Patent ID: 8695077

Claim:
A system for establishing and controlling communication sessions between Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) devices and website application servers, the system comprising: an access portal computing device coupled between one or more SIP devices and one or more website application servers, the access portal computing device being separate from the SIP devices and each SIP device communicating with the access portal computing device only via a SIP session, the access portal computing device configured to: authenticate SIP user credentials based upon receipt of a SIP message from a SIP device indicating a request to register with the access portal computing device; determine website user credentials associated with a website application server based on the SIP user credentials; receive, from the website application server, a communication services application based upon transmission of the website user credentials to the website application server via a web-based connection; translate, at the access portal computing device, SIP requests received from the SIP device into web-based commands for transmission to the website application server via the communication services application; and translate, at the access portal computing device, web-based commands received from the website application server via the communication services application into SIP requests for transmission to the SIP device; wherein a communication session is established between the SIP device and the website application server via the access portal computing device.