Patent ID: 8204474

Claim:
A telephone company system comprising: (A) a real mobile telephone station including (a) a real telephone number memory for storing a telephone number assigned to a real mobile telephone, and (b) a real exchange function for performing telephone exchange of the real mobile telephone whose telephone number has been stored in the real telephone number memory; and (B) a virtual mobile telephone station including (a) a virtual telephone number memory for storing a virtual telephone number assigned to a virtual mobile telephone in a virtual society on the Internet, (b) an associating unit for associating memory content of the real telephone number memory and memory content of the virtual telephone number memory with each other, and (c) a virtual exchange function, using the real mobile telephone and the virtual mobile telephone associated with each other by the associating unit as one mobile telephone, for performing telephone exchange in cooperation with the real exchange function, using either or both of the mobile telephones as a target of call making or call receiving, wherein the virtual mobile telephone includes a virtual settlement function, and the virtual telephone station includes a unit for making the virtual settlement function effective if memory content of the real telephone number memory and memory content of the virtual telephone number memory have been associated with each other by the associating unit.