Patent ID: 7065069
Filing Date: 2006-06-20
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A packet based terminal device addressing system for enabling a calling party using a circuit based terminal device, which is addressable via a telephone number, to initiate a communication connection to a called pay who is using a packet-based terminal device, which is addressable via an IP address, comprising: means for storing data in a memory indicative of a correspondence between at least one IP address assigned to a called part/s pair-based terminal device and a telephone number assigned to said called party's circuit-based terminal device; means, responsive to a calling party, connected to the Public Telephone Switched Network via a Local Exchange Carrier serving said calling parry, dialing the telephone number assigned to said circuit-based terminal device of said called party, for transmitting said telephone number to a Local Exchange Carrier serving said called party; means, responsive to receipt of data from said calling party by said Local Exchange Carrier serving said called party and indicative of said called party's telephone number corresponding to said called party's circuit-based terminal device, for retrieving data from said memory indicative of said IP address assigned to a called party's packet-based terminal device, comprising: means for providing said calling party with a list of said called party's circuit-based terminal devices and said called party's packer-based terminal devices, means, responsive to said calling party select one of said called party's circuit-based terminal devices and said called party's packet-based teal devices, for identifying a communication service serving said selected one of said called party's circuit-based terminal devices and said called party's packet-based terminal devices; and means for extending a communication connection that exists from said calling party's circuit-based terminal device to said Local Exchange Carrier serving said called party, to said called party's packet-based terminal device.