A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING A USERS TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATIONS INTO A CLIENT-SERVER ARCHITECTURE

摘要

A method and apparatus for routing a telephone signal having a call destination indicator via a client-server network to a desired user, wherein a server contains an association between user identifiers and telephone destination identifiers, and the server associates each user having a user identifier with a client machine having a client identifier that is employed by the user. The server directs the telephone signal over the client-server network to a telephone appliance coupled to a client machine having a client indicator associated with the user call destination identifier that matches the call destination identifier of the telephone signal.