Patent ID: 7248891

Claim:
A method of managing a call through a telecommunications network including points of connection, between an access terminal connected to the network and means for providing a service through the network, said means comprising firstly a plurality of terminals connected to the network, said terminals forming servers suitable for providing the service, and secondly a call manager server capable of selecting amongst said plurality of servers the server that is best suited for providing the service to the access terminal, the call being set up using a communications protocol enabling some terminals to be mobile by allocating each mobile terminal a main address that is invariable regardless of the mobile terminal's point of connection to the network and a temporary address which depends on said mobile terminal's point of connection and by forwarding all of the data sent to said main address to the mobile terminal, the method comprising a step of allocating to the service provider means a common main address, that is invariable, and a temporary address, and steps, executed by the call manager server, of intercepting all of the data sent to said common main address and redirecting the intercepted data to the server selected as being the best suited for providing said service and whose main address is used as a temporary address for the service provider means.