Patent ID: 7283625

Claim:
A communications system for providing caller identification messaging, the system comprising: a communications server communicating with a communications network for detecting an incoming commutations signal on a communications link from a calling party communications device to a caller identification messaging access address; a caller identification messaging application communicating with at least one of the communications network, the calling party communications device, and a caller identification messaging dataserver, the caller identification messaging application generating at least one of a caller identification message and a caller identification messaging signal, the caller identification messaging signal comprising the caller identification message and at least one of (i) an identifier of a calling party, (ii) an identifier of a destination communications address, and (iii) an identifier of an originating communications address; and the caller identification messaging dataserver for storing a caller identification messaging profile, the caller identification messaging profile comprising at least one of (i) the caller identification message, (ii) the identifier of the calling party, (iii) the identifier of the originating communications address, (iv) caller identification messaging services associated with at least one of the calling party and the originating address, (v) the identifier of the destinations communications address, (vi) an identifier of a receiving party communications device, (vii) caller identification messaging services associated with at least one of the receiving party and the destinations communications address, and (viii) caller identification messaging default service parameters, the caller identification messaging application determining that the receiving party has requested a response caller identification message, the caller identification messaging application accessing the caller identification messaging dataserver to access the caller identification messaging profile in creation of response caller identification message from the receiving party to the calling party.