NETWORKING BETWEEN VOIP -AND PSTN- CALLS

• US 20130294443A1
• Filed: 01/09/2012
• Published: 11/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NAN9O, LLC
• Original Assignee: Starlogik IP LLC
• Inventors: Kahn, Ari
• Granted Patent: US 9,264,552 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/103 in the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/104 in the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1073 Registration or de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/6072 Authentication using challenger response
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/6081 Service authorization mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/20 hybrid systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42059 Making use of the calling party identifier
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42229 Personal communication services, i.e. services related to one subscriber independent of his terminal and/or location diverting calls from one subscriber to another subscriber, i.e. two different subscriptions H04M3/54; selecting arrangements in intelligent networks H04Q3/005
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4228 in networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/006 Networks other than PSTN/ISDN providing telephone service, e.g. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) , including next generation networks with a packet-switched transport layer H04L65/00 takes precedence; aspects not specific to the type of network H04M3/00; special services in those networks H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0075 Details of addressing, directories or routing tables
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/128 Details of addressing, directories or routing tables

Abstract

Programmatically reversing numerical line identity presented at a communications services gateway into named IP Telephony users with “prior association”, delivers dynamic “reverse address resolution” switching connections from ground to cloud, permitting any conventional telephone to dial and connect to any associated IP Telephony endpoint in the world, without changes to the conventional telephone. Reversing line identity into associated named users bridges both the addressability and economic divide between mass conventional “paying” (mobile and fixed) and “free” IP Telephony networks. A system for supporting communications between a user on an IP-addressed-communications-device and a telephony subscriber device, the telephony subscriber device having a corresponding telephone number, includes: one or more service nodes configured to: receive from the user the telephone number of the telephony subscriber device and create an association from the telephone number to the user, wherein the association allows the telephony subscriber device to connect to the user.

Claims

1-134. -134. (canceled)

135. A method for supporting communications between an internet user on an internet-addressed-communications-device and a telephony user on a telephony subscriber device, the internet user having a corresponding user identity and the telephony subscriber device having a corresponding telephone number, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) providing at least one gateway configured to receive information regarding the user identity of the internet user and the telephone number of the telephony subscriber, and

(b) receiving, to at least one gateway, the information,

wherein the information includes one or more associations, from the telephone number to the internet user, the associations allowing calls originating from the telephony subscriber device to connect to the internet user.

136. The method of claim 135 wherein the at least one gateway is further configured for performing a query in response to receiving a communications request from the telephony subscriber device, the query to a service node regarding the telephone number of the telephony subscriber.

137. The method of claim 135 further including the step of:

(c) initiating communications between the telephony subscriber device and one or more internet users based on the information.

138. The method of claim 135 including the step of:

(c) facilitating by the gateway, communications between the telephony subscriber device and one or more internet users.

139. The method of claim 135 wherein the at least one gateway is further configured for:

(a) receiving a communications request from the telephony subscriber device, the communications request including the telephone number of the telephony subscriber device; and

(b) causing, by using the received telephone number, retrieval of addressing information for the internet user that is associated with the telephone number,

wherein the system is configured to use the retrieved addressing information to cause establishment of a communications connection between the telephony subscriber device and a device then being used by the internet user, thereby supporting communications between the telephony subscriber device and the internet user.

140. The method of claim 139 wherein the addressing information for the internet user includes at least one of:

(a) an Internet service user address,

(b) an Internet service user name,

(c) an Internet URI,

(d) an IP address,

(e) an IP communications endpoint address, and

(f) a MAC address.

141. The method of claim 139 wherein if addressing information of a single available internet user is associated with the telephone number, at least one gateway is configured for:

(a) notifying the telephony subscriber device of a communications possibility;

(b) causing establishment of a connection from the telephony subscriber device to the internet user; and

(c) causing the identification of the telephony subscriber device, as a calling party, to the internet user.

142. The method of claim 139 wherein if a plurality of available internet users is associated with the telephone number, at least one gateway is configured for:

presenting to the telephony subscriber device a plurality of available internet users for selection for communication.

143. The method of claim 135 wherein in response to receiving a communications request from the telephony subscriber device:

(a) instantiating a client proxy for the telephone number of the telephony subscriber device, the client proxy operative to facilitate communications between the telephony subscriber device and the internet user.

144. The method of claim 143 further including the steps of:

(a) receiving, at least one of the gateways, information regarding a plurality of internet users for which addressing information is associated with the telephone number; and

(b) configuring, based on the information received, the client proxy to facilitate communications between the telephony subscriber device and at least one of the internet users for which addressing information has been received.

145. The method of claim 143 wherein the client proxy includes status of the telephony subscriber device.

146. The method of 143 wherein the client proxy is configured for publishing information for the telephony subscriber device and the associated internet users.

147. A method for supporting communications between an internet user on an internet-addressed-communications-device and a telephony user on a telephony subscriber device, the telephony subscriber device having a corresponding telephone number, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) receiving information regarding the user identity of the internet user and the telephone number of the telephony subscriber device; and

(b) creating an association from the telephone number to the internet user,

wherein the association allows calls originating from the telephony subscriber device to connect to the internet user.

148. The method of claim 147 including the steps of:

(a) receiving at a gateway a communications request from the telephony subscriber device, the communications request including the telephone number of the telephony subscriber device; and

(b) causing, by using the received telephone number, retrieval of addressing information for the internet user that is associated with the telephone number,

wherein the system is configured to use the retrieved addressing information to cause establishment of a communications connection between the telephony subscriber device and a device then being used by the internet user, thereby supporting communications between the telephony subscriber device and the internet user.

149. The method of claim 148 wherein the addressing information for the internet user includes at least one of:

(a) an Internet service user address,

(b) an Internet service user name,

(c) an Internet URI,

(d) an IP address,

(e) an IP communications endpoint address, and

(f) a MAC address.

150. The method of claim 148 wherein in response to receiving the communications request from the telephony subscriber device:

(a) instantiating a client proxy for the telephone number of the telephony subscriber device, the client proxy operative to facilitate communications between the telephony subscriber device and internet user.

151. The method of claim 148 wherein the one or more service nodes is further configured for:

(a) causing associations between the telephone number and addressing information, the addressing information respectively associated with a plurality of internet users; and

(b) permitting the telephony subscriber device to establish communications with at least one of the plurality of internet users.

152. The method of claim 147 wherein the one or more service nodes is configured for causing the association from the telephone number to the internet user based on at least one identifier for the internet user selected from a group consisting of:

(a) a registered VOIP service screen name of the internet user,

(b) a registered Internet URI describing the internet user,

(c) a user identity automatically created and assigned by the system;

a user name comprising the telephone number; and

(d) a user name comprising a derivative of the telephone number, wherein any of the at least one identifier from the above group may be registered on an ENUM domain based on the telephone number.

153. The method of claim 147 wherein the association is based only on:

(a) the telephone number of the telephony subscriber device, and

(b) the internet user.

154. The method of claim 147 including the steps of:

(a) receiving, from at least one gateway, a query regarding the telephone number of the telephony subscriber device; and

(b) responding to the at least one gateway with information regarding internet users associated with the telephone number of the telephony subscriber device.

155. The method of claim 154 wherein the information includes zero or more associations allowing the telephony subscriber device to connect to one or more internet users.

156. The system of claim 147 wherein said information is received from the internet-addressed-communications-device.

157. A system for supporting communications between an internet user on an internet-addressed-communications-device and a telephony user on a telephony subscriber device, the internet user having a corresponding user identity and the telephony subscriber device having a corresponding telephone number, the system comprising:

(a) at least one gateway configured to receive information regarding the user identity of the internet user and the telephone number of the telephony subscriber,

wherein the information includes one or more associations, from the telephone number to the internet user, the associations allowing calls originating from the telephony subscriber device to connect to the internet user.

158. The system of claim 157 wherein the at least one gateway configured to:

(a) receive a communications request from the telephony subscriber device, the communications request including the telephone number of the telephony subscriber device; and

(b) cause, by using the received telephone number, retrieval of addressing information for the internet user that is associated with the telephone number,

wherein the system is configured to use the retrieved addressing information to cause establishment of a communications connection between the telephony subscriber device and a device then being used by the internet user, thereby supporting communications between the telephony subscriber device and the internet user.

159. A system for supporting communications between an internet user on an internet-addressed-communications-device and a telephony user on a telephony subscriber device, the internet user having a corresponding user identity and the telephony subscriber device having a corresponding telephone number, the system comprising:

one or more service nodes configured to;

(a) receive the user identity of the internet user and the telephone number of the telephony subscriber device; and

(b) create an association from the telephone number to the internet user,

wherein the association allows calls originating from the telephony subscriber device to connect to the internet user.

160. The system of claim 159 wherein at least one of the service nodes is configured to receive the telephone number of the telephony subscriber device in response to an action by the internet user.

161. The system of claim 159 further comprising at least one gateway configured to:

(a) receive a communications request from the telephony subscriber device, the communications request including the telephone number of the telephony subscriber device; and

(b) cause, by using the received telephone number, retrieval of addressing information for the internet user that is associated with the telephone number,

wherein the system is configured to use the retrieved addressing information to cause establishment of a communications connection between the telephony subscriber device and a device then being used by the internet user, thereby supporting communications between the telephony subscriber device and the internet user.

162. The system of claim 161 wherein:

(a) the one or more service nodes is further configured to cause associations between the telephone number and addressing information, the addressing information respectively associated with a plurality of internet users; and

(b) the system is further configured to permit the telephony subscriber device to establish communications with at least one of the plurality of internet users.

163. The system of claim 159 wherein the association is based only on:

(a) the telephone number of the telephony subscriber device, and

(b) the internet user.

164. The system of claim 159 wherein said information is received from the internet-addressed-communications-device.

165. A system for supporting communications between an internet user on an internet-addressed-communications-device and a telephony user on a telephony subscriber device, the internet user having a corresponding user identity and the telephony subscriber device having a corresponding telephone number, the system comprising:

(a) at least one gateway configured so that upon receiving a communications request from the internet user for connection to the telephony subscriber device, the gateway requests an association be created from the telephone number of the telephony subscriber device to the internet user,

wherein the association allows calls originating from the telephony subscriber device to connect to the internet user.

166. A method for supporting communications between an internet user on an internet-addressed-communications-device and a telephony user on a telephony subscriber device, the internet user having a corresponding user identity and the telephony subscriber device having a corresponding telephone number, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) receiving from the telephony subscriber device a communications request, said communications request including the telephone number, and

(b) routing the communications request to a gateway configured to;

(i) employ an association to map the telephone number to the internet user, and

(ii) initiate a connection between the telephony subscriber device and the internet user based on the association.

167. A method for supporting communications between an internet user on an internet-addressed-communications-device and a telephony user on a telephony subscriber device, the internet user having a corresponding user identity and the telephony subscriber device having a corresponding telephone number, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) initiating, from the telephony subscriber device via an access telephone number, forwarding of a communications request including the telephone number of the telephony subscriber device to a gateway configured to;

(i) employ an association to map the telephone number to one or more of the internet users; and

(ii) initiate a connection between the telephony subscriber device and the internet user based on the association, and

(b) using a connection from said telephony subscriber device to the internet user.

168. A computer-readable storage medium having embedded thereon computer-readable code for supporting communications between an internet user on an internet-addressed-communications-device and a telephony user on a telephony subscriber device, the internet user having a corresponding user identity and the telephony subscriber device having a corresponding telephone number, the computer-readable code comprising program code for:

(a) providing at at least one gateway configured to receive information regarding the user identity of the internet user and the telephone number of the telephony subscriber, and

(b) receiving, to at least one gateway, the information,

wherein the information includes one or more associations, from the telephone number to the internet user, the associations allowing calls originating from the telephony subscriber device to connect to the internet user.