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Telephone identity association and a method of distributing telephone identity association to telephone systems

  • US 7,865,179 B1
  • Filed: 09/15/2009
  • Issued: 01/04/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for receiving a telephone call, comprising:

  • (a) connecting a user terminal to a telephone system of a plurality of telephone systems for routing calls,wherein a telephone identity association is created by one of a plurality of telephone identity association processors coupled to the plurality of telephone systems, the telephone identity association comprising a telephone number attribute and a telephone system identity attribute,the telephone number attribute comprising a telephone number of the user terminal, andthe telephone system identity attribute comprising an identity of the telephone system,wherein the telephone identity association is distributed to each of the plurality of telephone identity association processors prior to a routing of a call to the telephone number from any of the plurality of telephone systems to the telephone system identified in the telephone system identity attribute; and

    (b) receiving the call to the telephone number by the user terminal, wherein the call is routed to the user terminal by the telephone system identified in the telephone system identity attribute.

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