Patent ID: 9270798
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: H04M

Claim Text:
1. A method of alerting a calling party in a Voice over IP (VoIP) call that a called party might be unable to hear ring tones, the method comprising: at a called party location, in response to the VoIP call initiated by the calling party arriving on a computer device of the called party via an IP connection, sampling, by the computer device of the called party, an audible level of ring tones indicating an incoming VoIP call monitored by a microphone associated with a VoIP computer application on the computer device of the called party, and responsive to the audible level of the ring tones indicating the incoming VoIP call monitored by the microphone being below a minimum threshold, transmitting, by the computer device of the called party, a message to the calling party via any available connection that the called party might be unable to hear the ring tones indicating the incoming VoIP call.