Patent 7224792 was granted and assigned to Qwest on May, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
According to the invention, a method for alerting a user of an incoming phone call is disclosed. In one step, notification of the incoming phone call is received with an identifier that is associated with the incoming phone call. The identifier associated with the incoming phone call is detected. The identifier is correlated with a pre-recorded voice announcement and the pre-recorded voice announcement is played.