Patent ID: 8280025
Filing Date: 2012-10-02
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method of providing a unique call announcement for an incoming telephone call, comprising: receiving an indication of an incoming telephone call; retrieving information about the incoming telephone call; obtaining contextual data for the incoming telephone call, the contextual data comprising one or more of the following associated with the incoming telephone call: gender data, age data, nationality data, and a list of potential topics to discuss between a calling party and a called party based on previous communications between the calling party and the called party, wherein the contextual data is attached to the incoming telephone call; generating, using the contextual data, a unique call announcement containing the information retrieved about the incoming telephone call, the unique call announcement comprising a synthesized voice in an accent corresponding to a nationality of the calling party in the nationality data; and presenting the unique call announcement as a notification to a called party of the incoming telephone call.