Patent ID: 6831969
Filing Date: 2004-12-14
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
A customer gateway for communicating with a service provider network, the service provider network providing television programming for display on a video device and telephony communications for supporting at least one telephone device, the customer gateway comprising:a service provider network interface circuit for receiving IP frames from the service provider network, the frames comprising both television programming frames and telephony frames, the telephony frames including both VolP media session frames and signaling frames comprising caller ID data; a telephony processing circuit including: means for translating the VolP media session frames to telephone signals compliant with the at least one telephone device; and means for providing the caller ID data to a television circuit; and the television circuit comprising: means for receiving the television programming frames from the network interface circuit and generating a television programming signal compliant with a receiver associated with the video device; and means for receiving the caller ID data from the telephony processing circuit and overlaying the caller ID data on a portion of a video image represented by the television programming signal.