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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2015
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Elisabetta Flamini, Romsey, GB;
Rajasinghe S. Gunaratne, Hampshire, GB;
Ravi D. Khetani, London, GB;
Kyle Milner, Southampton, GB;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/02 (2006.01); H04W 4/14 (2009.01); H04M 3/436 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/02 (2013.01); H04M 3/436 (2013.01); H04W 4/14 (2013.01); H04M 2201/18 (2013.01); H04W 4/023 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method, system, and computer program product include a processor detecting, ambient noise in the vicinity of the mobile telephone and accessing one or more stored sounds. The processor determines that the ambient noise matches a stored sound of the one or more stored sounds and based on the determining, switches handling of incoming calls to the mobile phone to a predetermined state.