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System and method of providing multimedia communication services

  • US 7,873,029 B2
  • Filed: 03/06/2006
  • Issued: 01/18/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2006
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of providing multimedia communication services, the method comprising:

  • receiving contextual information including a subscriber identification associated with a communication device at an intelligent service switch (ISS) of an integrated wireline-wireless (IWW) network from a network edge device, wherein the network edge device has detected a service request at the communication device, wherein the contextual information includes a time of the service request, a range of times of the service request, a day of the service request, a range of days of the service request, a date of the service request, a range of dates of the service request, a location of the communication device, a type of communication device, or any combination thereof;

    determining, at the ISS, at least one multimedia communication service based on the contextual information and based on at least one service filter associated with the subscriber identification, wherein the at least one service filter includes a terminating filter and an origination filter, wherein the origination filter is configured to relate a code to the at least one multimedia communication service, and wherein the contextual information includes the code;

    receiving a destination telephone number from the communication device; and

    providing a caller-specific ring tone at a destination device associated with the destination telephone number based on the terminating filter, wherein the terminating filter selects the caller-specific ring tone based on a caller associated with the communication device;

    wherein the at least one multimedia communication service includes a voice information system that prompts the caller associated with the communication device to submit a voice information service request; and

    wherein the voice information system provides audio entertainment content, news content, weather content, traffic content, securities market content, sports content, financial content, local business location content, local event schedule content, network address book content, calendar content, appointment content, map content, call log content, or any combination thereof, in response to the voice information service request.

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