Patent ID: 7221936

Claim:
A method for completing a multimedia call addressed to a user address of a mobile user at a multimedia terminal adapted to present messages in at least one of audio, video, text and facsimile formats and coupled through a network to a call processing server, the mobile user having registered to receive a multimedia call at the multimedia terminal by transmitting information including the user address to the multimedia terminal from a personal intelligent device (“PID”) having a PID address, comprising: receiving from the multimedia terminal at the call processing server both the user address received from the PID and the physical address of the multimedia terminal; storing the user address and the physical address of the multimedia terminal in a mobile user record in the call processing server; responsive to a multimedia call addressed to the user address, determining the physical address based at least partly from the mobile user record; transmitting call notification information from the call processing server to the multimedia terminal at the physical address; transmitting a call announcement message from the multimedia terminal addressed to the PID address; and completing the multimedia call to the multimedia terminal at the physical address.