US 2003/0156690 A1Published application

Method and system for presenting customized call alerts in a service for internet caller identification

AssigneeSBC Properties, L.P.

InventorsSusanne Marie Crockett, Gordon Lynn Blumenschein, James Daniel Kovarik, Kenneth Robert Stroud, Dianna Inara Tiliks, William R. Trost, Paul H. Vlasek, Scott Ryan Watry, Thomas Joseph McBlain

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Abstract

An advanced intelligent network (AIN) based system and method that allows a subscriber connected to the Internet to receive customized call alerts and caller identification information concerning an incoming telephone call. Using client software, the subscriber associates telephone numbers to sound files. Then, when an incoming call with caller identification information is received, the client software determines whether the incoming telephone number points to a sound file. If so, the client software directs the sound file to play.

Claims24

Dependent claims

A method for allowing a subscriber connected to the Internet to receive a customized call alert associated with an incoming call from a calling party to the subscriber, comprising:

receiving the incoming call at a terminating switch;
suspending the call at the terminating switch;
launching a query in response to a request from the calling party to establish a connection with the subscriber;
accessing a service control point (SCP) in response to the query;
determining the subscriber's Internet status, the subscriber's Internet status comprising whether the subscriber is actively connected to the Internet;
ascertaining that the subscriber's Internet status is active;
determining identification information associated with the calling party;
sending a message from an Internet caller identification server (ICID), via the Internet, to client software on the subscriber's computer, including notification and caller identification information associated with the incoming call;
and
initiating a sound file associated with the caller identification information.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.