External Database Caller Identification Translation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing voice communication devices often lack the ability to provide detailed information about unknown callers, leading to imbalances in knowledge between callers and recipients, which can cause delays or hindrances in initiating contact.

Innovation Solution

An interrogator system that retrieves and displays additional information about a caller's identity from an external database using packet-based communication channels, independent of the user's device location, ensuring secure and privacy-compliant data transfer.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If caller identification is translated using local contact list only, then device complexity is reduced, but information completeness deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecaller informationVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an external database as an intermediary component that stores and provides caller identification information. The local device queries this external database to obtain complete caller information without storing it locally, thus resolving the contradiction between information completeness and device complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If contact information is updated manually by user, then data security is improved, but time consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontact update efficiencyVSAvoidupdate time

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically querying and updating contact information in the background when calls occur, rather than waiting for manual user input. This automated preliminary update process significantly reduces the time required for contact information synchronization while maintaining security through controlled access protocols.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If external database is queried for every call, then information accuracy is improved, but communication overhead increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecaller ID accuracyVSAvoiddata transmission energy

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary queries to the external database during initial call setups or when information is likely to change, rather than querying for every single call. This preliminary action approach maintains high information accuracy while significantly reducing the frequency of data transmissions and associated energy consumption.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12452362B2Automatic caller identification translation

Publication Date: 2025.10.21 FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV

AI summary

The invention provides an interrogator for obtaining information associated with a caller identification, such as a telephone number, transmitted within an incoming telephone call including: a receiving device configured to receive the incoming telephone call and to extract the caller identification from the incoming telephone call; an interrogating device configured to receive the extracted caller identification from the receiving device and to interrogate information associated with the caller identification from an external data base, which is configured to operate independently from the user voice communication device for which the incoming telephone call is intended for; and a forwarding device configured to receive and to forward the interrogated information.