Patent ID: 7729488
Filing Date: 2010-06-01
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: detecting and decoding an outgoing communication from a communications address of a calling party's communications device to a simultaneous ring service line communications address, the simultaneous ring service line communications address comprising a plurality of different communications addresses associated with a called party; detecting an answer to the outgoing communication from an answering communications address of the simultaneous ring service line; creating a simultaneous ring called party identification signal to identify the answering communications address, the answering communications address comprising a telecommunications address and a data communications address; communicating the simultaneous ring called party identification signal to the calling party's communications address; detecting and decoding an outgoing communication from a second communications address of a second calling party's communications device to the simultaneous ring service line communications address; creating a simultaneous ring second called party identifications signal to identify the incoming communication from the second calling party's communications device, the simultaneous ring second called party identification signal comprising the simultaneous ring called party identification signal and data associated with the second communications address; and selectively communicating the simultaneous ring second called party identification signal.