System and method for controlling telephone service using a wireless personal information device

• Main Authors: Schuster, Guido M, Sidhu, Ikhlaq S, Mahler, Jerry J, Dean, Frederick D, Grabiec, Jacek A
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 21.03.2006

A system and method for accessing a data network telephony account using a wireless personal information device (PID). The user may connect over the wireless cellular infrastructure to a telephony control server via a data network for access to the user's telephony account, which indicates the user's telephone number in a telephone number entry. Once the connection is made, the user issues a command to set the telephone number entry in the user's data network telephony account to a specific telephone number. The user may then invoke a contacts application in the wireless PID and select a person to call from the contacts list. The user selects the entry to send a command to initiate a telephone connection between the party selected and the user at the telephone designated by the user at the telephony control server.