System and method for providing informative communication
AssigneeRockwell Electronic Commerce Technologies, LLC
InventorAnthony Dezonno
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Abstract
A system and method for providing informative communications when a connection is being established between a first communications device and a second communications device. The method includes suppressing an audio tone notifying a user that a connection is being established and substituting information unrelated to the suppressed audio tone to the user while the connection is being established. The information includes advertisements, music, movie clips, news headlines, sports scores, stock quotes, weather, time of day, calendar reminders, horoscopes, and inspirational sayings. Such information is more informative to the user than dial tones and therefore are suppressed in an embodiment of the current invention.
Claims50
A method for providing informative communication when a connection is being established between a first communications device and a second communications device comprising:
- suppressing at least one audio tone notifying a user of a first communications device that a connection is being established;
- and
- substituting information unrelated to the at least one suppressed audio tone to the user of the first communications device while the connection is being established.
A method for providing informative communications to a user of a first communications device and first transceiver when the first communications device is establishing a connection with a second communications device and second transceiver comprising:
- suppressing dial tones notifying a user of connection being established between the first and second transceivers;
- and
- substituting information unrelated to the suppressed dial tones to the user of the first communications device and first transceiver while the connection is being established.
A system for providing informative communications when a connection is being established between communications devices comprising memory, a display, a speaker and a transceiver comprising:
- means for at least one audio tone notifying a user of a communications device that a connection is being established;
- and
- means for substituting information unrelated to the at least one suppressed audio tone to a user of the communications device while the connection is being established.
A system for providing informative communications to a user of a first communications device and first transceiver when the first communications device is establishing a connection with a second communications device and second transceiver comprising:
- means for suppressing at least one audio tone notifying a user of a first communications device that a connection is being established;
- and
- means for substituting information unrelated to the at least one suppressed audio tone to the user of the first communications device and first transceiver while the connection is being established.
A system for providing informative communications when a connection is being established between communications devices comprising memory, a display, a speaker and a transceiver comprising:
- a tone generator to send dial tones to a user of a communications device which upon demand also sends dial tones to the speaker;
- and
- memory for storing information;
- and
- a communicator which presents the stored information to the user while the connection is being established.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.