Interactive mobile caller-identification information on a television

• US 8,060,068 B1
• Filed: 10/10/2007
• Issued: 11/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: Sprint Communications Company LP (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Mangal, Manish
• Primary Examiner(s): MILLER, BRANDON J
• Application Number:
  US11/870,112
• Time in Patent Office: 1,497 Days
• Field of Search: 455/3.06, 455/422.1, 455/426.1, 455/456.1, 455/456.3, 455/466, 455/556.1, 455/557, 455/563, 455415-420, 379/142.01, 379/142.04, 379/93.23, 37914206-14207, 379/142.1, 37914215-14217, 348/14.02, 348/14.07, 725/34, 725/106, 725/110, 725/117, 725/131, 725/147, 725/139, 725/35, 725/40, 725/62, 725/122, 725/151, 725/153
• US Class Current: 455/415
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/38 Displays
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/206 composed of PSTN and wireless network
• 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 3/42365 Presence services providing information on the willingness to communicate or the ability to communicate in terms of media capability or network connectivity
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application

Abstract

A system and associated methods and media of delivering a notification of an incoming call and a series of interactive options such that a user can provide call-handling instructions to a wireless communications network for the incoming call. The notification and interactive options are transferred to a display device across at least a partially wired network. The indication and caller-identification information is inserted into a video stream that is communicated from the video-providing component to a media-receiving device that is in communication with a display device. The video-providing component receives call-handling instructions from the media-receiving device, as selected by a user, regarding the incoming call and then transmits the call-handling instructions to the wireless communications network.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of transmitting caller-identification information associated with an incoming call to a wireless mobile device at least from a video-providing component to a display device, the method comprising:

upon determining a location of the wireless mobile device to be in a home condition, receiving an indication of said incoming call and said associated caller-identification information at said video-providing component;

inserting said caller-identification information into a video stream at said video-providing component;

inserting interactive options into the video stream, wherein the interactive options enable a user to respond to the caller-identification information via interaction with a media-receiving device, and wherein at least one of the interactive options represents a prompt to forward the incoming call to one or more alternative telephone numbers;

communicating said video stream from said video-providing component to the media-receiving device at least partially across a wired pathway, wherein said video stream is capable of being presented on said display device;

receiving call-handling instructions at said video-providing component from said media-receiving device regarding said incoming call, wherein receiving the call-handling instructions comprises;

(a) receiving a selection of the prompt to forward the incoming call to one or more alternative telephone numbers;

(b) upon detecting the selection of the prompt, replacing the interactive options with a pre-programmed series of phone numbers; and

(c) receiving a selection of at least one of the series of phone numbers or an entry of a particular phone number; and

transmitting said call handling instructions from said video-providing component to a wireless communications network.

2. The media of claim 1, further comprising removing said caller identification information and interactive options from said video stream upon receipt of said call handling instructions.

3. The media of claim 1, wherein said call handling instructions are sent from said media-receiving device to said video-providing component and then to said wireless communications network by way of at least a portion of a cable network.