Patent ID: 8446901

Claim:
A system that enables a calling party to communicate with a called party over a communications network, the system comprising: (a) a web page storage device that is operable to send, over the internet, web pages to a calling party device, the web pages including a data entry screen into which a user enters a required VoIP user name with which communication is sought; (b) a conversion device that is operable to receive over the internet, from the calling party device, the VoIP user name and can cause the altering of call forwarding settings at a switch, such that a call from the calling party device will be automatically forwarded to a device associated with the VoIP user name; and in which the conversion device: (i) extracts the VoIP user name sent by the calling party device and converts the associated command to open a connection to that VoIP user name into a language the switch understands (ii) sets-up a call forwarding of a specific standard call-in phone number of the switch to such specific VoIP user name associated with a specific ISP user account; (iii) then converts the specific call-in phone number, which has been call forwarded to the VoIP user name, into a command to dial that call-in phone number, in a form that the calling party device web browser understands; (iv) sends that command to dial that call-in phone number to the calling party device in the form of a specific web page with that command embedded in it, so that the calling party only has to click on a web page link to cause the calling party device to automatically dial the call-in phone number, which is embedded in the command associated with the web page link.