Patent ID: 8670534

Claim:
A method of initiating a telephonic connection, the method comprising: receiving call request data identifying a receiving device and message data corresponding to an alphanumeric call message on a computer system, wherein the computer system is distinct from a calling device, the receiving including receiving a call string, wherein the call string includes a first substring corresponding to the call request data and a second substring corresponding to the message data, the method further comprising extracting the message data from the call string using the computer system in response to the receiving; wherein the alphanumeric call message includes a user input, non-predetermined string of characters; determining a length of the alphanumeric call message based on the message data using the computer system in response to the receiving; in response to determining the length of the alphanumeric call message as less than or equal to a threshold length, initiating the telephonic connection between the calling device and the receiving device using the call request data, wherein the alphanumeric call message is included in caller ID information for the telephonic connection; and in response to determining the length of the alphanumeric call message as greater than the threshold length: transmitting a data message including the alphanumeric call message for processing by a display device associated with at least one of: the call request data or a contact associated with the call request data; and initiating the telephonic connection between the calling device and the receiving device using the alphanumeric call request data after delaying for a threshold amount of time after the transmitting, and adding data corresponding to the data message in the caller ID information for the telephonic connection, and in response to determining the length of the alphanumeric call message as greater than the threshold length.