Patent ID: 8054963

Claim:
A method for routing telephone calls in an Internet Protocol (IP) network, the method comprising: a customer premises equipment receiving call forwarding parameters for a first telephone number; the customer premises equipment storing the call forwarding parameters in a call forwarding profile for the first telephone number; the customer premises equipment receiving a first data message sent by a network device to setup a call from a second telephone, to a first telephone associated with the first telephone number, without the call being extended to the customer premises equipment or to the first telephone; the customer premises equipment determining whether call forwarding features are active; the customer premises equipment retrieving the call forwarding profile specifying the call forwarding parameters for the first telephone number, in response to determining forwarding features are active; the customer premises equipment determining by checking the call forwarding profile, whether the forwarding parameters are satisfied; and the customer premises equipment sending to the network device a second data message comprising a new call destination number for rerouting of the call to a third telephone in response to determining the call forwarding parameters are satisfied.