The patent covers actually transmitting the picture data along with the caller ID data, and it may be that those are the only carriers that do this. I know my phone (with AT&T) stores the pictures locally, and thus would not violate the patent.
yea thats weird. Seems like such a stupid way of accomplishing picture ID, other than maybe the caller could change the image thats pushed to the receiving phone whenever they wish. Oh, and I guess this would work for callers not in the contact list of the receiving phone. Now it seems like a pretty good idea, although I don't know how this would work. The calling phone would have to send data out during every call? Or they would "register" an image and the carrier network would handle it? interesting...
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Cory @ Mar 6th 2008 12:03PM
The patent covers actually transmitting the picture data along with the caller ID data, and it may be that those are the only carriers that do this. I know my phone (with AT&T) stores the pictures locally, and thus would not violate the patent.
Sam Winter @ Mar 6th 2008 5:19PM
yea thats weird. Seems like such a stupid way of accomplishing picture ID, other than maybe the caller could change the image thats pushed to the receiving phone whenever they wish.
Oh, and I guess this would work for callers not in the contact list of the receiving phone. Now it seems like a pretty good idea, although I don't know how this would work. The calling phone would have to send data out during every call? Or they would "register" an image and the carrier network would handle it? interesting...