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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
May. 04, 2007
Robert K. Dinoff, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Tin Kam Ho, Cedar Grove, NJ (US);
Richard B. Hull, Chatham, NJ (US);
Bharat Kumar, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Daniel Francis Lieuwen, Somerville, NJ (US);
Haobo Ren, New Providence, NJ (US);
Paulo A. Santos, Morganville, NJ (US);
Anwar I. Walid, Watchung, NJ (US);
Robert K. Dinoff, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Tin Kam Ho, Cedar Grove, NJ (US);
Richard B. Hull, Chatham, NJ (US);
Bharat Kumar, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Daniel Francis Lieuwen, Somerville, NJ (US);
Haobo Ren, New Providence, NJ (US);
Paulo A. Santos, Morganville, NJ (US);
Anwar I. Walid, Watchung, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A tone advisor, a tone assisting system and a method of associating tones with callers. In one embodiment the method includes: (1) monitoring calls to and from a user, (2) obtaining information based on the calls and (3) categorizing a caller associated with at least one of the calls into a contact group according to the information and (4) assigning a genre of tones to the contact group.