Patent ID: 7010107

Claim:
An ICCBM system operably coupled by means of the Internet to an internet appliance of a customer, and to a public switch telephone network, the ICCBM system comprising: (a) first output means for prompting the customer from the internet appliance to enter contact information associated with an audio communication device of at least one call-receiving party; (b) first input means for receiving contact information of at least one call-receiving party from the customer's internet appliance; (c) call enabling means for placing a first telephone call to an audio communication device associated with customer, and a telephone call to each audio communication device of at least one call-receiving party; (d) bridging means for bridging the first telephone calls to the customer and at least one call-receiving party as a function of the total number of call participants, wherein the customer and one or more call-receiving parties are in audio communication; and (e) audio file switching means for transmitting an audio file to an audio communication device of one or more call-receiving parties.