System and method for personalized call treatment by using a combination of communication and data services
First Claim
1. A system for providing personalized call treatment to an incoming call by using a combination of data and communication services, the system comprising a Mashup application for determining a treatment method corresponding to each incoming call based on a called person'"'"'s profile and one or more predefined rules.
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Abstract
A system and method for providing personalized call treatment to an incoming call by using a combination of data and communication services is provided. The system comprises a Mashup application for determining a treatment method corresponding to each incoming call based on a called person'"'"'s profile and one or more predefined rules. The system also comprises a communication services platform and a data services platform coupled with the Mashup application.
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11 Claims
- 1. A system for providing personalized call treatment to an incoming call by using a combination of data and communication services, the system comprising a Mashup application for determining a treatment method corresponding to each incoming call based on a called person'"'"'s profile and one or more predefined rules.
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6. A method for providing personalized call treatment to an incoming call by using a combination of data and communication services;
- the call treatment comprising performing one or more of;
a. connecting the incoming call to a called phone number; b. originating/scheduling a new call to a phone number obtained by applying a set of predefined call treatment rules; c. diverting the call to a phone number obtained by applying a set of predefined call treatment rules; d. announcing a next available time slot; e. prompting a caller with one or more available time slots and obtaining a response through voice, text or DTMF tones from the caller;
the response defining whether to schedule a meeting or search for next available slot or abandon the call;f. forwarding the call to voice mail; g. prompting caller to select a called person if called phone number is a shared number among more than one persons; h. converting the call from voice to text for relaying to an instant messenger for an interactive “
voice—
text”
dialog and converting text to voice for relaying as voice call; andi. playing customized prompts or music or a combination of both in response to the call. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8)
- the call treatment comprising performing one or more of;
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9. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein for providing personalized call treatment to an incoming call by using a combination of data and communication services, the computer program product comprising one or more of:
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a. program instruction means for connecting the incoming call to a called phone number; b. program instruction means for originating/scheduling a new call to a phone number obtained by applying a set of predefined call treatment rules; c. program instruction means for diverting the call to a phone number obtained by applying a set of predefined call treatment rules; d. program instruction means for announcing a next available time slot; e. program instruction means for prompting a caller with one or more available time slots and obtaining a response through voice, text or DTMF tones from the caller;
the response defining whether to schedule a meeting or search for next available slot or abandon the call;f. program instruction means for forwarding the call to voice mail; g. program instruction means for prompting caller to select a called person if called phone number is a shared number among more than one persons; h. program instruction means for converting the call from voice to text for relaying to an instant messenger for an interactive “
voice—
text”
dialog and converting text to voice for relaying as voice call; and
i. program instruction means for playing customized prompts or music or a combination of both in response to the call. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11)
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