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System and method for controlling personal telephone number dialing lists and dialing capabilities

  • US 6,542,733 B1
  • Filed: 10/15/1998
  • Issued: 04/01/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/15/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for providing enhanced dialing features to individual wireless devices the wireless devices capable of roaming such that the wireless devices may communicate with each of a plurality of wireless networks depending upon a wireless device'"'"'s current geographical location, comprising:

  • means for storing a plurality of unique dialing profiles, each of said profiles corresponding to a particular wireless device and wherein said profiles are not uniform throughout the system, said profiles comprising call completion information for a plurality of destination telephone numbers;

    means for detecting when a call has been initiated by one of said wireless devices;

    means for determining a current geographical location of the wireless device that has initiated a call;

    means for correlating said wireless device to its corresponding unique dialing profile;

    means for selecting a telecommunications carrier from one or more telecommunications carriers that are identified in said corresponding dialing profile, wherein said telecommunications carrier is selected based upon said current geographical location of the wireless device and a geographical location of a called party;

    means for affixing routing information to call completion information that has been entered on said wireless device, wherein said routing information routes the call across a selected telecommunications carrier'"'"'s network; and

    means for completing said initiated call using said call completion information and said routing information.

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