Another VoIP Patent for 8×8

Provider of Packet8 broadband VoIP services, 8×8, announced yesterday that they have been awarded another U.S. Patent for VoIP using a communication routing system that connects over a broadband data network.

Example portions of this invention include routing non-local calls through a broadband data network as well as utilizing a broadband data network to provide telephony services. This includes default and programmed call routing to a user’s voice mail, email or virtual extension.

This patent (No. 7,218,721) was issued from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on May 15th. One of the 16 claims reads:

A communication routing system having a plurality of local and remote
communication devices communicatively coupled through local and remote
PSTNs, respectively, the system comprising: a user-programmable
database associating each of a plurality of user identifiers with a
device identifier, each device identifier corresponding to one of the
communication devices; a call-routing switch arrangement coupled to one
of the PSTNs through a portal communication device having a portal
identifier and responsive to a received call designating a destination
user identifier, the call routing switch arrangement adapted to use the
user-programmable database to route the received call via the other of
the PSTNs to a destination communication device.