US 2014/0273962 A1 · CALL HANDLING BASED ON USER PROFILE IDENTIFICATION

Abstract

Technologies for handling a call based on user identification include determining a personal profile identification for a user of a communal mobile communication device and initiating a call to a personal communication device using a phone number of the personal communication device and the personal profile identification. The personal communication device may apply a call treatment to the incoming call based on the personal profile identification. Additionally, the personal communication device may originate a call to a call recipient of the communal mobile communication device using a personal profile identification to identify the call recipient. The communal mobile communication device may apply a call treatment to the incoming call based on the personal profile identification.

Claims26

Dependent claims

1-25. (canceled)

A communal mobile communication device for handling calls based on user identification, the communal mobile communication device comprising:

an outgoing call handler module to (i) determine a personal profile identification that identifies a user of the communal mobile communication device from other users, (i) determine a phone number of a personal mobile communication device of a call recipient selected to receive a call from the communal mobile communication device, and (iii) initiate the call to the personal mobile communication device using the phone number and the personal profile identification to identify the user.

One or more machine readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, in response to being executed, causes a mobile communication device to:

determine a personal profile identification for a user of a communal mobile communication device, the personal profile identification identifying the user from other users of the communal mobile communication device;
determine a phone number of a personal mobile communication device of a call recipient selected to receive the call;
and
initiate the call from the communal mobile communication device to the personal mobile communication device using the phone number and the personal profile identification to identify the user.

1 more element

A method for handling a call based on user identification, the method comprising:

determining a personal profile identification for a user of a communal mobile communication device, the personal profile identification identifying the user from other users of the communal mobile communication device;
determining, on the communal mobile communication device, a phone number of a personal mobile communication device of a call recipient selected to receive the call;
and
initiating the call from the communal mobile communication device to the personal mobile communication device using the phone number and the personal profile identification to identify the user.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/976,034Filed 14 Mar 2013

Published

18 Sep 2014

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

H04L 67/306
Profiles: user profiles
H04M 1/57
Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers: arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called…
H04M 3/42051
Notifying the called party of information on the calling party: where the notification is included in the ringing tone
H04M 3/42068
Making use of the calling party identifier: where the identifier is used to access a profile

Call handling based on user profile identification

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Call handling based on user profile identification

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Abstract

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