Mobile application for providing multiple second line 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 mobile application and a method 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.
Claims14
A memory device in a communication device comprising a mobile application which is executed by a processor to perform the actions of:
- communicatively coupling the mobile communications device to a special service platform through a network to obtain a relationship number and to associate the relationship number with a first network recognizable number assigned to the mobile communications device and a second network recognizable number assigned to a third-party communications device;
- in response to a user actuating the mobile communications device by dialing the relationship number, initiating a communication to the relationship number, whereby the relationship number is a network recognizable number that the network terminates at the special service platform and whereby the special service platform directs the call towards the second network recognizable number assigned to the third-party communications device and associated with the relationship number;
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- in response to receiving an incoming communication, wherein a calling line identifier is set to the relationship number, the mobile application using the relationship number to identify the second network recognizable number assigned to the third-party communications device that is initiating the incoming communication.
A memory device in a communication device comprising a mobile application which is executed by a processor to:
- couple the mobile communications device to a special service platform through a network to obtain a relationship number and to associate the relationship number with a first network recognizable number assigned to the mobile communications device and a second network recognizable number assigned to a third-party communications device;
- in response to a user actuating the mobile communications device by dialing the relationship number, initiate a communication to the relationship number, whereby the relationship number is a network recognizable number that the network terminates at the special service platform and whereby the special service platform directs the call towards the second network recognizable number assigned to the third-party communications device and associated with the relationship number;
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- in response to receiving an incoming communication, wherein a calling line identifier is set to the relationship number, use the relationship number to identify the second network recognizable number assigned to the third-party communications device that is initiating the incoming communication.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.