METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF PROCESSING MOBILE CALLS

• US 20080188227A1
• Filed: 01/08/2008
• Published: 08/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Guedalia, Isaac David, Guedalia, Jacob
• Granted Patent: US 9,167,101 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/445
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/00 Arrangements for metering, time-control or time indication ; Metering, charging or billing arrangements for voice wireline or wireless communications, e.g. VoIP
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42068 where the identifier is used to access a profile
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42093 Notifying the calling party of information on the called or connected party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4365 based on information specified by the calling party, e.g. priority or subject
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/08 Access restriction or access information delivery, e.g. discovery data delivery signalling during connection H04W76/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/006 with additional information processing, e.g. for direction or speed determination
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support

Abstract

A method of optimizing call dialing may include receiving a first call including one or more of a session identification number, a contact identification number, a contact name and a direct inward dialing number, determining a caller provider and a callee provider based on the first call, determining cost information associated with one or more numbers corresponding to a callee and routing a second call between the caller and the callee based on one or more of the caller provider, the callee provider and the cost information.

Claims

1. A method of optimizing call dialing, the method comprising:

receiving a first call comprising one or more of a session identification number, a contact identification number, a contact name and a direct inward dialing number;

determining a caller provider and a callee provider based on the first call;

determining cost information associated with one or more numbers corresponding to a callee; and

routing a second call between the caller and the callee based on one or more of the caller provider, the callee provider and the cost information.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein routing a second call comprises:

determining whether the caller provider is the same as the callee provider;

if so, automatically dialing the direct inward dialing number; and

if not, transmitting an access number to the caller.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein determining cost information comprises mapping at least a portion of the cost information to one or more numbers associated with the callee using one or more pre-defined rules.

2. The method of clam 1, wherein receiving a first call comprises receiving a first call from a mobile device.

5. A system for optimizing call dialing comprising:

a processor for optimizing call dialing by processing one or more of a session identification number, a contact identification number, a contact name and a direct inward dialing number to determine provider information associated with one or more of a caller and a callee.

6. The system of claim 5, further comprising:

a mapper for mapping cost information associated with calling the callee based on the determined provider information.

7. A method of determining an origin of an incoming cat the method comprising:

receiving, by a callee gateway, a call from a mobile device associated with a caller, wherein the call is transmitted over a network via a caller gateway;

identifying an origin of the call;

determining whether to accept or reject the call based on the origin;

if the call is accepted, processing the call; and

if the call is rejected, alerting the caller that the call cannot be completed.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein identifying an origin of the call comprises:

creating a first communication channel to bridge the call;

creating a second communications channel that communicates with a plurality of servers; and

transmitting an HTTP request to one or more of the plurality of servers, wherein the HTTP request comprises an indication of the origin of the call.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein identifying an origin of the call comprises:

decoding one or more DTMF tones that have been encoded to represent the origin of the call.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein identifying an origin of the call comprises:

receiving information associated with the origin via a data channel.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the caller gateway and the callee gateway are located in different countries.

12. A system for determining an origin of an incoming call comprising:

a caller gateway in communication with at least one mobile device; and

a callee gateway in communication with at least one mobile device and the caller gateway, wherein the callee gateway receives information pertaining to a call wherein the callee gateway determines an origin of the call based on at least a portion of the received information.

13. A method of ascertaining information associated with a callee, the method comprising:

receiving a direct inward dialing number associated with a callee;

comparing the direct inward dialing number to one or more entries in a consolidated general registry, wherein each entry comprises contact information; and

if an entry having the direct dialing number is found, transmitting at least a portion of the contact information to the caller.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the contact information comprises one or more of a telephone number, a screen name and an email address.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

automatically connecting the call using one or more predetermined rules.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein transmitting at least a portion of the contact information to the caller comprises:

downloading a portion of the contact information in one or more stages such that image quality associated with the downloaded portion in each stages progressively improves.

17. A system for ascertaining information associated with a callee comprising:

one or more mobile devices;

a processor in communication with the one or more mobile devices; and

a central general registry in communication with at least one of the one or more mobile devices.

18. A method of filtering one or more contacts in an address book on a mobile device, the method comprising:

identifying one or more contacts in an address book associated with a mobile device;

automatically filtering the one or more contacts in real time based on one or more predetermined criteria, wherein each predetermined criterion corresponds to a tab; and

displaying the filtered contacts to the user on a mobile device, wherein the tab corresponding to each predetermined criterion includes the contacts associated with the predetermined criterion.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein automatically filtering the one or more contacts comprises filtering the one or more contacts based on one or more of the following:

whether a contact has a landline telephone number;

whether a contact has a wireless telephone number;

whether a contact belongs to the same carrier as the mobile device user;

whether a contact has recently called the mobile device user; and

whether the mobile device user has recently called a contact.