Incoming Call Notification Management

摘要

A mobile phone establishes and maintains a data connection with an intermediate server. The intermediate server receives an incoming call from a caller. In response, the intermediate server identifies a contact group associated with the caller, and generates a notification message identifying the caller and including the identified contact group. The notification message is sent by the intermediate server to the mobile phone via the data channel, and concurrently, the intermediate server routes the incoming call to the mobile phone over a voice channel different from the data channel. The mobile phone modifies an existing contact record or generates a new contact record associated with the caller to include the contact group identified by the notification message. The mobile phone, in response to receiving the incoming call, accesses the modified contact record or generated contact record, and displays a notification identifying the caller and the identified contact group.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
establishing, by an intermediate server, a data connection over a data channel to a mobile phone associated with a first phone number corresponding to a first contact group and a second phone number corresponding to a second contact group; receiving, by the intermediate server, an incoming call from a caller, the incoming call associated with one of the first phone number and the second phone number; in response to receiving the incoming call, identifying, by the intermediate server, a contact group associated with the incoming call, the identified contact group comprising the first contact group in response to the incoming call being associated with the first phone number and comprising the second contact group in response to the incoming call being associated with the second phone number; generating, by the intermediate server, a notification message based on the identified contact group, the notification message comprising an identity of the caller and the identified contact group; sending, by the intermediate server, the notification message to the mobile phone over the data channel, wherein the mobile phone is configured, in response to receiving the notification message, either to modify an existing contact record associated with the identity of the caller to include the identified contact group or to generate a contact record for the identity of the caller including the identified contact group; and concurrent to sending the notification message, routing, by the intermediate server, the incoming call to the mobile phone over a voice channel different than the data channel, the mobile phone configured to, in response to receiving the incoming call, access the modified or generated contact record associated with the identity of the caller and display a notification identifying the caller and the contact group identified by the accessed contact record.