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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2001
System and method for providing on-hold content in a voice over internet protocol (voip) environment
Applicants:
Shmuel Shaffer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Shantanu Sarkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Thiyagesan Ramalingam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Shmuel Shaffer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Shantanu Sarkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Thiyagesan Ramalingam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and system for providing on-hold content in a voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) environment includes receiving an indication of a call on-hold. On-hold content for the call may be selected based on revenue generation criteria such as, for example, prices advertisers and other content providers are willing to pay for provisioning of their content to the call.