Patent ID: 6970915

Claim:
A method of providing streaming content from the Internet to a telephone using a computer system, the computer system including a telephone interface system coupled in communications with an Internet access system, the telephone interface system being coupled in communications with the telephone, the method comprising: receiving an Internet access request at an execution engine of the computer system, the Internet access request based at least in part on an implicit preference of a user profile and corresponding to streaming content of an Internet site outside of the computer system, wherein the user profile is automatically modified to include the implicit preference in response to a user repeatedly accessing streaming content associated with the Internet site and without the user explicitly directing the computer system to add the implicit preference to the user profile; receiving the streaming content from the Internet site at a streaming engine of the computer system, the streaming content including an audio portion; and sending at least the audio portion of the streaming content from a telephone gateway over the telephone interface system to send an audio signal, corresponding to the audio portion, to the telephone.