Context sensitive ring back service

• US 20060210033A1
• Filed: 03/17/2005
• Published: 09/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Vemuri, Kumar V. V., Grech, Michel L.F., Unmehopa, Musa R.
• Application Number:
  US11/083,348
• Publication Number:
  US 20060210033A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/88.190
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/665 by checking the validity of a code
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/2005 Temporarily overriding a service configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42017 Customized ring-back tones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4211 where the identifier is used to access a profile
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42374 where the information is provided to a monitoring entity such as a potential calling party or a call processing server
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/436 Arrangements for screening incoming calls , i.e. evaluating the characteristics of a call before deciding whether to answer it based on the calling party profile H04M3/42059; based on location H04M3/42348; based on presence H04M3/42365; diversion H04M3/54

Abstract

The present invention provides a method of communicating with at least a calling party and at least a called party. The method includes receiving information indicative of an incoming call from the calling party, accessing context information associated with the called party in response to receiving the information indicative of the incoming call, and providing a ring-back tone based on the context information associated with the called party.

Claims

1. A method of communicating with at least a calling party and at least a called party, comprising:

receiving information indicative of an incoming call from the calling party;

accessing context information associated with the called party in response to receiving the information indicative of the incoming call; and

providing a ring-back tone based on the context information associated with the called party.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving information indicative of the incoming call comprises receiving information indicative of the calling party.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein receiving information indicative of the calling party comprises receiving at least one of a Call Line Identifier and a pass code.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein providing the ring-back tone comprises providing the ring-back tone based on the information indicative of the calling party.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein accessing the context information comprises accessing at least one of presence information, temporal information, spatial information, and availability.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the ring-back tone comprises providing at least one of a portion of a song, a tune, a location, a presence status, a text message, a photograph, an image, and a video clip.

7. The method of claim 1, comprising accessing a profile associated with the called party.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein accessing the profile comprises accessing at least one predetermined ring-back tone based on the profile.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein accessing said at least one predetermined ring-back tone comprises selecting at least one predetermined ring-back tone profile based upon information indicative of the calling party.

10. The method of claim 1, comprising disposing of the incoming call.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein disposing of the incoming call comprises at least one of disconnecting the incoming call, directing the incoming call to a voice mail box, and connecting in the incoming call to the called party.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein disposing of the incoming call comprises disposing of the incoming call in response to expiration of a timer.

13. A method of communicating with at least a calling party and at least a called party, comprising:

providing information indicative of an outgoing call from the calling party; and

receiving a ring-back tone based on context information associated with the called party.