Methods, systems, and products for recipient identification

摘要

Methods, systems, and products provide called party identification to a calling party. A communication is processed from a calling communications address to one of a plurality of communications addresses associated with a simultaneous ring. When an answer is detected at one of the plurality of communications addresses, an answering communications address is sent to the calling communications address.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
processing, by a server, a communication from a sender's communications address to a destination communications address; querying, by the server, for a profile associated with the sender's communications address; retrieving, by the server, a plurality of communications addresses from the profile that are associated with the sender's communications address; retrieving, by the server from the profile, shared caller identification information that is common for each one of the plurality of communications addresses; sending, from the server, the shared caller identification information to the each one of the plurality of communications addresses; simultaneously ringing, by the server, the each one of the plurality of communications addresses; detecting, at the server, an answer at an answering communications address of the plurality of communications addresses; and sending, from the server, the answering communications address to the sender's communications address.