Management of telephone calls with expenses optimization

A computer program product, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions being executable by a computing system to cause the computing system to perform a method for managing telephone calls, the method comprising:

• setting at least part of one or more telephone numbers of one or more contacts of an owner of a telephone terminal as child telephone numbers of at least one master telephone number of the telephone terminal according to a correlation of the contacts to the owner based on user information thereof,
• assigning at least one of a plurality of call preferences to each child telephone number according to expenses information of telephone calls from the child telephone number to the master telephone number and from the master telephone number to the child telephone number, the call preferences comprising an incoming direction of the telephone calls from the child telephone number to the master telephone number, an outcoming direction of the telephone calls from the master telephone number to the child telephone number, and one or more alternative conversation channels between the master telephone number and the child telephone number, and
• managing each telephone call received by the master telephone number from each child telephone number according to the corresponding call preference by displaying one or more switch commands on the telephone terminal in response to the received telephone call when the call preference is one or more of the alternative conversation channels, and closing the received telephone call and starting a conversation session between the master telephone number and the child telephone number via the corresponding alternative conversation channel in response to a selection of one of the switch commands.

A system for managing telephone calls, the system comprising:

• a circuitry for setting at least part of one or more telephone numbers of one or more contacts of an owner of a telephone terminal as child telephone numbers of at least one master telephone number of the telephone terminal according to a correlation of the contacts to the owner based on user information thereof,
• a circuitry for assigning at least one of a plurality of call preferences to each child telephone number according to expenses information of telephone calls from the child telephone number to the master telephone number and from the master telephone number to the child telephone number, the call preferences comprising an incoming direction of the telephone calls from the child telephone number to the master telephone number, an outcoming direction of the telephone calls from the master telephone number to the child telephone number, and one or more alternative conversation channels between the master telephone number and the child telephone number, and
• a circuitry for managing each telephone call received by the master telephone number from each child telephone number according to the corresponding call preference by displaying one or more switch commands on the telephone terminal in response to the received telephone call when the call preference is one or more of the alternative conversation channels, and closing the received telephone call and starting a conversation session between the master telephone number and the child telephone number via the corresponding alternative conversation channel in response to a selection of one of the switch commands.