Patent ID: 8005070

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a softswitch, a vicarious call initiation comprising a Hypertext Transfer Protocol post message from a wireless device over a data-bearing path of a cellular communication system, wherein the vicarious call initiation includes an identifier of a remote party device; receiving, by the softswitch, a cellular call initiation message from the wireless device over a voice-bearing path of the cellular communication system, wherein the cellular call initiation message is directed to the wireless device, and the voice-bearing path is different than the data-bearing path; correlating, by the softswitch, the vicarious call initiation with the cellular call initiation message to establish a connection over the voice-bearing path of the cellular communication system; and receiving, by the softswitch, a feature request for the established connection, wherein the feature request is received over the data-bearing path of the cellular communication system.