Patent ID: 7106725

Claim:
In a computer network that includes a browsing computing device and a source computing device, the browsing computing device being network connectable to the source computing device using a data channel as well as to an entity associated with the source computing device via a voice channel, a method for the browsing computing device to facilitate an integrated voice/data communication with the source computing device, the method comprising the following: an act of establishing a first data channel with a source computing device; an act of transmitting one or more communications over the first data channel to the source computing device, at least one of the one or more communications including a data address of the browsing computing device; an act of receiving a calling mechanism over the first data channel, the calling mechanism facilitating establishment of a voice channel with an entity associated with the source computing device; an act of receiving a user selection of the calling mechanism; in response to the user selection of the calling mechanism, an act of automatically generating a request that includes information that the source computing device may use to determine a data address that corresponds to the browsing computing device, the data address being different from the voice channel address that corresponds to the browsing computing device; an act of transmitting the request to the source computing device over the voice channel; an act of establishing a second data channel with the source computing device; and an act of receiving information from the source computing device over the second data channel.