Text Message Transmissions Indicating Failure of Recipient Mobile Device to Connect with a Call
First Claim
1. A method performed by an originating communications device, comprising:
- initiating a call with a recipient mobile device;
determining that the recipient device has failed to connect with the call;
generating a text message indicating said failure of the recipient device to connect with the call; and
transmitting the text message to the recipient device.
1 Assignment
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
An originating communications device is configured to transmit a text message to a recipient mobile device when the originating device determines that the recipient device has failed to connect with a call that was initiated by the originating device. The text message is designed to indicate that the recipient device has failed to connect with the call; in addition or as an alternative, the text message includes a code that indicates to the recipient device that it is potentially in a poor RF coverage area. The recipient mobile device, upon receiving and displaying the text message, may determine that it is indeed in an area with poor coverage and will in response store its current geographic location as a poor coverage area. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
-
Citations
25 Claims
-
1. A method performed by an originating communications device, comprising:
-
initiating a call with a recipient mobile device; determining that the recipient device has failed to connect with the call; generating a text message indicating said failure of the recipient device to connect with the call; and transmitting the text message to the recipient device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
-
-
6. A method performed by a recipient mobile device, comprising:
-
receiving a text message from an originating communications device; determining that the text message is a radio frequency (RF) coverage alert; determining a current geographic location of the recipient device in response to the alert; and
thenstoring the geographic location in association with an RF coverage area evaluation. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
-
-
11. An originating communications device, comprising:
-
communications circuitry to transmit a request to initiate a call with a recipient mobile device; a call processing controller to determine that the recipient device has failed to connect with the call; and a text messaging controller to generate a text message, in response to the determination that the recipient device has failed to connect with the call, that is to be transmitted to the recipient device to notify a user of the recipient device regarding radio frequency (RF) coverage of the recipient device. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
-
-
17. A recipient mobile device, comprising:
-
RF communications circuitry to receive a text message that indicates a failure of the recipient device to connect with a call from an originating device; geopositioning circuitry to determine a current geographic location of the recipient device in response to the text message; and data storage circuitry to store the determined geographic location as a poor RF coverage area. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
-
-
21. An article of manufacture, comprising:
a non-transitory machine-readable medium containing stored instructions that program an originating communications device to initiate a call with a recipient mobile device, determine that the recipient device has failed to connect with the call and in response prompt a user of the originating device to confirm that a text message, which indicates said failure of the recipient device to connect with the call, is to be automatically generated and transmitted to the recipient device. - View Dependent Claims (22)
-
23. An article of manufacture, comprising:
a non-transitory machine-readable medium containing stored instructions that program a recipient mobile device to, in response to receiving a text message, determine that the text message is a poor radio frequency (RF) coverage alert and in response determine a current geographic location of the recipient device, and store the current geographic location as a poor RF coverage area. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25)
Specification