Patent ID: 7623645

Claim:
A data-gathering system for gathering information for a communications session, the system comprising: a location server configured to receive a caller IP address associated with an internet telephony caller device and a callee IP address associated with an internet telephony callee device, wherein the location server is further configured to correlate the caller IP address and callee IP address to geographical location identifiers in response to a received instruction, wherein the location server is further configured to transmit the correlated geographical location identifiers; an information server for associating geographical location description information with each of a plurality of geographical location identifiers, wherein the geographical location identifiers include the geographical location identifier correlated to the caller IP address and the callee IP address; and a computer system configured to receive the transmitted geographical location identifiers from the location server, wherein upon receiving at least a portion of the geographical location identifiers from the location server, the computer system is further configured to automatically collect caller geographical location description information and callee geographical location description information from the information server, wherein the geographical location description information is associated with the received geographical location identifiers, wherein the communications session is initiated by a communications request from a caller device, directed to a callee address, and wherein the computer system is further configured to convey at least a portion of the automatically collected caller geographical location description information to the callee and convey at least a portion of the automatically collected callee geographical location description information to the caller; wherein the caller geographical location description information and the callee geographical location description information include one of local weather, local news and local sporting events.