Method for indicating the context of a call to a called party

• US 9,462,103 B2
• Filed: 07/18/2014
• Issued: 10/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Belz, Steven M., Pearson, Larry B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gauthier, Gerald
• Application Number:
  US14/335,354
• Publication Number:
  US 20140328477A1
• Time in Patent Office: 809 Days
• Field of Search: 370/260, 370/338, 370/408, 370/332, 379/88.17, 379/93.17, 379/142.04, 379/211.02, 379/219, 379/265.04, 379/350, 379/201.02, 455/410, 455/416, 455/418, 455/422.1, 455/456.2, 455/551, 455/567, 704/252, 709/204, 709/249, 709/206, 718/102, 726/5
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/56 Arrangements for indicating or recording the called number at the calling subscriber's set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/575 Means for retrieving and displaying personal data about calling party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/576 associated with a pictorial or graphical representation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42068 where the identifier is used to access a profile
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4211 where the identifier is used to access a profile
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/006 Networks other than PSTN/ISDN providing telephone service, e.g. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) , including next generation networks with a packet-switched transport layer H04L65/00 takes precedence; aspects not specific to the type of network H04M3/00; special services in those networks H04M3/42

Abstract

In embodiments of the disclosed technology, a plurality of ratings of websites is received, wherein each rating is associated with a category and a rater and each rater is associated with at least one group. A selection of a category is received from the user, wherein the user is associated with at least one group. One website location (or a plurality of website locations) is provided in the category to the user based on at least one rating of the plurality of ratings provided by at least one of the raters, wherein at least one group associated with the rater and at least one the group associated with the user are the same group.

Claims

1. A server device, comprising:

a memory that stores executable instructions; and

a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the executable instructions, responsive to being executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations comprising;

receiving, from a social network server, user profile information associated with a calling party and a called party of a telecommunication session according to identification information associated with the calling party and the called party;

determining group membership information from the user profile information; and

providing the group membership information as a message to a user device of the called party.

2. The server device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise sending a request for the user profile information to the social network server, and wherein the message comprises an instant message that is received by the user device of the called party before the telecommunication session is connected.

3. The server device of claim 2, wherein the request is sent responsive to initiation of the telecommunication session by a first user device of the calling party, wherein the initiation comprises a selection, at a communication device of the calling party, of the called party from a contact list.

4. The server device of claim 1, wherein the identification information comprises phone numbers without names of the calling party and the called party.

5. The server device of claim 1, wherein the identification information comprises names of the calling party and the called party.

6. The server device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise transmitting a profile picture to the user device, wherein the user profile information further comprises the profile picture.

7. The server device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise

adjusting the identification information associated based on a location of a first end user device of the calling party to generate adjusted identification information;

and

providing a query to the social network server based on the adjusted identification information.

8. The server device of claim 7, wherein the adjusted identification information comprises a phone number without names of the calling party and the called party.

9. The server device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

generating multiple versions of the identification information; and

sending multiple queries to the social network server based on multiple versions of the identification information.

10. A method comprising:

accessing, by a system comprising a processor, user profile information associated with a calling party and a called party of a telecommunication session based on identification information;

identifying, by the system, a common membership group for the called and calling parties based on the user profile information; and

transmitting, by the system, an identifier for the common membership group to a network server to cause the network server to provide the identifier for the common membership group to a second end user device of the called party.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the method further comprises receiving a request for the user profile information from the network server.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the request is sent responsive to initiation of the telecommunication session by a first end user device of the calling party.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the identification information comprises phone numbers without names of the calling party and the called party.

14. The method of claim 10, comprising:

obtaining, by the system, a profile picture of the calling party from the user profile information associated with the calling party; and

providing, by the system, the profile picture to the network server to cause the network server to transmit the profile picture of the calling party to the second end user device of the called party.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the accessing of the user profile information further comprises:

adjusting, by the system, the identification information based on a location of a first end user device of the calling party to generate adjusted identification information; and

providing, by the system, a query to a social network database based on the adjusted identification information.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the accessing of the user profile information comprises utilizing multiple queries based on multiple versions of the identification information.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein a first version of the multiple versions of the identification information is generated based on a location of a first end user device of the calling party.

18. A first device, comprising:

a display;

a memory to store executable instructions; and

a processor coupled to the memory and the display, wherein the executable instructions responsive to execution by the processor facilitate performance of operations comprising;

receiving group membership information associated with a first party and a second party, wherein the group membership information is determined via user profile information at a social network server according to identification information associated with a called party and a calling party of a telecommunication session, and wherein the first device is associated with one of the calling party, the called party, or a combination thereof; and

presenting the group membership information at the display.

19. The first device of claim 18, wherein the receiving of the group membership information at the first device is via instant messaging.

20. The first device of claim 18, wherein the identification information for the called party comprises a phone number without a name of the called party.