Patent ID: 7496189

Claim:
A method in a public switched telephone network for dynamically providing calling party information to a called party from a calling party during a call from the calling party to the called party, wherein the called party is a user of a first customer premise equipment (CPE) device and the calling party is a user of a second CPE device, said method comprising the steps of: prompting the calling party for calling party information, wherein the calling party information comprises a message for the user of the first CPE device from the user of the second CPE device; receiving said calling party information from said calling party through a text message, voice message, or symbol; initiating a transfer of said calling party information, from said calling party to the second customer premise equipment device of said called party through employment of a caller identification mechanism of said public switched telephone network, wherein the caller identification mechanism comprises a type I or type II caller identification mechanism; dynamically displaying said calling party information for said called party via said caller identification mechanism on said second customer premise equipment device, thereby permitting said called party to take action regarding said calling party information independent of prior or current public switched telephone activities.