Patent ID: 7177403

Claim:
A subscriber multi-media communication management system for operation with a plurality of subscriber stations, at least a one of the plurality of subscriber stations being a selected subscriber station which includes a docking bay for operatively coupling a one of a plurality of subscriber devices to the selected subscriber station, the multi-media communication management system comprising: a network communication circuit for multi-media communication with said plurality of subscriber stations; a session control circuit for establishing a communication session with the selected subscriber station through the network communication circuit, comprising: means for receiving a message from the selected subscriber station indicating that the one of the plurality of subscriber devices has been operatively coupled thereto; means for accessing a subscriber contact directory associated with the one of the plurality of subscriber devices operatively coupled to the selected subscriber station, means for receiving data from the selected subscriber station indicating subscriber selection of a selected contact from the subscriber contact directory; and means for communicating a control message to the selected subscriber station which provides for the selected subscriber station to establish an audio session channel to a packet voice gateway and for the packet voice gateway to establish an audio session channel to a destination associated with the selected contact.