Patent ID: 8848891

Claim:
A method for providing caller identification services to an Internet Protocol-enabled device, comprising: mapping a telephone number to an Internet Protocol-enabled device address of a user; storing the mapping in a storage device; receiving, from a mobile switching center, a communication request from a caller device over a voice network, the communication request including a caller party number of the caller device and a called party number of a called device associated with the communication request, the called party number indicative of the telephone number; receiving a termination attempt trigger; and sending, to the mobile switching center, a termination authorization trigger, the termination authorization trigger operable for causing termination of a voice communication, subject to the communication request, between the caller device and the called device; determining which Internet Protocol-enabled devices, of a number of Internet Protocol-enabled devices associated with a user of the called device, have selectively requested to receive caller information; retrieving, from the storage device, the Internet Protocol-enabled device address based on the determining; and sending the caller party number to the Internet Protocol-enabled device address corresponding to the called party number; wherein mapping the telephone number to the Internet Protocol-enabled device address of the user is performed when a subsystem number validated by a signal transfer point over an SS7 network indicates that a service offering provided by a service provider includes the caller identification services to the Internet Protocol-enabled device.