Caller ID display system for telephony over a packet switched network
AssigneeInnomedia Pte Ltd.
InventorPaul Pay-Lun Ju
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Abstract
The present invention relates to displaying caller ID information, and more specifically, to displaying caller ID information in an environment with broadband telephony service. The invention provides a method and apparatus for receiving caller ID information from a service provider and providing the caller ID information for display as an overlay over a television programming image provided by the service provider and displayed on a television.
Claims21
A customer gateway for communicating with a service provider network, the service provider network providing television programming for display on a video device and telephony communications for supporting at least one telephone device, the customer gateway comprising:
- a service provider network interface circuit for receiving frames from the service provider network, the frames comprising television programming frames and telephony frames, the telephony frames including caller ID data;
- a telephony processing circuit including:
- means for translating telephony frames to telephone signals compliant with the at least one telephone device;
- and
- means for providing the caller ID data to a television circuit, the television circuit comprising:
- means for receiving the television programming frames and generating a television programming signal compliant with a receiver associated with the video device;
- and
- means for receiving and overlaying the caller ID data on a portion of a video image represented by the television programming signal.
An image overlay circuit for coupling between a video display device and a frame switched network from which a frame of data representing caller ID information and video programming may be received, the image overlay circuit comprising:
- a network interface for coupling to the frame switched network and for receiving the frame of data representing caller ID information and a frame of data representing the video programming;
- and
- a video signal generating circuit for generating a video signal for display on the video display device, the video signal comprising an overlay of a pixel graphic representing the Caller ID information on the video programming.
A method of processing caller ID data, comprising the steps of:
- receiving frames from a service provider, the frames comprising television programming frames and telephony frames, the telephony frames including caller ID data;
- translating telephony frames to telephone signals compliant with the at least one telephone device;
- and
- translating the caller ID data to an image representing the caller ID data;
- translating the television programming frames to a television programming signal representing a television image for display on an associated video device;
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- combining the image representing the caller ID data with the television programming signal such that the television image includes the image representing the caller ID data overlaid over a portion of the television image.
A method of processing caller ID data comprising:
- receiving a frame of data representing video programming from a frame switched network;
- receiving a frame of data representing caller ID information from the frame switched network;
- and
- generating a video signal for display on a video display device, the video signal comprising an overlay of a pixel graphic representing the Caller ID information on an image represented by the video programming.
A customer gateway for communicating with a service provider network, the service provider network providing telephony communications for supporting at least one telephone device, the customer gateway comprising:
- a service provider network interface circuit for receiving frames from the service provider network, the frames including caller ID information and including real time streaming media;
- a telephony processing circuit including:
- means for sending a frame representing the real time streaming media to a network telephone device at a first network address;
- and
- means for sending a frame representing the caller ID information to a caller ID device at a second network address.
The customer gateway of claim 17, wherein the telephone processing circuit further includes:
- means for sending a frame representing the caller ID information to the network telephone device at the first network address.
A mixing unit for mixing a caller ID display on a television signal, the mixing unit comprising:
- means for receiving a video signal;
- means for receiving a frame on a packet switched network, the frame comprising caller ID information;
- means for overlaying a text representation of the caller ID information on a portion of an image represented by the video signal and generating a mixed video signal representative thereof;
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- means for coupling the mixed video signal to a television.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.