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US 7,062,029 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for communicating information about a called party to a calling party
AssigneeSBC Properties, L.P.
InventorArnold M. Lund
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Abstract
A method and apparatus is provided for automatically retrieving and displaying supplemental information about a called party on the CPE of a calling party. When a caller places a call, the number called is used to look up and return to the caller the Universal Resource Locator (URL) of the called party. Application software resident in the caller's CPE uses the URL to retrieve the home page of the called party from the Internet.
Claims6
A method of obtaining information about a called party at a calling party device, the method comprising:
- entering a telephone number for the called party at the calling party device;
- receiving at the calling party device an address for locating a customized file of the called party;
- retrieving the customized file at the calling party device using the address received;
- and
- communicating from the calling party device with the called party over a voice channel associated with the telephone number.
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