Patent ID: 9148507
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory program storage device, readable by a processor and comprising instructions stored thereon to cause the processor to: initiate, by a first device, a telephone call to a second device; determine whether a telephone number of the second device is stored in a contacts database accessible by the first device; determine whether the telephone number is tagged with a tag, wherein the tag includes information indicating that self-identifying information is to be sent to the second device when a call is initiated to the second device; locate, by the first device, the self-identifying information in a data store on the first device; send the self-identifying information to the second device only in response to a positive determination that the telephone number is tagged with the tag; and send, by the first device, the self-identifying information to the second device substantially contemporaneously with the initiation of the telephone call to the second device.