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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1999
Guido M. Schuster, Des Plaines, IL (US);
Ikhlaq S. Sidhu, Vernon Hills, IL (US);
Jerry J. Mahler, Prospect Heights, IL (US);
Frederick D. Dean, Chicago, IL (US);
Jacek A. Grabiec, Chicago, IL (US);
Guido M. Schuster, Des Plaines, IL (US);
Ikhlaq S. Sidhu, Vernon Hills, IL (US);
Jerry J. Mahler, Prospect Heights, IL (US);
Frederick D. Dean, Chicago, IL (US);
Jacek A. Grabiec, Chicago, IL (US);
3Com Corporation, Marlborough, MA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for providing advertising and advertising services using a telephone system. A data network telephony system includes a commercial message server that communicates with a telephony connection server to communicate commercial messages to display devices on data network telephones. A caller uses the data network telephone to make a telephone call to a callee. The commercial message server receives information about the connection and retrieves commercial messages, or advertisements to communicate to either the caller, the callee or both.