Bright Sun Technologies

The patents in this lot relate in general to online telephony services. Various techniques are disclosed for providing web services or online telephony services such as, alerting user for a waiting call based on his preferences, screening calls by using audio servers to identify messages from the callers, identifying services enabled on a telephone by placing test calls, responding to calls on the basis of a user’s selection (e.g., to send an IM as a response) etc. The techniques may be implemented as VoIP or telephony services.