Patent ID: 7474745

Claim:
A method of providing user notification of incoming calls received during on-going data communications, comprising: in response to a calling party placing a call from a calling number to a called number of a called party, a telecommunications network determining whether the called number is busy; if the called number is busy, the telecommunications network further: determining whether the called number is engaged in data communications by analyzing traffic on the communications line being used by the called number; if the called number is engaged in data communications, further comprising: the telecommunications network determining a data communication protocol being used by the called party to access the data network via a modem device; the telecommunications network retrieving from a user profile of the called party one or more user notification addresses associated with the data communication protocol being used by the called party; the telecommunications network transmitting an incoming call notification message to the one or more user notification addresses of the called party; and the telecommunications network transmitting a reporting notification message to the calling party that the incoming call notification message has been transmitted to the called party; and if the called number is not engaged in data communications, the telecommunications network returning a busy indicator to the calling party.