SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODIFYING CALLING BEHAVIOR

• US 20140045453A1
• Filed: 10/18/2013
• Published: 02/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Starscriber Corp.
• Original Assignee: Starscriber Corp.
• Inventors: Johnson, Roderick Michael
• Granted Patent: US 8,862,094 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/406
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27485 Appending a prefix to or inserting a pause into a dialling sequence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/58 based on statistics of usage or network monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/1008 Calls without connection establishment for implicit information transfer or as a service trigger
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/652 Call initiation triggered by text message
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/60 logging of communication history, e.g. outgoing or incoming calls, missed calls, messages or URLs logging of telephone numbers H04M1/56, H04M1/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42382 Text-based messaging services in telephone networks such as PSTN/ISDN, e.g. User-to-User Signalling or Short Message Service for fixed networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/24 Accounting or billing

Abstract

A method for modified dialing behavior includes capturing a dialing stream in a virtual input buffer, comparing the dialing stream of the calling party to a history of dialing streams stored in a database, analyzing the history of dialing streams to determine a desired dialing behavior of the calling party, and passing a modified dialing stream to a mobile operating system based on the determined desired dialing behavior of a calling party.

Claims

1. A subscriber identity module (SIM) comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed on a mobile device, effectuate operations comprising:

capturing a dialing stream in a virtual input buffer;

comparing the dialing stream to a history of dialing streams stored in a database;

analyzing the history of dialing streams to determine that a desired dialing behavior of a calling party is to intentionally drop a call placed to a telephone number within the dialing stream; and

in response to determining that the desired dialing behavior of the calling party is to intentionally drop the call placed to the telephone number within the dialing stream, transmitting a request for transmission of a message to a recipient mobile device associated with the telephone number within the dialing stream.

2. The SIM of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise presenting an indication that the request for transmission of the message has been sent.

3. The SIM of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise recording the dialing stream of the calling party in the database, and revising the dialing behavior based on the dialing stream.

4. The SIM of claim 3, wherein the database is located on one of the SIM, a memory stick, or a handset.

5. The SIM of claim 1, wherein the dialing stream is a dialing pattern that is a sequence of characters, numbers, or both that would not be recognized as a valid entry by a telephony network.

6. The SIM of claim 1, wherein the message comprises text requesting that a user place a call to a second telephone number.

7. The SIM of claim 1, wherein the request for transmission of the message is sent from a mobile subscriber with insufficient credit to make a call.

8. The SIM of claim 1, wherein statistically significant historical dialing behaviors and dialing patterns are used to improve the performance of the method.

9. The SIM of claim 1, wherein business rules validate dialing behavior and dialing patterns prior to transmitting the request for transmission of the message.

10. The SIM of claim 1, wherein the message is a text message.

11. The SIM of claim 1, wherein the request for transmission of the message is sent in the form of machine readable code in a network protocol that can be interpreted by one or more network elements.

12. The SIM of claim 11, wherein the machine readable code comprises a location.

13. The SIM of claim 11, wherein the machine readable code is constructed for delivery to a network element that provides a USSD service.

14. The SIM of claim 11, wherein the message is capable of being interpreted by client software resident on the recipient mobile device as the discovery of similar client software.

15. The SIM of claim 11, further comprising receiving a second message in the form of machine readable code in a second network protocol from the recipient mobile device, wherein the second message acknowledges discovery of the mobile device.

16. The SIM of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise receiving a discovery message from the recipient mobile device, wherein the discovery message indicates that similar client software is operating on the recipient mobile device.

17. The SIM of claim 1, wherein the message is interpreted by the recipient mobile device as a command to automatically initiate a call back to the calling party.

18. The SIM of claim 1, wherein the message is in the form of machine readable code in a network protocol that can be interpreted by one or more network elements.

19. The SIM of claim 18, wherein the machine readable code in the network protocol is constructed for delivery to a network element that provides USSD service.

20. The SIM of claim 16, wherein the message is a text message and the discovery message is constructed for delivery to a network element that provides USSD service.