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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 06, 1998
Jeffrey B Sponaugle, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Paul D Crutcher, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Al J Simon, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Jason T Cassezza, Aloha, OR (US);
Mojtaba Mirashrafi, Portland, OR (US);
Kenneth L Keeler, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Ajit B Pendse, Portland, OR (US);
eFusion, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for establishing a voice call to a PSTN extension for a networked client computer, and routing the voice call off of the network, is provided. In a first embodiment, the apparatus comprises a storage medium having stored therein a plurality of programming instructions coupled to an execution unit to execute the plurality of programming instructions to implement a set of communication services facilitating the establishment of the voice call to the PSTN extension. The set of communication services include services for receiving a request from the networked client computer requesting the voice call, determining the PSTN extension and controlling a computer telephony interface to route the voice call from the packet switched network to the PSTN extension.