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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2011
James P G Dalton, Jr., Atlanta, GA (US);
Stephen Anthony Thomas, Marietta, GA (US);
Dmitry Isakbayev, Atlanta, GA (US);
James P G Dalton, Jr., Atlanta, GA (US);
Stephen Anthony Thomas, Marietta, GA (US);
Dmitry Isakbayev, Atlanta, GA (US);
Transnexus, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A clearinghouse server for routing multi-media communications, including telephony calls, between a source device and a destination device via a distributed computer network, such as the global Internet. The clearinghouse server can authorize the completion of a communication from a source device to a destination device and collect usage-related information for the completed communication. In response to an authorization request issued by an enrolled source device, the clearinghouse server can identify one or more available destination devices available to accept a communication from an authorized source device. The clearinghouse server can provide a list of the identified destination devices, typically organized in a rank order, by sending an authorization response to the source device. In turn, the source device can use this list to select a destination device and contact that selected device via the computer network to complete the communication.