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US 11,223,511 B2Granted
Telephone with a universal phone number
AssigneeTP Lab, Inc.
InventorsChi Fai Ho, Shin Cheung Simon Chiu
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Abstract
A universal phone number service and method of providing a universal phone number service that allows a user to receive phone calls on any phone service with a single phone number. A telephone is disclosed that is associated with more than one phone number and a universal phone number, wherein any phone call placed to the universal phone number results in the call being completed to the telephone regardless of the service associated with the more than one phone number.
Claims7
A system, comprising:
- a single telephone of a user, the single telephone associated with a universal phone number and plural phone numbers,
- the single telephone connected to a first telephone system of plural telephone systems to receive a first telephone service, the first telephone system associated with a first phone number of the plural phone numbers,
- the single telephone further connected to a second telephone system of the plural telephone systems to receive a second telephone service, the second telephone system associated with a second phone number of the plural phone numbers, and
- the single telephone associated with a user preference indicating a preference for the first telephone service, wherein the user preference is associated with the universal phone number and the plural phone numbers,
- wherein in response to a phone call placed to the single telephone using the universal phone number, the single telephone receives the phone call from the first telephone system associated with the first telephone service matching the user preference,
- wherein the universal phone number is associated with a universal phone number service gateway,
- wherein the universal phone number service gateway is associated with at least one telephone network and comprises a route selector, and is associated with a datastore, the datastore comprising a memory and a database, the datastore further comprising a route record associated with the universal phone number and a subscriber record associated with the universal phone number, the subscriber record comprising the plural phone numbers and the plural telephone systems associated therewith,
- wherein the universal phone number service gateway is operable to select a subscriber record based on a selected one of plural phone numbers and is further operable to select a route record based on the universal phone number associated with the selected subscriber record,
- wherein the route selector is operable to select the route record to route an incoming call based on the user preference using the telephone system associated with the selected one of the plural phone numbers to the single telephone associated with the universal phone number.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.