Telephone call handling system

• US 20120128138A1
• Filed: 12/28/2011
• Published: 05/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Christopher Guy Williams
• Original Assignee: Christopher Guy Williams
• Inventors: Williams, Christopher Guy
• Application Number:
  US13/374,419
• Publication Number:
  US 20120128138A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/93.01
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2478 Telephone terminals specially adapted for non-voice services, e.g. email, internet access centralized arrangements where telephones services are combined H04M7/0024; for recording text messages H04M3/5322; for accessing Internet H04M3/4938
• 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 1/656 for recording conversations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42059 Making use of the calling party identifier

Abstract

A telephone call handling system includes a sendings receiver configured to receive sendings sent from the telephones of other party'"'"'s via a telephone service. A sendings registry automatically inventories each received sending and forwards the inventoried sending to a storage where the sending is stored. Subsequently, a delivery trigger is triggered. The triggered trigger initiates a sendings provider to provide one or more of the inventoried and stored sendings to a deliverer. The deliverer then delivers the provided sending or sendings to one or more of: a speaker, a display, a text message display, an image display, a video display, an email delivery, an web-site poster, a service provider delivery, a delivery port, a ring-back delivery, a ring-back forward delivery and a ring-tone.

Claims

1. A telephone call handling system, the system comprising:

a sendings receiver configured to receive sendings sent from an other party'"'"'s telephone via a telephone service;

a sendings registry configured to automatically inventory the received sendings;

a storage configured to store the inventoried sendings;

a sendings provider configured to provide at least one of the inventoried sendings;

a deliverer configured to deliver the provided sendings; and

a delivery trigger configured to initiate the provider to provide the at least one of the inventoried and stored sendings.

2. The telephone system of claim 1 and wherein the delivery trigger is further configured to be triggered by a user.

3. The telephone system of claim 1 and wherein the system further includes caller I.D. circuitry to provide caller I.D. information to the user and the user can trigger the trigger based on the caller I.D. information.

4. The telephone system of claim 1 and wherein the delivery trigger is further configured to be triggered linked to an activity.

5. The telephone system of claim 1 and wherein the sendings provider comprises a prioritizer to prioritize the providing of at least one of the inventoried sendings.

6. The telephone system of claim 1 and wherein the system further comprises a sending review poster to supply sendings for posting at an internet website.

7. The telephone system of claim 1 and wherein the system further comprises at least one of:

a sendings picker, a deliverer picker, a sendings call-up, a sendings identifier, a user-selected sendings supplier, a inventory review poster and a configurator.

8. The telephone system of claim 7 and wherein the sendings identifier comprises a universal identifier to identify a feature that can be employed absent any specialized hardware and/or programming at the sending device.

9. The telephone system of claim 7 and wherein the sendings identifier comprises a requested sendings identifier to identify a requested sending.

10. The telephone system of claim 7 and wherein the sendings picker comprises at least one of:

a sendings type picker and a sendings class picker.

11. A method for delivering sendings, the method comprising:

receiving sendings sent from an other party'"'"'s telephone via a telephone service;

inventorying the received sendings automatically;

storing the inventoried sendings;

providing at least one of the inventoried sendings, said providing initiated by a trigger; and

delivering the provided sending or sendings.

12. The method of claim 11 and wherein the providing at least one of the inventoried sendings, said providing initiated by a trigger further comprises enabling a user to trigger the trigger.

13. The method of claim 11 and wherein the method further comprise providing caller I.D. information to the user enabling the user to trigger the trigger based on the caller I.D. information.

14. The method of claim 11 and wherein the providing at least one of the inventoried sendings, said providing initiated by a trigger further comprises triggering the trigger linked to an activity.

15. The method of claim 11 and wherein the providing of at least one of the inventoried sendings is prioritized.

16. The method of claim 11 and wherein the method further comprises supplying sendings for posting on an internet website.

17. The method of claim 11 and further comprising at least one of:

enabling a user to pick a sending from a plurality of sendings to pick from;

enabling a user to call up a sending;

identifying a sending;

enabling employment of user-selected sendings; and

, enabling a user to configure operation.

18. The method of claim 17 and wherein identifying a sending further comprises identifying a feature that can be employed absent any specialized hardware and/or programming at the sending device.

19. The method of claim 17 and wherein identifying a sending further comprises identifying a requested sending.

20. The telephone system of claim 17 and wherein enabling a user to pick a sending further comprises at least one of:

enabling a user to pick a type of sending and enabling a user to pick a class of sending.