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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2013
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
David Lobo, Frisco, TX (US);
Sherrill A. Moss, Johns Creek, GA (US);
Apurva Pathak, White Plains, NY (US);
Mary T. Thomas, Dallas, TX (US);
Carson C. Burrus, Dallas, TX (US);
Rachna R. Sheth, White Plains, NY (US);
Sundar Rajan Padmanabhan, Irving, TX (US);
Xiaodong Zhang, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A set-top box (STB) obtains a listing of businesses responsive to a request for a business directory search from a customer. The STB receives, from a customer, a selection of a business from the listing of businesses to call. The STB performs one of: initiating, at the STB, a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call to a phone number associated with the business and connecting the VoIP call to a mobile device, or other VoIP device, associated with the customer via a VoIP network, or initiating, at the STB, establishment of a call between a phone number associated with the business and a mobile device associated with the customer via a telephone network. The STB sends data associated with the request for the business directory search to a billing server for billing the customer for the request for the business directory search received at the STB.