Patent ID: 8582728
Filing Date: 2013-11-12
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. An audio information system, using phone communication lines (PCL), the system characterized by offering extensive information to anyone with a telephone and access to a public PCL (unregistered caller,) the information selected and stored on a host by independent and unrelated content providers distinct from the host (subscribers), the system comprising: a computer based host of the system accessible to phones for telephony communication through a public PCL connection independently of Internet Service Providers (ISP's); the host supporting multiple indexed stored audio information segments (SAIS) available for playback to multiple unregistered callers; content of the segments substantially selected and supplied and stored by multiple independent subscribers, wherein the segments contain information related to at least one of consumer items for sale, general public interest content, entity information, and educational content; and a host supported interactive directory system (IDS), the directory system providing for connecting an unregistered caller's phone through a PCL connection with an audio segment stored by a subscriber, in accordance with segment identification supplied over said phone line connection, for at least audio segment playback to the caller phone, the caller phone unrelated to the subscriber.