Patent ID: 9621735
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. An electronic communications system for efficient communications routing through different communications networks, the system comprising: a mobile network for providing mobile communication between a plurality of mobile communications devices based on mobile-network telephone numbers associated with plurality of the mobile communications devices, the mobile network supporting at least one mobile-network protocol and an Internet Protocol (IP), the mobile-network telephone numbers being assigned by a carrier of the mobile network for tracking usage of a data service of the mobile network; a wireless local-area network (WLAN) for providing WLAN communication between the plurality of mobile communications devices and a wide-area IP network, the WLAN operating on at least the Internet Protocol; and a communications routing system coupled to the mobile network and coupled to the WLAN via the wide-area IP network, the communications routing system operating on the Internet Protocol, the communications routing system comprising: wherein the communications routing system is configured to provide the VoIP telephone numbers as caller ID for the VoIP calls and to exclude the mobile-network telephone numbers from caller ID for the VoIP calls.