Log-based ringbacks

• US 20060147011A1
• Filed: 01/04/2005
• Published: 07/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Avaya Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Avaya Technology Corporation Miami Lakes FLA US
• Inventors: Seligmann, Doree Duncan, Moody, Taryn
• Application Number:
  US11/028,771
• Publication Number:
  US 20060147011A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/207.160
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/551 Call history recording a computer conference H04L12/1831
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42017 Customized ring-back tones

Abstract

An apparatus and methods are disclosed that enable a first user of a telecommunications terminal to receive, upon placing a call to a second user, a ringback signal that is based on information from one or more call logs. Such information might include: the number of times that the first user has attempted to call the second user during a particular time interval; the time of the most recent call from the second user to the first user; etc. A data-processing system (e.g., an originating switch, a terminating switch, a wireless base station, a server, etc.) that receives a call-setup signal consults one or more call logs and generates a ringback signal that is based on the contents of the logs. Such call logs might include a log for a telecommunications terminal, a log for a user, a log associated with a particular private branch exchange; etc.

Claims

1. A method comprising generating at a data-processing system a ringback signal that is based on the contents of a call log.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

transmitting from said data-processing system a call-setup signal; and

receiving at said data-processing system an acknowledgment of said call-setup signal;

wherein generating said ringback signal occurs after receiving said acknowledgment.

3. A method comprising:

(a) receiving at a data-processing system a call-setup signal for a call that is directed to a telecommunications terminal; and

(b) transmitting from said data-processing system a ringback signal based on the contents of a call log that is associated with said telecommunications terminal.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein said ringback signal is also based on the identity of the user associated with said telecommunications terminal.

5. The method of claim 3 wherein said ringback signal represents an instance of a musical composition, and wherein the value of a property of said instance is based on the contents of said call log, and wherein said property is independent of melody.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein said property is one of tempo, timbre, volume, and pitch.

7. A method comprising:

(a) transmitting from a data-processing system a call-setup signal for a call that is directed to a telecommunications terminal;

(b) receiving at said data-processing system an acknowledgment of said call-setup signal; and

(c) generating at said data-processing system a ringback signal after receiving said acknowledgment, wherein said ringback signal is based on the contents of a call log that is associated with said telecommunications terminal.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein said ringback signal is also based on the identity of the user associated with said telecommunications terminal.

9. The method of claim 7 wherein said ringback signal represents an instance of a video clip, and wherein the value of a property of said instance is based on the contents of said call log, and wherein said property is a property of video that is independent of human recognition of video.

10. The method of claim 7 wherein said ringback signal is also based on the contents of a call log that is associated with the user who originates said call.

11. The method of claim 7 wherein said ringback signal is also based on the contents of a call log that is associated with the telecommunications terminal from which said call originates.

12. A method comprising:

(a) receiving at a data-processing system a call-setup signal for a call that is directed to a user; and

(b) transmitting from said data-processing system a ringback signal based on the contents of a call log that is associated with said user.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein said call is routed to a first telecommunications terminal associated with said user, and wherein said call log comprises entries pertinent to a second telecommunications terminal associated with said user.

14. The method of claim 12 wherein said ringback signal is also based on the contents of a call log that is associated with the telecommunications terminal from which said call originates.

15. The method of claim 12 wherein said ringback signal represents an instance of an image, and wherein the value of a property of said instance is based on the contents of said call log, and wherein said property is a property of images that is independent of human recognition of images.

16. A method comprising:

(a) receiving at a data-processing system a call-setup signal for a call that is placed by a first user and is directed to a second user; and

(b) transmitting from said data-processing system a ringback signal based on the contents of a call log that is associated with said first user.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein said ringback signal is also based on the identity of the first user.

18. The method of claim 16 wherein said ringback signal is also based on the contents of a call log that is associated with said second user.

19. The method of claim 16 wherein said ringback signal is also based on a telecommunications terminal associated with said second user.

20. The method of claim 16 wherein said ringback signal represents an instance of a text string, and wherein the value of a property of said instance is based on the contents of said call log, and wherein said property is a property of text that is independent of content.