Patent ID: 8300783

Claim:
A communications apparatus, comprising: at least one voice interface; at least one data interface; and coupled to the voice interface and data interface, a digital data processing device programmed to perform machine-implemented operations of communicating with one or more remote parties over a voice network to negotiate a digital data link over a data network, where the operations comprise: (1) employing the voice interface to establish a voice link with said parties via the voice network; (2) employing the data interface to connect to a data network and establish at least one address on said data network for use by said data interface in sending data therefrom and receiving data thereto; (3) employing the voice interface to exchange machine-readable acoustic signals over the voice network with said remote parties, said acoustic signals containing a representation of any one or more of the following: (3a) data network addresses of each of said remote parties, (3b) the established address on said data network; (4) establishing a data link via the data network with said remote parties at addresses on the network represented by the exchanged acoustic signals; and (5) employing the established address on the data network to exchange digital data representing human-readable multimedia content with at least one of the remote parties.