RULES-BASED ASSOCIATION OF A PHONE NUMBER WITH ONE OR MORE DESTINATION LOCATIONS
First Claim
1. A method, comprising:
- associating a phone number with one or more destination locations based on a set of rules;
receiving a request from a user using the phone number;
wherein the request is associated with accessing a set of directions to at least one of the one or more destination locations;
identifying an originating location associated with the request received from the user; and
providing the user with at least one of the sets of directions to the one or more destination locations from the originating location.
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Abstract
Systems and methods of rules-based association of a phone number with one or more destination locations are disclosed here. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of associating a phone number with one or more destination locations based on a set of rules and receiving a request from a user using the phone number. The request is associated with accessing a set of directions to at least one of the one or more destination locations. The method may further include, identifying an originating location associated with the request received from the user, and providing the user with at least one of the sets of directions to the one or more destination locations from the originating location.
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20 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
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associating a phone number with one or more destination locations based on a set of rules; receiving a request from a user using the phone number;
wherein the request is associated with accessing a set of directions to at least one of the one or more destination locations;identifying an originating location associated with the request received from the user; and providing the user with at least one of the sets of directions to the one or more destination locations from the originating location. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method, comprising:
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identifying a target location where an associated agent is to arrive at;
wherein the target location is associated with a phone number;receiving a request from the associated agent using the phone number;
wherein the request is associated with access to a set of directions to the target location;identifying an originating location associated with the request received from the associated agent; and providing the associated agent with the set of directions to the target location from the originating location. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A system, comprising:
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a communications module embodied in a computer-readable medium, the communications module to communicate with a user device;
wherein, in operation, the communications module receives a request generated by a user using a telephone number and the request is associated with accessing a set of directions to a destination location of a set of destination locations associated with the telephone number;a rules module embodied in a computer-readable medium, the rules module to manage a set of rules that govern the set of destination locations associated with the telephone number; a user data repository to store user data; a telephone number repository to store the telephone number and the set of destination locations governed by the set of rules; a location engine coupled to the rules module to identify an originating location associated with the request received from the user;
wherein, in operation, the location processor communicates with the communications module to determine the location of the user device; anda direction generator module embodied in a computer-readable medium, coupled to the rules module and the location processor;
wherein, in operation, the direction generator module generates a set of directions from the originating location to the destination location based on one or more of user data and the set of rules.
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