Attaching Multiple Phone Lines to a Single Mobile or Landline Phone
AssigneeWorld Emergency Network—Nevada, Ltd.
InventorChristopher Ryan Bennett
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Abstract
Agencies issue multiple devices to personnel for maintaining distinct identities over the course of assigned investigations. To provide flexible capabilities to agencies, a phone is converted for use with multiple attached telephone numbers. Accordingly, a single phone may be used to manage multiple identities over the course of one or more investigations. Using a multiple attached number, a given device can place and receive calls over the network to and from contacts. In addition to providing multiple attached numbers, calls using the multiple attached numbers may be monitored live and recorded to establish evidence.
Claims1
A computer based method comprising:
- receiving information in response to a request from a telephonic device to communicate with a virtual number associated with an operator device, the information including device information corresponding to the telephonic device and the virtual number;
- identifying the telephonic device as the operator device or a contact device based on a comparison of the device information of the telephonic device with device information stored in association with the virtual number in a mapping table;
- in response to identifying the telephonic device as a contact device, transmitting instructions for at least one of connecting the contact device with the operator device associated with the virtual number or transmitting data received from the contact device to the operator device from the virtual number;
- in response to identifying the telephonic device as the operator device, receiving information including device information corresponding to a contact device and transmitting instructions for at least one of connecting the operator device with the contact device through the virtual number or transmitting data received from the operator device to the contact device from the virtual number.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.