Networking between VOIP-and PSTN-calls

摘要

Programmatically reversing numerical line identity presented at a communications services gateway into named IP Telephony users with “prior association”, delivers dynamic “reverse address resolution” switching connections from ground to cloud, permitting any conventional telephone to dial and connect to any associated IP Telephony endpoint in the world, without changes to the conventional telephone. Reversing line identity into associated named users bridges both the addressability and economic divide between mass conventional “paying” (mobile and fixed) and “free” IP Telephony networks. A system for supporting communications between a user on an IP-addressed-communications-device and a telephony subscriber device, the telephony subscriber device having a corresponding telephone number, includes: one or more service nodes configured to: receive from the user the telephone number of the telephony subscriber device and create an association from the telephone number to the user, wherein the association allows the telephony subscriber device to connect to the user.

主权项

1. A method for supporting communications between an internet user on an internet-addressed-communications-device and a telephony user on a telephony subscriber device, the internet user having a corresponding user identity and the telephony subscriber device having a corresponding telephone number, the method comprising the steps of:
(a) receiving, at at least one gateway, information regarding the user identity of the internet user and the telephone number; (b) subsequent to receiving the information, receiving by the at least one gateway a communications request from the telephony subscriber device, the communications request including the telephone number, and (c) performing, by the at least one gateway, a query based on the telephone number in the communications request to return the user identity, wherein the information includes one or more associations, each of the associations being from the telephone number to the internet user, the associations allowing calls originating from the telephony subscriber device to connect to the internet user.