System, method and apparatus for displaying caller-identification

• US 8,879,989 B2
• Filed: 03/03/2010
• Issued: 11/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: VIZIO, Inc.
• Original Assignee: VIZIO, Inc.
• Inventors: McRae, Matthew Blake
• Primary Examiner(s): Hanidu, Ganiyu A
• Application Number:
  US12/716,293
• Publication Number:
  US 20110217928A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,707 Days
• Field of Search: 455/41.2, 455/603, 455/556.1, 455/552.1, 455/551, 455/415, 455/41.1, 379/93.31, 379/93.05, 379/22.01, 379/22.02, 379/21, 379/256, 379/142.16, 379/265.02, 370/352, 370/254, 370/328, 370/401, 370/395.1, 370/468
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/00 Radio transmission systems, i.e. using radiation field H04B10/00, H04B15/00 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/575 Means for retrieving and displaying personal data about calling party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/06 Recording class or number of calling , i.e. A-party or called party , i.e. B-party
• 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 7/025 Systems for the transmission of digital non-picture data, e.g. of text during the active part of a television frame transmission of digital non-picture data during the vertical blanking interval only H04N7/088

Abstract

An application for a caller-identification system includes a circuit for receiving caller-identification information from a tip and ring interface and a circuit for wirelessly transmitting at least a subset of the caller-identification information to a display system. In the display system includes a circuit for receiving the caller-identification information and a circuit for displaying the caller-identification information on a display.

Claims

1. A caller-identification display system comprising:

a display system, operating to display a first program;

a tip and ring interface, that receives tip and ring information from a tip and ring interface of a wired telephone, said tip and ring interface having a caller ID demodulator that demodulates caller ID interface that is encoded in the tip and ring line, a controller that receives the demodulated caller ID information, and a transceiver that sends the tip and ring demodulated caller ID information wirelessly under control of the controller receiving the caller ID information;

a wireless interface, operating over a first wireless band using a first wireless communication format, said wireless interface wirelessly receiving said tip and ring demodulated caller-identification information from the tip and ring interface of a wired telephone system using the first communication format, and said wireless interface wirelessly receiving second caller identification information directly from a cellular phone, also using the first wireless communication format;

the display system operating for displaying both the first and the second the caller-identification information at the display system when the first and the second caller identification information are received.

2. The caller-identification system of claim 1, wherein the display system is a television.

3. The caller-identification system of claim 1, wireless interface includes a Bluetooth transceiver that receives both the first caller identification information and the second caller identification information in Bluetooth format.

4. The caller-identification system of claim 2, wherein the display system is controlled by a remote control by receiving commands from the remote control, and where the caller identification information is displayed on the display system when received until receiving a command from the remote control.

5. The caller-identification system of claim 1, further comprising a wireless receiving device, connected to wired phone lines, and receiving the caller ID information over the wireless phone lines, said wireless receiving device being powered by voltage acquired from a ring signal that precedes receipt of the caller-identification information over the tip and ring interface.

6. A method of displaying caller-identification comprising:

demodulating caller ID that is encoded in a tip and ring interface,

operating a controller that receives the caller ID information, to control a transceiver that sends the tip and ring demodulated caller ID information wirelessly under control of the controller receiving the caller ID information;

wirelessly receiving caller-identification information from the tip and ring interface of the wired telephone system, from the transceiver, said wirelessly receiving being over a first wireless communication format;

wirelessly receiving caller identification information directly from a cellular telephone, also over the first wireless communication format; and

displaying the caller-identification information from both the wired telephone system and from the cellular telephone at the display system when the caller identification information is received.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the display system is a television.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the first wireless communication format transmits according to a Bluetooth standard.

9. The method of claim 6, further comprising extracting a voltage potential from a ring signal of the tip and ring interface and using the voltage potential to power the receiving caller-identification information and the transmitting.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising controlling the display system by a remote control by receiving commands from the remote control, and displaying the caller identification information on the display system when received until receiving a command from the remote control.

11. A caller-identification display system comprising:

a display system, operating to display a first program;

a wireless interface, operating over a first wireless band using a first wireless communication format, said wireless interface wirelessly receiving first caller-identification information from a tip and ring interface of a wired telephone system using the first communication format and receiving second caller identification information directly from a cellular phone, also using the first wireless communication format;

the display system operating for displaying both the first and the second the caller-identification information at the display system when the first and the second caller identification information are received,

the display system operating for receiving commands from a remote control, and where the caller identification information is displayed on the display system when received until receiving a command from the remote control.