Patent ID: 6377576
Filing Date: 2002-04-23
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
In a communications system having a telephone network and a separate second network, a method of completing a telephone call from a calling terminal having a first telephone number to a called terminal having a second telephone number via a switch over the telephone network, the switch having a first address on said separate second network and a second address on said telephone network, comprising:transmitting over said separate second network using said first address to said switch, a single request for said call from said calling terminal, said request including both said first telephone number and said second telephone number; selecting, at the calling terminal, which of said first or second numbers should be dialed first; sending information indicative of which of said first or second telephone numbers should be dialed first from the calling terminal to said switch over said second network; receiving, at the switch, said request and said information; forming a connection between said calling terminal and said called terminal through said telephone network in response to said request and said information by dialing said first telephone number and said second telephone number in an order as selected at said calling terminal.