Patent ID: 9379909
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: H04L,H04M

Claim Text:
1. A method of connecting a call from a remote party device to an enterprise-associated mobile device having a phone number, the mobile device being configured for wireless communications over a public land mobile network, wherein the public land mobile network is directly instructed by the mobile device based on administrator-level privileges configured within the mobile device to call forward a call request originally intended to the phone number of the mobile device to an enterprise phone number using a call forward command of the public land mobile network, the enterprise phone number being associated with the mobile device, wherein the mobile device is configured to prevent user-level alteration of configuration of the public land mobile network with regard to call forwarding call requests addressed to the mobile device, the method comprising: receiving, at the enterprise communications system, a call request to the enterprise phone number, the call request being call-forwarded by the public land mobile network in execution of the call forward command of the public land mobile network and originating as a call request from the remote party device to the phone number of the mobile device; establishing, at the enterprise communication system, a first call leg between the mobile device and the enterprise communications system, establishing, at the enterprise communication system, a second call leg between the enterprise communications system and the remote party device, and bridging, at the enterprise communication system, the first and second call legs to connect the mobile device and the remote party device, completing the call from the remote party device to the mobile device, wherein the first and second call legs each include a voice call.