Methods and systems for voice augmented caller id / ring tone alias
AssigneeSteven Wayne Goldstein
InventorSteven Wayne Goldstein
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Abstract
A communication device and method can include one or more processors operatively coupled to memory and an audible output device, where the one or more processors receive a call from a calling party that includes caller identification information and a voice or video message associated with the caller identification information, presenting the caller identification information, present the voice message or video message as an alias of or to a ring tone or interleaved with the ring tone before the call from the calling party is answered or rejected. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Claims20
A communication device, comprising:
- a audible output device;
- a memory having computer instructions;
- and
- one or more processors operatively coupled to the memory and the audible output device, the execution of the computer instructions causing the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- receiving signaling of a call from a calling party that includes caller identification information and a voice or video message associated with the caller identification information;
- presenting the caller identification information;
- and
- presenting the voice message or video message as an alias of a ring tone or interleaved with the ring tone before the call from the calling party is answered or rejected by a called party device.
A method at a communication device, comprising:
- receiving a call from a calling party that includes caller identification information and a voice or video message associated with the caller identification information;
- presenting the caller identification information via a presentation device operatively coupled to the communication device;
- and
- presenting via the presentation device the voice message or video message as an alias to a ring tone or interleaved with the ring tone or presented with the ring tone in a repeating cycle until the call from the calling party is answered or rejected.
A system for communicating with a communication device that presents a ring tone alias and caller identification information, comprising:
- a memory having computer instructions;
- and
- one or more processors operatively coupled to the memory, the execution of the computer instructions causing the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- originating a call from a calling party to a called party that includes caller identification information and a message having a voice message, or video message or photograph associated with the caller identification information obtained at a time of the call origination;
- transmitting the caller identification information and the message to the called party for presentation at the communication device of the called party;
- and
- wherein the caller identification information and the recorded message is presented at the communication device of the called party as an alias to the ring tone or interleaved with the ring tone or presented with the ring tone in a repeating cycle until the call from the calling party is answered or rejected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.