Patent ID: 7315618

Claim:
An apparatus for audibly annunciating at a device caller identification information transmitted over a network, the information being transmitted in the form of a modulated signal to the device wherein the modulated signal is representative of the information, the apparatus comprising: a receiver for capturing a ring signal and a modulated signal representative of the caller identification information transmitted over a network, the modulated signal comprising a stream of characters representative of the caller identification information; a converter in communication with the receiver for converting the modulated signal into a stream of audible caller ID signals, wherein the converter processes the stream of characters in real-time as the characters are received from the network; a display to visually display the stream of characters in real time and concurrently with the audible caller ID signals being enunciated; one or more matching networks to reroute and forward the audible caller ID signals from the apparatus to a speaker in an alternative communication device; and a speaker in communication with the converter for producing audible sounds corresponding to the stream of audible caller ID signals representative of the information received over the network.