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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2018
Republic Wireless, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Jared Kashimba, Micanopy, FL (US);
Sai Rathnam, Raleigh, NC (US);
Justin Milam, Burgaw, NC (US);
Jon Schniepp, Raleigh, NC (US);
Sam Quaile, Durham, NC (US);
Jesse Stimpson, Raleigh, NC (US);
James Mulcahy, Raleigh, NC (US);
Republic Wireless, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
Examples are disclosed for placing an outbound telephony call using a smart speaker as a proxy device for a telephone account. A smart speaker may receive a verbal command to initiate the telephone call that includes identifying information for the called party. The verbal command may be forwarded to a smart speaker server where it may be converted to a computer instruction to initiate the telephone call. The computer instruction may then be forwarded to a communications server. The communications server may determine the telephone number to call based on the identifying information for the called party. The communications server may then establish a first communication link between itself and a telephony endpoint of the called party and a second communication link between itself and the smart speaker device. The communication links may then be bridged into a communications session between the smart speaker device and the telephony endpoint of the called party.