INTEGRATED TELEPHONE CALL AND CONTEXT NOTIFICATION MECHANISM
2 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A mechanism for placing a telephone call while at the same time communicating context (e.g., subject, importance and/or nature) of the telephone call. The caller uses a mechanism on a user interface to instruct a caller computing system to place a telephone call to a callee computing system. Using the same user interface, the caller also identifies some contextual information for the telephone call such as, for example, the subject, importance and/or nature of the telephone call. The caller computing system then constructs a call invitation data structure that includes both an invitation to the callee to engage in a telephone conversation and the user-entered identification of the context of the telephone call. Upon receiving the call invitation data structure, the callee computing system reads the identification of the context of the telephone call, and then takes appropriate action based on the context for the telephone call.
-
Citations
21 Claims
-
1. (canceled)
-
2. A caller user interface for enabling a caller, which includes a computing system and a display, to place one or more telephone calls with a callee, wherein the user interface is displayed on the display, the caller user interface comprising:
-
a telephone number display feature configured for receiving input corresponding to a telephone number for placing a telephone call from the caller to the callee; and
one or more context information display features configured for receiving input that identifies context information associated with the telephone call and wherein the one or more context information display features is selected from the group comprising;
a subject matter display feature configured for receiving input that identifies a subject matter of the telephone call being placed with the callee;
a importance level display feature configured for receiving input corresponding to an importance level of the telephone call being placed with the callee; and
a call nature display feature configured for receiving input corresponding to a call type and to indicate whether the telephone call is a personal, professional or commercial call. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
-
-
11. A callee user interface for enabling a callee, which includes a computing system, to automatically respond to one or more telephone calls received from a caller and that include a call invitation data structure comprising context information of the telephone call, and wherein the user interface is displayed on a display associated with the callee, the callee user interface comprising:
a received call interface display feature that is configured to be displayed in response to receiving a call invitation data structure from a caller that satisfies predetermined criteria, the interface display feature including a display of context information associated with the call invitation data structure and that corresponds directly with an asserted context of the telephone call, wherein the context information includes at least one of;
(a) a subject matter of the telephone call, (b) an importance of the telephone call, or (c) a call type that indicates whether the telephone conversation is to be personal, professional or commercial. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
Specification