Patent ID: 8270346

Claim:
A system for dynamically anchoring a call initiated by a mobile unit, comprising: at least one processor comprising call anchor logic, the call anchor logic comprising machine readable instructions executed by the at least one processor, the call anchor logic being programmed with anchoring criteria to determine if an outbound call being initiated from the mobile unit should be anchored at an anchor point corresponding to a predetermined Internet Protocol (IP) private branch exchange (PBX) outside of a service provider network for the mobile unit based on application of the anchoring criteria to input data, the call anchor logic providing an anchor control signal to cause the outbound call to be one of (i) anchored at the anchor point and (ii) connected to a called party without anchoring at the anchor point, the call anchor logic further comprising a location based control component programmed to determine if anchoring of the outbound call is required based on location-identifying data for the mobile unit, the location-identifying data for the mobile unit defining at least a portion of the input data, the anchor control signal being provided based at least in part on the location-identifying data for the mobile unit; and memory that stores the input data, the memory being accessible by the processor to execute the machine readable instructions.