Patent ID: 7957395

Claim:
A system comprising: a database server comprising a plurality of user accounts, each user account comprising: a circuit-based telephony service identifier, wherein the circuit-based telephony service identifier comprises a telephone number associated with a landline. a packet-based telephony service identifier, wherein the packet-based telephony service identifier comprises at least one of a VoIP telephone number and a unique identifier of an analog telephone adapter or a unique identifier of a softphone, and a mapping instruction, wherein the mapping instruction comprises one of the following: instructions for mapping the circuit-based telephony service identifier to the packet-based telephony service identifier, and instructions for no mapping: and a service control component communicatively coupled to a circuit-based network, a packet-based network and the database, wherein the service control component is configured to process a query to search the database for a telephony service identifier and retrieve the mapping instruction associated with the corresponding user account of the telephony service identifier from the database.