Patent ID: 7286658

Claim:
A method of communicating information from a message originator to a message receipt having a wireless portable communication device, comprising the steps of: initiating a message from a message originator to a message recipient under the control of the message originator; receiving at a message center coupled to a communications network both message originator information provided automatically by the communications network as the caller ID identifying the telephone number of the message originator, and a non-facsimile picture obtained from the message originator prior to transmitting the caller ID to a wireless portable communication device; causing the communications network to wirelessly transmit the caller ID and the picture from the message center to the wireless portable communication device; pre-storing logo image data and associated caller ID of a potential message originator in a database record in memory; using the wireless portable communication device to receive a wireless signal containing at least one of the Caller ID or other caller identifying data related to an actual message originator; using a CPU to determine whether at least one of the Caller ID or other caller identifying data received at the wireless portable communication device matches caller identifying data of a potential message originator stored in at least one database record recorded in memory; and using the CPU to display the pre-stored logo image data corresponding to the matching pre-stored caller identifying data on a wireless portable communication device display member when it is determined that at least one of the received Caller ID or other caller identifying data received at the wireless portable communication device matches the pre-stored caller identifying data of a potential message originator.