Personalized Audio Video Invitations for Call Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current telecommunications systems lack a reliable method for call recipients to determine whether to accept or reject incoming calls, as conventional Caller ID can be spoofed, leading to missed important calls and unwanted business communications.
Innovation Solution
Implementing personalized audio or video invitations that call recipients can review before accepting a call, which are recorded by the call initiator and sent with call completion information, allowing the recipient to decide on call acceptance and monitored by the initiator for status updates.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If Caller ID is used to identify calling parties, then call identification is enabled, but Caller ID can be spoofed rendering it useless
Solution Approach 1:
The system records a personalized video message in advance by the calling party, which is then presented to the called party before the call is accepted. This preliminary action allows the called party to verify the caller's identity through pre-recorded visual evidence rather than relying on potentially spoofed Caller ID information.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of relying on the potentially fake Caller ID text, the system creates and transmits a video copy of the actual caller. This visual copy serves as authentic proof of identity that cannot be easily spoofed, replacing the unreliable text-based identification system.
2Reliability
If call recipients accept all incoming calls without verification, then no important calls are missed, but unwanted calls are also accepted
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides the called party with selective verification options rather than requiring complete review of all call invitations. The called party can choose to review video messages for certain callers while accepting calls from trusted numbers without review, performing only the necessary verification actions rather than exhaustive checking of all calls.
3Reliability
If personalized video invitations are implemented, then call verification capability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary component that manages the video invitation system. The server handles video recording, storage, retrieval, and transmission, as well as managing the signaling between calling and called parties. This intermediary absorbs much of the system complexity, keeping the client devices relatively simple while enabling sophisticated verification capabilities.
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AI summary
A system and method for managing phone calls by enabling the call initiator to create a personalized audio or video invitation that the call recipient may review prior to accepting the call, which is immediately connected upon acceptance. Prior to completion of the call, the call recipient may be comforted that the incoming call is one that should be taken or, conversely, one that may be safely avoided. The personalized audio or video invitation is created by the call initiator and is attached to the phone call data packet in place of the conventional Caller ID data packet. The call signaling may proceed in a conventional manner except that instead of providing a standard call with Caller ID as the sole identifying information, a data packet including the personalized audio or video invitation is provided to the call recipient to review prior to accepting the incoming call.