VERIFYING AND IDENTIFYING INCOMING PBX CALLS ON MOBILE DEVICES

• US 20110183657A1
• Filed: 01/25/2010
• Published: 07/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Research In Motion Limited (Blackberry Limited)
• Inventors: Siddique, Gibran, Lim, Miranda Bing Ying
• Granted Patent: US 8,190,201 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/415
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1053 IP private branch exchange [PBX] functionality entities or arrangements circuit switched PBXs H04M3/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4234 Remote access to features of PBX or home telephone systems-teleworking in a PBX
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup

Abstract

Aspects relate to provision of enterprise call capabilities to mobile devices. For example, a mobile device can indicate, over a data channel, that a PBX is to make a call on its behalf to a called party. The PBX can call back the mobile device, call the called party, and bridge those call legs to establish the call. The mobile device can employ mechanisms that a particular incoming call is made by the PBX. These mechanisms can include using ANI information, sending, and receiving audible verification codes over the voice channel established after answering the incoming call. The verification codes can be selected based on different behaviors of the mobile devices and the network or networks used by the device(s).

Claims

1. A telephony method for implementation on a mobile device, comprising:

receiving an incoming voice call over a voice channel on the mobile device;

answering the voice call;

sending, from the mobile device, a verification code comprising a series of audible tones, when identifying information for the voice call being received is unavailable to the mobile device; and

proceeding with the voice call responsive to receiving, at the mobile device, a reply verification code over the voice channel within a time limit.

2. The telephony method of claim 1, further comprising determining whether a notification of the incoming voice call was received over a data channel at the mobile device, and if the notification was received, rejecting the voice call when identifying information for the voice call is available but does not match stored identifying information for a telephony server.

3. The telephony method of claim 1, further comprising determining whether a notification of the incoming voice call was received over a data channel at the mobile device, and if the notification was not received, and when identifying information for the voice call is available and matches stored identifying information for a telephony server, then allowing the call to proceed within the time limit, regardless whether the reply verification code was received.

4. The telephony method of claim 1, further comprising determining whether a notification of the incoming voice call was received over a data channel at the mobile device, and if the notification was not received, and when identifying information for the voice call is available and does not match stored identifying information for a telephony server, then presenting an option on a user interface to accept the incoming voice call.

5. The telephony method of claim 1, wherein if the reply verification code was not received over the voice channel within the time limit, then the method further comprises presenting an option on a user interface to accept the incoming voice call.

6. The telephony method of claim 1, further comprising updating a user interface to indicate that the incoming voice call is from an enterprise voice server when a notification of the incoming voice call was received over a data channel at the mobile device and when identifying information for the voice call is available and matches to stored identifying information for the enterprise voice server.

7. The telephony method of claim 1, further comprising sending, from the mobile device, over a data channel, an indication to establish the voice call to a called party device, and waiting to receive a confirmation of reception of the indication from an enterprise communications server.

8. The telephony method of claim 7, further comprising beginning a timeout period, during which the receiving of the incoming voice call over the voice channel on the mobile device occurs, or the mobile device indicates, on the user interface, that the voice call to the called party device has failed.

9. The telephony method of claim 8, further comprising conditioning the beginning of the timeout period on reception of a confirmation, over the data channel, that the indication was received, and in the absence of such confirmation over the data channel, proceeding to indicate that the voice call to the called party device has failed.

10. The telephony method of claim 1, wherein the time limit is about 300 milliseconds for a Global Systems for Mobile Communications (GSM) mobile device and about one second for a Code Division Multiple Access (CMDA)-based mobile device.

11. A computer readable medium storing computer executable instructions for programming a computer to perform a telephony method, comprising:

receiving an incoming voice call over a voice channel on a mobile device;

answering the voice call and sending, from the mobile device, a verification code comprising a series of audible tones, when identifying information for the voice call being received is unavailable to the mobile device; and

allowing the voice call to proceed responsive to receiving, at the mobile device, a reply verification code over the voice channel within a time limit.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein the method further comprises determining whether a notification of the incoming voice call was received over a data channel at the mobile device, and if the notification was received, rejecting the voice call when identifying information for the voice call is available but does not match stored identifying information for a telephony server.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein the method further comprises determining whether a notification of the incoming voice call was received over a data channel at the mobile device, and if the notification was not received, and when identifying information for the voice call is available and does not match stored identifying information for a telephony server, then presenting an option on a user interface to accept the incoming voice call.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein the method further comprises updating a user interface to indicate that the incoming voice call is from an enterprise voice server, responsive to the receiving, at the mobile device, of the verification code over the voice channel within the time limit.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein the method further comprises sending, from the mobile device, over a data channel, an indication to establish the voice call to a called party device, and waiting to receive a confirmation of reception of the indication from an enterprise communications server.

16. A mobile device, comprising:

a voice channel interface;

a processor module; and

a computer readable medium storing computer executable instructions for programming the processor module to perform a telephony method, comprising;

receiving an incoming voice call over the voice channel interface;

answering the voice call and sending a verification code comprising a series of audible tones, when identifying information for the voice call being received is unavailable to the mobile device; and

allowing the voice call to proceed responsive to receiving, at the mobile device, a verification code over the voice channel within a time limit.

17. The mobile device of claim 16, wherein the time limit is about 300 milliseconds for a Global Systems for Mobile Communications (GSM) mobile device and about one second for a Code Division Multiple Access (CMDA)-based mobile device.

18. The mobile device of claim 16, wherein the telephony method further comprises determining whether a notification of the incoming voice call was received over a data channel at the mobile device, and if the notification was received, rejecting the voice call when identifying information for the voice call is available but does not match stored identifying information for a telephony server.

19. The mobile device of claim 16, wherein the telephony method further comprises determining whether a notification of the incoming voice call was received over a data channel at the mobile device, and if the notification was not received, and when identifying information for the voice call is available and matches stored identifying information for a telephony server, then sending a verification code over the voice channel and allowing the call to proceed.

20. The mobile device of claim 16, wherein the telephony method further comprises determining whether a notification of the incoming voice call was received over a data channel at the mobile device, and if the notification was not received, and when identifying information for the voice call is available and does not match stored identifying information for a telephony server, then presenting an option on a user interface to accept the incoming voice call.