Patent ID: 7139374

Claim:
A data-gathering system, comprising: a geographical location identification server configured to receive an instruction having a telephone number, wherein the telephone number is associated with an incoming telephone call to a callee, wherein the geographical location identification server is further configured to correlate the telephone number to geographical location identification information in response to the received instruction, wherein the geographical location identification server is further configured to transmit the correlated geographical location identification information, and wherein the geographical location identification information is configured to identify a geographic location; a geographical location descriptive information server having geographical location description information associated with the correlated geographical location identification information, wherein the geographical location description information is configured to indicate at least one occurrence that occurs proximate to the geographic location; and a computer system configured to receive the transmitted correlated geographical location identification information from the geographical location identification server, wherein the computer system is further configured to collect geographical location description information from the geographical location descriptive information server, wherein the geographical location description information is associated with the received geographical location identification information.