Locale based call forwarding
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorJames Mark Weaver
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Abstract
Call forwarding a telephone number, including tracking recent locations of a user with the user's mobile personal communications device and a wireless telecommunications network; identifying a locale for the user in dependence upon the recent locations and upon historical location records for the user; and forwarding a telephone number in dependence upon the locale. In many embodiments, identifying a locale further comprises comparing historical location records and recent locations, wherein the historical location records are related to the locale through a locale identification field used as a foreign key.
Claims27
A method of forwarding a telephone number, the method comprising:
- tracking recent locations of a user with the user's mobile personal communications device and a wireless telecommunications network;
- identifying a locale for the user in dependence upon the recent locations and upon historical location records for the user;
- and
- forwarding a telephone number in dependence upon the locale.
A system for forwarding a telephone number, the system comprising:
- means for tracking recent locations of a user with the user's mobile personal communications device and a wireless telecommunications network;
- means for identifying a locale for the user in dependence upon the recent locations and upon historical location records for the user;
- and
- means for forwarding a telephone number in dependence upon the locale.
A computer program product for forwarding a telephone number, the system comprising:
- a recording medium;
- means, recorded on the recoding medium, for tracking recent locations of a user with the user's mobile personal communications device and a wireless telecommunications network;
- means, recorded on the recoding medium, for identifying a locale for the user in dependence upon the recent locations and upon historical location records for the user;
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- means, recorded on the recoding medium, for forwarding a telephone number in dependence upon the locale.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.