Provision of additional network addressable numbers on single mobile device
AssigneeMovius Interactive Corporation
InventorsGeorge Backhaus, Jignesh Gandhi, Julio Gonzalez, John Green, Philip Lowman, Paul Rubenstein, Mike Speanburg
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Abstract
A method and system are described for servicing a second line service (“SLS”) based communication request originating from a subscriber's telecommunications device (“TD”) even if the call signal does not include sufficient information to identify the phone number from which the subscriber initiated the call. The method involves associating the SLS phone number of the subscriber, the primary number of the subscriber and the primary number of a third party via a special relationship number.
Claims12
A method for enabling a standard cellular mobile communications device, which has a service provider number associated therewith, to include one or more additional network accessible numbers, the method comprising:
- a second line calling application operating on a first cellular mobile communications device receiving an additional network accessible number that is assigned to the first cellular mobile communications device;
- the second line calling application receiving and storing one or more relationship numbers, wherein each of the one or more relationship numbers is unique for a number pair that consists of the additional network accessible number assigned to the first cellular mobile communications device and a third party calling number, and wherein each of the one or more relationship numbers is a network recognizable number;
- receiving an incoming call at the first mobile device, wherein the calling line identifier of the incoming call is set to one of the one or more relationship numbers;
- wherein the second line calling application of the first mobile communications device identifies the additional network accessible number and the third party calling number uniquely assigned to the received relationship number and thus identifies the call as:
- being directed to the additional network accessible number of the first mobile cellular communications device associated with the received relationship number;
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- originating from a particular second mobile communications device that is associated with the third party calling number associated with the received relationship number.
A method for enabling a standard cellular mobile communications device, which has a service provider number associated therewith, to include one or more additional network accessible numbers, the method comprising:
- a second line calling application operating on a first cellular mobile communications device receiving an additional network accessible number that is assigned to the first cellular mobile communications device;
- the second line calling application receiving and storing one or more relationship numbers, wherein each of the one or more relationship numbers is unique for a number pair that consists of the additional network accessible number assigned to the first cellular mobile communications device and a third party calling number, and wherein each of the one or more relationship numbers is a network recognizable number;
- receiving an incoming call at the first mobile device, wherein the calling line identifier of the incoming call is set to one of the one or more relationship numbers;
- wherein the second line calling application of the first mobile communications device examines the previously assigned relationship number and thus identifies the call as:
- being directed to the additional network accessible number of the first mobile cellular communications device;
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- originating from a second mobile communications device;
- the second line calling application initiating a call from the first mobile communications device, wherein the call initiation identifies a first relationship number selected from the one or more relationship numbers as the dialed number and a calling line identifier that is set to the service provider number associated with the first cellular mobile communications device;
- a telephone network identifying the first relationship number as a valid network accessible number that is serviced by a specialized platform;
- the telephone network routing the call initiation to the specialized platform;
- the specialized platform identifying the additional network accessible number and the third party number associated with the pair of the first relationship number and the service provider number associated with the first cellular mobile communications device;
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- the specialized platform completing the call initiation by establishing a call request to the third party number with the additional network accessible number utilized as the calling line identifier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.