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Picture phone with caller id

DC CAFC
  • US 7,257,210 B1
  • Filed: 02/11/2005
  • Issued: 08/14/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/05/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of communicating information from a message originator to a message recipient 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 as to when the message is sent to a message center, the message center being coupled to a communications network;

    receiving at the message center 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; and

    ,causing the communications network to wirelessly transmit the caller ID and the picture from the message center to the wireless portable communication device.

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