Wireless call information transfer

• US 7,236,772 B1
• Filed: 07/19/2000
• Issued: 06/26/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte Limited (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Agere Systems Incorporated (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Botzas, Anthony
• Primary Examiner(s): Mehrpour; Naghmeh
• Application Number:
  US09/619,401
• Time in Patent Office: 2,533 Days
• Field of Search: 455/445, 455/422, 455/417, 455/456, 455/566, 455/554, 455/433, 455461-462, 455/465, 455/554.1, 455/555, 455/412.1, 455/564, 455/408, 455/406, 455/432, 455/405, 455/414, 455/421, 455/235.1, 455/442, 455/74.1, 455/415, 455/414.1, 455/422.1, 4554561-4566, 379/211, 379/219, 379/220, 379/211.01, 379/211.02, 379/212.01
• US Class Current: 455/415
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2749 Automatic dialling or redialling systems, e.g. on off-hook or redial on busy
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality

Abstract

According to one embodiment of the invention, a cellular telephone includes a memory and a transmitter. The memory is adapted to store a telephone number associated with an incoming telephone call, and the transmitter is adapted to transmit the telephone number to another telephone. The cellular telephone may also include a receiver and a calling unit. The receiver is adapted to receive a different telephone number from the another telephone, and the calling unit is adapted to place an outgoing telephone call to the different telephone number. In an alternative embodiment, a method of placing a telephone call from a telephone includes the steps of receiving, over a wireless link, call related information from another telephone, and placing an outgoing call based on the call related information. The other telephone may be a cellular telephone, and the call related information may include a telephone number associated with a telephone call previously received by the other telephone.

Claims

1. A telephone for a communication system, the system adapted to perform a communication scenario in which:

a first telephone, having a first telephone number, initiates a first telephone call to a second telephone, the second telephone having a second telephone number different from the first telephone number;

the second telephone automatically extracts the first telephone number from CallerID information of the first telephone call and transmits the extracted first telephone number to a third telephone, the third telephone having a third telephone number different from the first and second telephone numbers; and

the third telephone receives the transmitted first telephone number from the second telephone and initiates a second telephone call to the first telephone using the received first telephone number received from the second telephone, wherein the telephone is the second telephone or the third telephone.

2. The invention of claim 1, wherein the telephone is the second telephone.

3. The invention of claim 2, wherein the second telephone comprises:

a processor adapted to automatically extract the first telephone number from the CallerID information of the first telephone call; and

a transmitter adapted to transmit the extracted first telephone number to the third telephone.

4. The invention of claim 3, wherein the transmitter is a non-telephony transmitter.

5. The invention of claim 4, wherein the transmitter is a Bluetooth transmitter.

6. The invention of claim 2, wherein, without any user intervention after the first telephone call is initiated, the second telephone automatically transmits the extracted first telephone number to the third telephone.

7. The invention of claim 2, wherein, based on a single user key-stroke, the second telephone transmits the extracted first telephone number to the third telephone.

8. The invention of claim 2, wherein, without answering the first telephone call, the second telephone automatically extracts the first telephone number from the CallerID information of the first telephone call and transmits the extracted first telephone number to the third telephone.

9. The invention of claim 2, wherein the second telephone is a cellular telephone.

10. The invention of claim 1, wherein the telephone is the third telephone.

11. The invention of claim 10, wherein the third telephone comprises:

a receiver adapted to receive the transmitted first telephone number from second telephone; and

a calling unit adapted to initiate the second telephone call to the first telephone using the received first telephone number.

12. The invention of claim 11, wherein the receiver is a non-telephony receiver.

13. The invention of claim 12, wherein the receiver is a Bluetooth receiver.

14. The invention of claim 10, wherein, based on a single user key-stroke, the third telephone initiates the second telephone call to the first telephone using the received first telephone number.

15. The invention of claim 1, wherein the transmission of the extracted first telephone number from the second telephone to the third telephone is by non-telephony communications.

16. The invention of claim 15, wherein the transmission of the extracted first telephone number from the second telephone to the third telephone is by Bluetooth communications.

17. The invention of claim 1, wherein:

the second telephone is a cellular telephone comprising;

a processor adapted to automatically extract the first telephone number from the CallerID information of the first telephone call;

memory adapted to store the extracted first telephone number; and

a non-telephony transmitter adapted to transmit the extracted first telephone number to the third telephone using non-telephony communications; and

the third telephone comprises;

a non-telephony receiver adapted to receive the transmitted first telephone number from second telephone using the non-telephony communications;

a memory adapted to store the received first telephone number; and

a calling unit adapted to initiate the second telephone call to the first telephone using the received first telephone number.

18. A method implemented by a telephone in a communication system performing a communication scenario comprising:

initiating, by a first telephone having a first telephone number, a first telephone call to a second telephone, the second telephone having a second telephone number different from the first telephone number;

automatically extracting, by the second telephone, the first telephone number from CallerID information of the first telephone call;

transmitting, by the second telephone, the extracted first telephone number to a third telephone, the third telephone having a third telephone number different from the first and second telephone numbers;

receiving, by the third telephone, the transmitted first telephone number from the second telephone; and

initiating, by the third telephone, a second telephone call to the first telephone using the received first telephone number received from the second telephone, wherein the method is a portion of the communication scenario implemented by the second telephone or the third telephone.

19. The invention of claim 18, wherein the method comprises the automatically extracting step and the transmitting step implemented by the second telephone.

20. The invention of claim 18, wherein the method comprises the receiving step and the initiating step implemented by the third telephone.