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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2011
Jamie C. Howarter, Overland Park, KS (US);
Charles M. Lesher, Louisburg, KS (US);
Jamie C. Howarter, Overland Park, KS (US);
Charles M. Lesher, Louisburg, KS (US);
CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC, Denver, CO (US);
Abstract
Novel tools and techniques to enable video enhancements identifying the calling party of an incoming telephone call. In an aspect of some such tools, a video message from the calling party is sent to the receiving party through a communication channel in the provider network. Upon receiving an incoming telephone call at the provider network, the video message can be associated with the incoming telephone call, and routed to a set-top unit (also referred to herein as a 'set-top box') associated with the receiving party. The set-top unit might communicate with a visual display screen (e.g., a television), and/or cause the visual display screen to show the video message for the receiving party as an indication of the incoming telephone call and identification of the calling party.