Patent ID: 8165116

Claim:
A system comprising: one or more servers including logic to: receive a contact request from an originating party, wherein the contact request is directed to a telephone number of a particular device of a plurality of devices associated with a subscriber; in response to the contact request, retrieve a plurality of data record entries associated with the subscriber from a telephone number mapping server, wherein each data record entry of the plurality of data record entries identifies one of the plurality of devices associated with the subscriber; recognize that preference data in each of the plurality of data record entries has a common value, wherein each data record entry includes a uniform resource identifier; issue a command to initiate contact concurrently with each of the plurality of devices, wherein initiating contact concurrently with each of the plurality of devices comprises issuing invite messages to each of the plurality of devices, wherein each invite message results in a connection attempt to a corresponding device; and upon establishing a connection to a single device associated with the subscriber, cancel the invite messages to all devices associated with the subscriber other than the single device and establish a communication path from the originating party to the single device.