System and method for displaying called party identifiers
AssigneeT-Mobile USA, Inc.
InventorArnold Cataniag
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Abstract
A user equipment configured to receive a user input associated with a phone number is described herein. The phone number may be associated with a party the user is intending to call or message. The user equipment and an associated network may determine a personal identifier, such as an individual or entity name, associated with the phone number regardless of whether or not the phone number is included in a phone book or address book associated with the user. The user equipment may also present or display the personal identifier to the user prior to connecting the call or sending the message.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- detecting, at an interface of a user equipment, an input of a phone number associated with a called party;
- sending a request to a network to identify a personal identifier associated with the called party;
- receiving, via the network, the personal identifier;
- causing the personal identifier to be displayed via the interface of the user equipment;
- initiating, in response to the user equipment displaying the personal identifier, a timer;
- determining, based at least in part on the timer, that a period of time has elapsed;
- and
- responsive to the period of time elapsing, initiating a communication over the network with the called party.
A system comprising:
- one or more communication interfaces;
- one or more processors;
- non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform operations including:
- receiving from a user equipment a request to initiate a communication with a called party;
- requesting from a third-party network a personal identifier associated with the called party;
- receiving from, the third-party network the personal identifier;
- sending the personal identifier to the user equipment;
- causing the personal identifier to be displayed via an interface of the user equipment;
- initiating, in response to the user equipment displaying the personal identifier, a timer;
- determining, based at least in part on the timer, a period of time associated with the sending the personal identifier to the user equipment has elapsed;
- and
- responsive to the period of time elapsing, initiating the communication between the user equipment and the called party.
A method comprising:
- detecting, at an interface of a user equipment, an input of a phone number associated with a called party;
- sending a request to a network to identify a personal identifier associated with the called party;
- receiving, via the network, the personal identifier;
- causing the personal identifier to be displayed via the interface of the user equipment;
- initiating, in response to the user equipment displaying the personal identifier, a timer;
- determining, based at least in part on the timer, that a period of time has elapsed;
- and
- responsive to the period of time elapsing, initiating a communication over the network with the called party.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.