Patent ID: 7463727
Filing Date: 2008-12-09
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A caller identification messaging device, comprising: a database of caller identification messaging profiles including at least one of (i) a caller identification message, the caller identification message comprising a user specified text message, a user specified visual message, a user specified visual doodle, pre-selected user-specified data stored in the database, and real-time data input into the caller identification messaging device, (ii) an identifier of a calling party, and (iii) a destination communications address of a receiving party's communications device; a processor, the processor operating with a caller identification messaging program for accessing, inputting, outputting, and generating a caller identification messaging signal, the caller identification messaging signal including the caller identification message and at least one of (i) the identifier of the calling party, (ii) the destination communications address, and (iii) an identifier of at least one of a calling party's communications device and the caller identification messaging device, and the processor further operating with a communications device interface for formatting and communicating the caller identification messaging signal with a communications network, the communications network communicating at least the caller identification message and the caller identification messaging signal to the destination communications address, the processor further operating with the caller identification messaging program to process a response caller identification messaging signal for display to the caller identification messaging device, the response caller identification messaging signal comprising a response caller identification message comprising response data retrieved from another caller identification messaging device, the response data comprising a user specified response text message, a user specified response visual message, a user specified response visual doodle, pre-selected user-specified response data stored in a database of caller identification messaging profiles of the other caller identification messaging device, and real-time data input into the other caller identification messaging device, wherein the response caller identification messaging signal is communicated via a communications network to at least one of a receiving party communications device, a calling party communications device, and a third party communications device; the caller identification messaging program residing in memory, the caller identification messaging program for generating the caller identification messaging signal, the caller identification messaging signal including at least one of selected data stored in the database of caller identification messaging profiles and data input into the caller identification messaging device; and the communications device interface for communicating the caller identification messaging signal between the caller identification messaging device and at least one of the communications network and the calling party's communications device.