HOVER TO CALL

When the user hovers on a telephone number (or other indication of a target of a voice communication) on a web page (or other interface), the telephone number will be highlighted and the user will be provided with the opportunity to make a call using the highlighted number. If the user clicks on the...

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Main Authors CHU, LONAN, LEELAPHISUT, PITAK, VEMPARALA, PRAVEEN KUMAR
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 05.01.2011
Subjects
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRICITY
TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION
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Summary:When the user hovers on a telephone number (or other indication of a target of a voice communication) on a web page (or other interface), the telephone number will be highlighted and the user will be provided with the opportunity to make a call using the highlighted number. If the user clicks on the highlighted telephone number, the telephone number will be provided to a communication application to facilitate making a telephone call. If the user moves away without clicking on the highlighted telephone number, the highlight will disappear. In alternative embodiments, a user can select text in a web page (or other interface) and, if there is a telephone number in the selected text, that telephone number can be automatically provided to the communication application to facilitate making a call. In another embodiment, the system finds telephone numbers in content and replaces those telephone number with hyperlinks to enable the behavior described above.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20070755644