US 2020/0053214 A1 · MANAGEMENT OF CALLS AND MEDIA CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH A CALLER ON MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES

Abstract

Call originator feedback may be gathered from members of a call group for a call originator. This feedback may be stored in a contact firewall data structure indexed by call originator identification information, where a contact firewall function can intercept a call to a member of the group when the contact firewall data structure indicates that an action to impact the call should be taken. In another aspect, a method may include receiving an indication of no-answer by a recipient of a call, activating a sender-controlled media (SCM) content selection/generation interface on the caller's phone, and delivering the item of content to the recipient's call message storage system, where the item of content is linked to the missed call. For example, a SCM data structure, or a link to the SCM data structure, may be delivered to the recipient's call message storage system.

Claims27

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

for each call originator originating a call to members of a call group, gathering call originator feedback from the members;
storing the feedback from the members in a contact firewall data structure indexed by call originator identification information;
and
configuring a contact firewall function that intercepts a call to a member of the group while determining if the feedback in the contact firewall data structure for an originator of the call indicates that an action to impact the call should be taken.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/659,330Filed 21 Oct 2019

Priority

1 May 2015

Published

13 Feb 2020

Term ends

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Classification15 codes

H04M 3/42051
Notifying the called party of information on the calling party: where the notification is included in the ringing tone
H04M 1/2757
Providing data content: by data transmission, e.g. downloading
H04M 1/576
Means for retrieving and displaying personal data about calling party: associated with a pictorial or graphical representation
H04M 1/72403
User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones: with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality

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