Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Jerry McBride on Saturday 01 March 2008 21:51 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Apple sued over iPhone caller ID
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Figa's patent, describes an "an automatic incoming telephone call number
>>> | display system for detecting an incoming call and identifying the party
>>> | associated with the incoming call number".
>>> |
>>> | Like the iPhone, the system "includes a directory of telephone numbers
>>> | and parties associated with those numbers," and it's equipped with
>>> | "circuitry detects the origin telephone number of an incoming telephone
>>> | call and compares that number with numbers in the directory for
>>> | identifying the calling party."
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/01/apple_sued_over_iphone_callerid/
>>>
>>> Apple should really stop filing patents and start fighting against them.
>>>
>>
>> Back in the late 80's I worked with a sale company and setup a software
>> suite that would record/detect incoming phone calls and link them to a
>> database. If there was a match, the customers account was displayed to a
>> console, enabling the answering sales person to have complete and immediate
>> access to the clients purchasing records... It boosted sales through the
>> roof, as anyone (talented enough) could pick up the phone and sound like an
>> expert in the areas that the customer was interested in...
>>
>> I did this magic with a service the phone company called CALLER ID... How
>> the hell can Apple patent something that hangs off of that??? It's been
>> around for ages...
>
> Apple will probably call it defencive, but that's how it all begins before
> patents get sold to trolls or used as a last act of desperation when the
> company collapse. Red Hat can be accused also, but to a lesser extent.
>
CallerID is a function of C7 networks. Basically, it's just about
moving the A-number around and presenting to the dialled party using
suitable signalling. Obviously, the A-number is essential for billing,
and the B-number for routeing, so the two are fundamental to how the
signalling of the PSTN works.
Trying to patent something which has been around in some form or another
for the whole period of existence of telephone networks, which is around
100 years, is a bit daft.
Someone, somewhere, please shut down the USPTO.
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