Patent ID: 8238883
Filing Date: 2012-08-07
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method for interconnecting a plurality of calls from originating communication stations to destination communication stations, the method comprising: receiving at a communications network component a plurality of call requests from originating communication stations for destination communication stations; determining at the communications network component based on each of the received call requests a communication protocol of each of the originating and destination communication stations, wherein each of the plurality of call requests uses a different communication protocol; tuning a radio frequency unit of the communications network component to communicate directly with the originating and destination communication stations using the determined communication protocols; formatting at the communications network component the call request based on the determined communication protocol of each of the destination communication stations; connecting the originating and destination communication stations via one or more antennas of the communications network component; and joining the connected originating and destination stations into a single call.