Method and apparatus for delivering caller identification information and services

• US 5,696,815 A
• Filed: 05/01/1995
• Issued: 12/09/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 05/01/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Intellectual Ventures II LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Bell Communications Research, Inc. (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)
• Inventors: Smyk, Darek Andrew
• Primary Examiner(s): Kuntz, Curtis
• Assistant Examiner(s): LOOMIS, PAUL A
• Application Number:
  US08/432,578
• Time in Patent Office: 953 Days
• Field of Search: 379/127, 379/142, 379/245, 379/207, 379/220, 379/230, 370/68.1, 370/110.1, 370/522, 370/529, 370/259, 370/270, 370/271, 348/6, 348/7, 348/8, 348/10, 348/12, 348/13, 348/14, 348/15, 455/3.1, 455/6.1, 455/6.3, 455/4.1, 455/4.2
• US Class Current: 379/142.16
• 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: H04N 21/40 Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/0029 Provisions for intelligent networking

Abstract

In an intergrated broadband and telephone network, caller identification information is delivered to a remote user through a service control point which retrieves nee information from a database in the telephone network and sends ring telephone instructions to the remote user'"'"'s telephone through the telephone network but caller identification information to a display device at the remote user'"'"'s location through the broadband network. The caller information may be displayed on a television set, a computer screen, or a window overlay on a different graphics/video image.

Claims

1. An integrated broadband and telephone network for delivering caller identification information to a remote user location, said network comprising:

a telephone network including one or more telephone switches and a database associating telephone numbers to names;

a broadband network;

a telephone located at a remote user location and connected to said telephone network;

a display device located at said remote user location and connected to said broadband network; and

a service control point connected to both said telephone network and said broadband network, said service control point including

means responsive to a call over the telephone network to a remote user from a calling party for retrieving from said database in said telephone network a name corresponding to the calling party'"'"'s telephone number,

means for sending a ring telephone instruction from said service control point to said remote user'"'"'s telephone via said telephone network, and

means for sending from said service control point said calling party'"'"'s name and telephone number to said display device at said user'"'"'s remote location via said broadband network.

2. In an integrated network including a telephone network, a broadband network, a service control point connected to both said telephone network and said broadband network, a telephone located at a remote user location and a display device located at said remote user location and associated with said telephone, a method for delivering caller identification information to the remote user, said method comprising the steps of:

matching, at said service control point, a calling party'"'"'s name to the remote user'"'"'s telephone number in response to a telephone call from the telephone network to the remote user;

sending from said service control point to the remote user telephone a ring telephone instruction via said telephone network; and

sending the calling party'"'"'s name and telephone number to said display device associated with the remote user telephone via said broadband network.

3. The method for delivering caller identification information in accordance with claim 2 further comprising the step of:

displaying said calling party'"'"'s name and telephone number as a window overlay on a different graphics/video image at the remote location.

4. The method for delivering caller identification information in accordance with claim 2 wherein said step of matching includes retrieving at the service control point from a line information database in the telephone network the name corresponding to the calling party'"'"'s telephone number.