Tune master caller identification device
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsEdward Michael Silver, Linda Ann Roberts, Hong Thi Nguyen
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Abstract
Systems for providing a tune master caller identification (ID) device include a telecommunications network and a caller device configured to provide caller identification information for an incoming telephone call, and a tune master caller ID device that is coupled to a telephone device. The tune master caller ID device receives caller identification information, associates a tune with the caller identification information, and plays the tune associated with the caller identification. The telephone device coupled to the tune master caller ID device provides telephone call processing capabilities. Other systems and methods are also provided.
Claims20
An apparatus, comprising:
- a processor adapted to select a tune associated with an address that initiated an incoming communication request and to facilitate playing of the tune as an audible notification of the incoming communication request;
- and
- a network interface coupled to the processor and an external communications device, the network interface adapted to provide communications between the processor and the external communications device, thereby alerting a recipient of the communication request to answer the external communications device connected to the network interface.
A method comprising:
- playing a tune as an audible notification of an incoming communication request;
- and
- communicating with an external communications device over a network interface coupled to the external communications device, thereby alerting a recipient of the communication request to answer the external communications device connected to the network interface.
A method comprising:
- playing a tune as an audible notification of an incoming communication request;
- and
- communicating with an external communications device over a network interface coupled to the external communications device, thereby alerting a recipient to answer the external communications device connected to the network interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.