Method and notification system for providing a no-answer notification to a caller
OwnerJung-Tsung Weiinventor
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Abstract
A method for providing a no-answer notification to a caller is to be implemented by a notification system that includes a mobile device. In the method, the mobile device is programmed to: start timing upon receiving an incoming call signal at the mobile device from a communication device acting as a caller; determine whether the mobile device is in a silent mode, in which a ringtone is not generated in response to the incoming call signal; and when it is determined that the mobile device is in the silent mode, transmit to the communication device a no-answer notification indicating that the mobile device is in the silent mode after the incoming call signal is unanswered for a predetermined time period.
Claims18
A method for providing a no-answer notification to a caller, the method to be implemented by a notification system including a mobile device, the method comprising the steps of:
- a) starting timing upon receiving an incoming call signal at the mobile device from a communication device acting as a caller;
- b) determining whether the mobile device is in a silent mode, in which a ringtone is not generated in response to the incoming call signal;
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- c) when it is determined in step b) that the mobile device is in the silent mode, transmitting to the communication device a no-answer notification indicating that the mobile device is in the silent mode after the incoming call signal is unanswered for a predetermined time period.
A notification system for providing a no-answer notification to a caller, said notification system embodied in at least one of a mobile device and an intermediate device coupled to the mobile device, said notification system comprising a mode detecting module embodied in one of the mobile device and the intermediate device, a timer module, and a notification module,
- wherein, upon receiving an incoming call signal from a communication device acting as a caller:
- said timer module is programmed to start timing;
- said mode detecting module is programmed to determine whether the mobile device is in a silent mode, in which a ringtone is not generated in response to the incoming call signal;
- and
- when it is determined that the mobile device is in the silent mode, said notification module is programmed to transmit, to the communication device, a no-answer notification indicating that the mobile device is in the silent mode after the incoming call signal is unanswered for a predetermined time period.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.