Single telephone number calling method and calling apparatus for mobile unit

• US 7,546,112 B2
• Filed: 03/21/2003
• Issued: 06/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Qisda Corporation
• Original Assignee: Qisda Corporation
• Inventors: Cheng, Steven D.
• Primary Examiner(s): ADDY, THJUAN KNOWLIN
• Application Number:
  US10/394,385
• Publication Number:
  US 20040185824A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,272 Days
• Field of Search: 455/404.2, 455/428, 455/553.1, 455/432.1, 455/404.1, 455/404, 455/435.1, 455/456.1, 379/45
• US Class Current: 455/404.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/28 Number portability ; Network address portability

Abstract

The present invention provides a calling method by a mobile unit. The mobile unit pre-stores a default dialing number, and has a database storing a plurality of primary dialing numbers. Each of the primary dialing numbers corresponds to one geographic location. When a user dials a calling number, the present invention tests if the calling number is identical to the default dialing number. If the calling number is identical to the default dialing number, the present invention retrieving one primary dialing number from the database based upon a current location of the mobile unit. Then, the present invention makes a telephone connection based on the one primary dialing number.

Claims

1. A mobile unit storing a default phone number, the mobile unit comprising:

a first database for storing a plurality of primary phone numbers, each of the primary phone numbers corresponding to one geography location;

a second database for storing a plurality of secondary phone numbers;

a test unit for testing if an input calling number dialed by a user is identical to the default phone number;

a deriving unit for deriving a selected primary phone number from the first database based upon a current location of the mobile unit if the input calling number is identical to the default phone number; and

a connection unit for making a first telephone connection based upon said with the selected primary phone number and for selecting and making a second telephone connection with one of the secondary phone numbers according to the current location of the mobile unit when the first telephone connection failed.

2. The mobile unit of claim 1, wherein the default phone number is a number for emergency service.

3. The mobile unit of claim 1 wherein the geography location is a country.

4. The mobile unit of claim 1, wherein the deriving unit further deriving the selected primary phone number based upon a Mobile Country Code (MCC) information received from a current Public Line Mobile Network.

5. The mobile unit of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of secondary phone numbers corresponding to Local Area Code (LAC), the mobile unit based upon a Local Area Code (LAC) information received by the mobile unit from a current Public Line Mobile Network, retrieving the selected second secondary phone number from the second database.

6. The mobile unit of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of secondary phone numbers corresponding to Mobile Country Code (MCC), the mobile unit retrieving the selected second secondary phone number from the second database.

7. The mobile unit of claim 6, wherein the second database further comprising a native number, when mobile unit cannot find any available secondary phone number, the mobile unit retrieving the native number from the second database and making an international call by using the native number.

8. The mobile unit of claim 1, further comprising a display for displaying a plurality of options when the first telephone connection failed, each option corresponding to at least one of the secondary phone numbers based upon the current location of the mobile unit.