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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2013
Filed:
May. 24, 2012
Jay D. Bluhm, Lenexa, KS (US);
Manish Mangal, Overland Park, KS (US);
Jay D. Bluhm, Lenexa, KS (US);
Manish Mangal, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
Caller ID information directed to a user's mobile phone is delivered to the user's home television set for viewing. A determination is made as to whether the mobile phone is within a home zone associated with the user. The determining is performed at a network element within a mobile communications network that provides carrier service to the mobile phone. A presence indication is stored in a database indicating whether the mobile phone is within the home zone associated with the user. When the mobile phone is within the home zone, and based on a user authorization to provide to a video provider information associated with calls, then, for a call to the mobile phone, sending a calling phone identification and a mobile phone destination number to the video provider for insertion of the calling phone identification into a video stream for delivery to the video display device.