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US 2013/0178197 A1Published application
Call Management System for a Mobile Telephone
Assigneeadaffix GmbH
InventorClaudia Dreier-Poepperl
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Abstract
A call management system, comprising: a call monitor operable to identify an attempt, in use, by a user to call a predetermined number attributed to a first entity; a processor, configured to derive at least one alternative number, attributed to another entity, based on the predetermined number attributed to the first entity; and a router to provide a user with an opportunity to route a or the call to at least one of the derived at least one alternative numbers.
Claims20
A method of managing a call from a mobile telephone, the method comprising:
- identifying an attempt by a user to call, subsequent to initiation of the call by the user with the mobile telephone and at least prior to initiation of the call by the mobile telephone over a telephone network, a predetermined number attributed to a first entity;
- deriving from a database, at least a portion of which is located on the mobile phone, at least one alternative number attributed to another entity based on the predetermined number attributed to the first entity when a predetermined condition has been met, the deriving based on the identification of an attempt by the user to call the predetermined number attributed to the first entity;
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- providing the user with an opportunity to initiate another call to at least one of the derived at least one alternative numbers from the mobile telephone.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a user interface and a processor coupled therewith;
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- a call management system stored on a memory, the call management system comprising a computer software program loaded in an operating system and executable by the processor to:
- cause the processor to identify, using a call monitor, an attempt, via the user interface, by a user to call a predetermined number attributed to a first entity, the call monitor being further configured to identify the attempt subsequent to initiation of the call by the user with the mobile telephone and at least prior to initiation of the call by the mobile telephone over a telephone network;
- cause, based on the identification of an attempt by the user to call the predetermined number attributed to the first entity, the processor to derive using a composite database, at least one alternative number attributed to another entity based on the predetermined number attributed to the first entity when a predetermined condition has been met;
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- cause the processor to provide the user via the user interface an opportunity to initiate another call to at least one of the derived at least one alternative numbers from the mobile telephone over the telephone network.
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A mobile telephone comprising:
- a call monitor operable to identify an attempt by a user to call a predetermined number attributed to a first entity, the call monitor being further configured to identify the attempt subsequent to initiation of the call by the user with the mobile telephone and at least prior to initiation of the call by the mobile telephone over a telephone network;
- a processor configured to derive from a database, at least a portion of which is stored in a network database, at least one alternative number attributed to another entity, the at least one alternative number based on the predetermined number attributed to the first entity, when a predetermined condition has been met, wherein the deriving is triggered based on the identification of an attempt by the user to call the predetermined number attributed to the first entity;
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- a router configured to provide the user with an opportunity to initiate another call to at least one of the derived at least one alternative numbers from the mobile telephone over the telephone network.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.