative numbering plan for delivering short messages to mobile subscribers using the public mobile telephone network is provided. Users of an enterprise or other closed networks as well as users that are not part of a closed network may send short messages destined to members of an enterprise or closed network from their mobile or other devices associated with their subscription using an alternative enterprise directory number, such as the office number, instead of the mobile number, such that the alternative number will be presented at the destination device as the originating number. The recipient may respond to the message by addressing the response to the enterprise or closed network number, and the response may be delivered to the originator's mobile or other device associated with their subscription. | 05-03-2012 |
20120115449 | MOBILE DEVICE CALLER ID EXTENSION - An extended display is provided for information based on caller ID during call notification for an incoming phone call on a mobile device. A system enables accessing scheduling information based on caller ID information for the incoming phone call. A contact is identified based on the caller ID information, and scheduling information related to the contact is displayed on the mobile device before the call is answered. | 05-10-2012 |
20120115450 | Presence Server Based Name Information - The present invention relates to a CNAP service in which a name of the calling party is presented to the called party. For retrieving the name, a presence network agent in the mobile switching center accesses the presence server and fetches the name from the presence server before it is introduced into a call setup request message. | 05-10-2012 |
20120122439 | CALL CORRECTING RELAY SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING CALL RELAYING BETWEEN DIFFERENT TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS - The invention relates to a device for call correcting relaying of telecommunication connections between at least two telecommunication terminal devices, wherein the telecommunication terminal devices each are registered in different telecommunication networks, comprising at least two telecommunication terminal devices, wherein each telecommunication terminal device has a software component set up for initializing outgoing call requests from the telecommunications terminal devices and thereby for providing information about a desired target telephone number by means of an established telecommunication connection, wherein the software component is further set up for analyzing the identity of the calling location for incoming call requests and declining particular call requests on the basis of the identity analysis and initializing an outgoing call request as a response to the declining; at least one fixed network server, wherein the fixed network server comprises at least one switching component and comprises devices providing interconnection functionality, so that the fixed network server constitutes a neutral telecommunication network; and software-implemented device on the fixed network server that are set up so that an incoming call request to the fixed network server from a first telecommunication terminal device is analyzed with regard to the identity of the requesting telecommunication terminal device and a connection to the requesting telecommunication terminal device is permitted and established as a reaction to the identity analysis, and a desired telecommunication connection to a second telecommunication terminal device is produced on the basis of the identity analysis and the established connection. | 05-17-2012 |
20120129507 | Communication Method and a Communication System for Tailored Mobile Communication - The invention relates to a method and system for tailored communication between at least two mobile clients. In the communications system, calling party data is conveyed from a library server to the called mobile client before a voice initiation message of the calling mobile client to the called mobile client. The called mobile client presents the tailored calling party data on the display of the called mobile client when the mobile client is alerting. Also the calling party may get from the library server the tailored data of the called party. | 05-24-2012 |
20120135722 | LOCAL MOBILE NUMBER FOR A FOREIGN RESIDENT MOBILE - A system and method for providing a local number service at a native country mobile operator to a foreign resident mobile of a foreign resident country mobile operator. The service enables the foreign resident mobile to receive calls and SMS messages irrespective of its location. It also allows the foreign mobile to register with the native country mobile operator and perform communication services with a local identity. | 05-31-2012 |
20120142323 | CALLER INFORMATION DISPLAYING METHOD, CELLULAR PHONE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - Provided is a caller information displaying method capable of displaying caller information with latest data registered in a cellular phone on a Bluetooth device at an earlier timing. The caller information displaying method according to an exemplary embodiment is a caller information displaying method for displaying caller information on a Bluetooth device | 06-07-2012 |
20120149347 | MOBILE DEVICE WITH ENHANCED TELEPHONE CALL INFORMATION AND A METHOD OF USING SAME - A mobile device with enhanced telephone call information and a method of using same are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method of providing enhanced phone call information on a mobile communication device, comprising: receiving an incoming call on the device; identifying a contact name in an address book stored in a memory of the device in accordance with a phone number associated with the incoming call when the contact name is not provided with the incoming call; identifying a contact name in a remote contact source in accordance with a phone number associated with the incoming call when the contact name is not provided with the incoming call and not found in the address book stored in a memory of the device; and displaying the identified contact name in a user interface screen on a display screen of the device. | 06-14-2012 |
20120172020 | Missed Telephone Call Management for a Portable Multifunction Device - In one aspect of the invention, a computer-implemented method is disclosed for use in conjunction with a portable electronic device with a touch screen display. A list of items comprising missed telephone calls is displayed. Upon detecting user selection of an item in the list, contact information is displayed for a respective caller corresponding to the user selected item. The displayed contact information includes a plurality of contact objects that include a first contact object, comprising a telephone number object having a first telephone number associated with the missed telephone call, and a second contact object. Upon detecting user selection of the second contact object, a communication with the respective caller is initiated via a modality corresponding to the second contact object. | 07-05-2012 |
20120184256 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INCOMING CALLS - A communication device includes a receiving unit, a number obtaining unit, and a reminder unit. The incoming receiving unit receives an incoming call request from a caller. The number obtaining unit obtains a phone number of the caller from the incoming call request. The reminder unit includes a reminder state, and a non-reminder state which is default. The reminder unit generates a prompt to remind a callee to accept the incoming call when in the reminder state, and does not generate a prompt for the incoming call when in the non-reminder state. The reminder unit changes into the reminder state from the non-reminder state when the phone number of the caller is not listed in a phonebook of the communication device and request duration of the incoming call reaches a predetermined value. | 07-19-2012 |
20120196580 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR TACTILE CALLER IDENTIFICATION IN HEARING-IMPAIRED COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Methods and apparatuses for indicating an incoming call on a portable communication device are disclosed. A calling connection indicator is captured from an incoming call. An identified entry is selected from a caller identification list comprising one or more entries, wherein each of the entries is associated with a contact of a user of the portable communication device and includes one or more connection indicators for the contact and a tactile pattern for the contact. The identified entry is selected by matching the calling connection indicator to one of the one or more connection indicators. A tactile pattern is generated for the portable communication device. The tactile pattern includes a predefined tactile pattern associated with the identified entry in the caller identification list or a default tactile pattern if the calling connection indicator does not correlate to any of the connection indicators in the caller identification list. | 08-02-2012 |
20120196581 | Caller Identification Using Social Network Information - In one embodiment, a social networking system determines a user identifier of a caller placing a call to a receiving user based on the call's phone number, accesses one or more data stores for information associated with the caller, and present to the receiving user the information associated with the caller. | 08-02-2012 |
20120196582 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING CALLER IDENTIFICATION MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS - A method and apparatus for configuring caller identification multimedia contents, in which a caller identification multimedia contents providing server is requested to search for the caller identification multimedia contents. The caller identification multimedia contents providing server is requested to select a callee device which is to receive the caller identification multimedia contents. The caller identification multimedia contents providing server is requested to transmit the caller identification multimedia contents to the callee device. | 08-02-2012 |
20120196583 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED DEVICE - A vehicle-mounted device includes: a phone book acquiring section for acquiring a phone book data of a portable device via a communication section; a manipulation section for rejecting an arrival of a call at a call section; a specification section for specifying a mail address of the opposite party from which the arrival of a call is rejected by the manipulation section with reference to the phone book data; and a call-rejected party mail-reception notification suppressing section for suppressing the notification of reception of an E-mail from the mail address specified by the specification section to the vehicle-mounted device. | 08-02-2012 |
20120202472 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING COMMUNICATION CALL - A method, communication terminal and system for processing a communication call are provided, the communication terminal including a reader configured to obtain tag information by reading a tag attached to an object the tag information comprising a terminating number; a communication unit configured to transmit a request for an originating call based on the terminating number; and a control unit configured to control the communication terminal to display termination display information corresponding to one of the obtained tag information and the transmitting of the request for originating the call, wherein the termination display information excludes the terminating number. | 08-09-2012 |
20120202473 | Integration of Wireless and External Computing Devices - The wireless device may include logic that enables the wireless device to interface with the external computing device, and rule logic to direct handling by the external computing device of call events of the wireless device. | 08-09-2012 |
20120208513 | VERIFYING AND IDENTIFYING INCOMING PBX CALLS ON MOBILE DEVICES - Aspects relate to provision of enterprise call capabilities to mobile devices. For example, a mobile device can indicate, over a data channel, that a PBX is to make a call on its behalf to a called party. The PBX can call back the mobile device, call the called party, and bridge those call legs to establish the call. The mobile device can employ mechanisms that a particular incoming call is made by the PBX. These mechanisms can include using ANI information, sending, and receiving audible verification codes over the voice channel established after answering the incoming call. The verification codes can be selected based on different behaviors of the mobile devices and the network or networks used by the device(s). | 08-16-2012 |
20120214456 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA - Methods and apparatus for transmitting data are provided. A relationship, between a sender of a call signal and a receiver of a call signal, that exists in at least one network service server, is confirmed. Data associated with the sender is selected based on the relationship between the sender and the receiver. The data associated with the sender is transmitted to the receiver. | 08-23-2012 |
20120220279 | UPDATING CONTACT INFORMATION FOR MOBILE TRAFFIC - A system for managing contact information between mobile devices. A notification is received any time a mobile device initiates or terminates a communication. The receiving mobile device is prompted to obtain the contact information of the caller. Based on permissions set by the caller, the receiving mobile device may obtain the caller's public contact information, private contact information, none of the caller's contact information or some combination of the caller's public and private contact information. In one embodiment, a subset of the caller's contact information is displayed in the screen of a receiving mobile device coincidentally while receiving the phone call to provide a caller-identification feature. | 08-30-2012 |
20120220280 | METHOD OF MASKING AN IDENTIFIER OF AT LEAST ONE DESTINATION OF A CALL, AND A CORRESPONDING DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A method of setting up a call between a user and at least one destination comprises, prior to setting up the call, a masking stage for masking the identifier, which stage comprises the following steps, for at least one destination: intercepting an identifier of the destination as input by the user; and modifying a signal including the identifier and used for displaying the identifier, or for setting up said call. | 08-30-2012 |
20120231775 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR UPDATING INFORMATION OF CONTACTS - A mobile terminal and a method for updating information of contacts is provided, and the mobile terminal includes: an edition module, configured to provide a contact update interface containing a selection control and an edition control, wherein the selection control is used for generating a selection instruction according to an operation from a user, and the edition control is used for generating an edition instruction according to an operation from the user; a control module, configured to select information of multiple contacts according to the selection instruction from the selection control and edit the information of the multiple contacts according to the edition instruction from the edition control; and an update module, configured to update information of the multiple contacts stored in a database as the information of the multiple contacts being edited by the control module. Advantageously, the effect of improving user experience is reached. | 09-13-2012 |
20120238256 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING AN EVENT MESSAGE - A system for transmitting and receiving an event message is provided. The system comprises a transmitting terminal that generates an event message, and that transmits the event message and caller information, an event message service server that stores phonebook data after receiving the phonebook data transmitted from at least one terminal, that searches for a receiving terminal including the caller information in the phonebook data among receiving terminals included in the phonebook data of the transmitting terminal when receiving the event message, and that transmits the event message to the searched receiving terminal, and a receiving terminal that receives an event message transmitted by the event message service server, and informs its user of reception of the event message. | 09-20-2012 |
20120244848 | PROTECTIVE CASES WITH INTEGRATED ELECTRONICS - A protective case for a wireless electronics device includes one or more output devices integrated with or bonded to the protective case, from which a perceivable output (e.g., visible or audible indication) is generated. Various other electronics (e.g., circuit elements, ICs, microcontrollers, sensors) also may be integrated with or bonded to the protective case to provide power and/or one or more output signals to control the output device(s). In one example, a wireless signal generated by the wireless device is sensed by the integrated electronics, and the output device(s) are controlled based on the detected wireless signal. The protective case may be substantially rigid or at least partially deformable (flexible and/or stretchable), and the integrated electronics similarly may be at least partially deformable such that they may conform with various contours of the protective case and remain operative notwithstanding flexing and/or stretching of the case. | 09-27-2012 |
20120252421 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A CONTACT ASSOCIATED WITH AN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION - A method is provided on an electronic communications device having a subscriber identifier, the method for identifying a contact entry associated with an electronic communication specified by a communication identifier. The method comprises searching an address book associated with the device; in response to finding a first and a second contact entry each having a respective first contact communication identifier matching the communication identifier, comparing a second contact communication identifier with the subscriber identifier; and identifying the second contact entry associated with the electronic communication if the second contact communication identifier in the first contact entry matches the subscriber identifier. | 10-04-2012 |
20120264409 | MANAGEMENT OF MOBILE DEVICE COMMUNICATION SESSIONS TO REDUCE USER DISTRACTION - Systems, methods and interfaces are disclosed for managing communications associated with a mobile communication device. Mobile communication devices process environmental inputs and transmit mobile communication device context information to a communication management system. The context information may, for example, reflect the motion and/or geographic location of the mobile device, and may reflect the risk associated with using the device to handle a call or other communications session. The communication management system uses the context information, optionally in combination with communication device profiles, to determine how to manage incoming and/or ongoing calls or other communication sessions. Mobile device users may also be inhibited from initiating communication sessions. | 10-18-2012 |
20120264410 | ADVANCED VOICE AND DATA OPERATIONS IN A DUAL-MODE MOBILE DATA COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A system and method for integrating voice and data operations into a single mobile device capable of simultaneously performing data and voice actions. The mobile device working in a network capable of exchanging both cell phone calls and data items to the mobile device. By wearing an earphone or an ear-bud device the user is capable of dealing with voice conversations while working with data centric information related to the current caller. By providing a data-centric device with voice capabilities there is a new range of features that allow incoming data events to trigger outgoing voice events. | 10-18-2012 |
20120289211 | ENHANCED CALLING FEATURES - Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for scheduling and initiating calls. For example, a request for a prospective call between a caller and a callee can be received via a server. In response to a determination that both the caller and the callee are available, a call between a caller device and a callee device can be automatically initiated. | 11-15-2012 |
20120295601 | System and Method for Providing a Mobile Phone Directory Service - A method and system for registering a mobile phone number with an operator registration service. The method comprising receiving an electronic message including a unique subscriber name provided by a mobile phone subscriber and extracting the unique subscriber name from the electronic message and a mobile phone number associated with the electronic message corresponding to the mobile phone subscriber. A name-number pair is generated with the extracted unique subscriber name and the mobile phone number. The name-number pair is indexed in a searchable directory database where it may be retrieved in response to receiving a call request message from a calling party, the call request message including the unique subscriber name and an origination phone number. The method further comprising establishing a call between the origination phone number and the mobile phone number. | 11-22-2012 |
20130005315 | CALLER IDENTIFICATION FOR MISSED CALLS - Methods and devices are provided for identifying a caller after receiving a missed call from a calling device that is not associated with the caller. An exemplary method involves obtaining an audio message from the caller, recognizing the caller as being a first contact of the called individual by matching an audio sample associated with the first contact to at least a portion of the audio message, and graphically indicating an association between the first contact and the missed call after recognizing the first contact as the caller. | 01-03-2013 |
20130017808 | DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME WITH DIAL-A-TAG FUNCTIONALITY - A digital photo frame, including a memory for storing a plurality of digital photos, and tags associated with the digital photos, where a tag for a digital photo corresponds to an object appearing in the digital photo, a screen for displaying the digital photos, an interface for making connection with a communicator, wherein the communicator includes a storage for storing a contact list of phone numbers for objects, and a controller, coupled with the memory and the interface, for rendering one of the plurality of digital photos on the screen, and for instructing the communicator via the interface (i) to identify the phone number of a selected object, and (ii) to dial the identified phone number, in response to user activation of a tag associated with the rendered digital photo and corresponding to the selected object. | 01-17-2013 |
20130017809 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A CALL SERVICE TO A USER - A method and an apparatus for providing a service to a user are provided. The method mainly includes that a mobile communication system on a network side receives call information of calling a mobile terminal of a user and then calls the user according to stored location information corresponding to the mobile terminal of the user sent by an access gateway AG. The AP is deployed at the enterprise to implement accurate positioning of a user that enters or leaves an office of an enterprise and update to a mobile communication system on a network side through the AG in real time. Therefore, the accurate positioning of a mobile terminal of a user no longer has to rely on the network coverage of the PLMN. | 01-17-2013 |
20130017810 | Dynamic Communication and Method of Use - A communication system and method for enhancing the effectiveness of wireless and wired systems. The communication system comprising a communication management system performing dynamic switching of communication transceivers and dynamic addressing of communication devices within the network of communication devices with an extended caller identification system to become a true unified communications system. | 01-17-2013 |
20130045726 | METHOD FOR DELIVERING CALLING NAME TO A DEVICE - The present invention is directed to an application resident on a device for receiving telephone calls which is (1) data-enabled and (2) includes a means for presenting alphanumeric characters or words. Devices which are both data-enabled and have a means for presentation may be used, such as but not limited to other smart phones, e.g., iphones, Palm Trios, and Android-enabled phones, as well as desktop, laptop, and hand-held computer devices. | 02-21-2013 |
20130045727 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING A CALL RECEIVED AT A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method, apparatus and system for handling a call received at a mobile communication device, in association with an automated number identification (ANI) number are provided. The ANI number is compared with a list of ANI numbers associated with an, applications server, the list stored at the mobile communications device. When the ANI number is not in the list, a tone is provided on the call. When a corresponding tone is detected on the call in response to the tone, the call is handled as a call associated with the applications server and otherwise the call handled as a typical mobile communication call. | 02-21-2013 |
20130053009 | Caller Identification For Hands-Free Accessory Device Wirelessly Connected To Mobile Device - A method enables a mobile device to provide caller information stored on the mobile device to an accessory device that is connected wirelessly to the mobile device. The method includes establishing a short-range wireless connection between the mobile device and the accessory device, determining an incoming telephone number for an incoming telephone call, searching a directory stored on the mobile device for an entry matching the incoming telephone number, and transmitting caller data from the entry matching the incoming telephone number to the accessory device. | 02-28-2013 |
20130053010 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A CALL CONNECTION IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for performing a call connection in a portable terminal, by which it is possible to reduce the consumption of a battery of the portable terminal when a call connection is performed by the portable terminal including one RF unit and at least two SIM cards. The apparatus includes: at least two Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards; and a controller for performing a control operation so as to perform a call connection over a relevant communication network of a SIM card among the at least two SIM cards, which has the larger electric field value of the relevant communication network. | 02-28-2013 |
20130059572 | Computational systems and methods for identifying a communications partner - Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accepting at least one telephone communication from at least one member of a network; disambiguating the at least one search term including associating the at least one search term with at least one of network-participation identifier data or device-identifier data; and presenting the sender profile in association with the at least one telephone communication. | 03-07-2013 |
20130065566 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTELLIGENT CALL IDENTIFICATION ON A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A mobile device and a method of displaying information regarding an incoming communication to a user of a mobile device are provided. The mobile device receives the incoming information and associated information from, for example, an enterprise network. The communication type of the incoming communication is determined using the associated information and information relating to the communication type is displayed on a display of the mobile device. | 03-14-2013 |
20130065567 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FORKING CALLING REQUEST TO CALLED USER ADDRESS - The invention provides a method and apparatus, in a network device, for forking a calling request to a first registered called user address among a plurality of registered called user addresses. The method comprises: obtaining forking-related information, the forking-related information corresponding to the public user identity code and representing a forking order relationship between at least one calling number and the plurality of registered called user addresses; receiving the calling request from a calling user equipment; determining the first registered called user address among the plurality of registered called user addresses according to the number of the calling user equipment and the forking-related information corresponding to the public user identity code; and forking the calling request to the first registered called user address. The forking scheme of a calling request for a calling number recorded in the forking-related information may be different from that of a calling number which is not recorded in the forking-related information. In this way, a specific forking scheme can be adopted for some specific numbers to thereby satisfy a personalized demand of a user. | 03-14-2013 |
20130078973 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A portable electronic device includes a communication request receiving unit which receives a communication request from another communication device, a display unit which displays an image based on image data, an input unit which is provided to overlap with the display unit and detects an input of a user, a determination unit which determines whether the image is being displayed on the display unit when the communication request receiving unit receives the communication request, an input determination unit which determines whether a predetermined input is detected by the input unit when the determination unit determines that the image is being displayed, and a display control unit which displays information for starting a communication with the other communication device on the display unit when the predetermined input is detected by the input unit. | 03-28-2013 |
20130078974 | METHOD AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR GENERATING DUAL-TONE MULTI-FREQUENCY (DTMF) COMMANDS ON A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE HAVING A TOUCHSCREEN - A method and mobile communication device for generating dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) commands on a mobile communication device having a touchscreen are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method for generating dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) commands on a mobile communication device having a touchscreen, comprising: detecting an automated attendant during a telephone call; activating speech recognition in respect of incoming voice data during the telephone call in response to detecting an automated attendant; translating spoken prompts in the incoming voice data into respective DTMF commands; displaying a menu having selectable menu options corresponding to the DTMF commands in a graphical user interface on the touchscreen; receiving input selecting one of the menu options; receiving input via the touchscreen activating a selected one of the menu options; and generating a DTMF command in accordance with the activated menu option. | 03-28-2013 |
20130084839 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING CALLER NAME INFORMATION TO MOBILE DEVICES - Systems and methods for delivering full name information to a mobile device are disclosed. A service control point receives a mobile dialing number (MDN) of an incoming call from a network control point, and queries a LIDB data store for partial name information. The network control point creates a call page including the partial name information and terminates the call to a terminating mobile device. The terminating mobile device opens a data connection to the service control point, and submits a query for full name information. The service control point retrieves the full name information from the LIDB data store, and transmits it to the terminating mobile device over the data connection. | 04-04-2013 |
20130084840 | Provisioning for Enterprise Service - Identifying an incoming call as from a mobile device of an enterprise communication system. Creating a first list relating mobile devices of the enterprise communication system with Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) number of the device. Creating a hashmap comprising keys. Each key comprising the last n digits assigned as a PLMN number to at least one mobile device of the enterprise communication system. The hashmap further comprising a plurality of buckets. Each bucket corresponding to a key, and comprising a second list identifying each enterprise-associated mobile device having a PLMN number ending with the key. Receiving an Automatic Number Identification (ANI) number of an call incoming to the enterprise communication system. Retrieving at least one bucket corresponding to a key comprising the last n digits of the ANI number. Searching the retrieved bucket for the unique identifier associated with the full PLMN number. | 04-04-2013 |
20130102296 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A CONTACT ASSOCIATED WITH AN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION - A method is provided on an electronic communications device having a subscriber identifier, the method for disambiguating multiple contacts associated with an electronic communication. The method includes searching a plurality of stored contacts for an association with the electronic communication. For any contact associated with the electronic communication, verifying whether the contact has a subscriber identifier associated with the electronic device and identifying a contact as the initiator or recipient of the electronic communication if the contact is without a subscriber identifier. | 04-25-2013 |
20130102297 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VERIFYING PHYSICAL RECOGNITION BETWEEN A CALLER AND A CALLED PARTY - The method of authorizing the transmission of a message comprises requesting the transmission of a message from a calling party to a called party and presenting a plurality of audiovisual media elements to the calling party, one of which is representative of a physical characteristic of the called party. The other audiovisual media elements are similar in form to the media element representative of the called party. The calling party selects one audiovisual media element from the presented media elements. The transmission of the message from the calling party to the called party is authorized only in the case where the selected audiovisual media element is representative of the called party. | 04-25-2013 |
20130115930 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING CALL COUNTERPART - The present invention relates to a mobile terminal capable of providing a phone number of an anticipated call origination counterpart along with associated supplementary information according to a user's communication pattern, time information at which the mobile terminal is in use, or location information of the mobile terminal, thereby guaranteeing a rapid and convenient accessibility with respect to the call origination counterpart, and a method for recommending a call origination counterpart. | 05-09-2013 |
20130122877 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CONTACT LIST IN ORDER OF PRIORITY LEVELS - A method for displaying a contact list of a mobile terminal in order of priority levels is provided. The method includes steps: receiving an incoming call or message; obtaining an incoming phone number of the received call or message; finding out a calling contact associated with the incoming phone number on a contact list of the mobile terminal; obtaining remaining phone numbers associated with the calling contact; setting priority levels for all the phone numbers associated with the calling contact; and displaying all the phone numbers associated with the calling contact in an order of decreasing priority levels from high to low on a display screen of the mobile terminal A related mobile terminal is also provided. | 05-16-2013 |
20130122878 | COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT FEATURE - A method for screening incoming communications includes the steps of receiving an incoming communication intended for a communication device or a recipient and identifying a sender of the communication and a communication type, which can includes an email. The method also includes the steps of identifying screening settings based on the sender and the communication type and determining whether the communication is allowed in accordance with the identified settings. Further, the method includes the steps of notifying a recipient of the communication, if the communication is allowed. In addition, the method includes the step of processing the communication without notifying a recipient, if the communication is not allowed. | 05-16-2013 |
20130130664 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MODIFYING COMMUNICATIONS POLICY SETTINGS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - The present invention provides a system and method of modifying policy settings in a network having a plurality of subscriber devices. An embodiment includes a plurality of base stations, each capable of wirelessly transmitting across a geographic region. A cell-phone, capable of roaming between regions is operable to establish a wireless link with the base stations. The network contains a communication policy determining from which other communication devices a subscriber device can receive voice calls. A copy of this policy is stored on each subscriber device as a database and periodically updated as the devices make contact with the base stations or other subscriber devices. When receiving a voice call, the device first determines who the originator of the call is and then determines whether it is allowed to receive the call from that originator according to its policy database. The policy database can be updated either by subscriber devices or by base stations. | 05-23-2013 |
20130137408 | Methods and Devices for Delivery of Naming Information of a Called Party to a Calling Party - Methods and devices for providing naming information of a called party to a circuit-switched mobile terminal ( | 05-30-2013 |
20130143537 | Image Selection for an Incoming Call - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are described for selecting an image of a caller associated with an incoming call. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a caller associated with an incoming call from an originating telecommunications device. The method also includes locating plurality images of the identified caller, and randomly displaying on the mobile telecommunications device's display screen one or more images from among the located plurality images of the identified caller. | 06-06-2013 |
20130143538 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A CALL NOTIFICATION ON A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Embodiments of the disclosed invention include a system, method, and computer program product for providing a notification of an incoming call on a communication device. For example, in one embodiment, a communication device is disclosed comprising one or more displays covering two or more surfaces of the communication device. In certain embodiments, a first image is displayed on two or more displays in response to receiving an incoming call for providing a visible indicator for alerting a user of an incoming call. Still, in some embodiments, the first image is a current profile image of a caller retrieved from a network device associated with a social networking website. | 06-06-2013 |
20130157631 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HANDLING INCOMING CALLS ON A MEDIA DEVICE - Various embodiments for handling an incoming call are disclosed. One embodiment is a method implemented in a media playback device. The method comprises establishing, by the media playback device, a connection with an output device and streaming, by the media playback device, audio content to the output device. The method further comprises receiving, by the media playback device, an indication from a communication device of an incoming call received by the communication device and responsive to receiving the indication, providing, by the media playback device, an alert corresponding to the incoming call. | 06-20-2013 |
20130157632 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERGRATING TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION WITH COMPUTING DEVICES - An integrated communication system and method includes a primary unit and a secondary unit comprising transceivers for communicating therebetween and a communication management unit operable to manage communication with a telephone network. The system and method may be used to provide detachable headset units for a user to communicate via a communication management unit of the primary unit or for presenting useful second party related information to a user when communicating with the second party over a telephonic network connection. The system and method may provide a convenient system whereby a user may select between various communication devices to manage telephonic communication with a common client account. | 06-20-2013 |
20130157633 | EFFECTIVE CONTACT-COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A mobile personal-computing device may categorize a selected contact by collecting from the user information related to the selected contact's behavior and/or personality style. After obtaining communication hints for effectively communicating with similarly categorized individuals. The mobile personal-computing device modifies a remote or local contacts database such that when the user communicates with the selected contact, the mobile personal-computing device will automatically provide the communication hints to the user. | 06-20-2013 |
20130165087 | 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. | 06-27-2013 |
20130178198 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING CALLER IDENTIFICATION FEATURES BASED UPON NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include a telephone terminal, a first near field communication (NFC) device associated with the telephone terminal, a mobile wireless communications device, and a second NFC device associated with the mobile wireless communications device. The telephone terminal may have a first caller identification (ID) associated therewith, and the mobile communications device may have a second caller ID associated therewith different than the first caller ID. The telephone terminal may be configured to place a telephone call over a telephone network, and cooperate with the telephone network to substitute the second caller ID for the first caller ID when placing the telephone call based upon NFC communication between the first NFC device and the second NFC device. | 07-11-2013 |
20130183949 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HOSTING ANONYMOUS VIRTUAL PHONE CALLS, TEXT (SMS) MESSAGES, AND MULTI-MEDIA (MMS) MESSAGES - A method and system for providing anonymous virtual sessions between users, e.g., subscribers and guests, in a manner enabling the actual network addresses and identities of both users to remain unknown to each other. This system is optionally integrated with conventional call centers for the purposes of synchronization, authorization of services, and billing. The method and system embody sessions such as phone calls, text, and multi-media using network addresses and virtual phone numbers in a manner that provides mutual anonymity by masking the actual network address of all end points from all participating end users. | 07-18-2013 |
20130189966 | Enhanced Call Return in a Communications Network - Methods for enabling enhanced call return in a communications network is disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving an incoming telephone call from a caller, wherein the incoming telephone call identifies a subscriber as a callee thereof; capturing caller-specific information for the caller, wherein the caller-specific information includes at least one of the name of the caller and the telephone number of the caller; and storing the caller-specific information into an intelligent peripheral (IP) within the network. Some embodiments of the methods include allowing the subscriber to access the caller-specific information stored in the IP. In some embodiments, the subscriber subscribes to an enhanced call return (ECR) feature as part of a service plan. The ECR feature allows the subscriber to access caller-specific information for a predetermined number of past callers and also to return calls from those past callers. | 07-25-2013 |
20130196641 | INFORMATION OUTPUT METHOD AND DEVICE - An information output method includes obtaining an identifier of a second communication terminal when a communication connection request is initiated to a second communication terminal or a communication connection request is received from the second communication terminal; determining whether the identifier of the second communication terminal satisfies a first preset condition; obtaining first associated information corresponding to the identifier of the second communication terminal according to the identifier of the second communication terminal, if the second communication terminal identifier satisfies the first predetermined condition; and outputting communication connection request prompt information and the first associated information to a display interface of the first communication terminal. | 08-01-2013 |
20130210399 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR PROVIDING CALLER IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION - A method, apparatus and computer-readable media for providing caller identification information. A server receives a call notification that identifies a call originating from a calling address for connection to a destination address associated with a wireless destination device. The server makes the determination that the wireless destination device is within a predetermined proximity of a media station. Based on the determination, the server communicates a caller identifier to the media station for presentation on a display device communicatively coupled to the media station. | 08-15-2013 |
20130217370 | Protective Helmet with Voice-Activated Telephonic and Route-Guidance Systems - A protective helmet utilizes Bluetooth technology to integrate components of a hands-free, voice-activated telephonic communication system and a hands-free, voice-activated route guidance system. The Bluetooth transceiver provides the hub through which communications among the various components of the telephonic and route guidance systems take place. | 08-22-2013 |
20130217371 | NAVIGATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ANSWERING PERSONAL TRAVELING INFORMATION - A navigation device and a method for answering personal traveling information are disclosed. The navigation device is connected to a portable electronic device. The navigation device includes a transmission module, an information capturing module, an incoming call detection module and a processing module, wherein the transmission module receives incoming call information of an incoming caller generated by the portable electronic device. The incoming call detection module detects the incoming call signal generated by the portable electronic device. The information capturing module captures navigation information of the navigation device. The processing module analyzes the incoming call signal to correspondingly obtain incoming caller information. When the incoming call detection module detects the incoming call information generated by the portable electronic device, the processing module determines whether or not navigation information is transformed into a traveling message based upon incoming caller information so that traveling message is transmitted to the incoming caller. | 08-22-2013 |
20130225137 | Method and Apparatus Pertaining to Multiple-Call Processing - A control circuit, during a call via a wireless transceiver with a first party, permits a user to establish a call via the wireless transceiver with a second party apart from the call with the first party and then, during at least a part of a call-establishment process to establish a call with the second party, displays via a touch-screen display a user-selectable option to return to the call with the first party. This user-selectable option can comprise, at least in part, a moniker for the first party. The control circuit may obtain this moniker by accessing a contacts list. If desired, this user-selectable option can be colored a color that contrasts with other displayed proximal colors then presently displayed on the touch-screen display in order to highlight the user-selectable option's availability. | 08-29-2013 |
20130225138 | Method and Apparatus Pertaining to Telephone Number Display Formatting - A control circuit automatically presents on a display public telephony system telephone numbers using a presentation format that is standard for the public telephony system and private-exchange telephone numbers using a presentation format that includes a non-numeric private exchange modality indicator. By one approach, the non-numeric private exchange modality indicator consists of a single alphabetic character (such as, for example, the alphabetic character “X”) which may, if desired, by presented contiguously with the remainder of the private-exchange telephone number. | 08-29-2013 |
20130225139 | COOPERATIVE TABLET COMPUTER AND MOBILE COMMUNICATOR - A communication system, including a mobile communicator including a modem for conducting a communication with a remote party, an input unit for inputting communication data to the modem, and an output for outputting communication data from the modem, a display device including an input unit, an output unit, a connector for engaging the mobile communicator and for exchanging data with the mobile communicator, and a display for displaying party-specific information about the remote party involved in the communication, wherein the modem switches to receive its communication input via the display device input unit and directs its communication output to the display output unit when the mobile communicator is engaged with the connector, and wherein the modem switches back to receive its communication input via the mobile communicator input unit and directs its communication output to the mobile communicator output unit when the mobile communicator is disengaged from the connector. | 08-29-2013 |
20130237196 | REVERSE LOOK UP MONITORING SYSTEM - 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 a caller and the called number to which an incoming call was made; to store the time, date and number of the 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. | 09-12-2013 |
20130244632 | MOBILE DEVICE APPLICATIONS FOR COMPUTER-TELEPHONY SYSTEMS - On a mobile telecommunications device, computer-executable code executes to facilitate interactions between the user of the mobile telecommunications device and a call center or other computer-telephony integration equipment. The computer-executable code includes instructions that request at least one operation to be performed at a call center, where the call center includes a call center controller, an interactive voice response system component, and at least one agent. At least in part, a wireless network transmits the request from the mobile telecommunications device to the call center controller. | 09-19-2013 |
20130244633 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING NOTIFICATIONS - A personal hub for managing notifications across mobile devices and for separating the notification from the content. By separately managing the manner of notification provided to the user from its associated content, the personal hub may give a user more control over a number of mobile devices by allowing the user to escalate or dismiss different notifications across one or more mobile devices. Notifications may be managed based on device settings, priority settings, privilege settings, urgency flags, and/or other factors. In an embodiment, the user may receive an unobtrusive user-perceptible notification of an incoming communication from a personal hub that is less obtrusive than notifications which may be generated by the mobile device receiving the incoming communication. | 09-19-2013 |
20130252595 | DATA COMMUNICATION - A method of establishing a communications session for communication of data with respect to a telephony user device and at least one other user device in a data communications network. Communications are conducted with a server system. The communications comprise a client-server connection. Call party details of a telephone call are transmitted to the server system in the communications. The telephone call involves at least the telephony user device, as a first telephony user device involved in the call, and a second telephony user device involved in the call. The call party details including a first identity associated with the first telephony user device and a second identity associated with the second telephony user device. | 09-26-2013 |
20130252596 | Network Device, Called Terminal, and Method for Processing Third-Party Call - A method for a network device to process a third-party call can be applied in a scenario where a third party originates a call when a called terminal is in a call process. The network device extracts a calling phone number of the third party and notifies the calling phone number to the called terminal. The called terminal has activated a call waiting service. The network device receives a processing suggestion on the third-party call returned by the called terminal and processes the third-party call according to the processing suggestion. | 09-26-2013 |
20130260729 | METHOD FOR ENHANCING A VOICEMAIL WITH ADDITIONAL NON-VOICE INFORMATION - The invention relates to a method for creating and transmitting a telephone call requested by a transmitting service to the telephone of a recipient, wherein a server of the transmitting service is capable of submitting a call request to a call server, the call request containing digital information enabling the call server to initiate a call to the telephone of the recipient using a calling number to be displayed on the telephone, wherein the call contains an enhanced voicemail, consisting of a voicemail constructed by the call server from a portion of the information contained in the call request and intended to be broadcast during the call, and additional non-voice information contained in the call request and used by the call server to form the calling number. | 10-03-2013 |
20130273895 | TIME SHARING SUBSCRIBER IDENTITY MODULES - In one aspect there may be provided a method. The method may include detecting, during a first call associated with a first subscriber identity module included in a user equipment, a page representative of a second call associated with a second subscriber identity module; determining, during the first call associated with the first subscriber identity module included in the user equipment, caller identification information associated with the second call by at least inhibiting the first call to enable a call set up with the second subscriber identity module, the call set up established to determine the caller identification information for a caller making the second call to the second subscriber identity module; and receiving, at the user equipment, the second call by at least switching a subscriber identity module being used by the user equipment from the first subscriber identity module to the second subscriber identity module. | 10-17-2013 |
20130295897 | COMPUTER PROGRAM, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING INFORMATION ABOUT A TIME AVAILABILITY OF A TELEPHONE USER - Embodiments of the present invention provide for the sharing of information about the time availability of a telephone user. Initially, at least one status is set in a telephone of user. The status may contain information about the current or future availability or busy status of the user and/or the user's ability to accept or decline phone and/or video calls. A caller who is preparing to make a phone and/or video call to user, is provided with a real-time graphic, textual and/or audio interpretation of the status of the user. The status may further include the time and/or date on which the user will be available for an incoming call, or it may additionally include any graphic, textual, and/or audio message entered by the user. | 11-07-2013 |
20130295898 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RAPID CALLER IDENTIFICATION - A method of using color displays to visually identify another communicating individual to a Smartphone user. The method may be implemented as downloadable App software and run on the Smartphone's microprocessor. Here, various communications means, such as the communicating individual's telephone numbers, email addresses, SMS addresses, or social network identities are assigned to that individual's contact group, and this in turn is linked to a color or combination of colors. When the communicating individual contacts the Smartphone or makes an appropriate social network posting, the App software and processor detect this event, generates the appropriate color display, which can then be seen by the Smartphone user. | 11-07-2013 |
20130310013 | CALLER ID FOR TEXT MESSAGING - Systems and methods for providing caller ID information for text messaging. In one embodiment, a message center receives a text message from a sender, and identifies a name of the sender. The message center then inserts the sender name in the text message, and transmits the text message towards a recipient. | 11-21-2013 |
20130310014 | Method and Mobile Terminal for Storing Memo During Call - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and a mobile terminal for storing a memo during a call, which are used to store called party information to a memo during a call. A mobile terminal receives a memo application request when communicating with a mobile terminal of a called party. The mobile terminal obtains called party information of the called party. The called party information includes a phone number of the called party and/or a name corresponding to the phone number. The called party information can be stored in a memo. | 11-21-2013 |
20130316684 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING PHONE BOOK SERVICE INCLUDING EMOTIONAL INFORMATION AND AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - A method and an apparatus for providing a phone book service including emotional information are provided. The method for providing the phone book service including the emotional information includes receiving call data, detecting an emotion of another party using the received call data, and storing the emotion of the other party to phone book data of the other party of a phone book. | 11-28-2013 |
20130331073 | REAL-TIME DELIVERY OF CALLER INFORMATION ON 3G AND 4G DATA WITH INCOMING VOICE CALL - Systems and techniques are provided for delivering image content and other caller-specific data in real-time with an incoming voice call for a mobile device configured to receive voice calls and data through separate channels of the mobile communication network. In response to receiving a call request from an originating device for a voice call to a recipient mobile device, it is determined whether a database in the mobile communication network includes a caller-specific image associated with a caller at an originating mobile device. When the database is determined to include the caller-specific image, the image is sent via a network data connection to the recipient mobile device for display as part of an incoming call notification at the device. The voice call from the originating mobile device is allowed to proceed to the recipient mobile device, only after the caller-specific image is sent to the recipient mobile device. | 12-12-2013 |
20130331074 | PORTABLE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A portable device and a method for controlling the same are discussed, in which additional data of caller ID are displayed. The method includes receiving an incoming call; detecting a user's face on the portable device; displaying a list of items representing additional data on the incoming call when the user's face is detected, wherein the additional data are collected from a plurality of data sources corresponding to caller ID of the incoming call; detecting a user's gaze on a first item included in the list, wherein the first item representing a first part of the additional data; and displaying the first part of the additional data when the user's gaze is maintained on the first item over a first period of time. | 12-12-2013 |
20130337791 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPOKEN CALLER IDENTIFICATION IN A CELLULAR TELEPHONE HEADSET - The subject disclosure describes monitoring when a headset is in communication with a mobile communication device, detecting the headset, comparing a name of a caller and a telephone number of the caller against a list of names and telephone numbers previously stored in a memory, determining that the name of the caller or the telephone number of the caller matches one of the names and telephone numbers in the list, determining that the one of the names and telephone numbers is associated with a pre-recorded message that the user previously recorded and stored in the memory, retrieving the pre-recorded message, and performing a text-to-speech conversion on the name and telephone number of the caller to generate a synthesized speech signal spoken text message and sending the synthesized speech signal and the pre-recorded message to the headset. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 12-19-2013 |
20130344854 | MEDIATION AND PRESENTATION OF COMMUNICATIONS - A computer receives a plurality of records each relevant to a relationship between a first person and a second person. The computer determines a communication score of a communication from the first person to the second person, wherein the score is based on at least one of the plurality of records. The computer compares the communication score to an established mediation threshold. Responsive to determining that the communication score violates the established mediation threshold, the computer passes the communication to a user device of the second person. Further, the computer prioritizes the plurality of records according to a set of priorities, and presents the plurality of records to the first person or to the second person. | 12-26-2013 |
20140024351 | MESSAGE CONSOLIDATION SYSTEM - A message consolidation system includes a plurality of mobile communication devices connected to a network, a plurality of telecommunication switching units connected to a plurality of communication units and to the network and a consolidation unit on the network. The consolidation unit is configured to logically relate at least two communication devices, and to extract call information from each of the mobile communication devices and switching devices and to store the extracted data in a memory of the consolidation unit for display on a display unit coupled to a client device. | 01-23-2014 |
20140045470 | Messaging Interface Based on Caller of an Incoming Call - In one embodiment, a method includes displaying by a mobile computing device of a first user a notification of an incoming call. The notification identifies a second user associated with a source of the incoming call. The method further includes detecting by the mobile computing device user input provided during the display of the notification of the incoming call. In response to the user input, one or more previous communications between the first and second users is determined by the mobile computing device. The method further includes displaying by the mobile computing device the one or more previous communications. | 02-13-2014 |
20140045471 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATIONS - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller to detect a selection of an image from a graphical user interface, identify an entry in a contact book responsive to the detected selection of the image, and retrieve one or more communication identifiers associated with the party from the entry of the contact book for initiating a communication session. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 02-13-2014 |
20140051411 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CALL GATING USING A FEMTO CELL - Embodiments of the disclosed invention include a system and method for providing call gating. For example, in one embodiment, a femto cell is disclosed that includes a processing unit configured to execute instructions to perform operations comprising: enabling a call gating function associated with a cellular device in response to receiving an activation signal from the cellular device, monitoring for an incoming call to the cellular device in response to enabling the call gating function associated with the cellular device; identifying a caller ID associated with an incoming call in response to receiving an incoming call to the cellular device; determining whether the caller ID is on a list of allowed caller IDs associated with the cellular device; and routing the incoming call to the cellular device in response to a determination that the caller ID is on the list of allowed caller IDs associated with the cellular device. | 02-20-2014 |
20140051412 | TELEPHONE CALL SCREENING AND ROUTING DEVICE AND RELATED METHOD - A method for screening and routing incoming telephone calls includes extracting caller identification information from an incoming telephone call, providing a plurality of tables including a primary ring table, a secondary ring table, a voicemail table, a block call table, and a forward call table, and determining which one of the plurality of tables includes the caller identification information. The method further includes sending the incoming telephone call directly to voicemail without having a ring tone if the voicemail table includes the caller identification information, blocking the incoming telephone call if the block call table includes the caller identification information, and forwarding the incoming telephone call if the forward call table includes the caller identification information. | 02-20-2014 |
20140051413 | PORTABLE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A portable device includes: a communication unit configured to transmit and receive additional information corresponding to caller ID over a network; a storage unit configured to store the additional information; a sensor unit configured to detect at least one of a face and a gaze of a user; a display unit configured to display the additional information; and a controller configured to: receive an incoming call; detect the face of the user looking at the portable device; and display first additional information on the incoming call when the face is detected, wherein the first additional information is collected according to the caller ID of the incoming call. | 02-20-2014 |
20140057612 | PROCESS OF INITIATION OF A CONVERSATION - The invention relates to a method of initiating a conversation, the method comprising the following steps:
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20140066034 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CALLBACK INFORMATION - A method for displaying callback information in a mobile terminal having a processor includes receiving a request signal for displaying a screen of an application; obtaining a resulting value when a screen address of the screen corresponds with a callback function address; and displaying callback information corresponding to the callback function address using the resulting value. An apparatus to display callback information including an input unit to receive a request signal to display a screen of an application; a calling unit to obtain a resulting value when a screen address of the screen corresponds with a callback function address; and a displaying unit to display callback information corresponding to the callback function address using the resulting value. | 03-06-2014 |
20140080465 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING MISSED CALLS ON MOBILE TERMINAL - A displaying method and apparatus in a mobile terminal are provided. The displaying method in a mobile terminal includes displaying a message for a missed call for a first number on an idle screen or a call list screen when the missed call is generated from the first number, displaying a call history for the first number on an incoming call screen or an outgoing call screen when a call is received from the first number or the call is transmitted to the first number, and changing the message for the missed call for the first number when a call is connected to the first number and displaying the changed message. | 03-20-2014 |
20140087703 | REMOTE CONTROL METHOD AND REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM - A remote control method is provided. The method is adapted to a first terminal apparatus, and the first terminal apparatus corresponds to a first phone number. The remote control method includes the following steps. A second terminal apparatus is connected to a telecommunication server, wherein the telecommunication server corresponds to a telecommunication service provider who provides the first phone number a telecommunication service. A call diversion service is activated on the telecommunication server through the second terminal apparatus in order to divert a telecommunication signal which is to be forwarded to the first phone number to a second phone number. | 03-27-2014 |
20140099932 | System and Method for Displaying Information Associated With a Cellular Device on a User Specified Display Unit - Embodiments of the present invention include a method for displaying information associated with a cellular device on a display unit. In one embodiment, the method includes monitoring for a signal transmitted by a cellular device. In response to detecting the signal from the cellular device, the method determines an identity and a call status of the cellular device from data associated with the signal. The method transmits the identity and the call status of the cellular device to a user specified device to display the identity and the call status on the display unit associated with the user specified device. | 04-10-2014 |
20140106720 | CONTROLLING COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT - Communications equipment associated with a calling party in a telecommunications network has a telephony function for handling telephone calls and a data communication application for handling data communication sessions. The telephony function and the data communication application have an associated first and second user interface respectively. A called party identifier is collected via the second user interface in response to user input at the communications equipment. A telephone call is set up between the calling party and the called party using the telephony function on the basis of the collected called party identifier. Data communication session setup information, comprising information identifying the called party, is transmitted on the basis of the collected called party identifier. The data communication session setup information is for establishing a data communication session separate from the telephone call for the communication of data between the calling party and the called party. | 04-17-2014 |
20140113603 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SYMPATHY INFORMATION IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method and apparatus are provided for outputting sympathy information in an electronic device. The method includes detecting a sympathy event associated with an opposite party terminal; retrieving sympathy information associated with the opposite party terminal; and outputting the sympathy information. The sympathy information includes at least one of an image, text, and content that is sharable by a user of the electronic device with a user of the opposite party terminal. | 04-24-2014 |
20140113604 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CALLER INFORMATION UPON RECEPTION OF AN INCOMING CALL IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING ENTERPRISE MOBILITY COMMUNICATION - A method for providing caller information about a caller to a terminal, upon reception of an incoming call from the caller in a communication system supporting enterprise mobility communication is provided. The method includes receiving a phone number of the caller from the terminal that has registered with an enterprise mobility system, accessing at least one server providing a service for enterprise mobility communication and acquiring a service history between the terminal and the caller, and providing the service history on a screen of the terminal, indicating an active call state. | 04-24-2014 |
20140128047 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALL BLOCKING AND SMS BLOCKING - Systems and techniques are provided for managing and categorizing undesired phone calls and text messages. In a specific implementation, an electronic communication identified by a phone number is intercepted at a mobile communications device before the electronic communication is received by an application program on the device. The phone number is sent to a server for the server to identify a category associated with the phone number. The category is received at the mobile communication device. Based on the received category, a determination is made as to whether the application program should be allowed to receive the electronic communication. If allowed, the electronic communication is forwarded to the application program; else, the electronic communication is not forwarded. | 05-08-2014 |
20140128048 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOCATION INFORMATION - A method includes presenting, at a called communication device, first location information corresponding to a first location of a caller communication device. The first location information is presented before an incoming communication is answered. The method also includes presenting, at the called communication device, second location information in response to the incoming communication being answered. The second location information corresponds to a second location of the called communication device. | 05-08-2014 |
20140134988 | ENHANCING INFORMATION DELIVERY TO A CALLED PARTY - A facilitation and enhancement of interactions between a caller and a called party, such as a call center. The enhancement of interactions between a mobile device caller and a call center is by the communication of the mobile device caller's location and/or preferences to the call center. The communication can be in the form of a data structure stored on a computer-readable storage device, which may be transmitted from the mobile device caller to a call center controller. The data structure contains a caller identification entry, which allows the call center to match the data structure with a caller. In addition, a caller context entry associates additional data to the caller identification entry. The additional data includes at least one preference and/or location of the caller. Processor-based methods are disclosed to create, transmit, and/or utilize the data structure. | 05-15-2014 |
20140134989 | Handheld Electronic Device Having Improved Phone Call Log, and Associated Method - An improved handheld electronic device and an associated method provide an improved call log that presents information relating to logged phone calls in a collapsed manner, meaning that for each phone number having a call stored in the memory of the device, only the most recent in time call is listed on the call log. An improved handheld electronic device and an associated method also provide a call history for any phone call from the improved call log that is selected by the user. The call history includes a listing of all of the calls stored by the device that are associated with the selected call log call. | 05-15-2014 |
20140141758 | Method of Displaying A Map On A Phone Screen - A wireless communications device includes a radiofrequency transceiver having a wireless voice channel for transmitting and receiving voice communications and a separate wireless data channel for concurrently transmitting and receiving other data. The wireless communications device also includes a memory operatively connected to a processor for processing current location data received over the data channel from another communications device with which the wireless communications device is simultaneously communicating on the voice channel. The wireless communications further includes a display for displaying a phone screen during a voice call, the phone screen presenting call-related information. A map is displayed on the phone screen during the voice call, the map presenting a location current of the other communications device based on the current location data received over the data channel. Optionally, the map can also show the current location of the wireless communications device. | 05-22-2014 |
20140148139 | Method for Presenting Additional Information about a Telecommunication User - A method and system for presenting additional information about a user are provided. The user may be a calling party or a called patty. A request for information in addition to the information normally contained in the caller ID may be constructed and sent to a repository of additional information that returns the additional information. If the user is a calling party, the additional information may be presented on the called party's communication device. If the user is a called party, the additional information may be presented on the calling party's communication device. A system including the repository may receive the request. An authoring and editing component of the system may allow the user or others to edit the additional information about the user. The system may select and send the additional information based on a set of parameters in the request and the access type of the requestor. | 05-29-2014 |
20140162615 | Systems and Methods for Providing Anonymous Messaging - An exemplary messaging anonymity system (MAS) for providing anonymous messaging between a mobile device and a third-party service provider via a communications network can include a processor, a network interface, and a memory. The memory can be configured to store instructions that, when executed, perform the steps of an exemplary method. The exemplary method can include receiving a mobile-originated (MO) message from a mobile device, the MO message being destined for a third-party service provider, determining to provision an anonymous subscriber identification (ASI) to be used in lieu of a subscriber address associated with the mobile device, provisioning the ASI, and sending the MO message to the third-party service provider, wherein the ASI is presented to the third-party service provider as an originating subscriber address. | 06-12-2014 |
20140171044 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDICATING A CALLER'S INTENT - When a number of users share one telephone number, the present invention indicates who the callee (the person the caller wants to talk to) is, with personalized rings and information shown on a display, so as to allow each user to quickly identify calls directed to him/her. A mobile phone user could inform the callee his/her intent and/or the urgency level of the call by selecting from options provided by the callee reflecting the callee's preferences. | 06-19-2014 |
20140171045 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Processing Communications - Users are provided control of their communications. Should a call be processed for a user, a text message may be automatically sent as a response to the call. The user may pre-compose different text messages. The user may also compose a custom text message. Regardless, the user's text message is automatically sent as a response to the call. | 06-19-2014 |
20140171046 | ADVANCED DATING WEBSITES - Social websites, such as dating websites, are provided with advanced features. For example, a dynamic telephone number generator is provided that may be associated to a destination telephone number. Someone calling that dynamic telephone number may be routed to the destination number. The dynamic number may be generated as a result of receiving user input to a dating website. Additionally, a dynamic number may call a user's web browser directly such that users can utilize traditional telephone lines to talk over the internet to a website. | 06-19-2014 |
20140179288 | METHOD TO TAG A PHONE CALL TO COMMUNICATE PURPOSE OF THE CALL - Phone calls may be tagged with the importance or the context of the call to be displayed along with the caller ID information on the display of a receiving phone. The context information is thus made available even before the call is answered to aid the user in determining whether or not to answer the call or how long thereafter it would be appropriate to wait before the call is returned. | 06-26-2014 |
20140179289 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A TELEPHONE NUMBER IN A TERMINAL - An apparatus and a method manage a telephone number in a terminal, which can separately manage telephone numbers, a call to each of which an attempt to originate has been made and to each of which the call has failed to be connected, and then enable a convenient attempt to re-originate a call to the telephone number. The apparatus includes: a memory including a temporary list which stores a non-connecting telephone number, to which a call has been originated and has failed to be connected; and a controller for performing a control operation so as to store a particular telephone number in the temporary list as the non-connecting telephone number, when an attempt to originate a call to the particular telephone number is made and the call fails to be connected to the particular telephone number. | 06-26-2014 |
20140179290 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING INCOMING/OUTGOING INFORMATION AND MANAGING CONTACTS - A method and electronic device for extracting incoming/outgoing information and managing contacts are provided. The method includes determining whether a communicating electronic device which has been or is in communication with the electronic device is included as a contact in a first contact list; extracting incoming/outgoing information based on at least one of metadata and contents of the communication with the communicating electronic device when the communicating electronic device is not included as a contact in the first contact list; and displaying the extracted incoming/outgoing information on a touchscreen of the electronic device. | 06-26-2014 |
20140179291 | SYSTEM AND MOBILE TERMINAL FOR DISPLAYING CALLER INFORMATION AND METHOD THEREOF - Caller information display system includes a caller terminal, a service system and a receiver terminal. The caller terminal stores caller information and transmits data including the caller information during a call. The service system receives the data including the caller information from the caller terminal and transmits the data to a receiver terminal. The receiver terminal receives the data from the service system, stores the caller information to be linked with a telephone number of the caller terminal, and displays the caller information when a paging signal is received. | 06-26-2014 |
20140179292 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC DEVICE PAIRING - A communication system, method, and components are described. Specifically, a communication system that supports dynamic device pairing of communication devices is described. Such pairing is accomplished using a feature or pairing server, without requiring modification to associated communication endpoints. Moreover, sequenced applications can be applied for all communication endpoints when pairing is in effect. | 06-26-2014 |
20140187216 | CUSTOMIZED CALLER ID FOR MOBLIE PHONE - The present invention is generally directed toward a system for modifying caller identification (Caller ID) information by an outgoing caller on a mobile device. The system includes a storage means for storing Caller ID information prepared by a telecommunications provider, a telecommunications provider Caller ID module configured to transmit the Caller ID information to a receiving party, and a mobile device Caller ID module stored on the mobile device and configured to display the name associated with the Caller ID information on the mobile device. The mobile device Caller ID module is configured to customize the name by the outgoing caller and transmit the customized name to the telecommunications provider Caller ID module. The customized name is then transmitted in place of the telephone account name to the receiving party as part of the Caller ID information. | 07-03-2014 |
20140187217 | CONTACT ENTRY POPULATION FROM CALL ENTITY INFORMATION - Populating a contact entry with selected entity information based on an identifier associated with a call (e.g., a telephone call, VoIP call, text message, electronic mail message, or any other communication). As the call is detected, entity information for the identifier (e.g., a telephone number, VoIP address, MAC address, etc.) is generated. The entity information is filtered based on a category of the entity information, user preferences, location of a computing device (e.g., mobile telephone) of the user, or other filtering criteria. The filtered entity information is associated with the contact entry for the identifier, thereby enhancing the contact entry while reducing typing on the computing device. In some embodiments, additional information such as advertisements for a competitor of the entity are provided to the user. | 07-03-2014 |
20140199976 | WIRELESS WAKE-UP DEVICE FOR CELLULAR MODULE - A control device may wake-up a target wireless device through a wired or wireless communications channel. In an implementation, the control device and the wireless device may include a cellular module (e.g., global systems for mobile communications (GSM) capability) to implement an on-demand wake-up call. The on-demand wake-up call may allow the control device to perform at least one task at the wireless device without user intervention at the wireless device. | 07-17-2014 |
20140199977 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING AN EVENT MESSAGE - A system for transmitting and receiving an event message is provided. The system comprises a transmitting terminal that generates an event message, and that transmits the event message and caller information, an event message service server that stores phonebook data after receiving the phonebook data transmitted from at least one terminal, that searches for a receiving terminal including the caller information in the phonebook data among receiving terminals included in the phonebook data of the transmitting terminal when receiving the event message, and that transmits the event message to the searched receiving terminal, and a receiving terminal that receives an event message transmitted by the event message service server, and informs its user of reception of the event message. | 07-17-2014 |
20140206326 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IDENTIFY DEVICES IN A SHARED MOBILE OPERATING PLAN - A method includes communicating, by an application executed by a processor of a first mobile communication device, with a server system. A first phone number corresponding to the first mobile communication device is determined or verified based on the communicating with the server system, the first phone number corresponding to a particular shared operating plan enabled by a particular mobile operator. A request is transmitted to a computing system corresponding to the particular mobile operator for a second phone number corresponding to a second mobile communication device and corresponding to the particular shared operating plan of the first mobile communication device. The second phone number is received from the computing system. The processor of the first mobile communication device determines user identifying information corresponding to the second phone number based on data accessible via the first mobile communication device, and the user identifying information is provided to a user. | 07-24-2014 |
20140220948 | Method and System of Outputting in a Vehicle Data Streamed by Mobile Applications - A system for outputting visual data from a mobile device application on a mobile computing device to a vehicle display, the system comprising a wireless transceiver for communicating signals between a mobile computing device and a vehicle computing system having a graphical display. The vehicle computing system is configured to receive caller identification from the mobile computing device identifying a mobile device application configured to operate with the vehicle computing system. The vehicle computer system is also configured to receive a signal from the mobile computing device representative of a visual indication to be displayed on the vehicle display. The vehicle computer system may determine a location to display the visual indication on the display and output the visual indication on the vehicle display at the determined location. | 08-07-2014 |
20140242958 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR PROVIDING AN AUTOMATICALLY INITIATED OUTGOING COMMUNICATION AS AN INCOMING COMMUNICATION - A communication device and method for providing an automatically initiated outgoing communication as an incoming communication are provided. Outgoing communication is automatically initiated via a communication interface of the communication device. After the outgoing communication is initiated, an indication of the outgoing communication is provided at the communication device, such that the outgoing communication is provided as an incoming communication at the communication device. | 08-28-2014 |
20140274000 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION TO MOBILE DEVICES - Systems and methods for distributing data associated with a caller to a mobile device, in which the caller data may be presented by the mobile device upon receiving a first incoming call from the caller, are provided. In some embodiments, an image associated with the caller may be obtained by the mobile device such that the image may be displayed along with other call screening data during a first incoming call from the caller. In some embodiments, termination of the incoming call is held by a service control point while the data is transmitted to the mobile device over a data channel. Once termination of the incoming call is released by the service control point, the mobile device receives the incoming call and may present the data as call screening information. In some embodiments, the data channel may include a warm socket. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274001 | CALL CONNECTION METHOD - A method of connecting a call by a recipient terminal includes the recipient terminal receiving a call from a caller terminal, and displaying the purpose of the call, input by a caller and included in the call, on a call reception indication screen. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274002 | ENHANCED CALLER IDENTIFICATION - Systems and methods for enhanced caller identification are disclosed. In some embodiments, an incoming phone call may be received and a phone number of the incoming phone call may be identified. A query of an external database may be performed based on the phone number and information from an entry of the database that matches the phone number may be retrieved. A plurality of additional external databases may also be queried based on the phone number of information retrieved from another database that was queried based on the phone number. The information may be displayed in response to the incoming phone call and in response to an answering of the phone call. In some embodiments, the information may be displayed by way of a notification on a mobile phone. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274003 | PROACTIVE CALLER-CONTEXT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A directory server may proactively provide to a remote mobile phone (or similar device) recent contextual information associated with callers who are likely to call the remote mobile phone, such that the remote mobile phone is likely to have a local set of recent contextual data about a given caller when the caller places a call to the remote mobile phone (or visa versa). When an unknown caller calls the remote mobile phone, the directory server may use the caller's phone number to identify directory information and one or more social-network or similar accounts that are used as sources of contextual information about the caller. | 09-18-2014 |
20140287731 | Methods and systems presenting users with option to call - A mail server collects messages from a number of user accounts and presents them to the user from a single location. Forwarded messages are automatically reformatted for the receiving device, while a copy of the original message is retained. Messages may be reformatted to include the phone number of the message sender. The reformatted message can then present the user with an option to return the message via a phone call. The reformatted message can include more than one phone number, in which case the sender's phone numbers can be prioritized for presentation to the user. The reformatted message can also present the user with an option to review notes or other contact-specific information prior to responding to the message. | 09-25-2014 |
20140302828 | MOBILE TERMINAL, SERVER AND CALLING METHOD BASED ON CLOUD CONTACT LIST - The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal, a server and a calling method based on a cloud contact list. The method comprises: obtaining number information of a calling party according to a calling request from the calling party; sending an inquiry request to a cloud contact list server according to the number information of the calling party; receiving contact information corresponding to the number information of the calling party from the cloud contact list server; and displaying the contact information. When a cold call is received from an unknown number, the mobile terminal, server and calling method based on the cloud contact list provided in the present disclosure may obtain the contact information corresponding to the number from the cloud contact list, and then display the contact information to the user. In this way, the user can get to know the contact information associated with the unknown number. | 10-09-2014 |
20140302829 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BY USING CALLER PHONE NUMBER - A method and apparatus for providing additional information in response to reception of an incoming call in a portable device are provided. The method includes searching, when an incoming call is received, for an identification of the incoming call and a log related to communication performed prior to reception of the incoming call, the communication-related log being stored in the portable device; and displaying, before call connection is performed in response to reception of the incoming call, the identification and the searched communication-related log together on a screen of the portable device. | 10-09-2014 |
20140302830 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A MISSED CALL ALERT - Disclosed are a system and method for providing a missed call alert. The system for providing the missed call alert includes: a call access module configured to receive a missed call calling signalling from a core network; a signalling identification module configured to analyse the missed call calling signalling, and acquire the call type of the missed call calling signalling, wherein the call type includes: a type of voice call and a type of video call; and an alert issuing module configured to send missed call alert information to the called party, wherein the missed call alert information includes the call type. | 10-09-2014 |
20140335837 | Communication Processing Method and Apparatus, and Terminal - A communication processing method and apparatus, and a terminal are provided. The method includes: receiving a communication request including a called user identifier and sent by a calling user; searching, according to the called user identifier, for all terminals corresponding to the called user identifier, where the all terminals include a terminal which has logged in by using the called user identifier and does not log in currently; and sending the communication request to all communicable terminals of the all terminals. In the embodiments of the present invention, after receiving a communication request sent by a calling user, an application server can send the communication request to all communicable terminals. Therefore, a terminal which logged in previously but does not log in currently is also enabled to receive the communication request sent by the calling user, so as to optimize user experience. | 11-13-2014 |
20140357245 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AN IDENTIFIER OF A SOURCE ON A RECIPIENT DEVICE - A system and method for displaying an identifier of a source on a recipient device in communication with the source, the system comprising an association database defining at least one source associated with the recipient device; and a processing manager arranged to process communications from the source to the recipient device and arranged to access the association database to determine if the source is associated with the recipient device and, if so, to display an established identifier of the source, otherwise to determine the privacy settings of the source and display a further identifier on the recipient device in accordance with the determined privacy settings is disclosed. | 12-04-2014 |
20140364098 | TELEPHONE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, TELEPHONE TRANSMISSION SERVER AND DISPLAY UNIT - When a user B presses a button, a display unit generates a pseudo-random number based on a clock time of a first clock and a unique ID of the display unit, then displays the generated pseudo-random number on a liquid crystal display. Upon receiving a signal from a mobile telephone, a telephone transfer server receives information generated by operating the mobile telephone. Upon receiving the information, the telephone transfer server generates a pseudo-random number based on a clock time of a second clock and the unique ID of the display unit stored in advance, and determines whether or not the pseudo-random number so generated matches the pseudo-random number in the received information. In the affirmative case, the telephone transfer server connects the mobile telephone to a fixed telephone. | 12-11-2014 |
20140370864 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - A method and an electronic device for wireless communication are provided. The method is executed by a first electronic device and includes the following steps: sending a notification of an incoming phone call to a second electronic device, receiving a response to the notification from the second electronic device, and starting the incoming phone call and transmitting a conversation of the incoming phone call between the first electronic device and a wireless headset when the response indicates the incoming phone call is accepted. | 12-18-2014 |
20140370865 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING AND PROCESSING CONTACTS - A system and method are disclosed for searching and processing contacts. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a mobile communication device has a transceiver, and a controller for controlling operations thereof. The controller is programmed to receive from an end user of the mobile communication device a request for a contact, and search for the contact in a phonebook of the mobile communication device. The controller is programmed to replace the caller identification of the mobile communication device with a corresponding caller identification that emulates the enterprise identification as if the mobile originated call originated from within the enterprise when the mobile communication device is not located within a vicinity of the enterprise. Additional embodiments are also disclosed. | 12-18-2014 |
20140370866 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPOKEN CALLER IDENTIFICATION IN A CELLULAR TELEPHONE HEADSET - The subject disclosure describes monitoring when a headset is in communication with a mobile communication device, detecting the headset, comparing a name of a caller and a telephone number of the caller against a list of names and telephone numbers previously stored in a memory, determining that the name of the caller or the telephone number of the caller matches one of the names and telephone numbers in the list, determining that the one of the names and telephone numbers is associated with a pre-recorded message that the user previously recorded and stored in the memory, retrieving the pre-recorded message, and performing a text-to-speech conversion on the name and telephone number of the caller to generate a synthesized speech signal spoken text message and sending the synthesized speech signal and the pre-recorded message to the headset. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 12-18-2014 |
20140378107 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING CALLER IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION - A method may include receiving call information associated with an incoming communication directed to a destination communication device. The method may also include retrieving data related to the call information to be displayed according to a particular display profile of a plurality of display profiles, where the particular display profile is associated with the destination communication device. | 12-25-2014 |
20150017959 | METHOD FOR MANAGING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A DIGITAL CONNECTION - The invention relates in particular to methods for managing: user communication terminals, the anonymisation of private user communication identifiers, and the use of private user communication identifiers. Upon designation of a social identifier of a first user, the aforementioned methods can be used to transmit one of the private communication identifiers associated with said first user to a communication establishment device for the purpose of anonymously connecting the first user with a second user having designated the social identifier. | 01-15-2015 |
20150038128 | ENHANCED CALLER IDENTIFICATION USING CALLER READABLE DEVICES - A method of providing originator information to an intended communications recipient during establishment of a communication session includes reading, at an originating communication terminal, originator information carried by a device located with the originating terminal, and including at least some of the originator information in at least one signal transmitted by the originating communication terminal during establishment of the communication session for transmission to a communication terminal associated with the intended communications recipient. | 02-05-2015 |
20150056967 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNITY BASED MOBILE DEVICE PROFILING - A method, computer program product, and system is provided for community based mobile device profiling. In an implementation, a method may include receiving, via a first mobile device, a wireless signal associated with a second mobile device. The method may also include determining an identity of a user associated with the second mobile device. The method may further include establishing at least one setting of the first mobile device based upon, at least in part, a mobile device profile associated with the first mobile device and the identity of the user associated with the second mobile device. | 02-26-2015 |
20150056968 | Method and device for dialing refused call by using user identification card - A method and a device for dialing a refused call by using a user identification card are disclosed. The method includes receiving the notification of a hang-up event sent from a mobile terminal, and controlling the mobile terminal to call the incoming number of the hang-up event by using a Subscriber Identity Module Application Toolkit (STK) application. The method and the device for dialing a refused call by using a user identification card disclosed herein enable a user to call a refused call back at a fixed time by using a user identification card, thus, the user can use the function of dialing a refused number at any time as long as the user identification card is unchanged, even though the user changes the mobile terminal. | 02-26-2015 |
20150056969 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION NOTIFICATIONS OF THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In a method for controlling communication notification of an electronic device, an address book is searched for confirming identity information of a sender device when the electronic device receives a communication notification of the sender device. Voice data of the sender device corresponding to the confirmed identity information of the sender device using a voice is confirmed. A preset voice prompt of the communication notification is outputted via an earphone of the electronic device according to the confirmed voice data and a preset prompt ring corresponding to the communication notification. If a preset stop command triggered by the earphone is received, the electronic device is controlled to stop outputting of the preset voice prompt of the communication notification via the earphone. | 02-26-2015 |
20150065103 | Device and Method for Enhancing a Call - A method and a device are provided for enhancing a call set up between at least one transmitting terminal and one receiving terminal. The transmitting terminal determines at least one content element associated with a datum identifying a user of the receiving terminal and associated with a datum identifying a user of the transmitting terminal. The selected content is then retrieved on the transmitting terminal. Optionally, the selected content is sent to the receiving terminal to enhance the call. | 03-05-2015 |
20150072665 | Cloud Caller ID Display System and Method Thereof - A cloud caller ID display system includes a cloud serving apparatus, a first mobile communication device and a second mobile communication device. The first mobile communication device is used for transmitting a first contact list to the cloud serving apparatus. The second mobile communication device is used for obtaining the first contact list from the cloud serving apparatus, wherein upon receiving a communication request from an external communication device, the second mobile communication device is configured to match a caller ID of the external communication device in the first contact list to search for a contact name corresponding to the caller ID, thereby enabling displaying the found contact name on the second mobile communication device. | 03-12-2015 |
20150087280 | Identifying and Filtering Incoming Telephone Calls to Enhance Privacy - A method for filtering a telephone call is provided. The method may comprise receiving from a caller the telephone call directed to a communication device associated with an intended call recipient. The received telephone call may be scored based on predetermined scoring criteria to create a score indicative of a desirability of the telephone call. Furthermore, the method may comprise comparing the score to a predetermined threshold score. Based on the comparison, the method may further comprise selectively classifying the telephone call as an unwanted telephone call. Furthermore, the method may comprise selectively rejecting the unwanted telephone call. | 03-26-2015 |
20150087281 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TELEPHONE NUMBER PROVISIONING AND TELEPHONY MANAGEMENT - Systems, methods, and computer-readable are provided for telephone number provisioning. A user interface configured to provide access to telephony information may be facilitated. The telephony information may be retained in a telephony information repository. Information about a first location may be processed. A region of interest may be determined. A set of telephony information may be processed based on the region of interest. Telephone number inventory corresponding to the region of interest may be determined based part on the set of telephony information. Telephone number inventory may be categorized according to availability to determine a first set of telephone numbers. Local calling characteristics may be determined. Indication to the user interface of availability of telephone numbers within the region of interest based on the first set of telephone numbers and the local calling characteristics may be caused. The user interface may present graphical indicia that distinguishes the local calling characteristics. | 03-26-2015 |
20150094045 | MOBILE DEVICE SHARING FACILITATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS SUITABLE FOR CAUSING A RELAYED COMMUNICATION TO INCLUDE A MOBILE DEVICE IDENTIFIER - Structures and protocols are presented for using or otherwise relating to a first mobile device (a smartphone or tablet computer or wearable device, e.g.) configured to be shared by two or more parties such that a subset of the parties may be addressed selectively (in content directed to such parties, e.g.) in a cost-effective manner. | 04-02-2015 |
20150094046 | MOBILE DEVICE SHARING FACILITATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS OPERABLE IN NETWORK EQUIPMENT - Structures and protocols are presented for using or otherwise relating to a first mobile device (a smartphone or tablet computer or wearable device, e.g.) configured to be shared by two or more parties such that a subset of the parties may be addressed selectively (in content directed to such parties, e.g.) in a cost-effective manner. | 04-02-2015 |
20150094047 | MOBILE DEVICE SHARING FACILITATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS FEATURING ROUTING TAG DERIVATION - Structures and protocols are presented for using or otherwise relating to a first mobile device (a smartphone or tablet computer or wearable device, e.g.) configured to be shared by two or more parties such that a subset of the parties may be addressed selectively (in content directed to such parties, e.g.) in a cost-effective manner. | 04-02-2015 |
20150094048 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SIGNALING THE IMPORTANCE OF A TRANSMISSION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method of communicating an importance level of a call to a recipient mobile device is disclosed. The method includes receiving call information for a particular call at a mobile switching center and generating an initial address message for the particular call. The initial address message may include a notification value field. The method further includes determining whether an importance level has been designated for the particular call, setting a value of the notification value field based on whether an importance level has been designated for the particular call, and transmitting the initial address message for the particular call to a recipient mobile device. | 04-02-2015 |
20150099496 | Automatic Account Information Retrieval and Display - Techniques for retrieving and displaying information from a business system on a mobile computing based on contextual details are disclosed. The contextual details can include caller identification information and contact identifiers associated with the caller identification information stored a contacts record in a mobile computing device. Contextual details may include caller identification information, contact identifiers, user preferences, job functions, time/date, and location. Based on the specific details of a particular context, an associated layout definition can be determined. The layout definition specifies the information and analysis to retrieve from the business system and the manner in which to display the information in a graphical user interface if a mobile computing device. | 04-09-2015 |
20150099497 | MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING INCOMING CALL OF MOBILE DEVICE - In a method for displaying an incoming call of a mobile device, one or more application software of the mobile device are set for providing information of a caller of the incoming call. A name of the caller is retrieved from an address book of the mobile device according to a calling number of the incoming call. Information related to the name of the caller is retrieved from each of the application software. The retrieved information is displayed on a display screen of the mobile device. | 04-09-2015 |
20150111548 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING TERMINAL LOCATION DURING CALL REQUEST - A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a new call request in response to equipment of a calling party placing a call from a calling-party location to equipment of a called party, wherein the new call request includes an identity of the equipment of the calling party. An identity of the calling-party is determined based on an association between the identity and the equipment of the calling party. A location of the equipment of the calling party is determined and a location indicator is generated based on the identity of the calling-party and the location of the equipment of the calling party. The location indicator is presented to a display of the equipment of the called party. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 04-23-2015 |
20150111549 | METHOD TO TAG A PHONE CALL TO COMMUNICATE PURPOSE OF THE CALL - Phone calls may be tagged with the importance or the context of the call to be displayed along with the caller ID information on the display of a receiving phone. The context information is thus made available even before the call is answered to aid the user in determining whether or not to answer the call or how long thereafter it would be appropriate to wait before the call is returned. | 04-23-2015 |
20150119009 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A CALLED IDENTIFIER TO A DEVICE ASSOCIATED WITH MULTIPLE IDENTIFIERS - Methods and apparatus for providing call identification to a device associated with one or more identifiers are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for providing call identification to a terminal device associated with one or more communication identifiers may include extracting a called identifier from a message associated with a call from a caller device directed to the called identifier and terminating at the terminal device, wherein the called identifier is one of the one or more communication identifiers; and transmitting information associated with the called identifier to the terminal device. | 04-30-2015 |
20150119010 | CALLER ID SURFING - A method and system for displaying and producing computer based documents seamlessly to users that relate to their telephone calls is provided. The invention is able to be used with social media, where the mobile station searches for the social media page of the caller based on the Caller ID and displays it to the recipient of the call on the mobile station screen, possibly with other Internet search results. The method and system allow the user to obtain the newest public information about the person who calls him or he decides to call, or any documents that might be intermittent between the people. The system adds “bandwidth”, i.e. speed, efficiency and more dimensions to personal communication, as the users of the inventive system can also visually see by documentation what is going on in the relationship between two or more people. | 04-30-2015 |
20150133096 | CALL NOTIFICATION WITH RICH CALLER IDENTIFICATION - Communication systems and methods are described that include call notification with rich caller identification. Components of the communication systems are configured to receive a call for a user via an enterprise voice channel. A call request is automatically generated in response to event data of the received call. The call request includes caller data from enterprise databases or directories. The caller data provides identifying information of the caller to the user via the call request. The call request can include response options by which the user can participate in the call. The call request is routed to a target device of the user via a data channel of the host enterprise. The target device provides the user with multiple action or response options via the call request. The response options include for example accepting the call, delaying the call, forwarding the call, ignoring the call, and ignoring the caller. | 05-14-2015 |
20150140977 | System and Method for Intelligent Call Blocking with Block Mode - System and method for intelligent call blocking with block mode are provided. Said system comprises at least one of a local number database and a cloud number database, as well as a monitoring module used for monitoring the phone number of mobile terminal and preprocessing, an analyzing module used for analyzing obtained phone number by means of at least one of the local number database and the cloud number database and synthesizing marking information that is obtained by such analyzing, a displaying module used for displaying said marking information in a set area of said mobile terminal, a phone number marking module used for receiving marking information that is inputted by the user and is correlated with said phone number and delivering said marking information to the cloud number database; wherein, said local number database stores a part of or all of the phone numbers and corresponding marking information which have been verified and are stored in said cloud number database. | 05-21-2015 |
20150304468 | CALLER ID SURFING - A method and system for displaying and producing computer based documents seamlessly to users that relate to their telephone calls is provided. The invention is able to be used with social media, where the mobile station searches for the social media page of the caller based on the Caller ID and displays it to the recipient of the call on the mobile station screen, possibly with other Internet search results. The method and system allow the user to obtain the newest public information about the person who calls him or he decides to call, or any documents that might be intermittent between the people. The system adds “bandwidth”, i.e. speed, efficiency and more dimensions to personal communication, as the users of the inventive system can also visually see by documentation what is going on in the relationship between two or more people. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304491 | METHOD PROVIDING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE READOUT OF THE IDENTIFICATION OF A RINGBACK TONE ON THE INCOMING AND OUTGOING CALL HANDSETS - A method and a system for identifying various details of a ringback tone (“RBT”) or other call pair related metadata after a call is placed is disclosed (“the system”). The system includes a user interface suitable for use in various mobile devices. The user interface allows a user to identify multiple characteristics of an RBT such as the song name, artist name, and the image of the album cover. Additionally, Metadata enhancing the RBT, such as a coupon related to an RBT advertisement may be displayed. Metadata displayed may be call pair related information unrelated to an RBT such as the name of a customer service representative you may have just spoken with. The user interface also provides appropriate actions to be performed after the call such as purchase of the whole song related to the RBT, rating the RBT, using the coupon or rating the customer service representative. | 10-22-2015 |
20150312392 | CATEGORIZED HANDLING OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - A recipient communications device associated with a vehicle computing system (VCS) may be configured to receive, over a communications network, an incoming communication from a sender communications device, identify a notification type to provide based on a message directive provided by the sender device, retrieve notification settings associated with the notification type, and perform a notification of receipt of the incoming communication using a VCS user interface according to the notification settings. | 10-29-2015 |
20150319303 | COMMUNICATION OF INFORMATION DURING A CALL - A request is received from a user of a telephonic device to invoke an application on the telephonic device. A form is displayed to the user using the application. Information input into the form is received by the application along with an indication to submit the form information with a service request to a call handling system. A data communications session between the telephonic device and an application server of the call handling system is established using the application. The form information is provided to the application server. A telephone number of the telephonic device is identified from the form information using which a voice communications session is established with the telephonic device from an interactive voice response system of the call handling system. Voice information is exchanged with the user and text, image or video information is communicated to the user via the voice and data communications sessions respectively. | 11-05-2015 |
20150334227 | Systems and Methods of Single Identity Service Regardless of Network Service Provider - The systems and methods of single identity service regardless of service provider disclosed herein provides an application on a calling device that intercepts the digits dialed by the subscriber and provides the digits to a server controlled by the service provider that provides the one-number service. The call is routed to the one-number service provider controlled server instead of directly to the dialed digits. In an example embodiment, once the one-number service provider controlled server has the dialed digit information and the call has been routed to the one-number service provider controlled server, the one-number service provider controlled server originates a call to the destination device and presents the one-number identity to the destination network as the caller ID. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334230 | Unwanted caller and message sender identification for restricted communication devices - Method for enabling unwanted caller notifications or unwanted message sender notifications for all communication devices and applications including those with restricted programmatic call and message log access. The method delivers and stores a database of unwanted caller/message sender identification information in the device default contacts list, which is made available to the device's default caller/message sender identification service and to applications installed on the device. In one embodiment the unwanted caller/message sender identification information database is delivered as a separate synchronized address book, which can include additional unwanted caller notification information, for example the number or type of complaints about a given phone number. | 11-19-2015 |
20150341764 | CUSTOMIZED CALLER ID FOR MOBILE PHONE - The present invention is generally directed toward a system for modifying caller identification (Caller ID) information by an outgoing caller on a mobile device. The system includes a storage means for storing Caller ID information prepared by a telecommunications provider, a telecommunications provider Caller ID module configured to transmit the Caller ID information to a receiving party, and a mobile device Caller ID module stored on the mobile device and configured to display the name associated with the Caller ID information on the mobile device. The mobile device Caller ID module is configured to customize the name by the outgoing caller and transmit the customized name to the telecommunications provider Caller ID module. The customized name is then transmitted in place of the telephone account name to the receiving party as part of the Caller ID information. | 11-26-2015 |
20150350419 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Providing Ring TOnes - Ring tones and other alerts are processed based on social networks. A person's contact information, as an example, may be associated with a social network. Each different social network may also have its own custom ringtone or other alert. Calls, texts, and other electronic messages may thus processed with the alert of the social network. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350421 | Genius Button Secondary Commands - Methods, systems and articles for receiving, by a telecommunication device, audio input through a unified audio interface are disclosed herein. The telecommunication device is further configured to perform at least one of a dictation action, an incoming message processing action, a navigation action, a content lookup action, or a contact lookup action while continuously or substantially continuously receiving voice commands from a user. In some aspects, the telecommunications device may continuously receive and process voice command while operating in a driving mode, which may be initiated by the telecommunications device. | 12-03-2015 |
20150365524 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Suppression of Alerts - Audible alerts are suppressed for subsequent calls from a calling address. An initial audible alert is processed for an initial call from the calling address. Subsequent audible alerts from the same calling address are suppressed, such that subsequent calls from the calling address may fail to alert. Visual alerts may still be processed. | 12-17-2015 |
20150373175 | System and Method of Arbitrating Audio Source Streamed by Mobile Applications - A system for attenuating vehicle audio for mobile application audible statements, the system comprising a vehicle computing system having one or more processors for playing audio in the vehicle from a plurality of different audio sources. The system also includes a wireless transceiver for communicating signals from a mobile computing device for processing by the vehicle computing system. The vehicle computing system is configured to receive a wireless signal from the mobile computing device representative of an audible statement to be played in the vehicle. If the vehicle computing system is playing audio in the vehicle at the time the wireless signal is received from the mobile computing device, determine an amount to attenuate the audio based on the source of the audio. Attenuate the audio and play the audible statement based on the determination. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373187 | DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION ON OTHER DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - A method for display, at a first electronic device, identification information about a second electronic device is provided. The method includes receiving a call or a message from the second electronic device, requesting identification information about the second electronic device to a server, receiving the requested identification information from the server, and displaying the received identification information on a screen. The identification information comprises relation information between the first electronic device and the second electronic device. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373188 | 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 | 12-24-2015 |
20150381562 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING A CHANGE IN CONTACT INFORMATION - Methods and systems for detecting a change in contact information are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for detecting a change in contact information may include sending a request including a communication identifier stored in an address book associated with a first user, receiving, responsive to the request, a first identifier associated with the communication identifier, and comparing the first identifier received with a second identifier stored in association with the communication identifier. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381805 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF PROCESSING MOBILE CALLS - A method of optimizing call dialing may include receiving a first call including one or more of a session identification number, a contact identification number, a contact name and a direct inward dialing number, determining a call provider and a callee provider based on the first call, determining cost information associated with one or more numbers corresponding to a callee and routing a second call between the caller and the callee based on one or more of the caller provider, the callee provider and the cost information. | 12-31-2015 |
20160006849 | Bluetooth headset and voice interaction control thereof - Techniques for a personalized Bluetooth headset and a voice interaction control method thereof are described. According to one aspect of the present invention, the Bluetooth headset is caused to maintain a voice contact list. Each item in the voice contact list corresponds to a phone number associated with a set of audio data (e.g., a voice or a predefined audio). When a paired mobile device receives a call, the voice contact list is searched per the caller number. A corresponding audio is played back when an item is located in the voice contact list. As such a user of the Bluetooth headset knows who is calling and determines whether the call shall be answered or not. | 01-07-2016 |
20160006868 | Method and System for Marking a Phone Number - A method for marking a phone number and a system for marking a phone number are provided. Said method comprises: obtaining a phone number of an incoming call or a dialed call to/from a mobile terminal; performing matching process on the obtained phone number in at least one of a local database and a cloud database; based on whether or not said phone number is successfully matched in the local database or the cloud database and whether said phone number is a questioned number, displaying the user with different marking pages, to prompt the user to mark said phone number or confirm the marking information of said phone number; obtaining the marking information marked by the user to said phone number according to the marking page, and performing marking verification process on the marking information; and according to the result of the marking verification process, updating said cloud database and said local database. | 01-07-2016 |
20160014271 | Identifying Information Associated with an Incoming Telephone Call | 01-14-2016 |
20160014272 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Processing Communications | 01-14-2016 |
20160014577 | System and Method for Initiating Communication from Actual, Notional, or Dissociated Previewed Images | 01-14-2016 |
20160021234 | CALL ANSWERING METHOD INTEGRATING SOCIAL SOFTWARE APPLICATION AND TELEPHONE ANSWERING INTERFACE - A call answering method integrating a social software application and a telephone answering interface is provided. The telephone is built-in with a telephone answering interface, a native address book and at least one social software application, and is installed with an integrated answering program. When the telephone receives a call request signal that an external caller transmits, the integrated answering program determines whether identity information the call request signal provides represents a social contact, and a social answering button corresponding to the social software application is displayed to quickly switch to the social software communication interface for text (short messages), graphic or file communication. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021244 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING TELEPHONE CALL - The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for identifying a telephone call. The method includes: determining whether a second telephone of an assigned entity, which entity a telephone number of a caller is affiliated with, is calling a telephone number of a first telephone, when the caller is calling the telephone number of the first telephone, wherein the telephone number of the second telephone is the telephone number used by the caller; when the second telephone is not calling the telephone number of the first telephone, outputting prompt information, wherein the prompt information is for indicating that the telephone call from the caller is a number-falsified telephone call. The present invention may correctly identify whether a telephone call is a number-falsified telephone call. | 01-21-2016 |
20160021245 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CALLER IDENTIFICATION CUSTOMIZATION AND REMOTE MANAGEMENT OF COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Methods, devices, systems and computer program products are described for implementing on a communication device customized caller ID and remote functional management of a communication device via shared secret exchange between calling and called parties. Customized caller ID provides for a calling party to identify themself regardless of the device they are using to place to call. Other remote functional management, such as call priority tagging, provides for the calling party to prioritize the call or otherwise customize a call ID message to the called party. By exchanging shared secrets amongst the calling and called parties, the customized caller ID method and remote functional management are secure, thereby eliminating the likelihood of unauthorized tampering by unknown parties. Shared secret exchange also provides for authorized callers to remotely access and manage the communication device, such as, for example, to remotely lock down or place the communication device in an off state. | 01-21-2016 |
20160028887 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVISION OF A SECOND LINE SERVICE TO A TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVICE USING DIALED SEQUENCE - A method and system for providing a second line service (“SLS”) feature to a subscriber using a telecommunications device (“TD”) which includes receiving at a switch on the network of the subscriber's primary service provider a communication made up of a trigger and a directory number. When the communication is received at the primary service provider's switch, the switch parses the communication and detects the trigger. Once the switch has received the communication, the switch additionally transmits a query message to a SLS platform that manages the SLS feature. As a result of the switch's query message transmission, the switch receives a reply to the query message from the SLS platform. Based at least in part on the reply to the query message, the switch can route the communication such that the switch connects one or multiple voice channel circuit between the subscriber's TD and the terminating TD. | 01-28-2016 |
20160029214 | HOME CONTROL GATEWAY AND HOME CONTROL NETWORK CONNECTION METHOD THEREOF - A home control gateway and a home control network connection method for remote home controlling are provided. The method includes receiving a calling signal from a mobile device through a mobile phone network, identifying a phone number according to the calling signal, verifying whether the phone number exists in a database of the home control gateway, generating a token, and transferring the token to the mobile device as a short message. The method further includes, when receiving a connection request from the mobile device by the short message with the token, allowing building a communication channel with the mobile device. | 01-28-2016 |
20160036967 | Method and Electronic Device for Individualizing Ringtones - A first electronic device (“first device”) identifies a second electronic device (“second device”) that is within hearing range of the first device. The first device determines whether a ringtone of the first device conflicts with a ringtone of the second device (e.g., the first and second devices have the same incoming text message ringtone). If the first device determines that there is a conflict (e.g., the active ringtones of the two devices have the same file name or the audio files of the ringtones have the same digital signature or identifier) then the first device appends an individualized alert to its ringtone, either in advance of playing the ringtone or in real time as the ringtone is being played. | 02-04-2016 |
20160036968 | Bluetooth headset with an audio table - Techniques for a personalized Bluetooth headset and a voice interaction control method thereof are described. According to one aspect of the present invention, the Bluetooth headset is configured to create and maintain a voice-based table. Each item in the table includes a phone number paired with a set of audio data (e.g., a voice or a predefined audio), where the audio data is created by a user. When a paired mobile device receives a call, the table is searched per the caller number. A corresponding audio is played back first when an item is located in the table. As such a user of the Bluetooth headset knows who is calling and determines whether the call shall be answered or not. | 02-04-2016 |
20160044491 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING CONTACT INFORMATION DURING CALL - A method for transmitting contact information during a call may include, in a call of a mobile terminal, extracting voice data of a subscriber. The method may also include determining if voice data is representative of a voice control command. If the voice data is representative of a voice control command, converting the voice control command to a corresponding Unicode code. The method may further include searching for contact information that the subscriber needs to transmit according to the Unicode code, and transmitting the found contact information to another party. The method may not affect the call of the subscriber during the information transmission process. The method may not require manual operations by the subscriber. As a result, associated operations may be very convenient. | 02-11-2016 |
20160050548 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING CALL ORIGINATIONS USING SMS AND HOTLINE CAPABILITIES - A method for handling call originations is provided. The method includes sending origination information from a mobile device to an application server in an enterprise network using Short Message Service (SMS) and determining whether a hotline feature is present in a subscriber profile associated with the mobile device. Data is then routed from the mobile device to a predetermined destination based on the hotline feature. | 02-18-2016 |
20160057099 | Computing Device with Remote Contact Lists - In one implementation a computer-implemented method includes generating a group of telephone contacts for a first user, wherein the generating includes identifying a second user as a contact of the first user based upon a determination that the second user has at least a threshold email-based association with the first user; and adding the identified second user to the group of telephone contacts for the first user. The method further includes receiving a first request to connect a first telephone device associated with the first user to a second telephone device associated with the second user. The method also includes identifying a contact identifier of the second telephone device using the generated group of telephone contacts for the first user, and initiating a connection between the first telephone device and the second telephone device using the identified contact identifier. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057283 | CALL PRIORITY FOR MOBILE DEVICES - Systems and method are provided for using a priority level for a call from a caller to a callee. The systems and methods involve presenting to the caller on a screen of a caller's mobile device an option for selecting the priority level for the call at a time that the call is initiated by the caller. The systems and methods further involve transmitting data corresponding to the priority level from the caller's mobile device to a callee's mobile device. The systems and methods further involve providing an indication on the callee's mobile device of the priority level at a time that the call is indicated to the callee as incoming. | 02-25-2016 |
20160072947 | ENHANCED CALLER-ID INFORMATION SELECTION AND DELIVERY - Technologies relating to enhanced Caller ID information selection for a caller associated with a call and delivery of the selected enhanced Caller ID information to a callee associated with the call include one or more processors selecting, according to selection criteria, one or more enhanced Caller ID information items from a collection of available enhanced Caller ID information items pertaining to the caller that are stored across one or more databases of enhanced Caller ID information. | 03-10-2016 |
20160072948 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING INCOMING/OUTGOING INFORMATION AND MANAGING CONTACTS - A method and electronic device for extracting incoming/outgoing information and managing contacts are provided. The method includes determining whether a communicating electronic device which has been or is in communication with the electronic device is included as a contact in a first contact list; extracting incoming/outgoing information based on at least one of metadata and contents of the communication with the communicating electronic device when the communicating electronic device is not included as a contact in the first contact list; and displaying the extracted incoming/outgoing information on a touchscreen of the electronic device. | 03-10-2016 |
20160080560 | 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. | 03-17-2016 |
20160088138 | Method and Apparatus for Managing Communications - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller to detect a selection of an image from a graphical user interface, identify an entry in a contact book responsive to the detected selection of the image, and retrieve one or more communication identifiers associated with the party from the entry of the contact book for initiating a communication session. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088149 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION AND AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - A control method and an electronic device thereof are provided. The first electronic device includes a memory for storing call logs, a determination module for analyzing the call logs associated with a dialing pattern and identifying a second electronic device associated with a recipient in the dialing pattern, and a control module for, when attempting a call to the first electronic device, outputting information of at least one second electronic device associated with the first electronic device in accordance with the stored call logs. | 03-24-2016 |
20160088452 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CALL-BASED DATA COMMUNICATION - A method of establishing a communications session for communication of data with respect to a telephony user device and at least one other user device in a data communications network. Communications are conducted with a server system. The communications comprise a client-server connection. Call party details of a telephone call are transmitted to the server system in the communications. The telephone call involves at least the telephony user device, as a first telephony user device involved in the call, and a second telephony user device involved in the call. The call party details including a first identity associated with the first telephony user device and a second identity associated with the second telephony user device. | 03-24-2016 |
20160100050 | IDENTIFYING AN UNKNOWN CONTACT - For identifying an unknown contact, a system, apparatus, method, and computer program product are disclosed. The apparatus, in one embodiment, includes a processor, a memory that stores code executable by the processor, the code identifying an incoming call from an unknown contact, collecting relationship information regarding the unknown contact, and determining a relationship to a user based on the collected relationship information. In certain embodiments, the apparatus also includes code that provides a notification based on the determined relationship. In some embodiments, the apparatus also includes code that shares the determined relationship with one or more stored contacts. | 04-07-2016 |
20160100051 | PROVIDING SENDER IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION - An apparatus for providing sender identification information of the communication event on a display is described. In an embodiment the apparatus receives a communication event, for example, a call or a message. The mobile apparatus is caused to output a temporary indication of the communication event and the sender identification information relating to the communication event is not shown on the display. When a user of the mobile apparatus is detected with at least one sensor, the display is arranged to display the sender identification information on the display replacing the temporary indication in response to detecting the user with the at least one sensor. | 04-07-2016 |
20160105547 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR LINE SELECTION IN A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Embodiments of an apparatus and methods for selecting a communication line from two or more lines on a communication device are described herein. The communication device comprises a display module, an input module, a line selection module, and a communication module for making a call over a network to a target recipient. In one broad aspect, a determination of which of the communication lines is a communication line associated with the one of two or more message addresses at which a message is received is made in the selection of a communication line accessible at the communication device on which an outgoing call may be placed. | 04-14-2016 |
20160105555 | 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. | 04-14-2016 |
20160105556 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVELY RECEIVING COMMUNICATION - An approach is provided for selectively receiving communication from a sender. After the communication platform receives a communication from a user device, the communication platform generates a request for an action to be performed by a user via the user device and transmits the request to the user device. Then, the communication platform receives, from the user device, a response relating to the action, and evaluates the response for treatment of the communication. | 04-14-2016 |
20160105851 | WIRELESS WAKE-UP DEVICE FOR CELLULAR MODULE - A control device may wake-up a target wireless device through a wired or wireless communications channel. In an implementation, the control device and the wireless device may include a cellular module (e.g., global systems for mobile communications (GSM) capability) to implement an on-demand wake-up call. The on-demand wake-up call may allow the control device to perform at least one task at the wireless device without user intervention at the wireless device. | 04-14-2016 |
20160112555 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING CALL ANSWER AND MOBILE THERMINAL USING THE SAME - An apparatus for controlling answering a call includes a display unit configured to display an incoming call icon when receiving a call signal, the incoming call icon differing from a call answer icon and a call end icon of a normal incoming call screen, a touch screen configured, upon the display unit displaying the incoming call icon, to receive an input of a predetermined operation with respect to the incoming call icon from a user, and a control unit including a call-permission processing unit configured to compare the predetermined operation with a preset call permission operation set in advance with respect to the incoming call icon and to permit answering the call when the predetermined operation matches the preset call permission operation. | 04-21-2016 |
20160112560 | 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. | 04-21-2016 |
20160112573 | IDENTIFIER TECHNIQUE FOR COMMUNICATION INTERCHANGE - A method and a communication interchange enhancement system for implementing an enhanced user interface for a communication interchange includes but is not limited to a method including to providing an identifier associated with a third-party participant related to the communication interchange; matching the identifier with the third-party participant in a database storing one or more lists of possible third-party participants; obtaining context data associated with the identifier regarding a group-type characteristic of the third-party participant for purposes of communication interchange with at least another participant; and enabling a user interface to display the group-type characteristic. | 04-21-2016 |
20160112850 | METHOD TO MANAGE MULTIPLE CALLER IDENTITIES IN A TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a telecommunication system, providing to a recipient end point a caller identification (CID) from a calling end point, the calling end point including a default CID and at least one additional CID. the method includes receiving a call setup message from the calling end point, the call setup message including the additional CID, allocating a temporary end point for the call, from a pool of available end points, sending contact data for the allocated temporary end point to the calling end point, processing a first call received from the calling end point to the temporary end point, processing a second call to the recipient end point using the additional CID as the calling CID, and joining the first and second calls to generate a call from the calling end point to the recipient end point. | 04-21-2016 |
20160119471 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA - A methods and apparatus for transmitting data are provided. The method includes receiving a call signal to be transmitted to a receiver including sender and receiver information associated with the call signal from a sender; confirming a relationship between the sender and the receiver that exists in at least one server; requesting sender data associated with the sender from the at least one server to which the sender is subscribed based on the relationship between the sender and the receiver to the at least one server; receiving the requested sender data from the at least one server; and transmitting the received sender data to the receiver. | 04-28-2016 |
20160119782 | VEHICLE, CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF AND MULTIMEDIA APPARATUS INCLUDED THEREIN - A vehicle includes a touchscreen configured to receive a touch input of a driver and display image information corresponding to the touch input, a passenger sensing unit configured to sense whether the passenger is present in the vehicle, a communication unit configured to communicate with a mobile terminal of the driver, and a controller configured to display a call request reception message and identification information of a third party when a call request is received from the third party via the mobile terminal and to provide an audio function of a hands-free service. When the passenger is sensed and the call request of the third party is received in a privacy mode, the controller displays the call request reception message and limits displaying of the identification information of the third party and the audio function. | 04-28-2016 |
20160127542 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROVIDING PHONE CALL ROUTE INFORMATION - Provided is a system, apparatus, and/or method for providing phone call route information, including a calling party information collector configured to collect calling party information according to selecting of a phone number link object provided to a calling party through a network a called party information collector configured to collect called party information about a certain incoming call from a called terminal, and a matching determiner configured to determine a relation between the selecting of the phone number link object and the certain incoming call by comparing at least one piece of the calling party information and at least one piece of the called party information. | 05-05-2016 |
20160134750 | INCOMING CALL IDENTIFICATION - In one embodiment, at least a portion of a telephone call from an unknown caller is recorded and played in response to a subsequent call from the unknown caller. At a telephone or a network device, a caller identification number associated with an incoming call is received. A query for a contact database using the caller identification number is generated, and if an empty result is returned from the contact database, a recording for the caller identification number is accessed. The user is presented with an option to play the recording for the caller identification number such that the user initiates a command to play the recording for the caller identification number. | 05-12-2016 |
20160134751 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MOBILE TERMINALS, INCOMING COMMUNICATION CONTROL AND OUTGOING COMMUNICATION CONTROL AND SYSTEM BY USE THEREOF - A method of establishing communication between mobile terminals includes receiving a communication request from a caller terminal, the communication request including at least a caller number and information for determining an identification code of a callee terminal, the information including a number of the callee terminal or an owner name of the callee terminal. The method also includes obtaining the identification code of the callee terminal based on the information and inquiring about a corresponding record associated with the caller terminal and the callee terminal by use of a pre-stored address book referencing relationship and a communication history, based on the caller number and the identification code of the callee terminal. The method further includes computing a communication right value based on the corresponding record and determining whether the computed communication right value exceeds a pre-determined threshold. In response to a determination that the computed communication right value exceeds the pre-determined threshold, communication between the caller terminal and the callee terminal is established. | 05-12-2016 |
20160142527 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR PROGRAMMING USER-DEFINED INFORMATION INTO ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A device for programming user-defined information into an electronic device is provided. The programmer allows a user to program customized information, such as user-selected audio, video, or Internet access information into his or her programmable device. Such electronic devices include wireless telephones, pagers, and personal digital assistants. The programmer allows a user to, among other things, customize the device to suit his or her particular taste. | 05-19-2016 |
20160143022 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SERVICING CALL WITH DOORPHONE USING TELEMATICS - A method for servicing a call with a door phone includes: requesting, by a server on a network supporting interworking between the door phone and a vehicle telematics terminal, vehicle information from the vehicle telematics terminal due to a service request from a smart terminal in a home in response to an action of the door phone; receiving, at the server, the vehicle information from the vehicle telematics terminal; and providing, by the server, a call connection between the door phone and the vehicle telematics terminal based on whether or not a vehicle is being driven, as determined by the received vehicle information. | 05-19-2016 |
20160150079 | CALLER ID SURFING - A method and system for displaying and producing computer based documents seamlessly to users that relate to their telephone calls is provided. The invention is able to be used with social media, where the mobile station searches for the social media page of the caller based on the Caller ID and displays it to the recipient of the call on the mobile station screen, possibly with other Internet search results. The method and system allow the user to obtain the newest public information about the person who calls him or he decides to call, or any documents that might be intermittent between the people. The system adds “bandwidth”, i.e. speed, efficiency and more dimensions to personal communication, as the users of the inventive system can also visually see by documentation what is going on in the relationship between two or more people. | 05-26-2016 |
20160150080 | A URL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND MEANS THEREOF - The present invention provides a uniform resource locator (URL) transmission system for displaying at least one predetermined URL comprising: (a) a smart phone having a phone call recognition system for recognizing and transmitting caller identification information; and, (b) a base station comprising a central processing unit (CPU) for transmitting telecommunication signals formatted as an active message. The CPU includes a computer readable medium containing instructions for automatically converting the recognized caller identification information to the active message, and instructions for automatically associating the active message to at least one predetermined URL associated with the receiver of the caller's transmission. | 05-26-2016 |
20160150405 | IDENTITY AND PHONE NUMBER VERIFICATION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving, from a computer system, a request comprising a phone number, identifying a primary channel and one or more secondary channels based on, at least in part, respective performance data of the primary and secondary channels, sending a first message comprising a first text string via the primary channel to a destination device associated with the phone number, after sending the first message, determining that a conversion event for the message and the primary channel did not occur within a specified time period, and based on the determining, sending a second message comprising the first text string via a particular secondary channel to the destination device. | 05-26-2016 |
20160156757 | IDENTIFYING CALLER NAME FOR OUTPUT ON MOBILE PHONE DEVICES | 06-02-2016 |
20160156776 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPOKEN CALLER IDENTIFICATION IN A CELLULAR TELEPHONE HEADSET | 06-02-2016 |
20160156777 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR PROMPTING CALLING REQUEST | 06-02-2016 |
20160157070 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CALL PROCESSING IN A WIRELINE AND WIRELESS NETWORK | 06-02-2016 |
20160165030 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR NUMBER DISPLAY BASED ON MOBILE TERMINAL, AND MOBILE TERMINAL - The disclosure provides a method and device for number display based on the mobile terminal and a mobile terminal. The method includes: an International Mobile Subscriber Identity, IMSI, automatic match function is enabled according to a user selection, IMSI information in a Subscriber Identity Module, SIM, card is read, the IMSI information is parsed to acquire Mobile Country Code, MCC, information; an MCC number format list is matched according to the MCC information to acquire and store a corresponding number display format; and when a user opens a dialling interface to input a number, the number is displayed according to the corresponding number display format. The disclosure solves the problem of not being adapted to a display style of the mobile terminal, and has the beneficial effects that an accustomed phone number display style of a corresponding country is automatically matched according to a phone number input by a user and the phone number is displayed according to the number display style, thereby enhancing system performance and improving user experience. | 06-09-2016 |
20160173685 | SECURE CALLER IDENTIFICATION USING A PROFILE | 06-16-2016 |
20160191707 | METHOD, DEVICE, TERMINAL AND SERVER FOR REPLYING CALL - The present disclosure relates to a method, device, terminal and server for replying a call. The method includes during the course of receiving an incoming call, sending a caller number to a yellow pages server when a number consistent with the caller number is not stored in a local address book, which determines a caller name corresponding to the caller number, receiving the caller name returned by the yellow pages server, determining whether a call reply operation is performed by a user, when the call replying operation is performed by the user, determining a designated grouping type corresponding to the caller number according to the caller name, determining a designated reply content matched with the designated grouping type according to a corresponding relationship between the grouping type and the reply content, and sending the designated reply content to the caller number. | 06-30-2016 |
20160198044 | PARTY INFORMATION FOR DATA-CAPABLE COMMUNICATION DEVICE | 07-07-2016 |
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20160255494 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING ASSOCIATED INFORMATION IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | 09-01-2016 |
20160381214 | Incoming Call Notification Management - A mobile phone establishes and maintains a data connection with an intermediate server. The intermediate server receives an incoming call from a caller. In response, the intermediate server identifies a contact group associated with the caller, and generates a notification message identifying the caller and including the identified contact group. The notification message is sent by the intermediate server to the mobile phone via the data channel, and concurrently, the intermediate server routes the incoming call to the mobile phone over a voice channel different from the data channel. The mobile phone modifies an existing contact record or generates a new contact record associated with the caller to include the contact group identified by the notification message. The mobile phone, in response to receiving the incoming call, accesses the modified contact record or generated contact record, and displays a notification identifying the caller and the identified contact group. | 12-29-2016 |
20160381225 | Voicemail Management With Multi-number Phones - A computer-implemented method for managing voicemails includes receiving, at an intermediate server communicatively coupled to a mobile phone associated with a first phone number corresponding to a first contact group and a second phone number corresponding to a second contact group, a request to receive an incoming call associated with a caller phone number. The intermediate server identifies a contact group associated with the request. The identified contact group comprises the first contact group in response to the received request corresponding to the first phone number, and the identified contact group comprises the second contact group in response to the received request corresponding to the second phone number. The intermediate server selects a voicemail setting based on the identified contact group. In response to determining to route the incoming call to voicemail, the voicemail is configured based at least in part on the selected voicemail setting. | 12-29-2016 |
20220141334 | ENROLLMENT AND AUTHENTICATION OVER A PHONE CALL IN CALL CENTERS - Embodiments described herein provide for a voice biometrics system execute machine-learning architectures capable of passive, active, continuous, or static operations, or a combination thereof. Systems passively and/or continuously, in some cases in addition to actively and/or statically, enrolling speakers. The system may dynamically generate and update profiles corresponding to end-users who contact a call center. The system may determine a level of enrollment for the enrollee profiles that limits the types of functions that the user may access. The system may update the profiles as new contact events are received or based on certain temporal triggering conditions. | 05-05-2022 |