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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 1997
Filed:
May. 01, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Darek Andrew Smyk, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Bell Communications Research, Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ; H04M / ; H04N / ; H04H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379142 ; 379207 ; 379230 ; 370259 ; 348-6 ; 455-31 ; 455-41 ; 455-61 ;
Abstract
In an intergrated broadband and telephone network, caller identification information is delivered to a remote user through a service control point which retrieves nee information from a database in the telephone network and sends ring telephone instructions to the remote user's telephone through the telephone network but caller identification information to a display device at the remote user's location through the broadband network. The caller information may be displayed on a television set, a computer screen, or a window overlay on a different graphics/video image.