Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for providing targeted content to a user. In one embodiment, a method is provided comprising: determining whether a phone number for a digital call involving a mobile device or a user computing entity is one of a plurality of target phone numbers; responsive to determining that the phone number is one of the target phone numbers, identifying content control rules associated with the phone number; responsive to identifying the content control rules, identifying actions to be carried out in accordance with the content control rules, wherein at least one of the actions involves providing the targeted content via a call companion interface available through the mobile device or the user computing entity in response to an occurrence of an idle instance experienced by the user on the digital call while the digital call is connected.

The present disclosure describes a system, method, and computer-readable medium for providing audio announcement of communications to a called party in a communication network. The method includes receiving communication from a calling party and performing a lookup of information relating to the calling party in a database via an Internet Protocol connection based on an identifier of at least one of the calling party and the called party. The information comprises one or more audio files. The method then provides the audio announcement to a called party based on the audio files.

The present disclosure generally relates to managing phone calls. In some embodiments, an electronic device with a touch screen displays a phone call user interface which includes informational items associated with phone calls as well as other affordances. In some embodiments, the electronic device displays an incoming call user interface that includes selectable options that, when selected via user input, display different user interfaces.

A process for real-time data exchange allows for sharing data, including metadata such as user data and phone data, between multiple handsets so that handsets may automatically display such data upon initiation or establishment of a telephone call, and in some arrangements throughout the life of the call. In this way, the need for subsequent data transmissions is reduced or eliminated, making bandwidth usage more efficient and conserving battery power.

Disclosed in the present invention are a profile picture display method based on IMS call, a storage device, and a mobile terminal. In the method in the present invention, when an IMS call connection is established between mobile terminals, the two mobile terminals exchange profile picture information of users of the mobile terminals, and match the latest profile picture of the opposite user with a local address book; when finding that the profile picture of the opposite user is vacant or needs to be updated, the mobile terminal obtains the latest profile picture of the opposite user, updates the latest profile picture to the local address book for storage, and displays the latest profile picture of the opposite user on its call interface.

A method may include receiving an indication of a call from a caller who is not a participant in a sender-controlled media (SCM) platform to a recipient who is a participant, using caller ID information to gather content pertaining to the caller (e.g., from data stores of the platform and public number search information), generating a SCM data structure based on the gathered content, and delivering the SCM data structure to a call-originating device. In another aspect, a method may include gathering call context for an active call, and developing an understanding of one or more of a call intent, a call participant, and a participant action based on content exchanged between the caller and recipient. Content suggesting algorithms may then determine candidate items of content relevant to the participants of the call for presentation to at least one of the caller and the recipient during the call.

Automated dialing of an entity from a curated list of entities responsive to user selections of dial pad entries, the curated list of entities formed from phrases formed from the dial pad entries. The curated list of entities is based on at least one of user call activity, search engine activity responsive to the phrases, a set of Sender Controlled Media participants, a set of categories of contacts, and entity offerings.

Conditionally connecting a smart phone to an incoming call based on user interaction with an incentive offer associated with the call that is presented in an incoming call display on a lockscreen of the smart phone. A dialer controlling the incoming call display accesses the incentive offer through a visual portion of a Sender Controlled Media data structure. The dialer can adjust the incentive offer based on user interaction with the incoming call display.

A business application that includes a workflow for handling a call is adapted to perform a call service selected from a library of Sender Controlled Media business application services by configuring at least one service from the library for operation with the business application and utilizing the adapted business application to handle calls per the workflow.

A call handling function executed in response to activation of a link in encoded metadata of an incoming call adjusts presentation of visual content of the incoming call on a lockscreen of a smart phone based on information in the metadata that is descriptive of the incoming call. The incoming call metadata is decoded prior to connecting the incoming call to a dialer function of the smart phone.