System and method for generating CID/CIDCW information with a user inputted message
AssigneeLucent Technologies Inc.
InventorBarbara Mayak
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Abstract
A system and method for generating caller ID or caller ID-call waiting (CID or CIDCW) information with a user inputted message. In the present system and method, a central office receives a user inputted message and a destination number from a caller's phone, attaches the user inputted message to either the CID or CIDCW information of the caller to produce a destination message, and transmits the destination message to a display of a phone corresponding to the destination number. In this way, the caller's specially inputted message is displayed with the CID/CIDCW information on a display of the call receiving party.
Claims22
A method for attaching a user inputted message to caller ID or caller ID-call waiting (CID or CIDCW) information, comprising the steps of:
- receiving a notification signal from a first phone indicating a user inputted message will be sent;
- sending an acknowledgment signal to the first phone in response to the notification signal;
- receiving the user inputted message from the first phone;
- receiving a destination number from the first phone;
- attaching the user inputted message to either CID or CIDCW information associated with the first phone to produce a destination message;
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- sending the destination message to a second phone identified by the destination number.
A system for attaching a user inputted message to caller ID or caller ID-call waiting (CID or CIDCW) information, comprising:
- a central office for receiving a notification signal from a first phone indicating a user inputted message will be sent, sending an acknowledgment signal to the first phone in response to the notification signal, receiving the user inputted message from the first phone, receiving a destination number from the first phone, attaching the user inputted message to either CID or CIDCW information associated with the first phone to produce a destination message, and sending the destination message to a second phone identified by the destination number.
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