Patent ID: 7403795

Claim:
A network node device for dynamically and selectively connecting one or more telephone wirelines to one or more wireless connections, the network node device comprising: one or more connections to one or more telephone wirelines; one or more wireless signal generators supporting one or more wireless connections to one or more wireless devices; at least one storage location for storing unique information, comprising at least unique service information of service available to each of a plurality of wireless devices; a processor for accessing said at least one storage location and for generating call processing signals based on said stored unique information; an interconnection switch that makes and breaks one or more interconnections between the telephone wirelines and the respective wireless signal generators to connect multiple co-pending incoming calls for the same single telephone number arriving on said telephone wirelines to more than one of the plurality of wireless devices sharing that single telephone number in response to said call processing signals generated by said processor; and a bridge that dynamically bridges signals from multiple wireless connections for outgoing calls from more than one of said plurality of wireless devices sharing the single telephone number to one or more of the telephone wirelines in response to said call processing signals generated by said processor based on stored unique information.