Patent ID: 9628520
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M

Claim:
1. A method by at least one network node for controlling setup of calls through a communication system, the method comprising: registering a plurality of publicly disclosed virtual identifiers defined by an individual user that are mapped to a network address of a destination device associated with the user; associating a plurality of user call profiles for the user, each user call profile corresponding to a respective one of the user-defined virtual identifiers, wherein a user call profile contains a plurality of call handling rules defined by the user with respect to a particular virtual identifier; receiving information for a call request relative to an incoming call that comprises a network address of an origination device of the call request and a specific one of the virtual identifiers associated with the destination device to which the incoming call is directed; selecting a specific user call profile from among the plurality of user call profiles of the user in a user call profile repository using the specific virtual identifier to identify the specific user call profile; and controlling setup of a call path between the origination device and the destination device responsive to the specific user call profile, wherein controlling setup of the call path comprises: