Augmenting a call with context

摘要

A method and system for providing context of a caller to a callee when a call is initiated is provided. The context system executing on the calling device collects context for the call. The calling device initiates the call and sends a message to the callee that includes the context. Upon receiving the message, the callee device notifies the caller that a call has been initiated and displays the received context. The callee can decide based on the received context whether to answer the call or not answer the call.

主权项

1. A computer-readable memory storing instructions of a context system for controlling a device of a caller to provide context for a call, the instructions comprising:
instructions that receive from the caller an indication of a callee to whom a call is to be placed; instructions that, after receiving the indication of the callee to whom the call is to be placed, automatically collect from an executing application that is not part of the context system context for the call to be placed to the callee; and instructions that send from the device of the caller to the callee a message indicating that the caller is placing a call to the callee, the message including the automatically collected context for presenting to the callee before the call is answered.