Identifying information associated with an incoming telephone call

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9148507-B2
Application number	US-201414170802-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 3, 2014
Priority date	Jun 27, 2012
Publication date	Sep 29, 2015
Grant date	Sep 29, 2015

Abstract

A telephone number corresponding to an incoming telephone call may be utilized to obtain information associated with the incoming call. If it is determined that the telephone number does not match records stored on the device on which the call is received, a request may be sent from the receiving device to an external device to obtain information associated with the incoming call. The request may be directed to a remote contacts application, another device listed in a data store of the receiving device, or to the calling device itself. When a response is received, the information may be displayed or otherwise utilized by the receiving device.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A non-transitory program storage device, readable by a processor and comprising instructions stored thereon to cause the processor to:
initiate, by a first device, a telephone call to a second device;
determine whether a telephone number of the second device is stored in a contacts database accessible by the first device;
determine whether the telephone number is tagged with a tag, wherein the tag includes information indicating that self-identify…

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Dave Swapnil
• Varoglu Devrim

Classifications

• H04M3/42042 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M1/2757 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M3/4931

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W4/16

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W4/12

  Electricity · mapped topic