Patent ID: 6931001

Claim:
A method of establishing voice communication between a phone connected to a circuit-switched network and one or more hosts connected to a packet-switched network, comprising: receiving, at a gateway connected between the circuit-switched network and the packet-switched network, a call request from the phone; sending, from the gateway, a first audio message to the phone requesting a destination address on the packet-switched network of a host of the one or more hosts; receiving the destination address of the host from the phone responsive to the first audio message; establishing a call comprising two-way voice communication, via the circuit-switched network and the packet-switched network, between the phone and the host based on the destination address of the host; sending, from the gateway, a second audio message to the phone requesting a user name of a called party associated with the host; and receiving the user name of the called party from the phone responsive to the second audio message.