Automatic detection and dialing of phone numbers on web pages

• US 20050097189A1
• Filed: 10/30/2003
• Published: 05/05/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Arlington Technologies, LLC (Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Avaya Technology Corporation Miami Lakes FLA US
• Inventors: Kashi, Ramanujan
• Application Number:
  US10/697,468
• Publication Number:
  US 20050097189A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/543 User-generated data transfer, e.g. clipboards, dynamic data exchange [DDE], object linking and embedding [OLE]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/42 Graphical user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4931 Directory assistance systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/003 Click to dial services

Abstract

Relevant and useful types of data, such as telephone numbers, are identified and highlighted on a downloaded web page in a web browser. The browser user may click on a particular instance of the type of data highlighted in order to perform an activity or operation with it, such as, in the case of a highlighted telephone number, dialing the telephone number, or storing it in an address book.

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