ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT WITH PERSONALIZED CALL HOLDING

• US 20070225030A1
• Filed: 03/27/2006
• Published: 09/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: TEAGUE, Les
• Application Number:
  US11/277,529
• Publication Number:
  US 20070225030A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/550.100
• 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 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72513 On hold, intercom or transfer communication modes

Abstract

An electronic equipment includes call circuitry that enables the electronic equipment to establish a call with a called/calling device, and hold circuitry that enables the electronic equipment to place the call established with the called/calling device on hold. The electronic equipment further includes a media player and a controller operative in conjunction with the call circuitry, hold circuitry and media player, to communicate a media object to the called/calling device when the call is placed on hold.

Claims

1. An electronic equipment, comprising:

call circuitry that enables the electronic equipment to establish a call with a called/calling device;

hold circuitry that enables the electronic equipment to place the call established with the called/calling device on hold;

a media player; and

a controller operative in conjunction with the call circuitry, hold circuitry and media player to communicate a media object to the called/calling device when the call is placed on hold.

2. The electronic equipment of claim 1, wherein the media player streams the media object to the called/calling device.

3. The electronic equipment of claim 1, wherein the media player reproduces the media object as an audio signal when communicating the media object to the called/calling device.

4. The electronic equipment of claim 1, further comprising a library of media objects, and the controller enables a user to select from the library the media object communicated to the called/calling device.

5. The electronic equipment of claim 1, further comprising a library of media objects, and the controller communicates the media object selected from among the library of media objects as a function of an identity of the called/calling device.

6. The electronic equipment of claim 1, further comprising a library of media objects, and the controller communicates the media object selected generally randomly from among the library of media objects.

7. The electronic equipment of claim 1, wherein the media object comprises an audio object.

8. The electronic equipment of claim 1, wherein the media object comprises a visual object.

9. The electronic equipment of claim 1, wherein the media object represents an advertisement.

10. An electronic equipment, comprising:

call circuitry that enables the electronic equipment to establish a call with a called/calling device;

hold detection circuitry that enables the electronic equipment to detect if the call established with the called/calling device has been placed on hold;

a media player;

at least one of an audio output and a display; and

a controller operative in conjunction with the call circuitry, hold detection circuitry and media player to reproduce a media object via the at least one of the audio output and the display when the call is detected as having been placed on hold.

11. The electronic equipment of claim 10, further comprising a library of media objects, and the controller enables a user to select from the library the media object which is reproduced.

12. The electronic equipment of claim 10, further comprising a library of media objects, and the controller selects the media object that is reproduced from among the library of media objects as a function of an identity of the called/calling device.

13. The electronic equipment of claim 10, further comprising a library of media objects, and the controller selects the media object which is reproduced generally randomly from among the library of media objects.

14. The electronic equipment of claim 10, wherein the media object comprises an audio object.

15. The electronic equipment of claim 10, wherein the media object comprises a visual object.

16. A computer program stored on a machine-readable medium for use in conjunction with an electronic equipment comprising call circuitry that enables the electronic equipment to establish a call with a called/calling device;

hold circuitry that enables the electronic equipment to place the call established with the called/calling device on hold; and

a media player, wherein the computer program upon execution by a controller is operative in conjunction with the call circuitry, hold circuitry and media player to at least one of communicate a media object to the called/calling device when the call is placed on hold, and reproduce a media object via at least one of an audio output and a display when the call is detected as having been placed on hold.