US Patent Issued to MCI Communications on April 12 for "System and Method for Servicing Calls Originating Via the Internet" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 16 -- United States Patent no. 7,924,816, issued on April 12, was assigned to MCI Communications Corp. (Basking Ridge, N.

J.).

"System and Method for Servicing Calls Originating Via the Internet" was invented by Duraisamy Gunasekar (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Thomas Galvin (Hiawatha, Iowa) and Tim E. Reynolds (Iowa City, Iowa).

According to the abstract released by the U.

S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing call services in a telecommunications system includes receiving a call request from a call origination station via the Internet. The call request may involve an advanced call service. The method may also include validating the call request and initiating a communications link between the call origination station and a telephony server via the Internet when the call request is validated. The method may further include initiating a telephony link between the telephony server and a call termination station when the call request is validated."

The patent was filed on June 20, 2005, under Application No. 11/155,817.

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