Post-page caller name identification system

• US 8,861,698 B1
• Filed: 02/06/2014
• Issued: 10/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2014
• Status: Expired

• Current Assignee: Greenflight Venture Corporation
• Original Assignee: Jeffrey D. Isaacs
• Inventors: Isaacs, Jeffrey D.
• Primary Examiner(s): TRAN, QUOC DUC
• Application Number:
  US14/174,724
• Time in Patent Office: 250 Days
• Field of Search: 379/142.01, 379/142.04, 379/142.1, 379/142.11, 379/142.15
• US Class Current: 379/142.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/38 Displays
• 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 7/0033 Notification or handling of incoming calls by a computer

Abstract

Caller Name Identification, or CNAM Caller ID, is a telecommunication end-user feature that appeared for PSTN landline customers in the late 1980s. The rapid development of cellular mobile and VOIP telephony systems lead to the frequent omission of the CNAM Caller ID feature. Described is an independent end-user system that obtains the CNAM Caller ID after the call page transmission. The system operates on the user'"'"'s smartphone or on a TCP/IP connected computer. A user with multiple telephone devices (i.e. a smartphone, landline, and VOIP line) may share use of this system between all devices.

Claims

1. A system, functioning independently of a called party'"'"'s telephone carrier and device, provides a calling party'"'"'s CNAM after entry of the calling party'"'"'s telephone number CID, comprising:

a) an entry field, within a HTML web or mobile phone application, permitting the called party to input a query, post-page, specifying the CID;

b) an SS7 interfacing node permitting real-time access to the SS7 network;

c) a function serving as a direct interface between the called party'"'"'s query and the calling party carrier'"'"'s respective CNAM database;

d) within the HTML web or mobile phone application, a display of the successfully queried calling party CNAM.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the web or mobile phone application provides free-of-charge CNAM resolution for any of the end-user'"'"'s multiple telephony devices, thereby permitting cost-savings.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the called party enjoys significant cost savings and free-of-charge CNAM querying through an advertising display within the user interface.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein component function (c) additionally:

confirms that the CID is not subject to system opt-out privacy controls; and

confirms that the CID paged a telephonic device owned or operated by the called party.

5. A method for providing a called party with the calling party'"'"'s CNAM after a network page, independent of interaction with the carrier or device receiving the page, comprising the following steps:

a) entering of the calling party'"'"'s telephone number CID into a web HTML or mobile phone application query field;

b) connecting to the PSTN via an SS7 interfacing node;

c) directly querying the calling party carrier CNAM database with the CID query entry;

d) displaying the successfully queried calling party CNAM on the HTML web or mobile phone application user interface.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising a step to display advertising sponsorship on the web or mobile phone application interface, thereby achieving significant user cost savings and free-of-charge CNAM querying.