Advanced internet-based caller ID information/data for mobile phones and mobile networks

• US 8,295,820 B2
• Filed: 07/15/2009
• Issued: 10/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oter Gottfried
• Original Assignee: Oter Gottfried
• Inventors: Gottfried, Oter
• Primary Examiner(s): Gelin, Jean
• Assistant Examiner(s): Choo, Munsoon
• Application Number:
  US12/503,138
• Publication Number:
  US 20110014900A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,196 Days
• Field of Search: 4554121-4122, 455/415
• US Class Current: 455/415
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4557 Directories for hybrid networks, e.g. including telephone numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• 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 3/42068 where the identifier is used to access a profile
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A method to implement CID enhancement performed by mobile phone software, running on a user/subscriber'"'"'s mobile phone, in communication with a response server of a Website during an incoming call. The method includes alerting the Website by transmission of an initiation command from the mobile phone upon receipt of the incoming call, extracting the caller number from the phone ringing feature of the mobile phone, connecting the mobile phone over the Internet to the response server and responding to the initiation command, such that the caller'"'"'s ID is displayed with said relevant caller information and said other caller data in real time, and is provided within the few seconds elapsed before the user/subscriber answers the phone call.

Claims

1. A system to implement and display on a phone screen, rapid caller ID (CID) enhancement during an incoming call by performing a search for the caller profile over a database and over the caller'"'"'s relevant Internet published information based on the caller'"'"'s identity provided by at least one of phone number, username and email address, utilized as the search key and by constantly connecting to any external server that can add more updated information for immediate retrieval by this search, said system comprising:

an adaptable mobile phone software (SW) provided by a website and capable of running on a variety of user/subscriber'"'"'s mobile phone technologies, configured especially for fast transactions of a few seconds before the called user will answer;

an advertising/add-on server for configuring an advertisement in an optimized format for fast transmission and display on the phone screen, wherein said advertisement will be sent as at least one of a file format, bitmap and drawing description and wherein add-on data sent as a WAP/Web link enables the user to click and go to a WAP/Web page, configured especially for fast transaction;

a response server, which can be based at any Internet Website, said response server connecting to the mobile phone by said SW, wherein said SW, upon receiving an incoming call alert, takes the caller number from the phone ringing feature, and providing said connection via IP protocol over the Internet to said response server for performing a search for the caller profile over a database or over the caller'"'"'s relevant Internet published information based on the caller'"'"'s ID utilized as the search key, and by constantly connecting to any other server, under the control of said response server, that can add more updated information for retrieval by this search, so as to maintain said more updated information constantly available, wherein the connection is made fast by;

opening at least one of UDP and TCP connections to said response server and the add-ons on said server in advance before the call is answered;

maintaining this connection with keep alive;

preparing said add-on data in an optimized/compressed format, resulting in its rapid transportation over the Internet for easy and fast display on the phone screen;

pre-fetching the add-on data every few minutes in order to have it ready for fast delivery to the phone, in the manner of data-caching;

maintaining data on the speed level of the connection to each device by measuring the round trip time (RTT) and based on that, using at least one of three resolution formats such as a high resolution data format, medium resolution data format and low resolution data format for fast delivery based on the user connection and user device;

opening a plurality of parallel connections to the device in order to get parallel delivery of the content, resulting in the user seeing it faster;

configuring, while the SW is waiting for incoming add-on data corresponding to the user ID, the add-on data by the SW for optimized transmission,

creating color reduction per phone type (User Agent); and

compressing, packaging and preparing the packets to be sent,

wherein said search is constantly being updated data and when said mobile phone has an incoming call it can get said data immediately as it is constantly available,

resulting in the caller'"'"'s ID being displayed with other retrieved caller data in real-time, and wherein the retrieved data is provided within the few seconds elapsed before the user/subscriber answers the phone call.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said advertising add-on server is located at the Website.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said SW can control the communication to multiple phones in parallel.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a database, wherein the SW performs the search for the caller profile over said data base.

5. A method to implement and display on a phone screen, rapid caller ID (CID) enhancement during an incoming call by performing a search for the caller profile over a database and over the caller'"'"'s relevant Internet published information based on the caller'"'"'s identity provided by at least one of phone number, username and email address, utilized as the search key and by constantly connecting to any external server that can add more updated information for immediate retrieval by this search, said method comprising:

providing an adaptable mobile phone software (SW) provided by a website and capable of running on a variety of user/subscriber'"'"'s mobile phone technologies, configured especially for fast transactions of a few seconds before the called user will answer;

providing an advertising/add-on server for configuring an advertisement in an optimized format for fast transmission and display on the phone screen, wherein said advertisement will be sent as at least one of a file format, bitmap and drawing description and wherein add-on data sent as a WAP/Web link enables the user to click and go to a WAP/Web page, configured especially for fast transaction; and

providing a response server, which can be based at any Internet Website, said response server connecting to the mobile phone by said SW, wherein said SW, upon receiving an incoming call alert, takes the caller number from the phone ringing feature, and provides said connection via IP protocol over the Internet to said response server for performing a search for the caller profile over a database or over the caller'"'"'s relevant Internet published information based on the caller'"'"'s ID utilized as the search key, and by constantly connecting to any other server, under the control of said response server, that can add more updated information for retrieval by this search, so as to maintain said more updated information constantly available, wherein the connection is made fast by;

Opening at least one of UDP and TCP connections to said response server and the add-ons on said server in advance before the call is answered;

Maintaining this connection with keep alive;

Pre-paring said add-on data in an optimized/compressed format, resulting in, it will be rapidly transported over the Internet for easy and fast display on the phone screen;

Pre-fetching the add-on data every few minutes in order to have it ready for fast delivery to the phone, in the manner of data-caching;

Maintaining data on the speed level of the connection to each device by measuring the round trip time (RTT) and based on that, using at least one of three resolution formats such as a high resolution data format, medium resolution data format and low resolution data format for fast delivery based on the user connection and user device;

Opening a plurality of parallel connections to the device in order to get parallel delivery of the content, resulting in the user will see it faster;

Configuring, while the SW is waiting for incoming add-on data corresponding to the user ID, the add-on data by the SW for optimized transmission,

Creating color reduction per phone type (User Agent);

Compressing, packaging and preparing the packets to be sent,

Wherein said search is constantly being updated data and when said mobile phone has an incoming call it can get said data immediately as it is constantly available, resulting in the caller'"'"'s ID is displayed with other retrieved caller data in real-time, and wherein the retrieved data is provided within the few seconds elapsed before the user/subscriber answers the phone call.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein said SW prepares said other caller data in advance and in optimized compressed format specifically and uniquely for every phone type for fast delivery and display.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein said searching comprises accessing at least one of a social network and messenger to retrieve user profile information to be displayed with the CID and caller name.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein said other caller data may be sent as a WAP/Web link, enabling the user/subscriber to click and go to a WAP/Web page.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein said communication back and forth from the server is configured especially for a fast transaction of a few seconds in order to fit the mobile world data networks, characterized by a short time period before the called user/subscriber will answer.

10. The method of claim 5, further comprising pressing an “

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button by the user/subscriber to terminate said displaying of both said relevant caller information and said other caller data on the mobile phone of the user/subscriber.

11. The method of claim 5, further comprising storing said relevant caller information with said other caller data on the user/subscriber'"'"'s mobile phone for a previously specified number of incoming calls, in a cyclic procedure based on the phone'"'"'s capabilities.

12. The method of claim 5, further comprising storing said relevant caller information with said other caller data on the response server, wherein the response server is configured to store the user/subscriber incoming call history for a longer period than said storage on the mobile phone.

13. The method of claim 5, wherein said connecting the mobile phone over the Internet to the response server of the Website, further comprises initializing and opening by the SW of a data/IP connection to the response server.

14. The method of claim 5, further comprising waiting a specified number of seconds by the SW, and trying again if it is not able to connect a first time.

15. The method of claim 5, further comprising detecting the incoming call/SMS number by the SW.

16. The method of claim 5, further comprising sending a query by the SW to the response server for the Caller ID based on said caller number prefix.

17. The method of claim 5, wherein if said other caller data is configured, further comprising opening another channel in parallel to said connection between the mobile phone and the response server.

18. The method of claim 5, further comprising after sending said query, displaying said other caller data in parallel to the mobile phone'"'"'s incoming CID display.