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Virtual telephone extension

  • US 9,641,689 B1
  • Filed: 04/27/2015
  • Issued: 05/02/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A communication routing system comprising:

  • a computer server that includes a relational database storing association information between user identifiers and communication device identifiers and that is configured to modify, in the relational database, wherein each of the user identifiers serves as virtual extensions for indicating at least one different possible communication device identifier that identifies where telephone calls made to the user identifier should be routed, the association information to include an association between a particular user identifier and a particular communication device by;

    receiving, over the Internet, user account login data from the particular communication device;

    identifying, based upon the user account login data, the particular user identifier from the user identifiers stored in the relational database; and

    creating or providing, in response to the identifying, the association between the particular user identifier and the particular communication device; and

    a call router circuit configured to receive telephone calls that use a prefix portion which identifies a portal communication device coupled to the call router circuit, and that are made to the user identifier, and to route the telephone calls made to the user identifier to the particular communication device, in response to the association between the particular user identifier and the particular communication device.

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