Patent ID: 7978841

Claim:
A data-gathering system for gathering information for a communications session, the system comprising: a location server configured to receive a caller IP address associated with an internet telephony caller device and a callee IP address associated with an internet telephony callee device, wherein the location server is further configured to correlate the caller IP address and callee IP address to geographical location identifiers, wherein the location server is further configured to transmit the geographical location identifiers; an information server for associating geographical location description information with each of a plurality of geographical location identifiers, wherein the geographical location identifiers include the geographical location identifier correlated to the caller IP address and the callee IP address; and a computer system configured to receive the transmitted geographical location identifiers from the location server, wherein upon receiving at least a portion of the geographical location identifiers from the location server, the computer system is further configured to collect caller geographical location description information and callee geographical location description information from the information server, wherein the geographical location description information is associated with the geographical location identifiers, and wherein the computer system is further configured to convey at least a portion of collected caller geographical location description information to the callee and convey at least a portion of collected callee geographical location description information to the caller.