Patent ID: 8401533

Claim:
A method of routing calls: receiving at a softswitch a first call intended for a user, the first call associated with a calling party phone address, wherein the first call intended for the user is directed to a user phone address; using signaling information associated with the first call to access account information for the user; placing an outbound call from the softswitch to a wireless communications service provider associated with the user phone address, wherein the softswitch configures call signaling parameters so as to preserve the calling party phone address in the outbound call signaling information, and to cause, at least in part, the wireless communication service provider to route the outbound call to the user's mobile telecommunications device; causing, at least in part, one or more future calls from the user's mobile telecommunications device to be presented to called parties with the user phone address; receiving at the softswitch a second call intended for the user from a second calling party, the second call directed to the user phone address, wherein: the second calling party is a member of a same wireless network as the user, and optimal routing is disabled with respect to the second calling party, to thereby inhibit the second call from being routed directly to the user's mobile telecommunications device without transit through the softswitch.