Patent ID: 6934369

Claim:
A method for displaying multimedia data packet information associated with at least one of the called and calling telephone numbers to a system client or subscriber comprising the steps of: storing a multiplicity of units of specific multimedia data packet information at a first central system location, each unit of specific information associated with at least one specific telephone number; providing first and second bidirectional voice telephone devices associated respectively with first and second telephone numbers, and associating a first multimedia data packet display device with said first telephone device, each of said first and second bidirectional voice telephone devices at locations remote from said central system location; dialing the telephone number associated with one of said first and second telephone devices from the other one of said first and second telephone devices; evaluating said first and second telephone numbers with service control point SCP logic and determining that said first number is associated with a system client and a multimedia data packet display device; transmitting a unit of specific multimedia data packet information stored in said central system location and associated with said second telephone number to said first display device associated with said first telephone device and in response to a signal from said SCP logic; and automatically initiating a connection between said first bidirectional voice telephone devices and said second bidirectional voice telephone devices with the PSTN (public switched telephone network).