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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2019
Tracfone Wireless, Inc., Miami, FL (US);
Daniel Collart, Miami, FL (US);
TracFone Wireless, Inc., Miami, FL (US);
Abstract
The invention is a method, system, and computer-readable medium for gathering and communicating caller identification information on a wireless device. The invention includes receiving, at a wireless device, a calling party phone number to be communicated by the wireless device, determining that the calling party phone number and a corresponding caller identification are not stored on the wireless device memory, performing, in response to the determination that the calling party phone number and the corresponding caller identification are not stored on the wireless device memory, an external database search for the calling party phone number and corresponding caller identification, and determining that the calling party phone number and corresponding caller identification have been identified in the external database search. The invention further includes communicating, in response to the determination that the calling party phone number and corresponding caller identification have been identified in the external database search, the calling party phone number and caller identification.