Patent ID: 6954521
Filing Date: 2005-10-11
Classification: H04M,H04Q

Abstract:
1. A method for processing a call from a calling party at a calling communication station to a called party at a called communication station in a communications system, the method comprising: receiving a terminating attempt query including a calling party identifier and a calling party restriction indicator associated with the call at a Service Control Point (SCP) of the communications system; at the SCP, in response to the terminating attempt query, determining whether standard caller identification can be provided for the call, including at least one of if standard caller identification can not be provided for the call, initiating a prompt to the calling party to provide spoken caller identification information; storing the spoken caller identification information; determining if the called communication station is off hook; if the called communication station is off hook, providing audible call waiting information including one of the stored spoken caller identification information and an audible representation of name data associated with the calling communication station; if the called communication station is on hook, ringing the called communication station; and providing available caller identification information to the called communication station.