Dynamic Assignment of Phone Numbers for Call Forwarding

• US 20170171323A1
• Filed: 02/13/2017
• Published: 06/15/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ZenPhone LLC
• Original Assignee: ZenPhone LLC
• Inventors: Wadley, Jay Andrew, Patel-Delaloye, Adrian Kush
• Application Number:
  US15/431,428
• Publication Number:
  US 20170171323A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3058 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring environmental properties or parameters of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring of power, currents, temperature, humidity, position, vibrations thermal management in cooling arrangements of a computing system G06F1/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4557 Directories for hybrid networks, e.g. including telephone numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information

Abstract

Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for dynamically providing a local phone number to a user based on a geolocation. An embodiment operates by receiving, from a client device through a communications network, a first request for content. The system then determines a geolocation of a client device based on information included in the request. An embodiment then sends, to the client device through the communications network, instructions that cause the client device to send a second request with the determined geolocation and receive a local phone number based on the geolocation for display.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method comprising, by at least one processor:

receiving, from a client device through a communications network, a first request for content;

determining a geolocation of a client device based on information included in the request;

sending, to the client device through the communications network, instructions that cause the client device to;

send a second request, the second request comprising the determined geolocation;

receive a phone number selected from a pool of phone numbers based on the geolocation; and

display the selected phone number on an interface.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining the geolocation of the client device comprises determining the geolocation based on an internet protocol (IP) address of the client device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the geolocation comprises a code associated with a city, a region, a country, or a zip code.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected phone number comprises a number that is local to the determined geolocation of the client device.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the selected phone number comprises a number with an area code or a country code corresponding to the determined geolocation.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the request comprises a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request for a webpage, and the instructions comprise one or more scripts embedded in the webpage.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the instructions further populate one or more tags on the webpage with the selected phone number, the populating causing the selected phone number to be displayed on a location corresponding to the one or more tags.

8. A system, comprising:

a memory; and

at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to;

receive, from a client device through a communications network, a first request for content;

determine a geolocation of a client device based on information included in the request;

send, to the client device through the communications network, instructions that cause the client device to;

send a second request, the second request comprising the determined geolocation;

receive a phone number selected from a pool of phone numbers based on the geolocation; and

display the selected phone number on an interface.

9. The system of claim 9, wherein to determine the geolocation of the client device the at least one processor is further configured to determine the geolocation based on an internet protocol (IP) address of the client device.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the geolocation comprises a code associated with a city, a region, a country, or a zip code.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the selected phone number comprises a number that is local to the determined geolocation of the client device.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the selected phone number comprises a number with an area code or a country code corresponding to the determined geolocation.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the request comprises a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request for a webpage, and the instructions comprise one or more scripts embedded in the webpage.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the instructions further populate one or more tags on the webpage with the selected phone number, the populating causing the selected phone number to be displayed on a location corresponding to the one or more tags.

15. A tangible computer-readable device having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one computing device, causes the at least one computing device to perform operations comprising:

receiving, from a client device through a communications network, a first request for content;

determining a geolocation of a client device based on information included in the request;

sending, to the client device through the communications network, further instructions that cause the client device to;

send a second request, the second request comprising the determined geolocation;

receive a phone number selected from a pool of phone numbers based on the geolocation; and

display the selected phone number on an interface.

16. The computer-readable device of claim 15, wherein the determining the geolocation of the client device comprises determining the geolocation based on an internet protocol (IP) address of the client device.

17. The computer-readable device of claim 15, wherein the geolocation comprises a code associated with a city, a region, a country, or a zip code.

18. The computer-readable device of claim 15, wherein the selected phone number comprises a number that is local to the determined geolocation of the client device.

19. The computer-readable device of claim 18, wherein the selected phone number comprises a number with an area code or a country code corresponding to the determined geolocation.

20. The computer-readable device of claim 15, wherein the request comprises a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request for a webpage, and the further instructions comprise one or more scripts embedded in the webpage.