Patent ID: 6483898
Filing Date: 2002-11-19
Classification: H04M,H04Q

Abstract:
A system for providing telephone service information comprising:a first customer premises equipment, connected to a general switched telephone network, for communicating with a second customer premises equipment in response to a termination attempt from the second customer premises equipment, the first customer premises equipment having a display for displaying a plurality of entries from a first and second event messages; a telephony platform connected to the general switched telephone network for providing an accessory telephone service to the first customer premises equipment to support the termination attempt, the telephony platform being operable to generate an accessory event message for facilitating notification of the first customer premises equipment; and an event processor for receiving the accessory event message; the event processor generating at least one of the first event message and the second event message based on the accessory event message, the first event message having a calling party identifier consistent with the termination attempt; the second event message having an information indicator indicating a message type of a stored message awaiting delivery to a called party of the first premises equipment; the event processor comparing an original event identifier from the termination attempt to a subsequent event identifier associated with a service of the telephony platform to support integration of stored data into the second event message.