SYNCHRONIZED VOICE AND DATA SYSTEM

• US 20090149158A1
• Filed: 07/26/2006
• Published: 06/11/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: InfoMedia Services Limited
• Original Assignee: InfoMedia Services Limited
• Inventors: Goldfarb, David E., Jacobson, David G.M., Waxman, Dani S.
• Application Number:
  US11/997,000
• Publication Number:
  US 20090149158A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/401 wherein the services involve a main real-time session and one or more additional parallel real-time or time sensitive sessions, e.g. white board sharing or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4061 Push-to services, e.g. push-to-talk or push-to-video
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0027 Collaboration services where a computer is used for data transfer and the telephone is used for telephonic communication

Abstract

A method includes sending data content (32) to user (12) of a mobile device during a telephone call. The content may be a web page, it may be text, video, images, audio, etc. The method may include coupling a web session with a voice session.

Claims

1-39. -39. (canceled)

40. A method comprising:

sending, from an IVR (interactive voice response), an activator for a web session to a mobile communication device engaged in a voice session with said IVR; and

once said web session is activated, synchronizing said web session and said voice session for said mobile communication device.

41. The method according to claim 40 and wherein said activator is an SMS (short message service) message.

42. The method according to claim 40 and wherein said activator includes a URL for said web session.

43. The method according to claim 42 and wherein said URL includes an indicator of said voice session.

44. A method comprising:

initiating a web session coupled to a voice session of a mobile communication device with an IVR server without input from the person who initiated said voice session; and

displaying said web session on said mobile communication device at least during a part of said voice session.

45. The method according to claim 44 and wherein said initiating comprises:

capturing an SMS from said IVR server to said mobile communication device;

interpreting a URL of a synchronizable website embedded in said SMS; and

bringing a web browser to the foreground opened to said URL.

46. The method according to claim 45 and wherein said initiating comprises said IVR server receiving a phone number of said mobile communication device via caller_id and sending said SMS to said phone number.

47. The method according to claim 44 and wherein said web session has advertising content therein.

48. The method according to claim 44 and also comprising triggering at least one action in said voice session in response to an action by a user in said web session.

49. The method according to claim 44 and also comprising triggering at least one action in said web session in response to an action by a user in said voice session.

50. The method according to claim 44 and wherein said mobile communication device is one of:

a cellular telephone and a personal digital assistant.

51. A method implementable by an IVR (interactive voice response) server, the method comprising:

engaging in a voice session with a mobile communication device; and

sending SMS (short message service) messages to said mobile communication device with data relevant to said voice session.

52. The method according to claim 51 and also comprising, prior to said sending, receiving a telephone number of said mobile communication device from caller_id.