Method and apparatus for providing personal mobility features in a telecommunications environment

A method for providing a personal mobility feature to a call, comprising:

• receiving, from a caller, a request to establish a call with a callee, the request including a personal address of the callee;
• identifying a device currently associated by the callee with the personal address;
• applying, to the call, at least one call feature subscribed to by the personal address of the callee;
• and
• establishing the call with the device, wherein the at least one call feature is accessible by the callee using the device.

An apparatus for providing personal mobility features in a distributed feature composition (DFC) telecommunication architecture having a-plurality of feature boxes for establishing call features to a call, the apparatus comprising a computer server including a processor and a memory for storing and executing:

• an identification box comprising programming code for authenticating a caller and associating a personal address of the caller in place with a device used by the caller, the device identifier having a separate device identifier, the personal address used to apply a call feature subscribed to by the caller to the call;
• a mobility box comprising programming code for enabling the caller to transfer the call to a second telecommunications device;
• a multiparty control box comprising programming code for enabling the caller to add at least one additional callee to the call;
• and
• a device augmentation box comprising programming code for coordinating voice and signaling channels between components of a compound telecommunications device, wherein the voice channels and signaling channels may be applied to separate components of the compound telecommunications device and wherein the identification box, the mobility box, the multiparty control box, and the device augmentation box are established in a precedence order in the call by a DFC routing algorithm.