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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1999
Guido M. Schuster, Des Plaines, IL (US);
Ikhlaq S. Sidhu, Vernon Hills, IL (US);
Jerry J. Mahler, Prospect Heights, IL (US);
Frederick D. Dean, Chicago, IL (US);
Jacek A. Grabiec, Chicago, IL (US);
Guido M. Schuster, Des Plaines, IL (US);
Ikhlaq S. Sidhu, Vernon Hills, IL (US);
Jerry J. Mahler, Prospect Heights, IL (US);
Frederick D. Dean, Chicago, IL (US);
Jacek A. Grabiec, Chicago, IL (US);
3Com Corporation, Marlborough, MA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for accessing a data network telephony account using a wireless personal information device (PID). The user may connect over the wireless cellular infrastructure to a telephony control server via a data network for access to the user's telephony account, which indicates the user's telephone number in a telephone number entry. 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 to call from the contacts list. The user selects the entry to send a command to initiate a telephone connection between the party selected and the user at the telephone designated by the user at the telephony control server.