Patent ID: 8732314
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method in a customer premises router in a customer premises, the method including: establishing by the customer premises router an identified association between a contact and a destination telephone number, including the customer premises router storing the association in an association database; monitoring, by the customer premises router in the customer premises, user actions via respective distinct user devices connected to the customer premises router by respective wired or wireless links and that enable the customer premises router to establish the identified association between the contact and the destination telephone number, including: receiving a web response by the customer premises router from a wide area network via a single service provider link supplied to the customer premises router, the web response based on a first web request having been output from a first of the user devices to the wide area network via the customer premises router, the web response including an identifier identifying the contact, storing by the customer premises router the identifier, and detecting by the customer premises router a phone call to the destination telephone number having been initiated by a second of the user devices within the customer premises and distinct from the first user device; wherein the identified association is established based on the customer premises router detecting the phone call to the destination telephone number satisfies a prescribed association attribute, relative to the contact, of detecting initiation of the phone call within a prescribed time interval of receiving the web response identifying the contact; and the customer premises router supplying the identified association to any one of the user devices within the customer premises in response to a second request related to the contact and having been generated by said any one of the user devices.