Patent ID: 7391858

Claim:
A system to map a voice identity to a telephone number, comprising: a plurality of phone systems; at least one policy processor coupled to the phone systems; a voice identity mapping data structure accessible to the at least one policy processor, comprising: a plurality of search voice identities transitively mapped to one or more target voice identities, wherein the plurality of the search voice identities are applicable to a plurality of users, wherein the voice identity matches a first search voice identity of a first phone system, wherein the first search voice identity is mapped by the policy processor to a first target voice identity of a second phone system according to a first mapping policy, wherein the first target voice identity matches a second search voice identity of a second mapping policy, wherein the second search voice identity is mapped by the policy processor to a second target voice identity of a third phone system according to the second mapping policy, wherein the second target voice identity is different from the first search voice identity, wherein at least two of the first, second, and third phone systems provide different types of phone services, and time attributes indicating when the first and second mapping policies are valid; and means for storing said voice identity mapping data structure.