Patent ID: 7003087

Claim:
A method for screening a telephony call made by a calling party to a called party, the method comprising: receiving, over a telephone network, a telephony call from the calling party at a messaging service platform; receiving an audio message generated by the calling party as a first stream of audio data; establishing a connection with an online audio server; sending the first stream of audio data to the online audio server over the established connection; leveraging an internal resource identifier to enable identification of the first stream of audio data at the online audio server; relating the internal resource identifier to an external resource identifier; sending the external resource identifier to a client system; enabling the client system to establish a connection with the online audio server; receiving an indication of the external resource identifier from the client; using the received indication of the external resource identifier and its relationship to the internal resource identifier to enable identification of the first stream of audio data; and sending the first stream of audio data to the client system over the connection established between the client system and the online audio server.