User selected caller ID override

• US 7,734,026 B2
• Filed: 12/15/2006
• Issued: 06/08/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Daigle, Brian K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kuntz; Curtis
• Assistant Examiner(s): El-Zoobi; Maria
• Application Number:
  US11/639,798
• Publication Number:
  US 20070153991A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,271 Days
• Field of Search: 379/142.03, 455/415
• US Class Current: 379/142.03
• 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: H04M 3/42042 Notifying the called party of information on the calling party details within substation equipment H04M1/57, signalling details H04Q3/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42229 Personal communication services, i.e. services related to one subscriber independent of his terminal and/or location diverting calls from one subscriber to another subscriber, i.e. two different subscriptions H04M3/54; selecting arrangements in intelligent networks H04Q3/005
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/005 Personal communication services, e.g. provisions for portability of subscriber numbers

Abstract

Universal caller identification services are provided to enable a subscriber to maintain his or her identity by communicating an outgoing communication from any one of a plurality of different communications and communicating a communications signal to a called party communications address with a Universal CallerID to always identify the calling party. Further exemplary embodiments provide the Universal CallerID signal and a third party identifier to a called party and/or the Universal CallerID signal and a called party identifier to a third party. The Universal CallerID signal and a third party identifier and/or the Universal CallerID signal and a called party identifier may include text, video, voice, and/or digital data.

Claims

1. A method for providing universal shared caller identification information comprising:

detecting and decoding an incoming communication to a called party communications address;

querying a database that associates a calling party communications address to universal, shared caller identification information comprising one incoming calling line identification signal that is common for a plurality of communications addresses;

detecting an outgoing communication from one of the plurality of communications addresses to a third party communications address;

associating the universal, shared caller identification information with the third party communications address comprising third party network identification information; and

initiating a communication of the universal, shared caller identification information and the third party network identification information to the called party communications address.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising communicating a communications signal with the universal, shared caller identification information.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising associating the calling party communications address to a profile.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising communicating the universal, shared caller identification information to an alternate communications address.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending the universal, shared caller identification information to the called party communications address.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an identifier of a calling party associated with the calling party communications address; and

using the identifier to generate the universal, shared caller identification information.

7. A system for providing universal shared caller identification information comprising:

a processor executing code stored in memory that causes the processor to;

detect and decoding an incoming communication to a called party communications address;

query a database that associates a calling party communications address to universal, shared caller identification information comprising one incoming calling line identification signal that is common for a plurality of communications addresses;

detect an outgoing communication from one of the plurality of communications addresses to a third party communications address;

associate the universal, shared caller identification information with the third party communications address comprising third party network identification information; and

initiate a communication of the universal, shared caller identification information and the third party network identification information to the called party communications address.

8. The system of claim 7, further comprising code that causes the processor to communicate a communications signal with the universal, shared caller identification information.

9. The system of claim 8, further comprising code that causes the processor to associate the calling party communications address to a profile.

10. The system of claim 8, further comprising code that causes the processor to communicate the universal, shared caller identification information to an alternate communications address.

11. The system of claim 8, further comprising code that causes the processor to send the universal, shared caller identification information to the called party communications address.

12. The system of claim 8, further comprising code that causes the processor to:

receive an identifier of a calling party associated with the calling party communications address; and

use the identifier to generate the universal, shared caller identification information.

13. A computer readable medium storing processor executable instructions for Performing a method for providing universal shared caller identification information, the method comprising:

detecting and decoding an incoming communication to a called party communications address;

querying a database that associates a calling party communications address to universal, shared caller identification information comprising one incoming calling line identification signal that is common for a plurality of communications addresses;

detecting an outgoing communication from one of the plurality of communications addresses to a third party communications address;

associating the universal, shared caller identification information with the third party communications address comprising third party network identification information; and

initiating a communication of the universal, shared caller identification information and the third party network identification information to the called party communications address.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 13, further comprising instructions for communicating a communications signal with the universal, shared caller identification information.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 13, further comprising instructions for associating the calling party communications address to a profile.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 13, further comprising instructions for communicating the universal, shared caller identification information to an alternate communications address.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 13, further comprising instructions for sending the universal, shared caller identification information to the called party communications address.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 13, further comprising instructions for:

receiving an identifier of a calling party associated with the calling party communications address; and

using the identifier to generate the universal, shared caller identification information.