US 7,039,170 B1Granted

Automated data transfer in association with a voice call

AssigneeNortel Networks Limited

InventorDany Sylvain

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Abstract

The present invention provides for efficient delivery of information between parties associated with a voice call. When a caller initiates a call to the called party, infrastructure is in place to access information associated with the caller and called party and exchange the information between the multimedia clients associated with the parties. The delivery of the information may be fully automated, or may require authorization by the parties owning the information. Further, information delivery may take place in multiple stages, wherein automated information is initially provided and on-demand information, which requires authorization by the party owning the information, is sent to the other party's multimedia client upon receiving such authorization. Preferably, the address to a location capable of providing the information is initially delivered to the multimedia clients, which can request the information based on the address as desired by the parties involved in the call.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

registering a combined client with a multimedia client database;
receiving a message indicating a voice call is being initiated by a caller from a first telephony device associated with a first number to a called party at a second telephony device associated with a second number, wherein the first telephony device is part of the combined client;
determining a first address for a first multimedia client associated with the first telephony device based on the first number by querying the multimedia client database;
determining an information address from which information can be accessed;
effecting delivery of the information address to the first multimedia client using the first address, such that the information can be accessed by the first multimedia client using the information address;
and
sending the first address to a second multimedia client associated with the second telephony device and wherein delivery of the information address is effected by sending the information address to the second multimedia client, which can forward the information address to the first multimedia client using the first address;
and
receiving indication that the called party wants to authorize and effect delivery of the information address to the caller prior to effecting delivery of the information address, wherein the indication that the called party wants to authorize and effect delivery of the information address is received via the second multimedia client.

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A system comprising a service node adapted to:

register a combined client with a multimedia client database;
receive a message indicating a voice call is being initiated by a caller from a first telephony device associated with a first number to a called party at a second telephony device associated with a second number, wherein the first telephony device is part of the combined client;
determine a first address for a first multimedia client associated with the first telephony device based on the first number by querying the multimedia client database;
determine an information address from which information can be accessed;
effect delivery of the information address to the first multimedia client using the first address, such that the information can be accessed by the first multimedia client using the information address;
and
send the first address to a second multimedia client associated with the second telephony device and send the information address to the second multimedia client to effect delivery of the information address to the second multimedia client, which can forward the information address to the first multimedia client using the first address;
and
receive an indication that the called party wants to effect delivery of the information address to the caller prior to effecting delivery of the information address, wherein the indication that the called party wants to effect delivery of the information address is received via the second multimedia client.

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A method comprising:

registering a combined client with a multimedia client database;
receiving a message indicating a voice call is being initiated by a caller from a first telephony device associated with a first number to a called party at a second telephony device associated with a second number, wherein the first telephony device is part of the combined client;
determining a first address for a first multimedia client associated with the first telephony device based on the first number by querying the multimedia client database;
determining a first information address from which first information can be accessed;
effecting delivery of the first information address to the first multimedia client using the first address, such that the first information can be accessed by the first multimedia client using the first information address;
receiving indication that the called party wants to effect delivery of a second information address;
determining the second information address from which second information can be accessed;
effecting delivery of the second information address to the first multimedia client using the first address, such that the second information can be accessed by the first multimedia client using the second information address;
and
sending the first address to a second multimedia client associated with the second telephony device and wherein delivery of the first and second information addresses is effected by sending the first and second information addresses to the second multimedia client, which can forward the first and second information addresses to the first multimedia client using the first address;
and
receiving indication that the called party wants to authorize and effect delivery of the first and second information addresses to the caller prior to effecting delivery of the information addresses, wherein the indication that the called party wants to authorize and effect delivery of the information address is received via the second multimedia client.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.