Patent ID: 9723537
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for configuring a communication system, the method comprising: automatically and under the control of a detection module, identifying a type of an exchange amongst a plurality of exchange types by sending a request to the exchange for triggering a response from the exchange, receiving the response from the exchange and verifying the response to determine whether the response matches an expected response to the request; selecting a configuration module adapted to communicate with the identified type of the exchange; and under the control of the selected configuration module, retrieving and analysing automatically call routing data from the exchange, linking a mobile number to a fixed device associated to a fixed extension number and configuring the exchange to provide communication connectivity for a single device to both a fixed network and a mobile network and to support call routing required to provide a service under a Fixed Mobile Convergence; wherein the call routing is operable to route an incoming call to a mobile device using the mobile number to both the mobile device and the fixed device associated with the mobile number under the fixed network using the service provided under the Fixed Mobile Convergence such that both the fixed device and mobile device receive an incoming call alert simultaneously or sequentially.