Patent ID: 7706519

Claim:
In a communication network having at least a first calling station connected to a first telephonic network and a service-user calling station automatically connected to a packet-based network, an improvement of an assembly for facilitating call connection between the first calling station and the service-user calling station, the service-user calling station having at least a first virtual calling-station identity in the first telephonic network such that the service-user calling station appears virtually resident in the first telephonic network, said assembly comprising: a virtual-location indexer embodied at the packet-based network, said indexer for automatically indexing together the at least the first virtual calling-station identity of the service-user calling station with a selected packet-based-network identity of the service-user calling station, the packet-based-network identity automatically associated with logical connection of the service-user calling station to the packet data network and the virtual calling-station identity associated with a virtual residency location of the service-user calling station in the first telephonic network, said indexer automatically accessed pursuant to call routing of a call between the first calling station and the service-user calling station to permit effectuation of the call connection therebetween, wherein the call connection is local to the first telephonic network, while permitting the service-user calling station to be physically located at another location.