Local Phone Number Lookup and Cache

• US 20070021147A1
• Filed: 09/28/2006
• Published: 01/25/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: WI-GUI, LLC
• Inventors: McCann, Thomas
• Granted Patent: US 7,962,149 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/556.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/205 Transfer to or from user equipment or user record carrier

Abstract

A system and method for wirelessly connecting a computer device to a server. The system includes a computer device and a phone number look-up device. The computer device generates location data, retrieves a server phone number from memory based on the generated location data, and generates a request that includes the generated location data if no server phone number corresponds to the generated location data. The computer device wirelessly sends the generated request to a default phone number. The phone number look-up device is associated with the default phone number. The phone number look-up device receives the request from the computer device, retrieves a server phone number from a local memory based on the received request, and sends the retrieved server phone number to the computer device. The computer device wirelessly connects to a server based on the sent server phone number.

Claims

1. A method for wirelessly connecting a computer device to a server, the method comprising:

generating data related to the location of the computer device;

wirelessly sending the location data to a phone number look-up device;

retrieving at least one phone number from memory coupled to the phone number look-up device;

wirelessly sending the retrieved at least one phone number to the computer device; and

wirelessly connecting the computer device to a server using the at least one phone number.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the computer device is a telematics control unit.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the computer device is at least one of a laptop computer or personal data assistant.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein generating location data of the computer device comprises:

recording location information as spoken by a user; and

generating location data by performing active speech recognition of the recorded location information.

5. A system for wirelessly connecting a computer device to a server, the system comprising:

a computer device comprising;

a location generator for generating data related to the location of the computer device;

a memory for storing server phone numbers based on location;

a processor for retrieving a server phone number from the memory based on the generated location data, and for generating a request that includes the generated location data if no server phone number corresponds to the generated location data; and

a communication device for wirelessly connecting the computer device to a server using the retrieved server phone number, and for wirelessly sending the generated request to a default phone number; and

a phone number look-up device associated with the default phone number, the phone number look-up device comprises;

memory for storing server phone numbers based on location;

a communication device for receiving the request from the computer device; and

a processor for retrieving a server phone number from the memory based on the received request,

wherein the communication device sends the retrieved server phone number to the computer device, and the communication device of the computer device wirelessly connects to a server based on the sent server phone number.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the computer device is a telematics control unit.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the computer device is at least one of a laptop computer or personal data assistant.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the location generator is an active speech recognition device for recording location information as spoken by a user, and generating location data by performing active speech recognition of the recorded location information.