Patent ID: 7536177

Claim:
A system supporting the delivery of enhanced caller identification information to a plurality of access devices, the system comprising: a gateway communicatively coupled to a broadband network and at least one wireless interface, the gateway selectively exchanging multimedia information among the at least one wireless interface and the broadband network, and of communicating with the plurality of access devices via the at least one wireless interface; the gateway collecting, from at least a portion of the plurality of access devices, information about various multimedia information sources accessible to the gateway and available on the at least a portion of the plurality of access devices, wherein the collected information comprises metadata; the gateway receiving information identifying one or both of: a called party and/or a calling party; the gateway searching the collected information using the received information identifying one of: the called party or the calling party, to identify potential sources of multimedia information associated with one or both of: the called party and/or the calling party; the gateway retrieving from the identified potential information sources, multimedia information associated with one or both of: the called party and/or the calling party based upon at least one user-defined parameter; and the gateway delivering the retrieved multimedia information to one or both of: the called party and/or the calling party.