Interactive mobile caller-identification information on a television
View Patent ↗A system and associated methods and media of delivering a notification of an incoming call and a series of interactive options such that a user can provide call-handling instructions to a wireless communications network for the incoming call. The notification and interactive options are transferred to a display device across at least a partially wired network. The indication and caller-identification information is inserted into a video stream that is communicated from the video-providing component to a media-receiving device that is in communication with a display device. The video-providing component receives call-handling instructions from the media-receiving device, as selected by a user, regarding the incoming call and then transmits the call-handling instructions to the wireless communications network.
1. A non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of transmitting caller-identification information associated with an incoming call to a wireless mobile device at least from a video-providing component to a display device, the method comprising:
upon determining a location of the wireless mobile device to be in a home condition, receiving an indication of said incoming call and said associated caller-identification information at said video-providing component;
inserting said caller-identification information into a video stream at said video-providing component;
inserting interactive options into the video stream, wherein the interactive options enable a user to respond to the caller-identification information via interaction with a media-receiving device, and wherein at least one of the interactive options represents a prompt to forward the incoming call to one or more alternative telephone numbers;
communicating said video stream from said video-providing component to the media-receiving device at least partially across a wired pathway, wherein said video stream is capable of being presented on said display device;
receiving call-handling instructions at said video-providing component from said media-receiving device regarding said incoming call, wherein receiving the call-handling instructions comprises:
(a) receiving a selection of the prompt to forward the incoming call to one or more alternative telephone numbers;
(b) upon detecting the selection of the prompt, replacing the interactive options with a pre-programmed series of phone numbers; and
(c) receiving a selection of at least one of the series of phone numbers or an entry of a particular phone number; and
transmitting said call handling instructions from said video-providing component to a wireless communications network.
2. The media of claim 1 , further comprising removing said caller identification information and interactive options from said video stream upon receipt of said call handling instructions.
3. The media of claim 1 , wherein said call handling instructions are sent from said media-receiving device to said video-providing component and then to said wireless communications network by way of at least a portion of a cable network.