Patent ID: 8199763

Claim:
A method for setting up a call over the Internet between a Web-based phone of a user and a phone device, the user of the Web-based phone having a personal contacts directory page on a social network web page, the Web-based phone being loaded on an Internet connected device and being registered on a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Server, the method comprising: a. on a computing device, the user using a browser to select a link on the personal contacts directory page of the user, the link being indicative of contact details of the phone device to be called and the identification of the user; b. using the link selection, preparing a call request message for requesting a call, the call request message comprising contact details of the phone device to be called and the identification of the user; and sending the call request message via Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to a Telephone Web Application hosted on an external server; c. the Telephone Web Application creating and relaying a connection request message to an Operations Support Server, the connection request message comprising the contact details of the phone device to be called and the identification of the user, wherein the relaying comprises relaying the connection request message through a web server; d. the Operations Support Server creating a SIP NOTIFY message containing the contact details of the phone device to be called and the identification of the user; forwarding the SIP NOTIFY message to a SIP server; e. the SIP server identifying the address of the Internet connected device of the registered Web-based phone of the user, based on the registration of the Web-based phone and relaying the SIP NOTIFY message to the Internet connected device of the registered Web-based phone; and f. the SIP NOTIFY message activating the Web-based phone on the Internet connected device, the Web-based phone presenting the user with the possibility to confirm an initiation of the call to the phone device to be called and thereby setting up the call.