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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2005
Frederick Murray Burg, West Long Branch, NJ (US);
Frederick Murray Burg, West Long Branch, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
A network-based system and method for providing anonymous voice communications using the telephone network and data communications links under the direction of a Call Broker and associated network elements. A user (the call initiator) present in a text chat room session establishes a data connection to Call Broker and, after qualifying for access (e.g., using credit card information) and providing a callback number, receives voice session information and participant access codes for each desired participant in a voice call. The initiator causes session information and participant codes to be passed to one or more selected chat participants in the current text chat room. When a selected participant uses the received session information, and enters the received participant code and a callback number, the Call Broker in cooperation with a Network Adjunct Processor (NAP) completes voice links to the initiator and the selected participant(s).