Patent ID: 7656864

Claim:
A communication system for providing telecommunication services comprising: an interface to a data network and to a wireless telephone network; and a manager coupled to the interface for placing voice calls to and from user devices coupled to the data network, wherein the manager is configured to maintain in a database an association of an identity of a user in the wireless telephone network with a corresponding user device coupled to the data network; and wherein the manager is further configured to interact with the wireless telephone network to cause calls placed to the identity of said user in the wireless telephone network to be carried via the interface for onward routing to the corresponding user device coupled to the data network, and cause calls to a public switched telephone network (PSTN) initiated at the corresponding user device coupled to the data network to be carried through the data network and subsequently through the interface for onward routing via the wireless telephone network to a destination in the PSTN such that the calls would appear to have been initiated by a user device coupled to the wireless telephone network.