Patent ID: 7426264

Claim:
Under message originator control as to when a page including a message can be sent to a message center, a method of communicating information from a message originator having a telephone connected to a communication network that automatically provides caller identification information and a picture to a message recipient having a wireless portable communication drive that is pageable over the communications network in communication with a message center, such message center in communication with the communications network, comprising the steps of: initiating a message from a message originator to page a message recipient, the page being under the control of the message originator as to when the page is sent to a message center; receiving at the message center as a result of the page message originator identification information provided automatically by the communications network as a caller ID identifying the telephone number of the message originator and a picture obtained from the message originator prior to transmitting the caller ID to the wireless portable communication device; and, causing the communications network to wirelessly transmit the caller ID and the picture to the wireless portable communication device.