Patent ID: 7245705

Claim:
A system for relaying communications between a first device and a second device utilizing a third device as an intermediary where the second device is a telephone on a plain old telephone system network and the communications between the first device and third device involves the Internet, the system comprising: a first input and output communication device coupled to a network and being configured to send and receive communication messages; a server device that receives a session request from the first input and output communication device and sends a call to a call distribution device; a second input and output communication device coupled to a plain old telephone system; and a third input and output device communicating with the first input and output communication device using a chat room interface, wherein the communication between the first input and output communication device and the third input and output device is done without analog communication, the third input and output communication device relaying communication messages from the first input and output communication device to the second input and output communication device by voice over a public switched telephone network, and further wherein the call distribution device establishes a chat session using a dummy call from the server device.