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US 8,175,634 B2Granted
Software switch for separating work and personal information on cell phone devices
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsMary Ann Sprague, Jennifer Perotti, Mary Catherine McCorkindale, Patricia Swenton-Wall
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Abstract
This is a cell phone system that provides for use of a single phone for both business and personal calls. This system permits the user to extract personal calls from the system, thereby preserving the confidential nature of some of these personal calls without the business having to review them to determine allocation of costs to user and business.
Claims11
A cell phone system that provides for business and personal calls to be made on the same cell phone, said system comprising:
- software and a switch on said phone that provides for automatic separation, identification and distinguishing of business calls from personal calls made on said phone, said automatic separation being subsequently used for allocating charges of said business and personal calls, automatic partitioning of said personal from said business calls based on pre-set user controls, extracting said personal calls from said system thereby leaving only total calls and identifiable business calls in the system, and automatically presenting the total calls and the remaining business calls to the business which permits the user to reimburse said business for all calls determined by subtracting said business calls from said total calls,
- wherein said business is not provided with the nature of said personal calls but is automatically provided with the total personal calls involved, the total times of these calls and the cost associated with said personal calls and only said user is aware of the specifics and nature of said personal calls thereby retaining any privileged communications associated with said personal calls.
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