Method and apparatus for content presentation in association with a telephone call
AssigneeWendell D. Brown
InventorWendell D. Brown
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A method and apparatus are provided for presenting multimedia content to a caller and/or a called party in association with a telephone call. Content may be presented pre-ring (before the called party's telephone rings), in-call, and/or post-call. Content presented to a party may be related to or selected by another party participating in the call, or may be related to or selected by a third party (e.g., an advertiser that paid for the ability to have its content presented). Presented content may be actuable, and allow a caller to change the destination of a call, take advantage of an offer presented to him, redeem a coupon, schedule or queue a subsequent call, etc. To find a desired destination party, a caller may initiate a manual or automatic search of his local contacts (on his telephone) and/or a central or global directory or contact list.
A method of facilitating presentation of content to a user of a communication device in association with a communication connection between the communication device and a destination device operated by a destination party, the method comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method of facilitating presentation of content to a user of a communication device in association with a communication connection between the communication device and a destination device operated by a destination party, the method comprising:
An apparatus for facilitating presentation of content to a user of a communication device in association with a communication connection between the communication device and a destination device operated by a destination party, the apparatus comprising:
A system for facilitating presentation of content to a user of a communication device in association with a communication connection between the communication device and a destination device operated by a destination party, the system comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.