US 7,606,357 B2 · Caller identification of recipient that answered a simultaneous or routed communication

Abstract

Simultaneous Ring Called Party Identification services identify an actual communications address (or other called party identifier) of an answering communications device in a simultaneous ring service. In some of the exemplary embodiments, a calling party uses a communications device that includes a computer program product—a Simultaneous Ring Called Party Identification Module—that requests a Simultaneous Ring Called Party Identification signal that includes a communications address of an answering communications device. The Simultaneous Ring Called Party Identification signal may be associated with multiple communications devices of the answering communications address, such as a POTS phone and a computer coupled with a modem communicating with a telecommunications network from the same switch. The Simultaneous Ring Called Party Identification signal may include text, video, voice, and/or digital data.

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Dependent claims

A method for providing universal shared caller identification information comprising:

detecting and decoding an incoming communication from one of a plurality of different communications addresses to a called party communications address, the plurality of different communication addresses comprising a telecommunication address and a data communications address;
associating the communications address of the incoming communication with a universal, shared caller identification, the universal, shared caller identification comprising one incoming calling line identification signal that is common for each of the plurality of communications addresses;
and
initiating a communication of the universal, shared caller identification to the called party communications address.

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A communications system, comprising:

a processor executing code stored in memory that causes the processor to:
detect and decode an incoming communication from one of a plurality of different communications addresses to a called party communications address, the plurality of different communication addresses comprising a telecommunication address and a data communications address;
associate the communications address of the incoming communication with a universal, shared caller identification, the universal, shared caller identification comprising one incoming calling line identification signal that is common for each of the plurality of communications addresses;
and
initiate a communication of the universal, shared caller identification to the called party communications address.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Caller identification of recipient that answered a simultaneous or routed communication

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Caller identification of recipient that answered a simultaneous or routed communication

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Abstract

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