Patent ID: 7274779

Claim:
A method for sending a data message from a sending party's device to a receiving party's device over a telecommunication network during an active telephone call, comprising the steps of: providing a display prompt on said sending party's device during an active call, said display prompt associating a first keypad digit with a telephone number of said sending party, a second keypad digit with GPS coordinates of said sending party's device, and a third keypad digit with an email address of said sending party; receiving an input selection of a keypad digit in response to said display prompt, said selected keypad digit associated with an information type comprising said telephone number of said sending party, said GPS coordinates of said sending party's device, or said email address of said sending party; providing said data message comprising said selected information type for said sending party's device; converting said data message inputted into said sending party's device into signals; and transmitting said signals in-band over said telecommunication network to said receiving party's device, wherein said sending party's device and said receiving party's device are connected in said active telephone call, and wherein said signals are reconverted into said data message by said receiving party's device during said active telephone call.