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Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015

Filed:

May. 04, 2007
Applicants:

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);

Inventors:

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);

Assignee:

Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/00 (2006.01); H04M 19/04 (2006.01); H04M 1/2745 (2006.01); H04M 1/57 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 19/04 (2013.01); H04M 1/274583 (2013.01); H04M 1/57 (2013.01);
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.


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