Method for presenting additional information about a telecommunication user

• US 9,467,561 B2
• Filed: 02/03/2014
• Issued: 10/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Lumen Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Lumen Technologies, Inc.)
• Inventors: Chatterjee, Koushik
• Primary Examiner(s): BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G
• Application Number:
  US14/171,463
• Publication Number:
  US 20140148139A1
• Time in Patent Office: 981 Days
• Field of Search: 379 8819- 8821, 37914104-14206
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42042 Notifying the called party of information on the calling party details within substation equipment H04M1/57, signalling details H04Q3/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42059 Making use of the calling party identifier
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42348 Location-based services which utilize the location information of a target
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4878 Advertisement messages

Abstract

A method and system for presenting additional information about a user are provided. The user may be a calling party or a called party. A request for information in addition to the information normally contained in the caller ID may be constructed and sent to a repository of additional information that returns the additional information. If the user is a calling party, the additional information may be presented on the called party'"'"'s communication device. If the user is a called party, the additional information may be presented on the calling party'"'"'s communication device. A system including the repository may receive the request. An authoring and editing component of the system may allow the user or others to edit the additional information about the user. The system may select and send the additional information based on a set of parameters in the request and the access type of the requestor.

Claims

1. A method for providing additional information about a party to a telephone call, the method comprising:

identifying, with a computer, a first party to the telephone call using caller identification information or called number information;

constructing, with the computer, a request for additional information about the first party to the telephone call;

sending, with the computer, the request to a repository of the additional information;

receiving, at the computer and responsive to the request, the additional information about the first party to the telephone call from the repository, the additional information comprising a location of the first party to the telephone call;

presenting, with the computer and to a second party to the telephone call, the additional information about the first party to the telephone call;

sending a request for updated static additional information for a plurality of users;

receiving for the plurality of users, an incremental update of the static additional information;

incrementally updating the repository with the static additional information for the plurality of users;

determining if static additional information about the first party is available locally, wherein static additional information is information about a party that does not change over a period of time;

constructing the request such that the request is a request for dynamic additional information if the static additional information about the first party is available locally;

receiving dynamic additional information responsive to the request, wherein dynamic additional information is information about a party that changes from one call to the next;

combining the static additional information and dynamic information;

constructing the request such that the request is a request for static additional information and dynamic additional information if the static additional information about the first party is not available locally;

receiving static additional information responsive to the request; and

saving the static additional information locally.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein presenting the additional information includes:

causing a communication device of the second party to display the additional information.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the telephone call is a voice over Internet Protocol (“

VoIP”

) telephone call.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first party is a calling party.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first party is a called party.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the computer is a telephone of the second party.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether the first party is a business;

wherein the content of the additional information depends on whether the first party is a business.

8. A system for providing additional information about a party to a telephone call, the system comprising:

a computer comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-readable program code executable by the computer, the computer-readable program code comprising;

code for identifying a first party to the telephone call using caller identification information or called number information;

code for constructing a request for additional information about the first party to the telephone call;

code for sending the request to a repository of the additional information;

code for receiving, and responsive to the request, the additional information about the first party to the telephone call from the repository, the additional information comprising a location of the first party to the telephone call;

code for presenting, to a second party to the telephone call, the additional information about the first party to the telephone call;

code for sending a request for updated static additional information for a plurality of users;

code for receiving for the plurality of users, an incremental update of the static additional information;

code for incrementally updating the repository with the static additional information for the plurality of users;

code for determining if static additional information about the first party is available locally, wherein static additional information is information about a party that does not change over a period of time;

code for constructing the request such that the request is a request for dynamic additional information if the static additional information about the first party is available locally;

code for receiving dynamic additional information responsive to the request, wherein dynamic additional information is information about a party that changes from one call to the next;

code for combining the static additional information and dynamic information;

code for constructing the request such that the request is a request for static additional information and dynamic additional information if the static additional information about the first party is not available locally;

code for receiving static additional information responsive to the request; and

code for saving the static additional information locally.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein presenting the additional information includes:

causing a communication device of the second party to display the additional information.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the telephone call is a voice over Internet Protocol (“

VoIP”

) telephone call.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the first party is a calling party.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the first party is a called party.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the computer is a telephone of the second party.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein:

the program-readable code further comprises code for determining whether the first party is a business; and

content of the additional information depends on whether the first party is a business.