Patent ID: 8472951

Claim:
A method of establishing a communications session in a communications system between a user and a contact, said communications system comprising a user terminal, a mobile terminal associated with the contact, and session initiation means, said method comprising: identifying said contact using said user terminal; looking up a telephone number associated with said user terminal as user data; responsive to identifying said contact, transmitting contact data identifying said contact and the user data associated with said user terminal from said user terminal to said session initiation means; and in dependence on and responsive to reception of said contact data, transmitting a request from said session initiation means to said mobile terminal, said request comprising said user data and requesting that said mobile terminal establishes said communications session with said user terminal in dependence on said user data, further comprising the antecedent step of associating a user computer of the user terminal with a user telephone of the user terminal by storing, in a user registration database, a mapping between computer identification data identifying said user computer and telephone identification data identifying said user telephone, wherein said user registration database is accessible by said session initiation means and said user data comprises said computer identification data.