Method and apparatus for establishing a voice call to a PSTN extension for a networked client computer

A method comprising:

• a web server receiving a request for information from a client computer through a data network;
• in response, providing the requested information by the web server, through the data network, to the client computer, and including with said provided information an offer to engage in voice communication, wherein the offer includes identification of a bridge server allowing acceptance of the offer by the client computer to be automatically sent to the identified bridge server without go through the web server, such that the bridge server can facilitate the voice call between the client computer and a PSTN extension associated with the web server, on behalf of the web server.

A computer server comprising:

• a storage medium having stored therein a plurality of programming instructions to implement a set of information server functions on said computer server, including a function to receive a request for information from a client computer through a data network, and in response, provide the requested information, through the data network, to the client computer, wherein the function includes with said provided information an offer to the client computer to engage in voice communication, the function including with said offer an identification of a bridge server allowing acceptance of the offer by the client computer to be automatically sent to the identified bridge server, without going through the computer server, such that the bridge server can facilitate the voice communication between the client computer and a PSTN extension associated with the computer server, on behalf of the computer server;
• and
• an execution unit coupled to the storage medium to execute the programming instructions.