Patent ID: 6977993
Filing Date: 2005-12-20
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. In a network capable of communicating a telephone conversation between a caller computing system and a callee computing system, a method for the caller and callee computing system to communicate context for the telephone call, the method comprising the following: an act of the caller computer system receiving an instruction to place a telephone call to the callee computing system; an act of the caller computing system receiving a user-entered identification of a context for the telephone call; an act of the caller computing system constructing a call invitation data structure that includes both an invitation to the callee to engage in a telephone conversation and the user-entered identification of the context of the telephone call; an act of the caller computing system transmitting the call invitation data structure to be transmitted to the callee computing system; an act of the callee computing system receiving the call invitation data structure; an act of the callee computing system reading the identification of the context of the telephone call from the call invitation data structure; and an act of permitting a user to define at the callee computing system one or more rules for causing the callee computing system automatically to take one or more actions in response to the identification of the context of the telephone call from the call invitation data structure; and an act of the callee computing system automatically taking one or more actions depending on the context of the telephone call and based on the one or more rules.