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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
May. 22, 2007
Ebbe Altberg, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Scott Faber, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ron Hirson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sean Van Der Linden, Berkeley, CA (US);
Anuj Agarwal, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nitin Ahuja, Redwood City, CA (US);
Mehul Jain, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ebbe Altberg, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Scott Faber, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ron Hirson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sean Van Der Linden, Berkeley, CA (US);
Anuj Agarwal, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nitin Ahuja, Redwood City, CA (US);
Mehul Jain, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ingenio LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems to facilitate real time communications via a telephonic apparatuses that support data communications. In one embodiment, a telephonic apparatus includes: a user interface to receive a search criterion; a network interface coupled to the user interface to submit a query from the telephonic apparatus over a data communication network and to receive at least one advertisement, the advertisement including a telephonic reference containing information about the query; and a call module coupled to the user interface and the network interface. In response to a user selection of the advertisement, the call module is to establish a connection with a connection server for a telephonic call using the telephonic reference, where the connection server is to extract from the telephonic reference the information about the query and to connect the telephonic call to an advertiser of the advertisement.