Patent ID: 7593517

Claim:
A tangible storage medium storing code operable in conjunction with a communication system to process a call from a calling party at a calling communication station to a called party at a called communication station, the code comprising: first code operable with a first network element to detect a call processing query from a terminating switch and, in response to the call processing query, to determine whether standard caller identification information for the calling communication station can be provided to the called communication station, the first code being further operative in conjunction with the first network element to communicate a call processing message if standard caller identification information can not be provided, the call processing message including an identifier for the called communication station and a presentation indicator; and second code operable with a second network element to receive the call processing message and to transmit a request for spoken caller identification information to the calling communication station and to store the spoken caller identification information as audible caller identification information in response to the call processing message, and further to provide the audible caller identification information to the called communication station if the called party accepts the call, the second code further operable with the second network element to detect a screen listing indication from the called communication station, and the first code operative with the first network element to intercept subsequent calls from the calling communication station to the called communication station in response to the screen listing indication.