Last week Skype announced SkypeWeb, a way to advise presence via a web page so calls can be made.
Today, The Globe, makers of GloPhone announced a patent has been awarded to them by the U.S. Patent Office for the process of origination and termination of telephone calls between subscriber
terminals connected to a public packet network. Subscribers have
traditional numbers mapped to their IP address allowing them to place
and receive calls. The mapped information is published on HTML pages
for direct use over the Internet.
To me this sounds alot like click to call and may also make companies like client VoIPster who created a plug in for Firefox want to look closely at the actually patent also. Heck, even Microsoft, which acquired Tello may have to worry.