Visual telephony apparatus, system and method
OwnerLoren Stockerinventor
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Abstract
A visual telephony apparatus, system and method are provided. In one embodiment, the visual telephony method includes a method implemented using a processor, the method including the steps of: detecting at least one telephony attribute associated with a voice call directed from a voice communication device to a publicly switched telephone network number; identifying a visual content that has been preassociated with the at least one telephony attribute; initiating a request for the visual content in response to the detecting step; and receiving the visual content in response to the initiating step, the visual content being received at a display device.
Claims20
A method implemented using a processor, the method comprising the steps of:
- detecting at least one telephony attribute associated with a voice call directed from a voice communication device to a publicly switched telephone network number;
- identifying a visual content that has been preassociated with the at least one telephony attribute;
- initiating a request for the visual content in response to the detecting step;
- and
- receiving the visual content in response to the initiating step, the visual content being received at a display device.
A method implemented using a processor, the method comprising the steps of:
- detecting at least one telephony attribute associated with a voice call directed from a voice communication device to a publicly switched telephone network number;
- identifying at least one participant associated with the at least one telephony attribute;
- initiating a request for the at least one participant to access a multi-party video display;
- and
- providing access to the multi-party video display to the at least one participant.
A system comprising:
- a detection module configured to detect an initiation of a voice call from a voice communication device to a publicly switched telephone network number;
- an identification module configured to identify a visual content preassociated with the telephone number;
- and
- an access module communicatively coupled to the detection module and configured to send a request for the identified visual content to a content subsystem and receive the identified visual content from the content subsystem in response to the request;
- where the access module sends the identified visual content to a display device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.