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Patent No.:

US 9374461 B1

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Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2016

Filed:

Nov. 26, 2013
Applicant:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Inventors:

David Lobo, Frisco, TX (US);

Sherrill A. Moss, Johns Creek, GA (US);

Apurva Pathak, White Plains, NY (US);

Mary T. Thomas, Dallas, TX (US);

Carson C. Burrus, Dallas, TX (US);

Rachna R. Sheth, White Plains, NY (US);

Sundar Rajan Padmanabhan, Irving, TX (US);

Xiaodong Zhang, Flower Mound, TX (US);

Assignee:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/16 (2009.01); H04M 3/493 (2006.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/4935 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0224 (2013.01); H04W 4/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

A set-top box (STB) obtains a listing of businesses responsive to a request for a business directory search from a customer. The STB receives, from a customer, a selection of a business from the listing of businesses to call. The STB performs one of: initiating, at the STB, a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call to a phone number associated with the business and connecting the VoIP call to a mobile device, or other VoIP device, associated with the customer via a VoIP network, or initiating, at the STB, establishment of a call between a phone number associated with the business and a mobile device associated with the customer via a telephone network. The STB sends data associated with the request for the business directory search to a billing server for billing the customer for the request for the business directory search received at the STB.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Lobo, David. (2016). Business directory assistance via stb (U.S. Patent No. 9374461). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9374461

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