US Patent Issued to Avaya on Feb. 22 for "Complementary VoIP Service" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 1 -- United States Patent no. 7,894,590, issued on Feb. 22, was assigned to Avaya Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.

J.).

"Complementary VoIP Service" was invented by Mathilde Benveniste (South Orange, N.

J.).

According to the abstract released by the U.

S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is disclosed that enables a voice call to be initiated on the Public Switched Telephone Network and directed to a VoIP telephone on the Internet without the association of a unique telephone number to the VoIP telephone. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment of the present invention, a user who has a PSTN wireline telephone or a PSTN cell phone associates his or her VoIP telephone with the telephone number of the PSTN wireline telephone or the PSTN cell phone or with both numbers. In other words, the VoIP telephone is not assigned its own telephone number but shares the telephone number of the PSTN telephones of its owner."

The patent was filed on Aug. 12, 2005, under Application No. 11/203,356.

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