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US 7,734,028 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for delivering enhanced caller identification services to a called party
AssigneeAvaya Inc.
InventorsKrishna K. Dhara, Gary Hildebrand, Venkatesh Krisnaswamy
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for delivering enhanced caller information to a called party. A user document associated with a calling party is provided to the called party as part of signaling information associated with the call, such as a SIP invite message. The user document may be, for example, a vCard or vCalendar.
Claims9
A method comprising:
- generating, at a server, a caller ID document based on a predefined document content rule, wherein:
- a. the caller ID document is generated when a telephone call to a called party is initiated,
- b. the document content rule identifies an information item that must be included in the caller ID document, and
- c. the document content rule is independent of the called party;
- receiving at a switch (i) a telephone number of the called party and (ii) an address of the caller ID document;
- and
- transmitting from the switch to the called party telephone (i) an incoming-call alert and (ii) the address of the caller ID document.
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