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AssigneeFraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
InventorsThomas WIEGAND, Thomas HAUSTEIN
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The invention provides an interrogator for obtaining information associated with a caller identification, such as a telephone number, transmitted within an incoming telephone call including: a receiving device configured to receive the incoming telephone call and to extract the caller identification from the incoming telephone call; an interrogating device configured to receive the extracted caller identification from the receiving device and to interrogate information associated with the caller identification from an external data base, which is configured to operate independently from the user voice communication device for which the incoming telephone call is intended for; and a forwarding device configured to receive and to forward the interrogated information.
An interrogator for acquiring information associated with a caller identification, such as a telephone number, transmitted within an incoming telephone call comprising:
A user voice communication device, such as a telephone, comprising:
A voice communication network comprising an interrogator, wherein the forwarding device is configured to forward the associated information to a remote user voice communication device for which the telephone call is intended for over at least one third communication channel, in particular over at least one third packet based communication channel, connecting the interrogator and the remote user voice communication device, and an external data base, wherein the interrogator and the external data base are connected in such way that the interrogator may interrogate information-associated with the caller identification from the external data base when receiving the incoming call.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.