SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING CALLER-IDENTIFICATION

• US 20110217928A1
• Filed: 03/03/2010
• Published: 09/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: VIZIO, Inc.
• Original Assignee: VIZIO, Inc.
• Inventors: McRae, Matthew Blake
• Granted Patent: US 8,879,989 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/00 Radio transmission systems, i.e. using radiation field H04B10/00, H04B15/00 take precedence
• 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 1/575 Means for retrieving and displaying personal data about calling party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/06 Recording class or number of calling , i.e. A-party or called party , i.e. B-party
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43637 involving a wireless protocol, e.g. Bluetooth, RF or wireless LAN [IEEE 802.11] arrangements for wireless networking or broadcasting of information in indoor or near-field type systems H04B10/114
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/025 Systems for the transmission of digital non-picture data, e.g. of text during the active part of a television frame transmission of digital non-picture data during the vertical blanking interval only H04N7/088

Abstract

An application for a caller-identification system includes a circuit for receiving caller-identification information from a tip and ring interface and a circuit for wirelessly transmitting at least a subset of the caller-identification information to a display system. In the display system includes a circuit for receiving the caller-identification information and a circuit for displaying the caller-identification information on a display.

Claims

1. A caller-identification system comprising:

a means for receiving caller-identification information from a tip and ring interface;

a means for wirelessly transmitting at least a subset of the caller-identification information to a display system;

a means for receiving the caller-identification information at the display system; and

a means for displaying the caller-identification information at the display system.

2. The caller-identification system of claim 1, wherein the display system is a television.

3. The caller-identification system of claim 1, wherein the means for wirelessly transmitting includes a Bluetooth transceiver.

4. The caller-identification system of claim 2, wherein the means for displaying includes displaying the at least the subset of the caller-identification information on a display of the television.

5. The caller-identification system of claim 1, wherein the means for receiving and the means for wirelessly transmitting are powered by voltage acquired from a ring signal that precedes receipt of the caller-identification information over the tip and ring interface.

6. A method of displaying caller-identification comprising:

receiving caller-identification information from a tip and ring interface;

transmitting at least a subset of the caller-identification information over a wireless arrangement;

receiving the at least the subset of the caller-identification information at the display system; and

displaying the at least the subset of the caller-identification information at the display system.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the display system is a television.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the transmitting includes transmitting according to a Bluetooth standard.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the displaying includes displaying the at least the subset of the caller-identification information on a display of the television.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising extracting a voltage potential from a ring signal of the tip and ring interface and using the voltage potential to power the receiving caller-identification information and the transmitting.

11. A caller-identification system comprising:

a caller-identification line interface circuit interfaced to a tip and ring interface, the caller-identification line interface circuit decoding caller-identification information from the tip and ring interface;

a controller interfaced to the caller-identification line interface circuit, the caller-identification line interface circuit transferring the caller-identification information to the controller;

a wireless transmitter interfaced to the controller, the wireless interface accepting the caller-identification information from the controller and transmitting the caller-identification information;

a wireless receiver interfaced to a display system, the wireless receiver receiving the caller-identification information from the wireless transmitter;

a processing element accepting the caller-identification information from the wireless receiver and formatting the caller-identification information into a display message; and

a display interfaced to the processing element, the processing element presenting the display message on the display.

12. The caller-identification system of claim 11, wherein the wireless receiver, the processing element, and the display are part of a television.

13. The caller-identification system of claim 11, wherein the wireless transmitter is a Bluetooth transceiver.

14. The caller-identification system of claim 13, wherein the wireless receiver is a Bluetooth transceiver.

15. The caller-identification system of claim 12, wherein the display message includes at least the subset of the caller-identification information.

16. The caller-identification system of claim 12, wherein the display message includes a translation of at least the subset of the caller-identification information.

17. The caller-identification system of claim 11, further comprising a power circuit that acquires a voltage potential from a ring signal that precedes the caller-identification information over the tip and ring interface, the power circuit providing regulated power to the line interface circuit, the controller and the wireless transmitter.