Patent ID: 7394819

Claim:
An integrated phone-based home gateway system, comprising in combination: a home gateway interface for initializing wireless and wired broadband communications, for providing gateway, routing and bridging for wireless and wired broadband networking communications andfor automatic service provisioning for allocating, configuring and maintaining multiple transmission channels and virtual communications paths used for wired and wireless broadband communications, wherein initializing wireless and wired broadband communications includes initializing automatically wired and wireless broadband communications service configurations and provisions from the home gateway interface and initializing automatically one or more gateway, routing and bridging tables on the home gateway interface, and wherein the home gateway interface further includes an automatic provisioning manager module for automatic service provisioning for wired and wireless broadband communications wherein the automatic provisioning manager module includes automatically initializing wired and wireless broadband communications service configurations and provisions and automatically establishing one or more wired and wireless broadband communications channels and one or more wired and wireless broadband virtual communications paths; a wired communications interface for connecting to external wired devices, for connecting to one or more wired broadband communications networks and for providing wired broadband communications, wherein the wired communications interface includes one or more transmission channels and virtual communications paths for voice communications and for Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications automatically provisioned by the home gateway interface, wherein the wired communications interface includes establishing one or more Internet Protocol (IP) data communications channels; a wireless communications interface for connecting to external wireless devices, for connecting to one or more wireless broadband communications networks, for providing wireless broadband communications, wherein the wireless communications interface includes one or more broadband communications channels for voice communications and for Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications automatically provisioned by the home gateway interface; and a multi-function telephony handset for providing telephony communications.