Patent ID: 8380178

Claim:
Non-transitory Computer-readable media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, enable a computing device to perform a method of providing carrier-identification capability to a mobile device, the method comprising: receiving call information that is associated with an incoming communication, wherein the call information includes carrier-identification information that is useable to identify an originating carrier responsible for originating the incoming communication, wherein the call information is provided by an originating switch that is in communication with an originating mobile device that initiated the incoming communication, and wherein the incoming communication is received from the originating switch over a voice network and the call information including the carrier-identification information is received from the originating switch over a control network; communicating the carrier-identification information to a database that stores carrier-specific data that is specific to the originating carrier; querying the database to retrieve the carrier-specific data based on the communicated carrier-identification information; receiving the carrier-specific data; and communicating the carrier-specific data to a mobile device, wherein the carrier-specific data includes a denotation as to whether the incoming communication is from a person designated within a user-defined group and whether the incoming communication is an in-carrier communication or an inter-carrier communication, wherein when the incoming communication is from the person designated within the user-defined group, then giving the denotation of in-carrier communication to the incoming communication when the incoming communication would otherwise be considered an inter-carrier communication, thereby enabling the mobile device to present the carrier-specific data by way of a presentation component coupled to the mobile device, wherein the denotation is presented for a first period of time for an in-carrier communication and a second period of time for an inter-carrier communication, wherein a duration of the first period of time is different than a duration of the second period of time, and wherein presenting the denotation for the duration of the first period of time identifies the incoming communication as an in-carrier communication and presenting the denotation for the duration of the second period of time identifies the incoming communication as an inter-carrier communication.