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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2011
Vijay Manian, Sammamish, WA (US);
Russell Andrew Penar, Woodinville, WA (US);
Mahendra D. Sekaran, Sammamish, WA (US);
Danny Levin, Redmond, WA (US);
Sankaran Narayanan, Redmond, WA (US);
Roy Kuntz, Kirkland, WA (US);
Vijay Manian, Sammamish, WA (US);
Russell Andrew Penar, Woodinville, WA (US);
Mahendra D. Sekaran, Sammamish, WA (US);
Danny Levin, Redmond, WA (US);
Sankaran Narayanan, Redmond, WA (US);
Roy Kuntz, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A hybrid Unified Communications (UC) telephony deployment includes users of a tenant that are hosted between a UC cloud deployment and a UC on-premise deployment that offers PSTN connectivity for the users. An identity of a tenant and its' users are maintained consistently between the on-premise and cloud based UC deployment (e.g. telephone numbers, dialing preferences, voice mail . . . ). Each user of the tenant can register with the UC service from one or more locations (e.g. on-premise, off-premise . . . ) whether or not they are hosted by the on-premise deployment or the cloud based UC deployment. Functionality of the UC deployment may also be maintained at one or more locations within the hybrid UC deployment. For example, some services (e.g. voicemail, or other services) can be hosted in the cloud while the remaining services are hosted on-premise. Different Telco providers may be chosen by the tenant to provide PSTN services for one or more users of the tenant.