Patent ID: 6867797

Claim:
A method comprising: establishing a racket-based call session with a remote party over an Internet Protocol network; receiving information associated with at least one physical attribute of the remote party during the packet-based call session, the received information representing movement of the at least one physical attribute, and the received information being different from video data of the at least one physical attribute; animating at least a portion of an image associated with the remote parts based on the received information; displaying the animated image during the packet-based call session; receiving, at a receiving device, at least one of a phone number and name associated with the packet-based call session; determining whether the image associated with the remote part is stored locally in the receiving device based on the at least one of the phone number and name associated with the packet-based call session; accessing the image stored locally in the receiving device in response to determining that the image is stored locally; and accessing the image from another device over the Internet Protocol network in response to determining that the image is not stored locally.