Patent ID: 8676189

Claim:
A system for providing a converged mobile-Web communications solution, comprising: a mobile phone network for making phone calls and exchanging data to and from at least one mobile phone, wherein the phone calls are made and the data is exchanged using connections that are initiated by call setup and in-band signaling within the mobile phone network and frames for the phone calls and the data are switched to and from the mobile phone by at least one mobile switching center across bearer paths in the mobile phone network; a real-time exchange that interfaces to at least one mobile switching center in the mobile phone network to provide advanced voice services therein, without requiring any changes to the mobile switching center or other equipment of the mobile phone network to provide the advanced voice services; wherein both the real-time exchange and the mobile phones that use the advanced voice services communicate with each other using the call setup and in-band signaling within the mobile phone network, such that at least one mobile switching center routes an originating leg of the advanced voice services from an originating mobile phone to the real-time exchange, the real-time exchange initiates one or more terminating legs of the advanced voice services to one or more terminating mobile phones through at least one mobile switching center, and the real-time exchange switches the voice frames for the advanced voice services for the mobile phones across the bearer paths and through at least one mobile switching center in the mobile phone network; wherein the real-time exchange interfaces to one or more Internet or Intranet networks for exchanging data to and from at least one Web client in the Internet or Intranet networks, in order to provide the advanced voice services to the Web client in the Internet or Intranet networks; and wherein additional network components are implemented that interface to the mobile phone network and the Internet or Intranet networks, for providing a converged mobile-Web communications solution to both the mobile phone in the mobile phone network and the Web client in the Internet or Intranet networks, wherein the converged mobile-Web communications solution comprises services that are provided to the mobile phone in the mobile phone network that are also provided to the Web client in the Internet or Intranet networks.