Patent ID: 8175650

Claim:
A telephony service delivery system comprising: a telephony system for receiving a phone call from a subscriber from an originating device connected to a public switched telephone network connected to the computer communications network via a media gateway; a media gateway for translating a called number to a network address and for packetizing a voice sample received from the subscriber over the public switched telephone network for communication over the computer communications network; a switching system within the public switched telephone network for determining that the phone call is to be routed to the media gateway based on the called number specified by the phone call; an interface configured to receive call information comprising signaling information and a spoken utterance from the subscriber, said interface configured to receive said call information from the telephony system and provide said call information to at least one other device communicatively linked through a computer communications network; a database of subscriber identities and subscriber voice prints and telephony services associated with said subscriber identities created within a computer communications network; an audio processor for identifying a voice print uniquely identifying the subscriber from the spoken utterance for determining a subscriber identity from said identified voice print by comparing the identified voice print with the subscriber voice prints stored in the database; and a voice server connected to the computer communications network and configured to activate during a telephone call in which said subscriber participates at least one telephony service according to said subscriber identity and to charge a fee for the telephony service activated during the telephone call, the fee being charged to an account associated with said subscriber according to said determined subscriber identity during a telephone call in which said subscriber participates, activating a telephony service executing on the voice server, and the telephony service being activated in response to the determining of the subscriber identity based upon the voice print identification.