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Patent US7586898 - Third party content for internet caller-ID messages - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inPatentsOne preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method for supplying third party announcements to a receiving party having a device coupled to the Internet. One embodiment of the present invention includes a method and system for providing Internet caller-ID service, wherein third...http://www.google.com/patents/US7586898?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7586898 - Third party content for internet caller-ID messagesAdvanced Patent SearchPublication numberUS7586898 B1Publication typeGrantApplication numberUS 10/144,555Publication dateSep 8, 2009Filing dateMay 13, 2002Priority dateMay 13, 2002Fee statusPaidPublication number10144555, 144555, US 7586898 B1, US 7586898B1, US-B1-7586898, US7586898 B1, US7586898B1InventorsRobert A. Koch, Scott C. HoltOriginal AssigneeAt&T Intellectual Property, I, L.P.Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (112), Non-Patent Citations (31), Referenced by (25), Classifications (29), Legal Events (1) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetThird party content for internet caller-ID messages
US 7586898 B1Abstract
One preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method for supplying third party announcements to a receiving party having a device coupled to the Internet. One embodiment of the present invention includes a method and system for providing Internet caller-ID service, wherein third party content is placed in the Internet caller-ID messages. In return, the receiving party and/or calling party receives consideration from the third party. Other methods and systems are also provided.
1. A method for supplying third party content via an electronic sender-identification message, the method comprising:
associating third party content with an electronic sender-identification message, the electronic sender-identification message identifying the sender of another communication;
identifying a receiving party resource locator specified by a receiving party, the receiving party resource locator identifying receiving party designated content;
identifying a calling party resource locator specified by a calling party, the calling party resource locator identifying calling party designated content; and
transmitting the electronic sender-identification message having the third party content, the receiving party designated content and the calling party designated content to a recipient during setup of the communication.
providing consideration to a sender for acceptance of third party content in the electronic sender-identification message.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the consideration is in the form of an agreement by the third party to subsidize the sender's fees for an electronic messaging service.
providing consideration to the recipient for acceptance of third party content in the electronic sender-identification message.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein a provider of an electronic messaging service receives consideration from the third party.
6. The method of claim 4, wherein the consideration is a form of legal tender.
7. The method of claim 4, wherein the consideration is in the form of an agreement by the third party to subsidize the recipient's fee for an electronic messaging service.
8. The method of claim 4, wherein the consideration is in the form of a coupon for a product offered by the third party.
9. The method of claim 4, wherein the content is in the form of a resource locator designated by the third party.
creating a profile for the recipient; and
placing a resource locator in the profile, wherein the resource locator is designated by the third party.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein the resource locator is a URL to a web page hosted by the third party.
receiving an electronic sender-identification message having third party content.
receiving an electronic sender-identification message having a resource locator designated by the third party; and
activating the resource locator.
creating a profile for the sender; and
15. The method of claim 14, wherein the resource locator is a URL to a web page hosted by the third party.
sending a communication to a recipient, wherein the communication initiates the transmission of an electronic sender-identification message having third party content to the recipient.
17. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication is an instant-message.
18. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication is a telephone call.
19. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic sender-identification message is an Internet caller-ID message.
20. A system for supplying third party content via electronic sender-identification messages, comprising:
logic configured to associate third party content with the electronic sender-identification message, the electronic sender-identification message identifying the sender of another communication;
logic configured to identify a receiving party resource locator specified by a receiving party, the receiving party resource locator identifying receiving party designated content;
logic configured to identify a calling party resource locator specified by a calling party, the calling party resource locator identifying calling party designated content; and
logic configured to transmit the electronic sender-identification message having third party content, the receiving party designated content and the calling party designated content to a recipient during setup of the communication.
logic configured to provide consideration to a sender for acceptance of third party content in the electronic sender-identification message.
22. The system of claim 21, wherein the consideration is in the form of an agreement by the third party to subsidize the sender's fees for an electronic messaging service.
23. The system of claim 21, further comprising logic configured to:
receive an electronic sender-identification message having third party content.
24. The system of claim 21, further comprising logic configured to:
logic configured to provide consideration to the recipient for acceptance of third party content in the electronic sender-identification message.
26. The system of claim 25, wherein a provider of an electronic messaging service receives consideration from the third party.
27. The system of claim 25, wherein the consideration is a form of legal tender.
28. The system of claim 25, wherein the consideration is in the form of an agreement by the third party to subsidize the recipient's fee for an electronic messaging service.
29. The system of claim 25, wherein the consideration is in the form of a coupon for a product offered by the third party.
30. The system of claim 25, wherein the content is in the form of a resource locator designated by the third party.
31. The system of claim 20, further comprising logic configured to:
create a profile for the recipient; and
place a resource locator in the profile, wherein the resource locator is designated by the third party.
32. The system of claim 31, wherein the resource locator is a URL to a web page hosted by the third party.
33. The system of claim 31, further comprising logic configured to:
receive an electronic sender-identification message having a resource locator designated by the third party; and
activate the resource locator.
34. The system of claim 21, further comprising logic configured to:
create a profile for the sender; and
35. The system of claim 34, wherein the resource locator is a URL to a web page hosted by the third party.
36. The system of claim 20, wherein the communication is an instant-message.
37. The system of claim 20, wherein the communication is a telephone call.
38. The system of claim 20, wherein the electronic sender-identification message is an Internet caller-ID message. Description
The present invention is generally related to communications, and more particularly, to the supplying of information concerning a telephone caller to the recipient of a telephone call.
With the influx of “always-on” technology, especially with data communication concerns, technologies have been developed that seek out users. Unlike standard email and web applications, which pull information from the Internet that is requested by a user, recent applications push information to a user. “Pushing” describes a technologies send recipients specific material. Additionally, instant messaging is another technology, where information is sent to a user without necessarily being stored on a server, in some implementations. In instant messaging, the messages created by a sender are delivered to a recipient in almost “instant” time. Even during peak Internet usage periods, the delay is rarely more than a second or two.
One preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method for supplying third party information to a receiving party having a device coupled to the Internet. One embodiment of the present invention includes a method and system for providing Internet caller-ID service, wherein third party content is placed in Internet caller-ID messages. In return, the receiving party and/or calling party receive consideration from the third party.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart of one embodiment of a method for sending and receiving caller-ID messages over the Internet.
FIG. 4 is a diagram of the service flow of one preferred embodiment of an Internet caller-ID system where the calling party provides a resource locator according to the present invention.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart describing an embodiment of the process of supplying third party content to Internet caller-ID messages according to the invention.
FIG. 1A is a block diagram showing one preferred embodiment of a communication system 100 of the present invention. The system 100 includes an Internet caller-ID system 105, a telephone network 110, and the Internet 120. A communication station 130 of a receiving party is connected to the telephone network 110 and has an associated Internet access 160. Correspondingly, a communication station 140 of a calling party is also included in the communication system 100. The communication station 140 is connected to the telephone network 110, and it may have Internet access 144. Note, that although separation is suggested in FIG. 1A, discrete functions of the Internet-caller ID system 105 can be viewed as being performed by devices that are implemented in other elements, such as the telephone network 110 and by devices that are in implemented in the Internet 120, without limitations. Further, the Internet-caller ID system 105 can be implemented in software, firmware, hardware, or a combination thereof. In some implementations, functions are implemented in software or firmware that is stored in a memory as logic that is executed by a suitable instruction execution system.
The operation of the setup process for an implementation of the Internet caller-ID system will be described with reference to FIG. 2A. When a user, such as the receiving party 130, desires to register for the Internet caller-ID service, so that it may receive Internet caller-ID messages, the receiving party 130 first creates a profile, as shown in block 211. The creation of the profile can occur during a registration session for the Internet caller-ID service, where the receiving party 130 provides the information contained in the profile during an Internet session, telephone call, or an interview with a person who would later enter the information into the profile.
In block 212, the information gathered for the profile includes the phone number that the communication station of the receiving party 130 receives incoming phone calls at. This phone number may be the phone number of a telephone 131A attached to a phone line, or it may be even a wireless telephone 131B that the receiving party also uses at the communication station 131. Since multiple telephony devices 131 may be used to receive incoming phone calls, multiple phone numbers may be listed in the profile information for the receiving party 130. As depicted in block 212, the profile also contains the receiving party's 130 delivery transport address and any other information that is needed to deliver, over the Internet, the Internet caller-ID message to the Internet-connected device 132 of the receiving party. The delivery transport address is discussed in more detail later.
In block 213, the resource locator is designated. A resource locator is an address location for a document or media that is included in an Internet caller-ID message. Upon receipt, the receiving party's Internet-connected device 132 can retrieve the document specified by the resource locator. Note, the receiving party 130 may receive Internet caller-ID messages regardless of whether the calling party 140 has registered for the Internet caller-ID service or not. However, if the calling party 140 has registered for the Internet caller-ID service, then the calling party 140 may have the capability of designating a resource locator that is contained in the Internet caller-ID message.
As previously stated, the resource locator designations are kept in the profile database 156. The profile database 156 may be protected by a secure IP network 190 and could also be contained in the Internet caller-ID server 150. Each resource locator is an address for a resource or document that may be retrieved by the recipient of an Internet caller-ID message and is associated with a phone number or phone numbers of the receiving party or calling party. The resource locator may be specified by a URL address (with # replaced) like http://#.net/me.htm or file://businessfile.txt. Since more than one resource locator could be contained in the message, a party may designate more than one resource locator to be contained in the message, or multiple parties may separately designate resource locators. For example, a receiving party 130, a calling party 140, or a third party may designate a multitude of resource locators that may be contained in the Internet caller-ID message. Therefore in the profile database 156, both the calling party and the receiving party may have resource locators designated that can be placed in the Internet caller-ID message. FIG. 2B is a flowchart depicting an embodiment of the process for designating a resource locator 220 and is discussed further below.
As part of registering to the Internet caller-ID service, a receiving party 130 may have the capability of designating resource locators for the caller-ID messages it receives. Therefore, as shown in block 221, the receiving party could provide a resource locator and have this information stored in the receiving party's profile in the profile database 156. For instance, the receiving party may keep a database of customer records that are organized by a customer's phone numbers. Therefore, in the receiving party's profile, the receiving party 130 could designate the parameterized URL http://#.mypage.net/records.html?CN=CallingDN as a resource locator, where the portion of the URL information indicated by “CallingDN” is replaced by the Internet caller-ID server 150 with the calling party's telephone number in the Internet caller-ID message. Accordingly, for each phone number that calls the receiving party, the receiving party will have instant access to a unique business record for that phone number.
An Internet caller-ID message may additionally contain a resource locator that is designated by a third party, perhaps at the permission of either the receiving party 130 or calling party 140. For example, a receiving party 130 or calling party 140 may separately agree with a third party that that the third party may add a resource locator to an Internet caller-ID message by storing a resource locator associated with the party's phone number in a profile database 156 for one of the parties having a profile, as depicted in block 223. For example, the receiving party 130 may agree to let a third party announce updates or news pertaining to the third party's website through the caller-ID messages that the receiving party 130 receives. Likewise, a third party may want its announcements to go out on the Internet caller-ID messages that a calling party 140 initiates through its outgoing calls. Therefore for this benefit, a third party may reimburse the receiving party 130 or calling party 140 in the form of, possibly, monetary consideration, subsidizing telephone services, such as the Internet caller-ID service fee, or providing third party services to the calling party 140. Additionally, a receiving 130 or calling party 140 may prefer to have a resource locator be designated by a third party without consideration. For example, a party may be inclined to have a daily horoscope or weather report be provided by the resource locator in the Internet caller-ID messages it sends or receives.
In order to designate the resource locator, the third party could be provided access to the profile database 156 so that the third party would have the ability to store a resource locator in the receiving party's 130 or calling party's 140 profile. Accordingly, in one embodiment of this process, the third party makes an agreement with the provider of the Internet caller-ID service for the ability to add resource locator entries to the profile database 156. In another embodiment of the process, the third party could have a web site whereby a party that is registered for the Internet caller-ID service could assent to the addition of resource locators to the registered party's profile, where the resource locators are designated by the third party.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart representation of one implementation of the supplying of third party announcements in the Internet caller-ID messages of a registered party. In block 610, a receiving party or a calling party registers for Internet caller-ID service. In block 620, the registered party assents to the placement of third party announcements in the registered party's Internet caller-ID messages, and in block 630, the registered party is reimbursed by the third party. Typically, a registered party would assent by verifying (e.g., clicking a VERIFY button on the web page) that the registered party agrees to the inclusion of the resource locators concerning third parties in its Internet caller-ID messages. Accordingly, the third party and the Internet caller-ID provider may have an agreement already established, where the Internet caller-ID provider has given the third party the ability to write to the profile database 156.
Alternatively, the Internet caller-ID service provider may have an arrangement in place with a third party, whereby a party registered for the caller-ID service also agrees to allow the Internet service provider to include resource locator(s) to the registered party's profile. The included resource locator(s) could be a URL to a web site hosted by the third party or possibly a web page describing a service or product offered by the third party. In return for agreeing to the inclusion of the resource locator, the Internet service provider could be reimbursed by the third party, and the registered party could be reimbursed by the third party or even the Internet service provider.
In block 230, the calling party 140 places the telephone call to a receiving party 130. Within the telephone network 110, representative switches 112, 116 are utilized to route calls between points or destinations within the telephone network 110. Associated with telephone calls are services such as call-waiting, call-forwarding, and the conventional caller-ID. When a switch 112 identifies that a service has been requested by either the telephone number originating the call or the telephone number receiving the call, the switch 112 suspends processing of the call and forwards information about the call to a service control point 114, such as a SCP in a signal system 7 (SS7) network or a softswitch in a digital VoIP network. The service control point 114 recognizes the type of service requested from the telephone number and informs the switch 112 on how to handle the call. For example, FIG. 2C shows an embodiment of this process of the present invention. In block 231, the switch 112 servicing the calling party 140 receives the request for a connection to be made to the telephone number of the receiving party 130. In block 232, the switch 112 detects that a telephone service has been requested. The switch 112 asks the service control point 114 on how to proceed and temporarily suspends normal call processing, as shown in block 233. The service control point 114 then authorizes the Internet caller-ID server 150 to make and deliver an Internet caller-ID message, as shown in block 234. In block 235, the service control point 114 tells the switch 112 to start processing the call again.
The enhanced visual capabilities of the above-described embodiments of the present invention advantageously leads to an improved system and method for providing a full set of information about the maker of a telephone call. The information delivered may be contained in a web server, based on content created by the calling party prior to the call, or other information, such as announcements from third parties. It should be emphasized that the above-described embodiments of the present invention are merely possible examples of implementations, merely set forth for a clear understanding of the principles of the invention. Many variations and modifications may be made to the above-described embodiment(s) of the invention without departing substantially from the principles of the invention. For example, it is contemplated that an embodiment of the present invention will include the features of conventional caller-ID services in addition to the new features discussed herein. Therefore, under the principles of the present invention, standard caller-ID features such as caller-ID blocking are contemplated. Accordingly, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the specific implementations shown in the figures. For example, information stored in separate databases in one embodiment of the invention could be collectively be stored in a single database in another embodiment of the invention. Further, other Internet transport mediums, such as email and or SMS messaging, may be used to deliver the Internet caller-ID messages. Accordingly, all such modifications and variations are intended to be included herein within the scope of the disclosure and the present invention and protected by the following claims.
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