Flexible alerting for integrated cellular and VoIP

摘要

An integrated cellular/Voice over IP (VoIP) telephone system including a flexible alerting system, which in response to an inbound call placed to a pilot telephone number, routes a first call leg to a cellular telephone assigned to the pilot telephone number and a second call leg to a telephone number. The telephone system includes a VoIP server configured to establish an inbound call to a VoIP client and establish an outbound call setting caller identification data corresponding to the pilot telephone number, responsive to an outbound call by the VoIP client. An outbound call from the VoIP client to the pilot telephone number is automatically routed to a voice mail system unless otherwise indicated. Based on an indication to not use a pilot telephone number for caller identification, an outbound call is established from the VoIP client to the cellular telephone, without being automatically directed to the voice mail system.

主权项

1. An article of manufacture, comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium and computer-executable instructions embodied in the medium that, if executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform functions, including functions to:
in response to an inbound call received on a cellular communication network and placed to a pilot telephone number identifying a first group of telephone numbers of a plurality of groups of telephone numbers, initiate a first inbound call leg to a cellular telephone to which the pilot telephone number is assigned and a second inbound call leg to a-telephone number associated with a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) client, wherein:
the pilot telephone number is a mobile directory number of the cellular telephone, andthe first group of telephone numbers includes at least the pilot telephone number and the telephone number associated with the VoIP client; automatically route to a voice mail system for voice mail retrieval a first outbound call to the pilot telephone number for the cellular telephone from the VoIP client using the telephone number associated with the VoIP client belonging to the first group of telephone numbers; and establish a second outbound call from the VoIP client using the telephone number associated with the VoIP client to the pilot telephone number for the cellular telephone, without the second outbound call being automatically directed to the voice mail system, in response to input of a special dial string at the VoIP client.