Patent ID: 8730974

Claim:
A system comprising: a modem configured for data communication with one or more broadband networks, including at least one of a digital subscriber line (DSL) network, a cable network, a satellite network, a cellular network and the internet; a wireless interface configured to establish a wireless local area network (WLAN) in a vicinity around the wireless interface for wireless communication with one or more access devices over the WLAN; a database operative to store historical information obtained from past calls between the modem and the wireless interface; a gateway configured for data communication with the modem and the wireless interface to enable broadband network access to the one or more broadband networks by the one or more access devices communicating over the WLAN, the gateway configured to communicate multimedia information among the wireless interface and the broadband network; communicate information with the one or more access devices through the wireless interface; communicate information of a user-to-user call between a called user of an access device and a calling user in communication with the gateway over the modem and a broadband network of the one or more broadband networks; receive information of the user-to-user call identifying the calling user; using the information identifying the calling user, search the database to identify sources of additional information related to the calling user; retrieving information about the calling user from the identified sources using the information identifying the calling user; retrieving from the database information selection parameters of the called party, the information selection parameters being stored in response to user selections made by the called party to select or deselect items of information to be provided to the called party; using the information selection parameters, selecting from the retrieved information items of information about the calling user desired by the called user; and communicating the selected items of information to the wireless interface for delivery to the access device of the called user.