Patent ID: 7756262

Claim:
A system comprising: a first telephone; a plurality of other telephones associated with the first telephone, the first telephone capable of managing separate telephone calls simultaneously conducted by the first telephone and the plurality of other telephones associated with the first telephone; and a computing device coupled to the first telephone, the computing device to determine a telephone call received by the first telephone from a first one of the plurality of other telephones is intended for a second one of the plurality of other telephones based on user-specified rules comprising rules associated with telephone call signals to be received by the first telephone and rules associated with telephone call signals to be sent from the plurality of telephones and to selectively route telephone call signals of the telephone call received by the first telephone and intended for the second one of the plurality of other telephones to the first telephone and the plurality of other telephones based on user-specified rules, wherein the first telephone is to receive the telephone call and to transmit the telephone call signals to the computing device before the computing device selectively routes the telephone call signals to the first telephone.