Patent ID: 8520827

Claim:
A method for controlling communication to a personal communications device, comprising, at a first network terminal: detecting engagement of the personal communications device with the first network terminal; and responsive to the engagement: retrieving a network address of the personal communications device from the personal communications device, based on an identification of the personal communications device, selecting an active predetermined redirect command lookup table associated with the personal communications device, from a plurality of predetermined redirect command lookup tables; selecting a first redirect command from the active predetermined redirect command lookup table, the first redirect command being for redirecting communications originally directed to the network address of the personal communication device, to a network address of the first network terminal; selecting a second redirect command from the active predetermined redirect command lookup table, the second redirect command being for redirecting communications originally directed to a network address of a second network terminal, to the network address of the first network terminal; and transmitting the first and second redirect commands to one or more network controllers for execution.