Patent ID: 7460658

Claim:
In a communication system having a packet data network through which a user selectably communicates at any of a first location and at least a second location and a first telephonic network through which the user also selectably communicates, also at any of the first and at least second locations, respectively, an improvement of apparatus for facilitating routing of a call to the user placed by a calling party by way of the first telephonic network to a user located at a selected one of the first location and the at least the second location, said apparatus comprising: a detector embodied at the packet data network and adapted to receive indications provided to the packet data network of at which of the first and at least second locations at which the user selects to communicate by way of the first telephonic network; and an indexer coupled to said detector, said indexer for forming an index by indexing together values representative of selection made by the user of the selected one of the first and at least second locations together with calling indicia used to route the call to the selected one of the first location and the at least the second location.