Tone advisor, a tone assisting system and a method of associating tones with callers

US9185239B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Alcatel Lucent · FR

Inventors

• Robert K. Dinoff · Bound Brook, US
• Tin Kam Ho · Millburn, US
• Richard B. Hull · Chatham, US
• Bharat Kumar · Tarrytown, US
• Daniel Francis Lieuwen · Somerville, US
• Haobo Ren · New Providence, US
• Paulo A. Santos · Morganville, US
• Anwar I. Walid · Watchung, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 4, 2007
• Grant date: Nov 10, 2015
• Expiry date: Oct 14, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04M1/57
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A tone advisor, a tone assisting system and a method of associating tones with callers. In one embodiment the method includes: (1) monitoring calls to and from a user, (2) obtaining information based on the calls and (3) categorizing a caller associated with at least one of the calls into a contact group according to the information and (4) assigning a genre of tones to the contact group.