Patent ID: 8670760

Claim:
A system for providing a converged mobile-Web communications solution in a wireless communications network, comprising: a wireless communications network for making phone calls to and from mobile units, wherein the phone calls are initiated by call setup and in-band signaling within the wireless communications network and voice frames for the phone calls are switched between the mobile units across bearer paths in the wireless communications network; and a real-time exchange that interfaces to at least one mobile switching center in the wireless communications network to provide advanced voice services therein, without requiring any changes to the mobile switching center or other equipment of the wireless communications network to provide the advanced voice services; wherein both the real-time exchange and the mobile units that use the advanced voice services communicate with each other using the call setup and in-band signaling within the wireless communications network, such that at least one mobile switching center routes an originating leg of the advanced voice services from an originating mobile unit to the real-time exchange, the real-time exchange initiates one or more terminating legs of the advanced voice services to one or more terminating mobile units through at least one mobile switching center, and the real-time exchange switches the voice frames for the advanced voice services for the mobile units across the bearer paths and through at least one mobile switching center in the wireless communications network; wherein the real-time exchange interfaces to one or more Internet or Intranet networks for exchanging data between at least one of the mobile units and at least one user on the Internet or Intranet networks, in order to provide the advanced voice services to the user on the Internet or Intranet networks; and wherein network components are implemented in the wireless communications network or the Internet or Intranet networks for providing the converged mobile-Web communications solution to both the mobile units and the user on the Internet or Intranet networks.