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US 2021/0344793 A1Published application
Incentivising answering call in smartphone lockscreen
AssigneeVyng, Inc.
InventorsPaul Kats, Jeffrey Chernick, Mark Randall Goldston, Sohrab Pirayesh
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Abstract
Conditionally connecting a smart phone to an incoming call based on user interaction with an incentive offer associated with the call that is presented in an incoming call display on a lockscreen of the smart phone. A dialer controlling the incoming call display accesses the incentive offer through a visual portion of a Sender Controlled Media data structure. The dialer can adjust the incentive offer based on user interaction with the incoming call display.
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A method comprising:
- detecting an incoming call;
- facilitating presentation of an incentive offer in an incoming call display on a lockscreen of a smart phone, wherein the incentive offer has a user of the smart phone accept the incoming call as a condition for activation;
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- responsive to a user interaction with the incoming call display on the lockscreen, storing in a processor-accessible data structure an indication of the user interaction associated with the incentive offer, and, based on the indication of the user interaction, facilitating connection of the incoming call to the smart phone.
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A method comprising:
- presenting an incentive offer along with an incoming call in an incoming call display on a lockscreen of a user's smart phone, wherein the incentive offer has the user accept the incoming call as a condition for activation;
- responsive to a user interaction with the incoming call display on the lockscreen, serving an indication of the user interaction to a source of the incoming call;
- and
- based on the indication of the user interaction connecting the incoming call to the smart phone.
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A system comprising:
- a circuit constructed to detect a call targeted to a smart phone;
- an incentive offer presentation facilitating circuit constructed to arrange for an incentive offer to be presented in an incoming call display on a lockscreen of a smart phone, wherein the incentive offer has a user of the smart phone accept the call as a condition for activation;
- and
- an incentive offer response circuit constructed to store an indication of user interaction with the incentive offer in a processor accessible incentive offer control data structure, and based on the indication of the user interaction facilitate connection of the call to the smart phone.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.