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  • US 8,711,735 B2
  • Filed: 06/08/2012
  • Issued: 04/29/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/30/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of providing communications services in an internet telephony communications system, the method comprising:

  • receiving predetermined criteria, at a call manager located in an internet protocol network, from a broadband residential gateway located at a customer premises, the predetermined criteria comprising data associated with a call that identifies a calling party, a geographical location of the calling party, a time of day during which calls are accepted by a call destination associated with the call, and a world-wide-web domain name from which calls are to be accepted, the world-wide-web domain name being specified by a user of the broadband residential gateway;

    identifying, at the call manager, a call source and the call destination based on call data associated with a call;

    determining if the call to the call destination is allowable according to the predetermined criteria; and

    routing the call data to the broadband residential gateway if the call to the call destination is allowable, wherein the broadband residential gateway receives the call data, re-routes the call data to a particular communications port and re-directs the call data to a multi-media engine if the call destination is not available.

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