Mobile phone call handling

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016182710-A1
Application number	US-201514974525-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 18, 2015
Priority date	Dec 19, 2014
Publication date	Jun 23, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method, system, and computer program product include a processor detecting, ambient noise in the vicinity of the mobile telephone and accessing one or more stored sounds. The processor determines that the ambient noise matches a stored sound of the one or more stored sounds and based on the determining, switches handling of incoming calls to the mobile phone to a predetermined state.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A computer-implemented method, the method comprising:
detecting, by a processor, ambient noise in the vicinity of the mobile telephone; accessing, by the processor, one or more stored sounds; determining, by the processor, that the ambient noise matches a stored sound of the one or more stored sounds; and switching, by the processor, based on the determining, handling of incoming calls to the mobile phone to a predetermined state.

2 . The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the determining comprises:
determining, by the processor, for a predetermined period of time, that the ambient noise matches the stored sound.

3 . The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the predetermined state comprises at least one of: passing the incoming calls to voicemail, switching the mobile phone to silent, or rejecting the incoming calls.

4 . The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
switching, by the processor, the handling of the incoming calls back to a previous state after a predetermined period of time.

5 . The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, by the processor, an audio input and storing the audio input as the stored sound.

6 . A computer program product comprising:
a computer readable storage medium readable by a processor and storing instructions for execution by the one or more processor for performing a method comprising:
detecting, by the processor, ambient noise in the vicinity of the mobile telephone;
accessing, by the processor, one or more stored sounds;
determining, by the processor, that the ambient noise matches a stored sound of the one or more stored sounds; and
switching, by the processor, based on the determining, handling of incoming calls to the mobile phone to a predetermined state.

7 . The computer program product of claim 6 , wherein the determining comprises:
determining, by the processor, for a predetermined period of time, that the ambient noise matches the stored sound.

8 . The computer program product of claim 6 , wherein the predetermined state comprises at least one of: passing the incoming calls to voicemail, switching the mobile phone to silent, or rejecting the incoming calls.

9 . The computer program product of claim 8 , the method further comprising:
switching, by the processor, the handling of the incoming calls back to a previous state after a predetermined period of time.

10 . The computer program product of claim 6 , the method further comprising:
receiving, by the processor, an audio input and storing the audio input as the stored sound.

11 . A system comprising:
a memory; a processor in communication with the memory; and program instructions executable by the processor via the memory to perform a method, the method comprising:
detecting, by the processor, ambient noise in the vicinity of the mobile telephone;
accessing, by the processor, one or more stored sounds;
determining, by the processor, that the ambient noise matches a stored sound of the one or more stored sounds; and
switching, by the processor, based on the determining, handling of incoming calls to the mobile phone to a predetermined state.

12 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the determining comprises:
determining, by the processor, for a predetermined period of time, that the ambient noise matches the stored sound.

13 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the predetermined state comprises at least one of: passing the incoming calls to voicemail, switching the mobile phone to silent, or rejecting the incoming calls.

14 . The system of claim 13 , the method further comprising:
switching, by the processor, the handling of the incoming calls back to a previous state after a predetermined period of time.

15 . The system of claim 11 , the method further comprising:
receiving, by the processor, an audio input and storing the audio input as the stored sound.

15 . The system of claim 11 , further comprising:
a microphone in communication with the processor, the microphone to detect ambient noise in the vicinity of the system and to provide the ambient noise to the processor.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Flamini Elisabetta
• Gunaratne Rajasinghe S
• Khetani Ravi D
• Milner Kyle

Classifications

• H04M3/02 Primary

  Calling substations, e.g. by ringing (selective calling H04Q) · CPC title

• H04M3/42348

  Location-based services which utilize the location information of a target · CPC title

• H04M9/082

  using echo cancellers (echo cancellers per se H04B3/23) · CPC title

• H04M1/72454 Primary

  according to context-related or environment-related conditions · CPC title

• H04M1/72463

  to restrict the functionality of the device · CPC title