Locale based call forwarding
View Patent ↗Call forwarding a telephone number, including tracking recent locations of a user with the user's mobile personal communications device and a wireless telecommunications network; identifying a locale for the user in dependence upon the recent locations and upon historical location records for the user; and forwarding a telephone number in dependence upon the locale. In many embodiments, identifying a locale further comprises comparing historical location records and recent locations, wherein the historical location records are related to the locale through a locale identification field used as a foreign key.
1. A method of forwarding a telephone number, the method comprising:
tracking recent locations of a user with the user's mobile personal communications device and a wireless telecommunications network;
identifying a locale for the user by comparing historical location records and two or more recent locations to infer a locale, wherein a locale comprises a physical condition of a user that can be tracked for call forwarding; and
forwarding a telephone number in dependence upon the locale.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the historical location records are related to the locale through a locale identification field used as a foreign key.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein forwarding a telephone number further comprises forwarding a telephone number that the user is authorized to forward to a telephone number specified by the user.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein forwarding a telephone number further comprises provisioning the call forwarding instructions to a service control point through an appropriate gateway.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein forwarding a telephone number further comprises identifying a user-specified phone number from a forwarding instruction record, that is related to a locale through a foreign key.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein forwarding a telephone number further comprises:
identifying by a first telephone name a first telephone number that the user is authorized to forward;
identifying by a second telephone name a second telephone number specified by the user; and
forwarding the first telephone number to the second telephone number.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein forwarding a telephone number further comprises confirming the user's forwarding instructions.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein confirming a user specified call forwarding number comprises contacting a user and receiving confirmation from the user.
9. The method of claim 8 , wherein confirming a user specificd call forwarding number further comprises checking user specified contact rules.
10. A system for forwarding a telephone number, the system comprising:
means for tracking recent locations of a user with the user's mobile personal communications device and a wireless telecommunications network; means for identifying a locale for the user by comparing historical location records and two or more recent locations to infer a locale, wherein a locale comprises a physical condition of a user that can be tacked for call forwarding; and
means for forwarding a telephone number in dependence upon the locale.
11. The system of claim 10 wherein the historical location records are related to the locale through a locale identification field used as a foreign key.
12. The system of claim 10 wherein means for forwarding a telephone number further comprises means for forwarding a telephone number that the user is authorized to forward to a telephone number specified by the user.
13. The system of claim 10 wherein means for forwarding a telephone number further comprises means for provisioning the call forwarding instructions to a service control point through an appropriate gateway.
14. The system of claim 10 wherein means for forwarding a telephone number further comprises means for identifying a user-specified phone number from a forwarding instruction record, that is related to a locale through a foreign key.
15. The system of claim 10 wherein means for forwarding a telephone number further comprises:
means for identifying by a first telephone name a first telephone number that the user is authorized to forward; means for identifying by a second telephone name a second telephone number specified by the user; and
means for forwarding the first telephone number to the second telephone number.
16. The system of claim 10 wherein means for forwarding a telephone number further comprises means for confirming the user's forwarding instructions.
17. The system of claim 16 , wherein means for confirming a user specified call forwarding number comprises means for contacting a user and means for receiving confirmation from the user.
18. The system of claim 17 , wherein means for confirming a user specified call forwarding number further comprises means for checking user specified contact rules.
19. A computer program product for forwarding a telephone number, the computer program product comprising:
a recording medium;
means, recorded on the recoding medium, for tracking recent locations of a user with the user's mobile personal communications device and a wireless telecommunications network;
means, recorded on the recoding medium, for identifying a locale for the user by comparing historical location records and two or more recent locations to infer a locale, wherein a locale comprises a physical condition of a user that can be tracked for call forwarding; and means, recorded on the recoding medium, for forwarding a telephone number in dependence upon the locale.
20. The computer program product of claim 19 wherein the historical location records are related to the locale through a locale identification field used as a foreign key.
21. The computer program product of claim 19 wherein means for forwarding a telephone number further comprises means, recorded on the recoding medium, for forwarding a telephone number that the user is authorized to forward to a telephone number specified by the user.
22. The computer program product of claim 19 wherein means for forwarding a telephone number further comprises means, recorded on the recoding medium, for provisioning the call forwarding instructions to a service control point through an appropriate gateway.
23. The computer program product of claim 19 wherein means for forwarding a telephone number further comprises means, recorded on the recoding medium, for identifying a user-specified phone number from a forwarding instruction record, that is related to a locale through a foreign key.
24. The computer program product of claim 19 wherein means for forwarding a telephone number further comprises:
means, recorded on the recoding medium, for identifying by a first telephone name a first telephone number that the user is authorized to forward;
means, recorded on the recoding medium, for identifying by a second telephone name a second telephone number specified by the user; and
means, recorded on the recoding medium, for forwarding the first telephone number to the second telephone number.
25. The computer program product of claim 19 wherein means for forwarding a telephone number further comprises means, recorded on the recoding medium, for confirming the user's forwarding instructions.
26. The computer program product of claim 25 , wherein means for confirming a user specified call forwarding number comprises means, recorded on the recoding medium, for contacting a user and means, recorded on the recoding medium, for receiving confirmation from the user.
27. The computer program product of claim 26 , wherein means for confirming a user specified call forwarding number further comprises means, recorded on the recoding medium, for checking user specified contact rules.