Patent ID: 7263356

Claim:
A system for enabling a communications services subscriber to temporarily extend his communications services to a communications terminal, selected as desired, so that said subscriber can be contacted at said terminal by a remote caller dialing a communications services code assigned to said subscriber, said system comprising: a subscriber interface adapted for receiving information provided by said subscriber, wherein said subscriber-provided information includes said communications services code assigned to said subscriber and also call-routing location information associated with said communications terminal selected by said subscriber; and a subscriber location register, in communication with said subscriber interface, adapted for receiving said subscriber-provided information from said subscriber interface and also communicating said subscriber-provided information to at least one other location register selected from the group consisting of a home location register and a wireline location register; wherein said at least one other location register can be queried so as to obtain said subscriber-provided information and utilize said information to route a call made by said remote caller to said communications terminal selected by said subscriber.