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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2008
Karen Jeanne Pelletier, Crystal Lake, IL (US);
Laura Marie Griffith, Dundee, IL (US);
Michael Steven Pickard, Highland Park, IL (US);
Gayle Roberta Ekstrom, Chicago, IL (US);
Robert Wesley Bossemeyer, Jr., St. Charles, IL (US);
Raymond Walden Bennett, Iii, Naperville, IL (US);
Jordan Howard Light, Mt. Prospect, IL (US);
Edmond W. Israelski, Lake Barrington, IL (US);
Bruce Edward Stuckman, Algonquin, IL (US);
Karen Jeanne Pelletier, Crystal Lake, IL (US);
Laura Marie Griffith, Dundee, IL (US);
Michael Steven Pickard, Highland Park, IL (US);
Gayle Roberta Ekstrom, Chicago, IL (US);
Robert Wesley Bossemeyer, Jr., St. Charles, IL (US);
Raymond Walden Bennett, III, Naperville, IL (US);
Jordan Howard Light, Mt. Prospect, IL (US);
Edmond W. Israelski, Lake Barrington, IL (US);
Bruce Edward Stuckman, Algonquin, IL (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A network-based announcement and message delivery service for providing a landline customer with information of interest such as weather, financial market data, time/temperature, sporting event results, etc. In a first embodiment, information is provided to a subscriber who simply lifts the handset of the telephone. The subscriber instead of hearing a dial tone hears the information in the form of streaming audio. In another embodiment, information is provided to the subscriber by way of information displayed on a caller-ID display and/or by way of talking caller-ID.