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Method and system for integrating telephone voice communications into a client-server architecture

  • US 6,732,143 B1
  • Filed: 08/11/2000
  • Issued: 05/04/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for directing a received digitized representation of a telephone call having a call destination indicator, from a calling party, over a client-server network to a first user, the method comprising:

  • maintaining, at a server, an association among a first-user identifier corresponding to a first user and a first-user call destination-identifier;

    generating, at a first client within said client-server network, a first-user identifier in response to a user-identification event;

    transmitting, from said first client to said server, said generated first-user identifier and a generated first-client identifier associated with said first client, without said first user explicitly identifying said client to said server;

    receiving at said server said generated first-user identifier and said generated first-client identifier;

    dynamically associating at said server said generated first-client identifier with said first-user identifier for a period temporally concurrent with the use of said first client by said first user;

    in response to receipt at said server of a digitized representation of a telephone call initiated by said calling party and including said first-user call-destination identifier, establishing a real-time bi-directional voice connection between said server and said first client having said first-client identifier, said real-time bi-directional voice communication including first and second digitized voice communications in opposite directions;

    forwarding from said server at least a portion of said first digitized voice communication to a telephone appliance communicably coupled to said first client; and

    receiving at said server from said telephone appliance via said first client at least a portion of said second digitized voice communication.

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