Location-Based Telecommunications Redundancy Protocol
First Claim
1. A protocol for location-based telecommunications redundancy, operable at a data-communications topology juncture having at least two telecommunications media there-at, and the protocol includes the steps of:
- a. On the occurrence of a call-processing request from a caller to a recipient, first software at-the-juncture accessing a substantially current location for the recipient; and
b. Using the current location, second software at-the-juncture propagating the request to “
ring”
at two call-receiving devices closest to the current location—
wherein one of the devices is a mobile telecommunications device of the recipient and the other of the devices is a terrestrial device of the recipient that is closest to the current location of the recipient.
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Abstract
A protocol for location-based telecommunications redundancy, operable at a data-communications topology juncture having at least two telecommunications media thereat, and the protocol includes the steps of: (1) On the occurrence of a call-processing request from a caller to a recipient—e.g. using a last known present location of the recipient'"'"'s mobile phone; and (2) Using the current location, second software at-the-juncture propagating the request to “ring” at two call-receiving devices closest to the current location—wherein one of the devices is a mobile telecommunications device of the recipient and the other of the devices is a terrestrial device of the recipient that is closest to the current location of the recipient.
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9 Claims
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1. A protocol for location-based telecommunications redundancy, operable at a data-communications topology juncture having at least two telecommunications media there-at, and the protocol includes the steps of:
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a. On the occurrence of a call-processing request from a caller to a recipient, first software at-the-juncture accessing a substantially current location for the recipient; and
b. Using the current location, second software at-the-juncture propagating the request to “
ring”
at two call-receiving devices closest to the current location—
wherein one of the devices is a mobile telecommunications device of the recipient and the other of the devices is a terrestrial device of the recipient that is closest to the current location of the recipient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. An article of manufacture including a computer usable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein for facilitating a protocol for location-based telecommunications redundancy, operable at a data-communications topology juncture having at least two telecommunications media there-at, the computer readable program code in said article of manufacture including:
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a. first computer readable program code for causing a computer to, on the occurrence of a call-processing request from a caller to a recipient, accessing a substantially current location for the recipient; and
b. tied to the first computer readable software, second computer readable program code for causing the computer, using the current location, propagating the request to “
ring”
at two call-receiving devices closest to the current location—
wherein one of the devices is a mobile telecommunications device of the recipient and the other of the devices is a terrestrial device of the recipient that is closest to the current location of the recipient.
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7. A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform steps for facilitating a protocol for location-based telecommunications redundancy, operable at a data-communications topology juncture having at least two telecommunications media there-at, said steps including:
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a. Maintaining a substantially current location for a mobile device of a recipient;
b. Accepting from the recipient a list of at least one terrestrial devices, each device respectively identified by infrastructure predetermined logical alphanumeric assignment code;
c. Establishing a mobile telephone synonymous coordinate for each of the at least one terrestrial devices; and
d. Keeping a current preference correspondence between the current location of the mobile device of the recipient and a most proximate terrestrial device based on the respective synonymous coordinate.
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8. A location registration method, for use in the protocol for location-based telecommunications redundancy, and the method includes the steps of (A) from a substantially mobile phone located next to a connected substantially terrestrial telecommunications unit, transmitting an accepted terrestrial-system identification number for the terrestrial unit;
- (B) at a predetermined juncture in a data-communications topology, recording the identification number in logical association with a base-station antenna-space location for the substantially mobile phone during the transmitting.
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9. A protocol for location-based telecommunications redundancy, operable at a data-communications topology juncture having at least two telecommunications media there-at, the protocol substantially as herein before described and illustrated, and the protocol is characterized by an occurrence of a call-processing request—
- from a caller to a recipient—
resulting in substantially simultaneously “
ringing”
of a plurality of proximate recipient respective-media devices wherein one of the devices is a mobile telecommunications device.
- from a caller to a recipient—
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