System and Method for Providing Information to a User of a Telephone about Another Party on a Telephone Call
AssigneeCenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
InventorsVictoria M. Toner, Johnny Hawkins, Rich Schermerhorn, Shekhar Gupta, Mike A. Roberts, Koushik Chatterjee
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Abstract
A system and method for displaying information to a user of a telephone during a telephone call may include requesting information from a plurality of applications in response to receiving data indicative of a telecommunications device during a telephone call. The information may include information associated with a second user of the telecommunications device. The information received from the applications may be displayed for the first user to view during the telephone call.
Claims20
A system configured to display information to a user of a telephone during a telephone call, said system comprising:
- an input/output (I/O) unit configured to communicate voice and data communications via a network;
- an electronic display configured to display a user interface to a first user on a telephone call;
- and
- a processing unit in communication with said I/O unit and electronic display, said processing unit configured to:
- in response to receiving data indicative of a telecommunications device to which said I/O unit is in communication during a telephone call, request information from a plurality of applications in communication with a plurality of geographically distributed data sources, the information including information associated with a second user of the telecommunications device;
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- display the information received from the applications on said electronic display for the first user to view during the telephone call.
A method for displaying information to a user of a telephone during a telephone call, said method comprising:
- in response to receiving data indicative of a telecommunications device during a telephone call, requesting information from a plurality of applications in communication with a plurality of geographically distributed data sources, the information including information associated with a second user of the telecommunications device;
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- displaying the information received from the applications for a first user to view during the telephone call.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.