Techniques for telecommunications contact management on an end user device
Various embodiments are directed to techniques managing telephone numbers and other telecommunication identifiers when placing and receiving calls or messages from a single device. In some embodiments, one of a plurality of outbound telephone numbers or other identifiers associated with the device or an application executing on the device may be selected when making an outbound telephone call or sending a message. In another embodiment, an outbound telephone number or other identifier is automatically selected when making an outbound telephone call or sending a message based on an association of that outbound telephone number with the intended recipient of the call or message.
1. At least one non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising a set of instructions that in response to being executed on a mobile communications device associated with multiple telephone numbers, cause the mobile communications device to:
receive an inbound telephone call, the inbound telephone call including (i) information comprising a calling telephone number for the device making the inbound telephone call, and (ii) a called telephone number, the called telephone number being one of the multiple telephone numbers associated with the mobile communications device; and
associate the calling telephone number with the called telephone number such that a subsequent outbound telephone call to the calling telephone number automatically uses the called telephone number as the source of the subsequent outbound telephone call.
2. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising instructions that in response to being executed on the mobile communications device cause the mobile communications device to:
determine whether the calling number is associated with at least one telephone number for a contact in a contacts database associated with the mobile communications device;
when the calling number is in the contacts database, determine whether the calling number is associated with an outbound telephone number for the mobile communications device; and
if there is no associated outbound telephone number for the calling number,
associate the called number as the outbound telephone number for that calling number for the contact in the contacts database.
3. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising instructions that in response to being executed on the mobile communications device cause the mobile communications device to:
determine whether the calling number for the inbound telephone call is associated with at least one telephone number for a contact in a contacts database associated with the mobile communications device; and
when the calling number for the inbound telephone call is not associated with at least one telephone number for a contact in the contacts database, adding a new contact to the contacts database, the new contact including the calling number and an associated outbound telephone number comprised of the called number.
4. An apparatus, comprising:
a processor component associated with multiple telephone numbers; and
logic to be executed by the processor component to:
receive an inbound telephone call, the inbound telephone call including (i) information comprising a calling telephone number for the device making the inbound telephone call, and (ii) a called telephone number, the called telephone number being one of the multiple telephone numbers; and
associate the calling telephone number with the called telephone number such that a subsequent outbound telephone call to the calling telephone number automatically uses the called telephone number as the source of the subsequent outbound telephone call.
5. The apparatus of claim 4 , the logic to be executed by the processor component to:
determine whether the calling number is associated with at least one telephone number for a contact in a contacts database associated with the processor component;
when the calling number is in the contacts database, determine whether the calling number is associated with an outbound telephone number for the processor component; and
if there is no associated outbound telephone number for the calling number,
associate the called number as the outbound telephone number for that calling number for the contact in the contacts database.
6. The apparatus of claim 4 , the logic to be executed by the processor component to:
determine whether the calling number for the inbound telephone call is associated with at least one telephone number for a contact in a contacts database associated with the processor component; and
when the calling number for the inbound telephone call is not associated with at least one telephone number for a contact in the contacts database, adding a new contact to the contacts database, the new contact including the calling number and an associated outbound telephone number comprised of the called number.
7. A computer implemented method, comprising:
receiving an inbound telephone call, the inbound telephone call including (i) information comprising a calling telephone number for the device making the inbound telephone call, and (ii) a called telephone number, the called telephone number being one of the multiple telephone numbers associated with a mobile communications device; and
associating the calling telephone number with the called telephone number such that a subsequent outbound telephone call to the calling telephone number automatically uses the called telephone number as the source of the subsequent outbound telephone call.
8. The computer implemented method of claim 7 , comprising:
determining whether the calling number is associated with at least one telephone number for a contact in a contacts database associated with the mobile communications device;
when the calling number is in the contacts database, determining whether the calling number is associated with an outbound telephone number for the mobile communications device; and
if there is no associated outbound telephone number for the calling number,
associating the called number as the outbound telephone number for that calling number for the contact in the contacts database.
9. The computer implemented method of claim 7 , comprising:
determining whether the calling number for the inbound telephone call is associated with at least one telephone number for a contact in a contacts database associated with the mobile communications device; and
when the calling number for the inbound telephone call is not associated with at least one telephone number for a contact in the contacts database, adding a new contact to the contacts database, the new contact including the calling number and an associated outbound telephone number comprised of the called number.