| 摘要 |
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. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, at a set-top box (STB) from a customer, a request for a business directory search, wherein the STB receives television (TV) video programs via one or more channels over a network, and wherein the network comprises a cable, a satellite, or an Advanced Television Systems Committee standards (ATSC) network; obtaining a listing of businesses responsive to the request; generating, at the STB, a graphical user interface for display; presenting, using a display device, the obtained listing of businesses via the graphical user interface generated by the STB, wherein presenting the obtained listing of businesses via the graphical user interface generated by the STB further comprises:
presenting, via the graphical user interface, a listing of names associated with each business in the listing of businesses in association with other information, andpresenting, in association with each business in the listing of businesses within the graphical user interface, a selectable button that displays a phone number of each respective business and which is selectable by the customer via the STB; receiving, from the customer via the graphical user interface at the STB, a selection of a business from the listing of businesses to call, wherein receiving the selection of the business from the listing of businesses to call comprises:
receiving, from the customer, a selection of the selectable button, presented within the graphical user interface, that displays the phone number of each respective business; performing one of:
initiating, by the STB responsive to the customer's selection of the selectable button that displays the phone number, a voice call as a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call to the 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, orinitiating, by the STB responsive to the customer's selection of the selectable button that displays the phone number, establishment of a voice call between the phone number associated with the business and the mobile device, or other telephone network device, associated with the customer via a telephone network, wherein the STB is a different device than the mobile device, the other VoIP device, or the other telephone network device. |
