Telephone location caller ID

• US 20060034441A1
• Filed: 08/09/2005
• Published: 02/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oro Grande Technologies LLC
• Original Assignee: Oro Grande Technologies LLC
• Inventors: Kraft, Clifford H.
• Granted Patent: US 7,269,413 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/142.10
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/575 Means for retrieving and displaying personal data about calling party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/06 Recording class or number of calling , i.e. A-party or called party , i.e. B-party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/30 Determination of the location of a subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42042 Notifying the called party of information on the calling party details within substation equipment H04M1/57, signalling details H04Q3/72

Abstract

A location caller ID feature where a cellular telephone placing a called is located by a telephone service and a message relating to that location is transmitted to a called telephone. The called telephone can display the location of the calling phone in human readable terms.

Claims

1. A telephone location caller ID system comprising:

a calling telephone with a location, said calling telephone placing an outgoing call;

a called telephone having a display, said called telephone receiving said call, said display displaying a message related to the location of said calling telephone;

at least one telephone carrier service transmitting the location of said calling telephone to said called telephone.

2. The system of claim 1 further comprising at least one telephone carrier service determining the location of said calling telephone.

3. The system of claim 1 further comprising transmitting a message related to the location of said calling telephone using out-of-band signaling.

4. The system of claim 1 further comprising transmitting a message related to the location of said calling telephone using in-band signaling.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein said displayed message is presented in human readable terms.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein said calling telephone can prevent transmission of its location.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein a message is displayed at said called telephone stating that location information is not available.

8. A system for transmitting a calling telephone'"'"'s location to a called telephone comprising:

a means for receiving a calling telephone'"'"'s location from a telephone service provider;

a means for passing said location to a called telephone;

a means for causing said called telephone to display said calling telephone'"'"'s location.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein said means for receiving a calling telephone'"'"'s location is a signaling message.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein said signaling message is in-band.

11. The system of claim 9 wherein said signaling message is out-of-band.

12. The system of claim 9 wherein said signaling message is a CCITT message.

13. The system of claim 8 wherein said means for causing the called telephone to display the location of the calling telephone is a message from a telephone service provider to a user telephone unit commanding a display at said user telephone unit to display said location.

14. The system of claim 8 wherein said means for passing said calling telephone'"'"'s location to said called telephone is a system message.

15. A method for causing a called telephone to display location of a calling telephone comprising the steps of:

receiving a message containing said location of said calling telephone;

passing said message to a called telephone;

commanding said called telephone to display said location.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein said message is a system signaling message.

17. The method of claim 15 wherein said location of said calling telephone is determined by assisted GPS or time of flight.

18. The method of claim 15 wherein said location is displayed on an image display device attached to said called telephone.

19. The method of claim 18 wherein said image display device is an LCD display.

20. The method of claim 15 wherein said location is displayed at said called telephone in human readable terms.