Call redirect from user-communication device in broadband network

A storage device containing computer-programming instructions which, in response to being executed by a computer circuit, cause a data-communications system, including the computer circuit, to perform activities comprising:

• routing data calls over a broadband network between a server and a user communications device which is from among a plurality of user communication devices linked to a client entity that is to receive a set of data communications from the data-communications system including the server, each of the plurality of user communication devices being configured with communications circuitry to convey data over the broadband network and being assigned, on behalf of the client entity, a respective one of a plurality of extensions associated with the broadband network;
• and
• performing, via a processing circuit, private branch exchange routing services for each of the extensions, including:
• in response to an incoming data call to the extension, routing the data call via the broadband network to one of the plurality of user communication devices that is assigned the extension;
• placing outgoing calls via the extension from one of the plurality of user communication devices that is assigned the extension;
• and
• for one or more of the plurality of extensions, placing an outgoing data call via the extension from one of a plurality of other user data-communications devices not included in the plurality of user communication devices, wherein placement of the outgoing data call includes
• caching, in response to receiving a call notification indicating a source number of the one of a plurality of other data-user communication devices and a destination number, the call notification in a first database;
• and
• redirecting, via the processing circuit and in response to a first data call from the source number indicated by the call notification that is cached in the first database, the first data call to the destination number indicated in the call notification such that the first data call appears as an outgoing call originating from the extension, wherein the outgoing call originates from the respective one of the plurality of other user data-communications devices that is not included in the plurality of user communication devices, wherein each of the plurality of other user data-communications devices is configured with communications circuitry to convey data.

A data-communications system comprising:

• communications circuitry, as part of a data-communications server, to route data calls over a broadband network for a user communications device which is from among a plurality of user communication devices linked to a client entity to receive a set of data communications from the data-communications server, each of the plurality of user communication devices being configured with communications circuitry to convey data over the broadband network and being assigned, on behalf of the client entity, a respective one of a plurality of extensions associated with the broadband network;
• and
• a processing circuit to, for each of the extensions, perform private branch exchange routing services, including:
• routing, in response to an incoming data call to the extension, the data call via the broadband network to one of the plurality of user communication devices that is assigned the extension;
• placing outgoing calls via the extension from one of the plurality of user communication devices that is assigned the extension;
• and
• placing, for one or more of the plurality of extensions, an outgoing data call via the extension from one of a plurality of other user data-communications devices not included in the plurality of user communication devices, wherein placement of the outgoing data call includes
• caching, in response to receiving a call notification indicating a source number of the one of a plurality of other user data-communication devices and a destination number, the call notification in a first database;
• and
• redirecting, in response to a first data call via the broadband network from the source number indicated by the call notification that is cached in the first database, the first data call to the destination number indicated in the call notification such that the first data call appears as an outgoing call originating from the extension, wherein the outgoing call originates from the respective one of the plurality of other user data-communications devices that is not included in the plurality of user communication devices, wherein each of the plurality of other user data-communications devices is configured with communications circuitry to convey data over the broadband network.