Advanced telephone management

• US 9,503,870 B2
• Filed: 10/12/2015
• Issued: 11/22/2016
• 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:
  US14/880,999
• Publication Number:
  US 20160037315A1
• Time in Patent Office: 407 Days
• Field of Search: 455/411
• 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 securing telephone communications, the method comprising:

receiving a telephone input at a first mobile device, the telephone input identifying a second mobile device, wherein the second mobile device includes a plurality of different types of audio output circuitry;

connecting a telephone call between the first mobile device and the second mobile device, the telephone call including transmission of a first audio data stream from the first mobile device to the second mobile device, the telephone call also including transmission of a second audio stream from the second mobile device to the first mobile device;

receiving a security input at a user interface of the first mobile device; and

permitting the first audio stream to be output at the second device via a permitted type of audio output circuitry of the second mobile device while preventing the first audio stream from being output at the second mobile device via an excluded type of audio output circuitry of the second mobile device in response to receipt of the security input at the first mobile device, the excluded set of audio output modules being a subset of the plurality of different types of audio output circuitry of the second mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the excluded type of audio output circuitry of the second mobile device includes speakerphone audio output circuitry of the second mobile device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the excluded type of audio output circuitry of the second mobile device includes an audio jack configured to output audio to one or more external audio output devices coupled to the second mobile device through an audio jack of the second mobile device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the excluded type of audio output circuitry includes a communicative coupling from the second mobile device to a pair of portable headphones.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first mobile device also includes the excluded type of audio output circuitry, further comprising preventing the first mobile device from outputting the second audio data stream via the excluded type of audio output circuitry of the first mobile device, the first mobile device.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

terminating the telephone call between the first mobile device and the second mobile device; and

deleting a caller telephone number from the second mobile device in response to receipt of the security input at the first mobile device, the caller telephone number being a telephone number at which the first mobile device is reachable.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing the second audio data stream to a software application executed by the first mobile device during the telephone call.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

recording a copy of the second audio data stream by the first mobile device during the telephone call; and

storing the copy of the second audio data stream at the first mobile device.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising playing back the stored copy of the second audio data stream via a calendar software application of the first mobile device.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

recording a copy of the second audio data stream by the first mobile device during the telephone call;

converting the recorded copy of the second audio data stream into a second text data stream at the first mobile device; and

storing the copy of the second text data stream at the first mobile device.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting a first location of the first mobile device to the second mobile device during the telephone call; and

displaying a first location identifier at the second mobile device during the telephone call, the first location identifier identifying the first location of the first mobile device.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting a second location of the second mobile device to the first mobile device during the telephone call; and

displaying a second location identifier at the first mobile device during the telephone call, the second location identifier identifying the second location of the second mobile device.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising granting access to security information to a third party device that is distinct from the first mobile device and the second mobile device, the security information including at least the security input.

14. A system for securing telephone communications, the system comprising:

a microphone;

an input interface;

a communication transceiver to form a telephone call connection with a second mobile device, wherein the second mobile device includes a plurality of different types of audio output circuitry; and

a processor coupled to a memory and to the microphone and to the input interface and to the communication transceiver, wherein execution of instructions stored in the memory by the processor;

receives a telephone input identifying the second mobile device,

connects the telephone call between the communication transceiver and the second mobile device, the telephone call including transmission of a first audio data stream from the microphone to the second mobile device, the telephone call also including transmission of a second audio stream from the second mobile device to the communication transceiver,

receives a security input at the input interface, and

permits the first audio stream to be output at the second device via a permitted type of audio output circuitry of the second mobile device while preventing the first audio stream from being output at the second mobile device via an excluded type of audio output circuitry of the second mobile device in response to receipt of the security input at the input interface, the excluded set of audio output modules being a subset of the plurality of different types of audio output circuitry of the second mobile device.

15. The system of claim 14, further comprising an additional plurality of different types of audio output circuitry coupled to the processor.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the telephone call connection between the communication transceiver and the second mobile device includes transmission of data at least partially through at least one of a 3G cellular network connection, a 4G cellular network connection, a Wi-Fi wireless network connection, a Bluetooth wireless connection, a radio frequency wireless connection, or some combination thereof.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the telephone call connection between the communication transceiver and the second mobile device includes transmission of data at least partially through at least one of a private network or the Internet.

18. The system of claim 14, further comprising a network-connected database that includes at least the security input.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the network-connected database is accessible by a third party device that is distinct from the processor and from the second mobile device.

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

receiving a telephone input at a first mobile device, the telephone input identifying a second mobile device, wherein the second mobile device includes a plurality of different types of audio output circuitry;

connecting a telephone call between the first mobile device and the second mobile device, the telephone call including transmission of a first audio data stream from the first mobile device to the second mobile device, the telephone call also including transmission of a second audio stream from the second mobile device to the first mobile device;

receiving a security input at a user interface of the first mobile device; and

permitting the first audio stream to be output at the second device via a permitted type of audio output circuitry of the second mobile device while preventing the first audio stream from being output at the second mobile device via an excluded type of audio output circuitry of the second mobile device in response to receipt of the security input at the first mobile device, the excluded set of audio output modules being a subset of the plurality of different types of audio output circuitry of the second mobile device.