US 9,497,606 B1Granted

Native dialer fall-back

AssigneePeerless Network, Inc.

InventorJames E. Brewer

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Abstract

Techniques for passing, releasing, and/or transferring control of a call origination from an application dialer to a native dialer of a mobile communication device include determining whether or not a destination telephone number indicated at a user interface of the device is included in a set of predetermined numbers, which may include a set of service numbers for, e.g., emergency services, directory assistance, community services and information, etc., and/or which may include other predetermined numbers. Call control may be released to the native dialer when the indicated, destination telephone number is included in the set. Otherwise, the call may be processed by the application dialer, and may be routed from the mobile device towards the destination telephone number by using a private packet backbone network exchange. The application dialer may be a default dialer, and a user of the device may be unaware of the native dialer.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A mobile device, comprising:

an application dialer communicatively connected to a wireless communication interface and to a native dialer of the mobile device, wherein:
each of the application dialer and the native dialer is respectively configured to originate, via the wireless communication interface, calls to telephone numbers indicated by user input received at the mobile device,
when the application dialer receives an indication of a first telephone number that is indicated by user input at the mobile device and that is included in a set of predetermined telephone numbers, the application dialer passes control to the native dialer for the native dialer to originate, via the wireless communication interface, a call to the first telephone number included in the set of predetermined telephone numbers, wherein an initialization of the application dialer comprises a transmission of an identification corresponding to the mobile device and a reception of a configuration corresponding to the identification corresponding to the mobile device, the configuration including an indication of the set of predetermined telephone numbers, and
when the application dialer receives an indication of a second telephone number that is indicated by user input at the mobile device and that is excluded from the set of predetermined telephone numbers, the application dialer originates, via the wireless communication interface, a call to the second telephone number excluded from the set of predetermined telephone numbers.

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A method, comprising:

receiving, at an application dialer of a mobile communication device, user input indicative of a telephone number;
determining, by the application dialer, whether or not the telephone number is included in a set of predetermined telephone numbers;
when the telephone number is determined as being included in the set of predetermined telephone numbers, releasing control of an origination of a call destined for the telephone number to a native dialer of the mobile communication device;
when the telephone number is determined as being not included in the set of predetermined telephone numbers, originating, by the application dialer, the call destined for the telephone number;
transmitting, by the application dialer upon initialization, an identifier corresponding to the mobile communication device;
receiving, at the application dialer, a configuration corresponding to the identifier corresponding to the mobile communication device, the configuration including an indication of the set of predetermined telephone numbers and an originating telephone number assigned to the mobile communication device and for use by the application dialer in originating calls;
and
storing the configuration in a memory of the mobile communication device, thereby configuring the mobile communication device with the configuration.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/079,293Filed 24 Mar 2016
Granted: 15 Nov 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

H04W 4/16
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: communication-related supplementary services, e.g.…
H04M 7/066
Using auxiliary connections for control or supervision , e.g. where the auxiliary connection is a signalling system number 7 link: where the…
H04M 7/1275
Where the types of switching equipement comprises PSTN/ISDN equipment and switching equipment of networks other than PSTN/ISDN, e.g. Internet…:…
H04M 3/42068
Making use of the calling party identifier: where the identifier is used to access a profile