System and method of providing call information

• US 20080125098A1
• Filed: 11/03/2006
• Published: 05/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SBC Knowledge Ventures LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: SBC Knowledge Ventures LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Sullivan, Marc A., Brandt, Jeffrey L., Hubscher, Mark B., Bruce, Les D.
• Application Number:
  US11/592,709
• Publication Number:
  US 20080125098A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/441 Acquiring end-user identification , e.g. using personal code sent by the remote control or by inserting a card
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17309 Transmission or handling of upstream communications

Abstract

A method for providing call information is disclosed and includes receiving information related to a call at a set-top box device, the call received at a wireless phone. The method also includes sending the information related to the call to a display device coupled to the set-top box device when the wireless phone is within a pre-defined region.

Claims

1. A method of providing call information, the method comprising:

receiving information related to a call at a set-top box device, the call received at a wireless phone; and

sending the information related to the call to a display device coupled to the set-top box device when the wireless phone is within a pre-defined region.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the information related to the call includes caller identification information.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving the information related to the call from an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) system.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising receiving a location indicator at the set-top box device from the Internet Protocol Television system, the location indicator indicating whether the wireless phone is within the pre-defined region.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising not sending the identification information to the display device when the wireless phone is not within the pre-defined region.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, at the set-top box device, a command to not send the information to the display device; and

not sending the information to the display device unless an override function has been enabled at the set-top box device.

7. A method of providing call information, the method comprising:

receiving, at a server of an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) system, position information related to a wireless phone; and

determining if the wireless phone is within a pre-defined region.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the set-top box device is associated with a user of the wireless phone.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising receiving the position information from a wireless network associated with the wireless phone.

10. The method of claim 7, further comprising receiving, from a wireless network, information related to a call received at the wireless phone.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising sending the information related to the call to the set-top box device when the wireless phone is within the pre-defined region.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising not sending the information related to the call to the set-top box device when the wireless phone is not within the pre-defined region.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

sending a location indicator to the set-top box device, indicating whether the wireless phone is within the pre-defined region; and

sending the information related to the call to the set-top box device, wherein the set-top box device sends the information related to the call to a display device when the wireless phone is within the pre-defined region.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the set-top box device is one of a plurality of set-top box devices associated with the wireless phone.

15. The method of claim 14 further comprising receiving a selection of the set-top box device at the server.

16. A set-top box device, comprising:

a processor and a memory device accessible to the processor, wherein the memory device includes instructions to;

receive information related to a call received at a wireless phone; and

send the information to a display device coupled to the set-top box device when the wireless phone is within a pre-defined region that includes a position of the set-top box device.

17. The set-top box device of claim 16, wherein the pre-defined region is defined by a three dimensional extent of a home Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) network.

18. The set-top box device of claim 16, wherein the pre-defined region is defined by a three dimensional region specified by Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates.

19. The set-top box device of claim 16, wherein the pre-defined region is defined by a plurality of property boundary lines.

20. The set-top box device of claim 16, wherein the memory device further includes instructions to communicate with a communication server of an Internet Protocol Television system to receive a location indicator, the location indicator indicating whether the wireless phone is within the pre-defined region.

21. A computer-readable medium tangibly embodying instructions to manipulate a computing platform to:

receive information related to a call at a set-top box device, the call received at a wireless phone; and

send the information to a display device coupled to the set-top box device when the wireless phone is within a pre-defined region.

22. The computer-readable medium of claim 21, further comprising instructions to manipulate a computing platform to not send the information to the display device when the wireless phone is not within the pre-defined region.