Patent ID: 7995721

Claim:
A system for establishing a remote access session to a telephone, the system comprising: a communication device having a display, an input mechanism and a web browser, the communication device in a location remote from the telephone; an information center comprising; a private branch exchange (PBX) system providing delivery of external and internal telephone calls and messaging to and from the information center; and the telephone having a web server integrated therein to provide a dynamic web-based graphical user interface (GUI) accessible by the communication device, the telephone coupled to the local area network and the PBX system, the telephone receives, from the PBX system, an information indicative of a communication event; and a web-based communication channel coupling the communication device and the information center to cause the remote access session, whereby, the communication device initiates the session by accessing the dynamic web-based GUI and during the session, the communication device receives and displays the information indicative of the communication event on a point-to-point basis from the telephone via the dynamic web-based GUI, thereby transferring complete management functions of the information indicative of the event to the communication device.