Method and system for providing to a second party, computer-network related information about a first party

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8948360-B2
Application number	US-201314067998-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 31, 2013
Priority date	Feb 18, 1997
Publication date	Feb 3, 2015
Grant date	Feb 3, 2015

Abstract

A method and system for providing computer-network related information about a second party. First, the second party receives a telephone number of a first party. The second party's customer premises equipment (CPE) or elements in a telephone network then use the telephone number to index a database, which contains combinations of telephone numbers and computer-network addresses. Once the first party's computer-network address is retrieved, first-party-customized information present at the computer-network location specified by the computer-network address can be sent to and displayed on the second party's CPE. Also, the first party's telephone number can be sent to an application in the computer network, causing the first-party-customized information to be automatically displayed on the second party's CPE.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for automatically sending information relating to a calling party to a phone of a called party, the method comprising:
initiating a telephone call between a first phone of the calling party and a second phone of the called party over a communication network;
determining prior to terminating the telephone call, if the called party subscribes to a service to provide information about the calling party to the second phone of the called party;…

Assignees

• Rakuten Inc

Inventors

• Lund Arnold M

Classifications

• H04Q2213/13103

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M1/247

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M3/4365 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M3/42323

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M3/4931

  Electricity · mapped topic