Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Young-Hoon Cheong

Sung-Eun Lee

Kyou-Woong Kim

Hyun-Jung Mun

Hyun-Jung Moon

A method and system for providing a picture as caller ID (Identification). In a mobile communication system having a first mobile station (MS) on a calling side, a second MS on a called side, and a base station (BS) and an MSC that enable communication between the first and second MSs, the MSC has a storage component that stores picture information of each MS. The MSC receives a SETUP message from the first MS via the BS during a call attempt by the first MS, checks whether the picture information of the first MS is stored in the storage component in response to the SETUP message, and transmits the picture information of the first MS to the second MS so that the picture information of the first MS can be displayed as the caller ID on a display of the second MS, if the picture information of the first MS is stored in the storage component of the MSC.

Method and system for providing a picture as caller identification

A method for displaying caller information using image data in a mobile telecommunications system. If a call origination has occurred, a calling user element sets up a voice data channel with a called user element and forms a data path with the called user element to transmit caller image information. Then, the calling user element transmits the caller image information to the called user element over the data path.

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Seoul, South Korea

Young-Hoon Cheong