Patent ID: 7162020

Claim:
A system for establishing telephone communication between a telephone call placed to a primary telephone number and at least one of a plurality of telephone devices, the primary telephone number being associated with a primary telephone device, the system comprising: a database for storing one or more other telephone numbers associated with the primary telephone number, each of the other telephone numbers corresponding to at least one of the plurality of telephone devices; means for detecting placement of the telephone call to the primary telephone number, said detecting means comprising a physical connection to a physical extension associated with the primary telephone number, said detecting means detecting the placement of the telephone call by detecting activity on the associated physical connection; means for retrieving at least one of the other telephone numbers from said database; means for placing a call to the at least one of the other telephone numbers, the at least one of the other telephone numbers being associated with a first one of the plurality of telephone devices; and means for connecting the telephone call to the at least one of the plurality of telephone devices, if the first one of the plurality of telephone devices goes off hook before the primary telephone device goes off hook, wherein the primary telephone device is part of a first telephone network, the first of the plurality of telephone devices is part of a second telephone network and the second telephone network is a wireless carrier network located remotely from the first telephone network.