Collection of enhanced caller ID information

• US 8,730,974 B2
• Filed: 06/15/2005
• Issued: 05/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte Limited (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Broadcom Corporation (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Karaoguz, Jeyhan, Whitley, Noel
• Primary Examiner(s): LEE, JUSTIN YE
• Application Number:
  US11/153,266
• Publication Number:
  US 20050232247A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,261 Days
• Field of Search: 455/415, 455/403, 370/352, 370/401, 370/328, 370/338, 370/395.71
• US Class Current: 370/395.71
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2803 Home automation networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/281 indicating a format for calling an appliance service function in a home automation network for remote control or remote monitoring of applications H04L67/025
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2812 describing content present in a home automation network, e.g. audio video content retrieval from the Internet G06F16/95
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2818 from a device located outside both the home and the home network access arrangements H04L12/2856; for remote control or remote monitoring of applications H04L67/025; arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless eletrical link G08C17/00; telephonic communication systems adapted for combination with remote control systems H04M11/007
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/282 based on user interaction within the home receiver circuitry for displaying additional information being controlled by a remote control apparatus H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2841 Wireless
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2849 Audio/video appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/285 Generic home appliances, e.g. refrigerators
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0823 using certificates cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving certificates H04L9/3263
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1026 at the edge
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/103 in the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1036 at the edge
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/104 in the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2535 adapted for voice communication over an Internet Protocol [IP] network Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network equipment and services H04M7/006; implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP] H04L69/16
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27453 Directories allowing storage of additional subscriber data, e.g. metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/56 Arrangements for indicating or recording the called number at the calling subscriber's set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/575 Means for retrieving and displaying personal data about calling party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/576 associated with a pictorial or graphical representation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 : with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 : with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72502 : with one base station connected to a single line
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/007 : with remote control systems remote control in general G08C
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/062 : using different frequency bands for speech and other data
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/8235 : Access based
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 : including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/06 : including a wireless LAN interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/60 : logging of communication history, e.g. outgoing or incoming calls, missed calls, messages or URLs
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42068 : where the identifier is used to access a profile
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 : having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4221 : Dedicated function buttons, e.g. for the control of an EPG, subtitles, aspect ratio, picture-in-picture or teletext
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42676 : for modulating an analogue carrier signal to encode digital information or demodulating it to decode digital information, e.g. ADSL or cable modem
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43637 : involving a wireless protocol, e.g. Bluetooth, RF or wireless LAN [IEEE 802.11] arrangements for wireless networking or broadcasting of information in indoor or near-field type systems H04B10/114
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 : Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 : Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/71 : Hardware identity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/72 : Subscriber identity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/00 : Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/00 : Wireless channel access
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 : Access point devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/16 : Gateway arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/02 : Inter-networking arrangements

Abstract

Network entities such as an access device and a gateway analyze messages exchanged during a communication session to identify information items of interest such as, for example, email addresses, universal resource locators, file paths, and attachments. References to and/or the contents of the identified information items may be stored in a database that associates the identified information items with the participants of the communication session. The participants in the communication session may be identified by conventional caller ID information, or by an Internet protocol address, an electronic serial number, or a variety of other identifiers. Information received at the beginning of a later communication session that identifies participant(s) in that communication session may then be used to select from the database, information items from previous communication session, that are associated with the identified participant in the current communication session. Information about the selected information items may be delivered as enhanced caller ID information to parties of the communication session, allowing them to have easy access to the previously exchanged information.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a modem configured for data communication with one or more broadband networks, including at least one of a digital subscriber line (DSL) network, a cable network, a satellite network, a cellular network and the internet;

a wireless interface configured to establish a wireless local area network (WLAN) in a vicinity around the wireless interface for wireless communication with one or more access devices over the WLAN;

a database operative to store historical information obtained from past calls between the modem and the wireless interface;

a gateway configured for data communication with the modem and the wireless interface to enable broadband network access to the one or more broadband networks by the one or more access devices communicating over the WLAN, the gateway configured to

communicate multimedia information among the wireless interface and the broadband network;

communicate information with the one or more access devices through the wireless interface;

communicate information of a user-to-user call between a called user of an access device and a calling user in communication with the gateway over the modem and a broadband network of the one or more broadband networks;

receive information of the user-to-user call identifying the calling user;

using the information identifying the calling user, search the database to identify sources of additional information related to the calling user;

retrieving information about the calling user from the identified sources using the information identifying the calling user;

retrieving from the database information selection parameters of the called party, the information selection parameters being stored in response to user selections made by the called party to select or deselect items of information to be provided to the called party;

using the information selection parameters, selecting from the retrieved information items of information about the calling user desired by the called user; and

communicating the selected items of information to the wireless interface for delivery to the access device of the called user.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the wireless interface comprises an interface in accordance with the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) standard 802.11 a, b, g or n for establishing the WLAN.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the gateway is further configured to:

communicate with the one or more access devices to obtain additional information about the calling user from the one or more access devices.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the gateway is further configured to:

communicate over the modem and the broadband network with one or more remote devices to obtain additional information about the calling user from the one or more remote devices.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the gateway is further configured to:

collect call-related information during the user-to-user call between the called user and the calling user;

store the collected call-related information; and

present to the called user or the calling user, or both, the collected call-related information as part of the user-to-user call.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein the gateway is further configured to:

receive filtering parameters from the called user or the calling user, or both; and

present to the called user or the calling user the collected call-related information as filtered according to the filtering parameters received from the respective user.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the gateway is further configured to:

collect additional information obtained by the one or more access devices during the user-to-user call.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein the gateway is further configured to:

collect multimedia data obtained by the one or more access devices during the user-to-user call.

9. The system of claim 7 wherein the gateway is further configured to:

provide to the one or more access devices information about the collected multimedia data obtained by the one or more access devices for further use.

10. The system of claim 1 wherein the gateway is further configured to:

identify in the database an access device of the one or more access devices as a source of additional information related to the calling user; and

retrieve information about the calling user from the identified access device.

11. The system of claim 1 wherein the gateway is further configured to:

identify in the database a remote source of additional information related to the calling user, the remote source being accessible by the gateway over the modem and the broadband network; and

retrieving information about the calling user from the remote sources using the information identifying the calling user and communicating with the remote source over the modem and the broadband network.

12. A method comprising:

at a gateway device,

establishing a wireless local area network (WLAN) through a wireless interface, the wireless interface configured for wireless communication over the WLAN with a plurality of access devices in a service area of the gateway device;

establishing data communication over a modem with a broadband network, the broadband network including at least one of a digital subscriber line (DSL) network, a cable network and a cellular network;

communicating data between respective access devices of the plurality of access devices and the broadband network;

receiving from users of respective access devices information selection parameters, the information selection parameters being received by the gateway in response to user selections made by the users of the respective access devices to control display of information about a received call received at the respective access devices;

storing the received information selection parameters;

subsequently, receiving a user-to-user call originated by a calling user on a calling device a and intended for a called user, including,

receiving over the broadband network identification data defining the calling user or the calling device, the calling device accessing the gateway over the broadband network, and

locating the called user on a called device which is in radio communication on the WLAN with the wireless interface;

retrieving from storage the information selection parameters of the called user;

using the retrieved information selection parameters of the called user, filtering items of caller identification information for presentation to the called user; and

communicating over the wireless interface and the WLAN a communication including the filtered caller identification information before completing the user-to-user call.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein storing the received information selection parameters comprises storing the received information selection parameters by the gateway in a database.

14. The method of claim 12 wherein storing the received information selection parameters comprises:

at the gateway,

communicating with a selected access device of the plurality of access devices; and

storing the received information selection parameters at the selected access device for subsequent retrieval by the gateway.

15. The method of claim 12 further comprising:

at the gateway,

communicating multimedia information over the WLAN and the wireless interface with an access device of the plurality of access devices;

communicating the multimedia information with another access device of the plurality of access devices;

analyzing the communicated multimedia information to identify information items; and

storing the identified information items.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein storing the identified information items comprises communicating information about the identified information items to an access device of the plurality of access devices over the WLAN for storage.

17. The method of claim 12 further comprising:

at the gateway,

communicating multimedia information over the WLAN and the wireless interface with an access device of the plurality of access devices;

communicating the multimedia information with a remote device over the modem and the broadband network;

analyzing the communicated multimedia information to identify information items; and

storing the identified information items.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein using the retrieved information selection parameters of the called user, filtering at least some of the identified information items for presentation to the called user.