Device independent text captioned telephone service
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1. An apparatus comprising:
- a relay linkable to at least one first party Network appliance via at least the Internet to provide, at least in part, a caption assisted telephone call with a second party, the first party Network appliance including at least one display, the relay configured to;
obtain second party identifying information;
effect provision of at least relay service identifying information via a telephone service to at least one of the first party Network appliance and a first party telephone service in response to obtaining the second party identifying information; and
effect provision of at least the second party identifying information via the Internet to the first party Network appliance in response to obtaining the second party identifying information.
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Abstract
A system and method for presenting caller ID information related to a caption assisted telephone call incorporating a first party Network appliance, a first party telephone service/terminal, and a relay linkable to the first party Network appliance via the Internet.
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1. An apparatus comprising:
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a relay linkable to at least one first party Network appliance via at least the Internet to provide, at least in part, a caption assisted telephone call with a second party, the first party Network appliance including at least one display, the relay configured to; obtain second party identifying information; effect provision of at least relay service identifying information via a telephone service to at least one of the first party Network appliance and a first party telephone service in response to obtaining the second party identifying information; and effect provision of at least the second party identifying information via the Internet to the first party Network appliance in response to obtaining the second party identifying information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A system for presenting caller ID information related to a caption assisted telephone call, the system comprising:
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a first party Network appliance including at least one Network appliance display, the first party Network appliance configured to; link to a relay via the Internet; receive second party identification information from the relay via the Internet in response to the relay obtaining the second party identification information pertaining to a second party attempting to communicate with a first party; and display the second party identification information on the at least one Network appliance display; and a first party telephone terminal including at least one telephone terminal display, the first party telephone terminal configured to; link to the relay via a first party telephone service; receive relay service identification information from the relay via the first party telephone service in response to the relay obtaining the second party identification information; and display the relay service identification information on the at least one telephone terminal display. - View Dependent Claims (8)
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5. A method for presenting caller ID information related to a caption assisted telephone call, the method comprising:
at a relay linkable to a first party Network appliance via the Internet and linkable to a first party telephone service; obtaining by the relay second party identifying information pertaining to a second party; effecting provision of relay service identifying information by the relay to a first party via the first party telephone service in response to obtaining the second party identification information; and effecting provision of the second party identifying information by the relay via the Internet to the first party via the first party Network appliance in response to obtaining the second party identifying information. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7)
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