Patent ID: 8340649

Claim:
A method of establishing a communications session in a communications system, said communications system comprising a first caller terminal, a further caller terminal, a mobile terminal associated with said first caller terminal and with said further caller terminal, a callee terminal associated with a callee, and session initiation means, said method comprising: (i) associating said first caller terminal with said mobile terminal by storing, in a network based registration database, a first mapping between data identifying said mobile terminal and data identifying said first caller terminal; (ii) associating said further caller terminal with said mobile terminal by storing, in a network based registration database, a further mapping between data identifying said mobile terminal and data identifying said further caller terminal; (iii) identifying said callee using said mobile terminal; (iv) responsive to identification of said callee, transferring data identifying said callee from said mobile terminal to said session initiation means; and (v) in dependence on said transferred data, operating said session initiation means to establish a communications session between a selected caller terminal being said first caller terminal or said further caller terminal selected in dependence on the location of said mobile terminal, and said callee terminal, by establishing a first leg of said communications session with said selected caller terminal, establishing a second leg of said communications session with said callee terminal, and connecting said first and second legs together.