Patent ID: 8238538

Claim:
A message routing method, comprising: receiving, at a message routing computing device, a first telephone call to a first number; determining an identity of an intended recipient of the first telephone call; routing the first telephone call to cause a first telephone at a premises to ring without causing a second telephone at the premises to ring based at least in part on a first set of information received from a security system of the premises; wherein routing the first telephone call is performed by: determining a location of the intended recipient of the first telephone call within the premises; and selecting the first telephone to receive the first telephone call based on the location of the intended recipient of the first telephone call; receiving, at the message routing computing device, a second telephone call to the first number; and routing the second telephone call to cause the first telephone and the second telephone at the premises to ring simultaneously based at least in part on a second set of information received from the security system of the premises.