Patent ID: 8515406

Claim:
A method for presenting tailored calling party data in a mobile client device in connection with a voice call, the method comprising: initiating the voice call in a mobile client of a calling party; sending a pre-call message from the calling mobile client to a library server before starting a call connection procedure to a mobile client of a called party; monitoring, at the library server, an elapsed time since the library server received a response from the mobile client of the called party; starting the call connection procedure to the mobile client of the called party if the elapsed time is greater than a predetermined threshold; if the elapsed time is less than the predetermined threshold, presenting a prompt at the mobile client of the called party to accept the tailored calling party data and, if the mobile client of the called party accepts, sending tailored calling party data of the calling party from the library server to the mobile client of a called party preceding a voice call initiation message belonging to the call connection procedure of the calling mobile client; starting the call connection procedure to the mobile client of a called party; connecting the voice call from the mobile client of the calling party to the mobile client of the called party; and presenting during alerting the incoming call a tailored pre-call calling party data that is at least a part of the tailored calling party data on a display of the mobile client of the called party.