Identifier technique for communication interchange

• US 9,219,815 B2
• Filed: 09/07/2006
• Issued: 12/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: T Play Holdings LLC (FIG LLC (d/b/a Fortress Investment Group LLC))
• Original Assignee: TriPlay Incorporated
• Inventors: Cohen, Alexander J., Jung, Edward K. Y., Levien, Royce A., Lord, Robert W., Malamud, Mark A., Mangione-Smith, William Henry, Rinaldo, John D. Jr., Tegreene, Clarence T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Joo, Joshua
• Application Number:
  US11/517,027
• Publication Number:
  US 20080140651A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,393 Days
• Field of Search: 348/14.02, 348/14.07, 348/14.08, 348/14.09, 379/93.09, 379/93.21, 379/93.23, 379/207.13, 379/207.14, 379/207.15, 455/416, 455/518, 455/519, 455/566, 455/415, 709204-205, 709/227
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1066 Session management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1093 by adding participants; by removing participants
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42059 Making use of the calling party identifier
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4931 Directory assistance systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/563 User guidance or feature selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0036 where the data service is an information service
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/186 Processing of subscriber group data

Abstract

A method and a communication interchange enhancement system for implementing an enhanced user interface for a communication interchange includes but is not limited to a method including to providing an identifier associated with a third-party participant related to the communication interchange; matching the identifier with the third-party participant in a database storing one or more lists of possible third-party participants; obtaining context data associated with the identifier regarding a group-type characteristic of the third-party participant for purposes of communication interchange with at least another participant; and enabling a user interface to display the group-type characteristic.

Claims

1. A method for implementing an enhanced user interface for a communication interchange, the method comprising:

providing an identifier associated with a third-party participant related to the communication interchange;

matching the identifier with the third-party participant in a database storing one or more lists of possible third-party participants;

obtaining context data associated with the identifier regarding a group-type characteristic of the third-party participant;

enabling or interrupting a communication interchange between the third-party participant and at least another participant based on the obtained context data;

transmitting one or more data to a first device for the purpose of displaying the group-type characteristic of the third-party participant to at least another participant, and transmitting one or more data to one or more second devices for the purpose of displaying the group-type characteristic of the third-party participant to one or more additional participants; and

enabling a user interface of the first device and of the one or more second devices to display the group-type characteristic of the third-party participant including at least;

enabling the user interface of the first device and of the one or more second devices to selectively generate the group-type characteristic from the context data, the group-type characteristic indicating to the at least another participant and the one or more additional participants one or more characteristics of the third-party participant to enable the at least another participant and the one or more additional participants to determine whether to engage in the communications interchange with the third-party participant.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing an identifier associated with a third-party participant related to the communication interchange includes:

providing the identifier in a data packet over a communications network.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing an identifier associated with a third-party participant related to the communication interchange includes:

providing the identifier over a communications network during at least one of;

one or more of a real-time voice conversation, a conference call, a voice mail access, an instant messaging session, an internet chat session, a voice mail transfer, a voice mail interchange, a conversion of a voice mail to a text message, and a conversion of a text message to a voice message.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing an identifier associated with a third-party participant related to the communication interchange includes:

providing the identifier as a caller identifier (CID) of a single caller over a communications network.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the matching the identifier with the third-party participant in the database storing one or more lists of possible third-party participants includes:

conveying an alphanumeric matching of the identifier including statistical probabilities for a match from the database storing the one or more lists of possible third-party participants.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining context data associated with the identifier regarding a group-type characteristic of the third-party participant for purposes of communication interchange with at least another participant includes:

generating the context data by extracting from the database one or more groups of which the third party participant is a member.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the generating the context data by extracting from the database one or more groups of which the third party participant is a member includes:

extracting from the database the groups of which the third party participant is a member including a given group in the one or more groups that the third party participant is a sole member and a given group of the one or more groups that the third party participant is one of a plurality of members.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining context data associated with the identifier regarding a group-type characteristic of the third-party participant for purposes of communication interchange with at least another participant includes:

generating the group-type characteristic of the third-party participant by searching one or more of the database storing one or more lists of possible third-party participants, a computing device coupled to one or more participants of the communication interchange, or a server coupled to the communications network.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining context data associated with the identifier regarding a group-type characteristic of the third-party participant for purposes of communication interchange with at least another participant includes:

displaying the context data associated with the identifier regarding the group-type characteristic of the third-party participant during a message composition.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining context data associated with the identifier regarding a group-type characteristic of the third-party participant for purposes of communication interchange with at least another participant includes:

providing an option to allow display of the context data to the at least another participant of the communication interchange.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the providing an option to allow display of the context data to the at least another participant of the communication interchange includes:

providing the option to allow display of the context data during one or more of a conference call, an internet chat, or a conversation over a mobile communication network.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining context data associated with the identifier regarding a group-type characteristic of the third-party participant for purposes of communication interchange with at least another participant includes:

generating the context data by extracting from the database one or more group-type characteristics shared by the third-party participant and the at least another participant.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the generating the context data by extracting from the database one or more group-type characteristics shared by the third-party participant and the at least another participant includes:

extracting the one or more group-type characteristics shared by the third-party participant and the at least another participant including an indication of one or more of;

an educational relationship, a contact relationship, a sales relationship, a network relationship, an environmental relationship, a proximity relationship, a contrary relationship, a religious relationship, a fiduciary relationship, and a political relationship.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the enabling a user interface to display the group-type characteristic includes:

instantiating the user interface as a pop-up display during the communication interchange.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the enabling a user interface to display the group-type characteristic includes:

enabling display of the group-type characteristic to the at least another participant when the at least another participant is a recipient in the communication interchange.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the enabling a user interface to display the group-type characteristic includes:

displaying the group-type characteristic to two or more participants of the communication interchange.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the enabling a user interface to display the group-type characteristic includes:

providing an interactive option to the user interface to enable adding or commenting on the group-type characteristic.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the enabling a user interface to display the group-type characteristic includes:

enabling the user interface to allow selectively generating the group-type characteristic from the context data, the context data indicating to a primary participant whether or not to participate or allow a participant to participate in the communications interchange.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the enabling a user interface to display the group-type characteristic includes:

enabling the user interface to allow input of context data, which indicates whether or not to allow a participant to participate in the communications interchange, to the database before, during and after the communication interchange.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein the enabling the user interface to selectively generate the group-type characteristic from the context data includes:

enabling the user interface to selectively generate the group-type characteristic from the context data before, during, or after the communication interchange.

21. The method of claim 1, wherein the enabling a user interface to display the group-type characteristic includes:

enabling the user interface to optionally display peripheral data concerning the group-type characteristic.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the enabling the user interface to optionally display peripheral data concerning the group-type characteristic includes:

enabling the user interface to display data concerning members of each group of a plurality of groups of which the third party participant is a member.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the enabling the user interface to display data concerning members of each group of which the third party participant is a member includes:

transmitting one or more of the data concerning members of each group of which the third party participant is a member or a pointer to a location on a device holding the data concerning the members of each group of which the third party participant is a member.

24. The method of claim 21, wherein the enabling the user interface to optionally display peripheral data concerning the group-type characteristic includes:

enabling the user interface to display data concerning a number of accesses to the group-type characteristic of the third-party participant.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the enabling the user interface to display data concerning a number of accesses to the group-type characteristic of the third-party participant includes:

recording the number of accesses to the group-type characteristic over a period of time.

26. The method of claim 1 further comprising receiving the identifier with a computer system via a network, and wherein providing an identifier associated with a third-party participant related to the communication interchange includes providing the identifier received via the network internal to the computer system.

27. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more data includes context data.