Patent ID: 7391761

Claim:
A telecommunications system for routing telephone calls comprising: a trigger configured to identify automatically an initiated telephone call for packetized or non-packetized routing wherein the trigger is part of a feature phone and identified by the feature phone and not identified by the router; and further comprising at least one of the following: wherein the initiated telephone call is identified based on “1+” dialing, wherein the initiated telephone call is identified based on “ANI;” wherein the initiated telephone call is identified based on an area code; wherein the initiated telephone call is identified based on primary interexchange carrier (PIC); wherein the initiated telephone call is received from a cellular telephone; wherein the initiated telephone call is received from a telephone device having a plurality of standard telephone lines on the standard telephone network and initiated telephone calls from the plurality of telephone lines are identified based on associated predefined account codes; and wherein the system further comprises a telephone device coupled to the router, that generates the incoming telephone call and wherein the telephone device comprises a feature phone that includes identification means for identifying calls to be routed over the packetized protocol network and the feature phone is not an Internet phone.