Patent ID: 8917716

Claim:
A system, comprising: a mesh network cordless telephone base station positionable inside a building and configured to communicate with a mesh network, wherein the mesh network telephone base station includes a telephone jack wired to a plain old telephone service (POTS) or a public switched telephone network (PSTN) land-line; a cordless telephone positionable inside the building and configured to communicate with the cordless telephone base station via the mesh network, wherein the mesh network is configured to transfer data between the cordless telephone and the cordless telephone base station over intermediate nodes; and a server coupled to the base station, wherein the server is configured to receive a search query from the cordless telephone, wherein the server is configured to search one or more databases based on the search query and return a search result on a display, wherein the server is configured to select a third party associated with one of the search results to call back the cordless telephone, and wherein the server is configured to transmit the cordless telephone's caller identification (Caller ID) to the third party to call back the cordless telephone.