Advanced telephone management

• US 9,161,193 B1
• Filed: 02/17/2015
• Issued: 10/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Grandios Technologies, LLC
• Original Assignee: Grandios Technologies, LLC
• Inventors: Cronin, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Gonzalez, Amancio
• Application Number:
  US14/624,082
• Time in Patent Office: 238 Days
• Field of Search: 455/412.1, 455/412.2, 4554141-4144, 455/466
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72463 to restrict the functionality of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/436 Arrangements for screening incoming calls , i.e. evaluating the characteristics of a call before deciding whether to answer it based on the calling party profile H04M3/42059; based on location H04M3/42348; based on presence H04M3/42365; diversion H04M3/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/20 Manipulation of established connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/22 Manipulation of transport tunnels

Abstract

Methods and systems for providing telephone management are provided. Information may be stored in memory of a first mobile device. Such stored information may concerns a plurality of other mobile devices. A telephone call may be connected between the first mobile device and a second mobile device. A request may be received from a user of the first mobile device concerning manipulating data concerning the telephone call with the second mobile device. Information regarding the second mobile device may be identified and matched to the stored information. Such a match may indicate that the second mobile device is enabled for manipulation of telephone call data during telephone calls. As such, the telephone call data may be manipulated during the telephone call in accordance with the user request.

Claims

1. A method for providing telephone management, the method comprising:

storing information in memory of a first mobile device, wherein the stored information concerns a plurality of settings, wherein each setting identifies whether an action of a plurality of available actions is executable during a telephone call;

connecting a telephone call between the first mobile device and a second mobile device;

receiving an action request during the telephone call via a user interface of the first mobile device, wherein the action request identifies a subset comprising one or more of the plurality of actions, each action in the subset identified by the stored settings as executable during the telephone call; and

executing instruction stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by a processor performs the subset of one or more actions during the telephone call between the first mobile device and the second mobile device, the subset of one or more actions including preventing the second mobile device from activating speakerphone audio output during the telephone call, wherein other audio outputs are permitted during the telephone call.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the subset of one or more actions further includes recording audio content of the telephone call with the second mobile device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the subset of one or more actions further includes converting audio content of the telephone call with the second mobile device into text content.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the subset of one or more actions further includes transmitting a transmission to the second mobile device during the telephone call.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the transmission comprises an email sent over a communication network.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the transmission comprises a text message sent over a communication network.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the transmission comprises contact data sent over a communication network.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the subset of one or more actions further includes providing the telephone call data to an application, and further comprising executing the application to use the telephone call data.

9. The method of claim 4, wherein the transmission comprises historical call data.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first set of one or more actions includes preventing the second mobile device from activating ear-bud audio output during the telephone call.

11. An apparatus for providing telephone management, the apparatus comprising:

memory that stores information at a first mobile device, the stored information concerning a plurality of settings, wherein each setting identifies whether an action of a plurality of available actions is executable during a telephone call;

a telephone interface that connects a telephone call between the first mobile device and a second mobile device;

a user interface that receives an action request during the telephone call, wherein the action request identifies a subset comprising one or more of the plurality of actions, each action in the subset identified by the stored settings as executable during the telephone call with the second mobile device;

a processor of the first mobile device that executes instructions stored in memory of the first mobile device, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor performs the subset of one or more actions during the telephone call between the first mobile device and the second mobile device, the subset of one or more actions including preventing the second mobile device from activating speakerphone audio output during the telephone call, wherein other audio outputs are permitted during the telephone call.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the subset of one or more actions further includes recording audio content of the telephone call with the second mobile device.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the subset of one or more actions further includes converting audio content of the telephone call with the second mobile device into text content using voice recognition.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the subset of one or more actions further includes transmitting a transmission to the second mobile device over a communication network during the telephone call.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the transmission comprises an email sent over the communication network.

16. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the transmission comprises a text message sent over the communication network.

17. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the transmission comprises contact data sent over the communication network.

18. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the subset of one or more actions includes executing a software application stored in the memory of the first mobile device during the telephone call.

19. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the transmission comprises historical call data.

20. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the subset of one or more actions includes preventing the second mobile device from activating ear-bud audio output during the telephone call.

21. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor to perform a method for providing telephone management, the method comprising:

storing information in memory of a first mobile device, wherein the stored information concerns a plurality of settings, wherein each setting identifies whether an action of a plurality of available actions is executable during a telephone call;

connecting a telephone call between the first mobile device and a second mobile device;

receiving an action request during the telephone call from a user interface of the first mobile device, wherein the action request identifies a subset comprising one or more of the plurality of actions, each action in the subset identified by the stored settings as executable during the telephone call; and

performing the subset of one or more actions during the telephone call between the first mobile device and the second mobile device, the subset of one or more actions including preventing the second mobile device from activating speakerphone audio output during the telephone call, wherein other audio outputs are permitted during the telephone call.