Telecommunications call augmentation system
AssigneeIncall Limited
InventorsChaim Aaron James GREEN, Joshua NYMAN
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of augmenting a telecommunications call, the method comprising detecting a telecommunications call event at a user telecommunications device 10; selecting an item of media content 101, the item of media content 101 being associated with a uniform resource identifier or URI; augmenting the call with the item of media content 101; detecting a user interaction with the item of media content 101; and on termination of the call, performing an action in dependence on the resource identified by the URI. The invention extends to a corresponding system and apparatus.
Claims17
1-38. (canceled)
A method of augmenting a telecommunications call, the method comprising:
- using at least one processor of a user telecommunications device (10) for performing the following:
- receiving an item of media content (101) in advance of an incoming telecommunications call from a remote server (30), the item of media content (101) being flagged by the remote server (30) with an expiry time;
- storing the item of media content (101) in a store or a cache (112) on the user telecommunications device (10);
- detecting a telecommunications call event at the user telecommunications device (10);
- selecting an item of media content (101) from the store or the cache (112) in dependence on an attribute of a party placing the call;
- instructing an augmentation of the call with the item of media content (101);
- and
- after the expiry time, instructing a removal of the item of media content (101) from the cache (112).
An apparatus for augmenting a telecommunications call, the apparatus comprising:
- a store or a cache;
- and
- at least one processor adapted to execute a code for:
- receiving an item of media content (101) at a user telecommunications device in advance of an incoming telecommunications call (10) from a remote server (30), the item of media content (101) being flagged by the remote server (30) with an expiry time;
- storing the item of media content (101) in the store or the cache (112) on the user telecommunications device (10);
- detecting a telecommunications call event at a user telecommunications device (10);
- selecting an item of media content (101) from the store or the cache (112) in dependence on an attribute of a party placing the call;
- instructing an augmentation of the call with the item of media content (101);
- and
- after the expiry time, instructing a removal of the item of media content (101) from the cache (112).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.