CONTENT DELIVERY DURING CALL IDLE TIME
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Abstract
A method for effective utilization of call idle time, including automatically detecting that a first person using a phone has initiated a phone call to a second person, and that the second person has not yet answered the call, wherein the phone is operative in an idle mode to present content pre-designated by the first person, and is operative in a normal mode to send and receive voice communications to and from the second person and to not present the pre-designated content, activating the idle mode of the phone in response to the automatically detecting, further automatically detecting that the second person has answered the call, and automatically activating the normal mode of the phone in response to the further automatically detecting. A cell phone is also described and claimed.
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53 Claims
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1-43. -43. (canceled)
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44. A cell phone with effective utilization of call idle time, comprising:
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an antenna; a baseband modem connected to said antenna, comprising a radio frequency interface; a power subsystem; an audio/video/text player; and a controller connected to said baseband modem, to said power subsystem and to said audio/video/text player for programmatically operating the cell phone in an idle mode and in a normal mode, whereby in normal mode the cell phone sends and receives voice communications via said baseband modem, and in idle mode the cell phone presents pre-designated content via said audio/video/text player. - View Dependent Claims (45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52)
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53-59. -59. (canceled)
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