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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:
Sep. 24, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 14, 1999
Dean C Buck, Loveland, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for capturing and communicating caller information for a digital communication device are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, a caller ID device captures caller information from inbound and/or outbound calls. Thereafter, the caller ID device can communicate captured caller information to a digital communication device, such as a digital sender or fax machine, wherein the digital communication device can then communicate data to a destination indicated by the caller information. In a preferred embodiment, the caller ID device can also communicate control signals to the digital communication device to control how the device responds upon receiving caller information from the caller ID device. For example, in a preferred embodiment, the caller ID device can communicate a control signal to the digital communication device that activates the device to communicate data to a destination indicated by the communicated caller information. As another example, in a preferred embodiment, the caller ID device can communicate a control signal to the digital communication device that causes the device to program the caller information into the digital communication device's memory for future use. Thus, in a preferred embodiment, a user may select caller information that has been captured by the caller ID device to be communicated to the digital communication device, and the user may easily cause such caller information to be programmed in the digital communication device and/or activate the digital communication device to send data to the destination indicated by such caller information.