Patent ID: 8139565

Claim:
A system for connecting a Client Application limited to a single telephony connection to a plurality of Communication Devices, comprising: a processor; plurality of communications ports; and software enabling the processor and plurality of communications ports to: support a first dialog process providing a first telephony association between the processor and Client Application; support a second dialog process providing one of a second—n th telephony associations with each of the plurality of Communication Devices; and send, receive, and process messages associated with each of the second—n th telephony associations and with the first telephony association such that communications between processor and the Client Application are demultiplexed over the second—n th telephony associations with the plurality of Communications Devices; and wherein the first dialog process includes: receiving a first association request message from a Client Application; generating and sending an Accepted reply to a Client Application upon there being a second telephony association with a Communication Device and no first telephony association with a Client Application; and generating and sending a Reject reply to a Client Application upon there already being a telephony association with a Client Application or upon there being no second telephony association with a Communication Device.