Automated telephone number transfer
AssigneeSap SE
InventorsSonia Lippe, Dominic Cheung
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Abstract
A method and a system allow a user of a portable communication device such as a mobile telephone to transfer contact data automatically from the portable communication device to a fixed line communication device and initiate a call to a selected contact via the fixed line device. The portable device transmits contact data wirelessly to a wireless reception unit associated with the fixed line communication device, and carries out a permission process to ensure that the portable device is authorized to instruct the fixed line device to initiate a call. The portable device then instructs the fixed line device to initiate a call and the user uses an audio interface of the fixed line device to make the call.
Claims18
A communication method including:
- storing data defining a plurality of contacts in a memory of a first communication device;
- detecting selection of a contact via a user interface of the first communication device;
- and
- communicating with a second communication device to transfer data corresponding to the selected contact to the second communication device and to instruct the second communication device to initiate a call to a communication device of the selected contact.
A communication system including:
- a first communication device having a memory to store data defining a plurality of contacts, a user interface operable to select a desired contact, and a first communication interface;
- and
- a second communication device comprising a second communication interface to receive data from the first communication interface of the first communication device and a network interface to communicate with a third party communication device via a network;
- wherein the first communication device is to transmit contact data to the second communication device corresponding to a selected contact and to transmit instruction data to instruct the second communication device to initiate a call, the second communication device being responsive to the instruction data to initiate a call to a communication device of the selected contact.
A communication device including:
- a user interface;
- a network interface to communicate with a third party communication device via a network;
- a communication interface to receive contact data and instruction data from a third party communication device having a complementary communication interface;
- and
- a processor responsive to the instruction data to initiate a call via the network interface to a third party communication device identified by the contact data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.