Method and system for providing caller information
View Patent ↗Methods and systems of providing caller information are provided. Exemplary systems and methods provide location information for audio files including the caller information. The location information can be used to retrieve the audio information, which can be played on a call recipient's device, and/or a translation of the audio information, which can be displayed on the call recipient's device.
1. A method of providing caller information, the method comprising the steps of:
initiating a voice-over-Interned (VoIP) call between a first device and a second device;
providing file location information corresponding to caller identification information during a call setup of the VoIP call between the first device and the second device, the caller identification information comprising one or more of audio caller identification information and text caller identification information, wherein the text caller identification information is one or more of in a first language and uses a first alphabet;
using the file location information, retrieving the audio information; and
during the call setup, performing one or more of playing the audio caller identification information, displaying the text caller identification in a second language after translating the text caller identification from the first language, and displaying the text caller identification using a second alphabet on the second device after transcribing the text caller identification that uses the first alphabet.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the file location is on the first device.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the file location is on a server.
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising a step of recording the audio caller identification information using the first device.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the file location information comprises a URL address.
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising a step of transcribing the audio caller identification information to text information.
7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising a step of displaying the text information on the second device using the second alphabet.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the audio caller identification information comprises a user's name.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first device displays information using the first alphabet and the second device displays information using the second alphabet.
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first device is configured to display information in the first language and the second device is configured to display information in the second language.