CALL NOTIFICATION SYSTEM, METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND ADVERTISING METHOD

• US 20100061546A1
• Filed: 10/27/2009
• Published: 03/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Psygnificant Services Limited
• Original Assignee: Psygnificant Services Limited
• Inventors: Waterfall, Simon, Constantine, Toby Russell, Ellis, Jonathan, Karas, Matthew, Weiss, Tom
• Granted Patent: US 8,315,376 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/418
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• 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 3/42051 where the notification is included in the ringing tone
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42153 by subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/72 Finding out and indicating number of calling subscriber

Abstract

A call notification system method, computer program and advertising method are disclosed. A call notification is generated at a recipient system (2) in response to receipt of initiation data on a call from an originating system (3). At least aspects of the call notification are controllable by the originating system (3).

Claims

1. A call notification system, comprising:

an originating system implemented in at least one of firmware, hardware and software and being arranged to cause initiation data on a call to be transmitted to a recipient system;

the recipient system being arranged to generate a call notification in response to receipt of the initiation data on the call from the originating system,

wherein at least aspects of the call notification are controllable by the originating system and are operative to override one or more selected functions of the recipient system with respect to the call notification.

2. The call notification system of claim 1, wherein each of the one or more selected functions is selected from the group consisting of:

functions operable on a call notification;

functions operable on a component of a call notification;

call notification functions; and

call handling functions.

3. The call notification system of claim 1, wherein the call notification is operative to override one or more acceptance functions of the recipient system such that the recipient system prevents acceptance of the call until at least a predetermined portion of the call notification has been output at the recipient system.

4. The call notification system of claim 3, wherein, upon receipt of a rejection from the recipient system during the predetermined portion of the call notification, the call notification stops at the recipient system.

5. The call notification system of claim 1, wherein the call notification is operative to override a silent mode function of the recipient system while the call notification is output.

6. The call notification system of claim 1, wherein the call notification is operative to override storage of at least part of the call notification by the recipient system until payment of a fee.

7. The call notification system of claim 1, wherein the call notification system is further arranged to generate a call notification at the originating system, wherein the call is put through to the communication phase only upon acceptance of the call by both the originating and recipient system.

8. The call notification system of claim 1, wherein the recipient system has a call notification acceptance functionality, and wherein the call notification is operative to override the acceptance functionality of the recipient system to prevent acceptance of a call notification after a predetermined time.

9. The call notification system of claim 1, wherein the recipient system has a call notification acceptance functionality, and wherein the call notification is operative to override the acceptance functionality of the recipient system outside of a time window associated with the call notification.

10. A method of generating call notifications comprising the steps of:

receiving initiation data on a call from an originating system at a recipient system;

generating a call notification at the recipient system;

overriding one or more selected functions of the recipient system with respect to the call notification,

wherein at least aspects of the call notification are controllable by the originating system.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of overriding includes monitoring a status of the call notification at the recipient system and overriding one or more acceptance functions of the recipient system to prevent acceptance of the call until at least a predetermined portion of the call notification has been output at the recipient system.

12. The method of claim 11, including the additional step of stopping an output of the call notification at the recipient system during an output of the predetermined portion of the call notification upon receipt of a rejection from the recipient to system.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of overriding includes overriding a silent mode function of the recipient system while the call notification is output.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of overriding includes overriding storage of at least part of the call notification by the recipient system until payment of a fee.

15. The method of claim 10, including the additional steps of:

generating a call notification at the originating system; and

monitoring for acceptance of the call at both the originating and recipient systems,

wherein the step of overriding includes overriding a progression of the call to the communication phase until an acceptance of the call by both the originating and recipient systems.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of overriding includes overriding an acceptance functionality of the recipient system to prevent acceptance of a call notification after a predetermined time period.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of overriding includes overriding an acceptance functionality of the recipient system outside of a time window associated with the call notification.

18. A call notification system comprising:

call notification data for use in generating a call notification;

an originating system at which a call is originated, the originating system being implemented in at least one of firmware, hardware and software and being to configured to initiate the call by causing initiation data to be transmitted to a recipient system at which the call is received;

the recipient system being configured to, in response to receipt of the initiation data on the call;

generate the call notification in dependence on the call notification data;

have at least aspects of the call notification at the recipient system controllable by the originating system; and

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have one or more selected functions overridden with respect to the call notification.