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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2011

Filed:

Jul. 13, 2006
Applicants:

Paul Volkaerts, Wokingham, GB;

Paul Andrew Gelsthorpe, Surrey, GB;

Inventors:

Paul Volkaerts, Wokingham, GB;

Paul Andrew Gelsthorpe, Surrey, GB;

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/66 (2006.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04M 3/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In one embodiment, a system identifies an Internet Protocol (IP) device as a calling party for calls from either a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) portion or a cellular portion of a multi-protocol phone. As a result, return calls to the multi-protocol phone are always sent through an IP device to allow call handling or Single Number Reach (SNR) functionality for the return calls.


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