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Attaching multiple phone lines to a single mobile or landline phone

  • US 10,547,740 B2
  • Filed: 01/15/2019
  • Issued: 01/28/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer based method comprising:

  • detecting communication of a message from a communications device to a virtual number;

    in response to detecting the communication of the message, comparing the virtual number to entries of a mapping table, the mapping table comprising a correspondence between an operator device and a plurality of contact devices, wherein the mapping table further comprises, for each respective contact device of the plurality of contact devices, a mapping of a respective virtual number of a plurality of virtual numbers to the respective contact device;

    determining whether the communications device is the operator device or a contact device of the plurality of contact devices based on the comparing;

    in response to determining that the communications device is a contact device of the plurality of contact devices, transmitting instructions for transmitting the message received from the contact device to the operator device from the respective virtual number that corresponds to the contact device based on the mapping table indicating that the respective virtual number corresponds to the contact device; and

    in response to determining that the communications device is the operator device, identifying, based on the mapping table, a respective contact device to which the message is to be directed, and transmitting instructions for transmitting the message to the respective contact device from the virtual number.

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