US 2014/0274002 A1 · ENHANCED CALLER IDENTIFICATION

Abstract

Systems and methods for enhanced caller identification are disclosed. In some embodiments, an incoming phone call may be received and a phone number of the incoming phone call may be identified. A query of an external database may be performed based on the phone number and information from an entry of the database that matches the phone number may be retrieved. A plurality of additional external databases may also be queried based on the phone number of information retrieved from another database that was queried based on the phone number. The information may be displayed in response to the incoming phone call and in response to an answering of the phone call. In some embodiments, the information may be displayed by way of a notification on a mobile phone.

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Dependent claims

A method to display caller information, the method comprising:

receiving, by a computing device, an incoming phone call;
identifying, by the computing device, a phone number associated with the incoming phone call;
searching a database based on the identified phone number;
receiving information associated with the identified phone number from the database;
and
displaying a notification comprising the information in response to the incoming phone call.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Enhanced caller identification

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Abstract

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