US 10,567,574 B2Granted

Caller preview data and call messages based on caller preview data

AssigneeGoogle Inc.

InventorsAlan Lee Rogers, Richard Yuan-Ching Lo, Matthew Thomas Austin, Justin Uberti, Heidi Rafael Sales, Koa Metter, Anton Volkov

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Abstract

Implementations of the present application relate to caller preview data and call messages based on caller preview data. In some implementations, a method includes sending, by a caller device, a call request to one or more callee devices, and establishing a connection to at least one callee device prior to receipt of an acceptance of the call request by the callee device. At least a portion of caller preview data is transmitted to the callee device over the connection prior to the receipt of the call acceptance. In response to determining that the at least a portion of the caller preview data has been transmitted for a particular time period without receipt of the acceptance of the call request, information is transmitted to instruct a call message to be stored on the callee device, where the call message includes at least a part of the caller preview data.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

sending, by a caller device, a call request to one or more callee devices;
establishing a connection to at least one callee device of the one or more callee devices prior to receipt of an acceptance of the call request from the at least one callee device;
causing a camera of the caller device to capture original data, wherein the original data includes caller preview data and additional data;
transmitting the caller preview data to the at least one callee device over the connection, wherein the caller preview data is transmitted prior to the receipt of the acceptance of the call request;
and
in response to determining that the caller preview data has been transmitted over the connection for a particular time period without the receipt of the acceptance of the call request:
determining that the transmitted caller preview data is incomplete, wherein determining that the transmitted caller preview data is incomplete includes determining that the transmitted caller preview data excludes the additional data of the original data;
in response to determining that the transmitted caller preview data is incomplete, determining call message data that includes
the additional data excluded from the transmitted caller preview data;
and
transmitting the call message data to the at least one callee device for storage on the at least one callee device.

8 more elements

A caller device comprising:

a camera;
a storage device;
and
at least one processor configured to access the storage device, the at least one processor configured to perform operations comprising:
sending a call request to one or more callee devices;
establishing a connection to at least one callee device of the one or more callee devices prior to receipt of an acceptance of the call request from the at least one callee device;
causing the camera to capture original data, wherein the original data includes caller preview data and additional data;
transmitting the caller preview data to the at least one callee device over the connection, wherein the caller preview data is transmitted prior to the receipt of the acceptance of the call request;
and
in response to determining that the caller preview data has been transmitted over the connection for a particular time period without the receipt of the acceptance of the call request:
determining that the transmitted caller preview data is incomplete, wherein determining that the transmitted caller preview data is incomplete includes determining that the transmitted caller preview data excludes the additional data of the original data;
in response to determining that the transmitted caller preview data is incomplete, determining call message data that includes
the additional data excluded from of the transmitted caller preview data;
and
transmitting the call message data to the at least one callee device for storage on the at least one callee device.

12 more elements

A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon software instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations including:

sending, by a caller device, a call request to one or more callee devices;
establishing a connection to at least one callee device of the one or more callee devices prior to receipt of an acceptance of the call request from the at least one callee device;
causing a camera of the caller device to capture original data, wherein the original data includes caller preview data and additional data;
transmitting the caller preview data to the at least one callee device over the connection, wherein the caller preview data is transmitted prior to the receipt of the acceptance of the call request;
and
in response to determining that the caller preview data has been transmitted over the connection for a particular time period without the receipt of the acceptance of the call request:
determining that the transmitted caller preview data is incomplete, wherein determining that the transmitted caller preview data is incomplete includes determining that the transmitted caller preview data excludes the additional data of the original data;
and
in response to determining that the transmitted caller preview data is incomplete, determining call message data that includes
the additional data excluded from the transmitted caller preview data;
and
transmitting the call message data to the at least one callee device for storage on the at least one callee device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/253,113Filed 21 Jan 2019 · continuation
Priority: 12 May 2016
Published: US 2019/0158660 A123 May 2019
Granted: 18 Feb 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

H04M 3/42051
Notifying the called party of information on the calling party: where the notification is included in the ringing tone
H04L 65/1069
Session management: session establishment or de-establishment
H04L 65/80
Network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communication: responding to QoS
H04N 7/147
Between two video terminals, e.g. videophone: communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication,…

Family

Application15/153,684Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 12 May 2016
Application15/466,806Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Mar 2017
US 9,762,729 B1Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 12 Sep 2017
Application15/815,564Parent of this continuation · filed 16 Nov 2017
US 9,832,308 B1Parent of this continuation · filed 28 Nov 2017
US 2019/0158660 A1Pre-grant publication · published 23 May 2019
US 10,187,522 B2Parent of this continuation
Application15/466,806Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2017/0331952 A1Published application
US 2018/0084108 A1Published application
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