Display caller ID on IPTV screen

• US 8,064,906 B1
• Filed: 02/23/2009
• Issued: 11/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Cingular Wireless II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Bonner, Thomas W.
• Primary Examiner(s): TRAN, CONGVAN
• Application Number:
  US12/390,519
• Time in Patent Office: 1,002 Days
• Field of Search: 455/415, 455/445, 455/435.1, 455/435.2, 455/566, 455/158.4, 455/158.5, 379/142.04, 379/142.06, 379/142.08, 379/142.16
• US Class Current: 455/435.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1096 Supplementary features, e.g. call forwarding or call holding systems providing special services or facilities to telephony subscribers H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

A system that automatically delivers telephony network services from a dual mode service technology platform to an external entity. The system includes a sensing component that detects the presence of a mobile handset registered on a cellular network, and registers the mobile handset with a wireless access network. Further, a provisioning component identifies calls to subscribers that are provisioned for the requested telephony network service. Once the calls are identified, the provisioning component extracts the requested data from the incoming calls and routes the data to an external entity for display.

Claims

1. A system that automatically delivers a telephony network service from a dual mode service technology platform to an external entity, comprising the following computer-executable components:

a sensing component that is operatively coupled to the external entity and detects presence of a mobile handset registered on a cellular network and registers the mobile handset with a wireless access network, wherein the external entity comprises a messaging client that subscribes to the telephony network service;

an application server component that receives a telephony network service request from the messaging client, verifies the messaging client'"'"'s subscription to the telephony network service and generates a notification that includes a mobile subscriber identity associated with the messaging client; and

a provisioning component that identifies calls to the mobile subscriber identity and extracts requested data corresponding to the telephony network service from a call set-up message and routes the requested data to the external entity for display.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile handset is a dual mode handset.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the messaging client is a Session Initiation Protocol (“

SIP”

) messaging client.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the application server component is a Session Initiation Protocol (“

SIP”

) application server component.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the requested data is routed to the external entity by way of a Session Initiation Protocol (“

SIP”

) MESSAGE.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the messaging client receives SIP MESSAGES from the provisioning component and decodes the requested data in the SIP MESSAGES to be displayed on the external entity.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the provisioning component is an IP Multimedia Subsystem (“

IMS”

) Telephony Application Server (TAS).

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the provisioning component is a Generic Access Network Controller (GANC).

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the external entity is any internet-capable device.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the external entity is an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) device.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the telephony network service is one or more of a caller line identification service, a call forwarding service, an email service, a text messaging service, and an instant messaging service.

12. A method for automatically delivering a telephony network service from a dual mode service technology platform to an external entity, comprising the following computer-executable acts:

sensing the presence of a dual mode handset registered on a cellular network;

registering the dual mode handset with a wireless access network;

accepting a request from the messaging client for the telephony network service and verifying the messaging client'"'"'s subscription to the service, wherein the messaging client is associated with the external entity;

determining calls to subscribers that are provisioned for the telephony network service;

extracting requested data corresponding to the telephony network service from a call set-up message; and

routing the data to the external entity for display.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising displaying the requested data on the external entity.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising maintaining a list of the requested data associated with the dual mode handset at a data storage component of the external entity.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising displaying the requested data on the dual mode handset.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the sensing component is coupled to a set-top box that communicates with the external entity and mobile handset.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein the sensing component is coupled to a proxy that communicates with the external entity and mobile handset.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein the sensing component registers the dual mode handset with the wireless access network by way of WiFi.

19. A system that automatically delivers a telephony network service from a dual mode service technology platform to an external entity, comprising:

means for detecting the presence of a mobile handset registered on a cellular network;

means for registering the mobile handset with a wireless access network;

means for receiving a request for a telephony network service from a messaging client, wherein the messaging client is associated with the external entity;

means for verifying a subscription associated with the messaging client, for the telephony network service;

means for identifying calls to subscribers that are provisioned for the telephony network service;

means for extracting requested data corresponding to the telephony network service from a call set-up message;

means for routing the requested data to the external entity for display.

20. The system of claim 19, further comprising means for routing the requested data to the external entity by way of a SIP MESSAGE.