Patent ID: 7444423
Filing Date: 2008-10-28
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A communications system arranged such that connections to a first terminal supporting a communications session on the first terminal may be diverted during the course of the session such that the session may be continued on a second terminal, the communications system comprising: a server device for processing calls, means for creating a user profile on the server device, the user profile identifying a plurality of terminals, means for generating from the user profile a set of parameters defining a virtual terminal, a store for the parameters defining the virtual terminal, said parameters recording the progress and history of a current communications session made using a first terminal, means for diverting, on instructions from a user device, the routing of a communications connection supporting the session from the first terminal to a second terminal, means for transferring the details of the current session to the second terminal for use in continuing the session.