can translate phone numbers maintain databases of related information associated with individual communication terminals and facilitate connections to the internet for caller web browsing it essentially creates a small telephone company at the home system allowing remote and local users great flexibility in handling necessary communication for example a service person could display on his her telephone screen information from one of the home system applications during a telephone call this could avoid the need for a separate computer terminal the information could be communicated using integrated service digital network isdn or asymmetric digital subscriber line adsl and can be on the wireline the data line or on both and can come as a separate transmission or as a single package of data the actual transmission of the data can be continuous or bursts packet or otherwise and can be voice data graphics video or any combination thereof the home system can provide multiple presentations to a user the user can be using a communication device associated with the home system a home system user or the user can be using a communication device that is calling the home user these multiple presentations then can be multiple media such as video voice text voice recognition etc all of which are adaptable to allow the user easy of communication the system will synchronize the use of the media such that at any given time the most convenient media will be used for example a user may call for the name of the nearest restaurant or doctor and the home system then will use a voice.