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US 9,961,193 B2Granted
Enhanced caller-ID information selection and delivery
AssigneeRingCentral, Inc.
InventorsChristopher Van Rensburg, Patrice Khawam
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Abstract
Technologies relating to enhanced Caller ID information selection for a caller associated with a call and delivery of the selected enhanced Caller ID information to a callee associated with the call include one or more processors selecting, according to selection criteria, one or more enhanced Caller ID information items from a collection of available enhanced Caller ID information items pertaining to the caller that are stored across one or more databases of enhanced Caller ID information.
Claims17
A telephony system, comprising:
- a memory device that stores a set of instructions;
- and
- at least one processor connected to said memory device and configured to execute the set of instructions for:
- receiving call information about an incoming call;
- receiving a request from a callee to obtain publicly available information about the caller;
- determining an identity of a caller originating the incoming call;
- based on the request and the identity of the caller, enabling a launch-of an Internet search query to obtain the publicly available information about the identified caller;
- prompting the caller to confirm sharing the obtained information with a callee;
- and
- delivering the obtained information to the callee, wherein the enhanced Caller ID information is selected from the publicly available information.
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A computing device, comprising:
- a memory device that stores a set of instructions;
- and
- at least one processor connected to said memory device and configured to execute the set of instructions for:
- receiving call information about an incoming call;
- determining an identity of a caller originating the incoming call;
- delivering information about the identified caller;
- based on the identity of the caller, enabling a launch of an Internet search query to obtain publicly available information about the identified caller;
- and
- sending the obtained information to the caller to prompt the caller to confirm sharing the obtained information with a callee;
- and
- upon receiving a permission from the caller, delivering the obtained information to the callee.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.