Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Carson C Burrus

Sundar Rajan Padmanabhan

Apurva Pathak

Xiaodong Zhang

Mary T Thomas

David Lobo

Sherrill A Moss

Rachna R Sheth

A set-top box (STB) obtains a listing of businesses responsive to a request for a business directory search from a customer. The STB receives, from a customer, a selection of a business from the listing of businesses to call. The STB performs one of: initiating, at the STB, a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call to a phone number associated with the business and connecting the VoIP call to a mobile device, or other VoIP device, associated with the customer via a VoIP network, or initiating, at the STB, establishment of a call between a phone number associated with the business and a mobile device associated with the customer via a telephone network. The STB sends data associated with the request for the business directory search to a billing server for billing the customer for the request for the business directory search received at the STB.

Business directory assistance via STB

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Dallas, TX, United States of America

Carson C Burrus