System and method for telephone communication

• US 9,706,030 B2
• Filed: 07/18/2012
• Issued: 07/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Silent Communication Ltd
• Original Assignee: Mobile Synergy Solutions, LLC (Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC)
• Inventors: Bluvband, Zigmund, Bluvband, Max
• Primary Examiner(s): WASHINGTON, ERIKA ALISE
• Application Number:
  US13/551,734
• Publication Number:
  US 20120282904A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,819 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27453 Directories allowing storage of additional subscriber data, e.g. metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2749 Automatic dialling or redialling systems, e.g. on off-hook or redial on busy
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/665 by checking the validity of a code
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 for remote control of appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/053 remote terminal provisioning, e.g. of applets
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/2016 Call initiation by network rather than by subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/254 where the visual mode comprises menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4935 Connection initiated by DAS system
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/50 Centralised arrangements for answering calls; Centralised arrangements for recording messages for absent or busy subscribers H04M3/487 takes precedence; centralised dictation systems H04M11/10; Centralised arrangements for recording messages

Abstract

The system and method of the present invention may allow a calling party to make a called party to be aware of its intention to establish a call session with it in one or more ways. According to the present invention a calling party may be automatically offered alternatives to voice session or may be allowed to change the silent mode of the called party to a non-silent mode or may be allowed to address a query to a third party via the called party or may be automatically offered to re-establish a connection with a called party if it was disconnected by the called party in error.

Claims

1. A method of initiating communication with a user of a first cellular phone from a second phone, comprising;

initiating a voice communication between the first cellular phone and the second phone, from the second phone;

receiving, by the second phone, a status update sent to the second phone by the first cellular phone, including an indication that an operating mode of the first cellular phone is switched off;

directly invoking by the second phone a function of the first cellular phone, which function causes the first cellular phone to switch on;

automatically reinitiating the voice communication upon the first cellular phone switching on; and

determining, upon sensing a premature disconnection of the voice communication, whether a user desires to reinitiate the voice communication based on activation of a voice activated application.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein invoking is based on a permission from the first cellular phone.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the permission is reflected in an authorization table residing within the first cellular phone.

4. A method of remotely controlling a first phone from a second phone, comprising;

initiating a voice communication between the first phone and the second phone, from the second phone;

receiving from the first cellular phone, via a cellular network, a status update sent to the second phone by the first cellular phone, including an indication that an operating mode of the first cellular phone is a silent mode or a meeting mode;

subsequently to receiving the status update, invoking via the cellular network, by the second phone, a function of the first cellular phone, which function causes the first cellular phone to change its operating mode;

automatically reinitiating the voice communication upon the first phone changing its operating mode; and

determining, upon sensing a premature disconnection of the voice communication, whether a user desires to reinitiate the voice communication based on activation of a voice activated application.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein invoking is based on a permission from the first cellular phone.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the permission is reflected in an authorization table residing within the first cellular phone.