Patent ID: 8879989

Claim:
A caller-identification display system comprising: a display system, operating to display a first program; a tip and ring interface, that receives tip and ring information from a tip and ring interface of a wired telephone, said tip and ring interface having a caller ID demodulator that demodulates caller ID interface that is encoded in the tip and ring line, a controller that receives the demodulated caller ID information, and a transceiver that sends the tip and ring demodulated caller ID information wirelessly under control of the controller receiving the caller ID information; a wireless interface, operating over a first wireless band using a first wireless communication format, said wireless interface wirelessly receiving said tip and ring demodulated caller-identification information from the tip and ring interface of a wired telephone system using the first communication format, and said wireless interface wirelessly receiving second caller identification information directly from a cellular phone, also using the first wireless communication format; the display system operating for displaying both the first and the second the caller-identification information at the display system when the first and the second caller identification information are received.