Patent ID: 8149848
Filing Date: 2012-04-03
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04N

Abstract:
1. A system supporting the delivery of information to a plurality of access devices, the system comprising: a gateway collecting, from at least a portion of the plurality of access devices, information about various multimedia information sources accessible to the gateway and available on the at least a portion of the plurality of access devices, wherein the collected information comprises metadata; the gateway searching the collected information using information identifying one or both of a called party and/or a calling party, to identify potential sources of multimedia information associated with one or both of the called party and/or the calling party; the gateway retrieving from the identified potential information sources, multimedia information associated with one or both of the called party and/or the calling party; and the gateway delivering the retrieved multimedia information to one or both of the called party and/or the calling party.