Patent ID: 7437162
Filing Date: 2008-10-14
Classification: H04Q

Abstract:
1. A voice call delivery method comprising: receiving a request to connect a voice call to a client station, wherein the client station is in a mode selected from a group consisting of (i) the client station not being on a data call, (ii), the client station being on an active data call, and (iii) the client station being on a dormant data call, and wherein a designation of the client station's preferred type of call is stored in a profile associated with the client station; in response to the request, querying an authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) server; receiving, from the AAA server, the mode of the client station as indicated by user data records (UDRs) stored in the AAA server and associated with the client station; if the mode of the client station is that the client station is not on a data call, then delivering the voice call to the client station as circuit voice; if the mode of the client station is that the client station is on an active data call, then delivering the voice call to the client station as voice over packet; and if the mode of the client station is that the client station is on a dormant data call, then delivering the voice call to the client station as either circuit voice or voice over packet as indicated by the designation of the client station's preferred type of call.