Patent ID: 7729489

Claim:
A method for transferring a call comprising: engaging in an active call; receiving at a transferor communication device a call transfer request from the transferee communications device to initiate a call transfer, the call transfer request comprising call transfer information, wherein the transferee or transferor communications device is: a landline telephone, cellular telephone, wireless telephone or Voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) telephone, or combinations thereof; wherein the transferee communications device is not engaged in the active call at a time of sending the transfer request and wherein the transferee communications device sends the transfer request responsive to detecting a physical proximity of the transferor communications device; responsive to the transfer request, transferring the active call to the transferee communications device while maintaining the active call uninterrupted by completing the call transfer without first ending the active call on the transferor communications device or placing the active call on hold prior to transferring the active call to the transferee communications device; wherein the transferring the active call is independent of intervention of a network switch to initiate the active call transfer; wherein if the call is not currently active then ignoring the call transfer request from the transferee communications device; completing the active call transfer connecting the call on the transfer call and disengaging the active call on the transferor communications device after the transfer call is connected.