Method and apparatus for communicating information about a called party to a calling party
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorArnold M. Lund
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Abstract
A method and apparatus is provided for automatically retrieving and displaying supplemental information about a called party on the CPE of a calling party. When a caller places a call, the number called is used to look up and return to the caller the Universal Resource Locator (URL) of the called party. Application software resident in the caller's CPE uses the URL to retrieve the home page of the called party from the Internet.
Claims20
A system for providing information about a called party to a calling party device, the system comprising:
- a telephone call identification module configured to gather a telephone number of a called party dialed by a calling party;
- a called party database in communication with the telephone call identification module, the called party database comprising address data for locating a customized file of the called party;
- a switch configured to transmit to the calling party address data for locating a customized file of the called party, and configured to connect a voice call from the calling party to the called party at the telephone number of the called party;
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- wherein the address data is usable by the calling party to retrieve and display the customized file of the called party.
A system for providing information about a called party to a calling party device, the system comprising:
- telephone call identification means for gathering a telephone number of a called party dialed by a calling party;
- a called party database in communication with the telephone call identification means, the called party database comprising address data for locating a customized file of the called party;
- means for transmitting to the calling party address data for locating a customized file of the called party, and for connecting a voice call from the calling party to the called party at the telephone number of the called party;
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- wherein the address data is usable by the calling party to retrieve and display the customized file of the called party.
A method for providing information about a called party to a calling party device, the method comprising:
- gathering a telephone number of a called party dialed by a calling party;
- communicating with a called party database comprising address data for locating a customized file of the called party;
- transmitting to the calling party address data for locating a customized file of the called party;
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- connecting a voice call from the calling party to the called party at the telephone number of the called party while the calling party accesses the customized information, wherein the address data is usable by the calling party to retrieve and display the customized file of the called party.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.