SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TELEPHONE SERVICE USING A WIRELESS PERSONAL INFORMATION DEVICE

摘要

A system and method for controlling telephony service to a user with a wireless personal information device (PID). The user may connect to a telephony control server via a data network. The telephony control server has access to the user's telephony account which indicates the user's telephone number in a telephone number entry. The user connection is by a wireless PID that uses the wireless cellular infrastructure to connect to a data network gateway or server. Once the connection is made, the user issues a command to set the telephone number entry in the user's data network telephony account to a specific telephone number. The user may then invoke a contacts application in the wireless PID and select a person from the contacts list to call. The user selects the entry in the contact application to send a command to initiate a telephone connection between the party selected and the user at the telephone set at the telephony control server.