Local phone number lookup and cache

• US 7,962,149 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2006
• Issued: 06/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: WI-GUI, LLC
• Inventors: McCann, Thomas R.
• Primary Examiner(s): MEHRPOUR, NAGHMEH
• Application Number:
  US11/536,542
• Publication Number:
  US 20070021147A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,720 Days
• Field of Search: 4554561-4564, 455/404.1, 455/521, 455/460, 455/461, 4554551-4554, 4554121-4122, 455/436, 340/935, 340/989, 340/993, 340/995.18, 340/426.34, 340/425.25, 340/428.34, 340/995.24, 340/825, 340/7.29, 340/7.48, 340/938, 701/208, 701/213, 709/214, 709/203
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/205 Transfer to or from user equipment or user record carrier

Abstract

A system and method for wirelessly connecting a computer device to a server. The system includes a computer device and a phone number look-up device. The computer device generates location data, retrieves a server phone number from memory based on the generated location data, and generates a request that includes the generated location data if no server phone number corresponds to the generated location data. The computer device wirelessly sends the generated request to a default phone number. The phone number look-up device is associated with the default phone number. The phone number look-up device receives the request from the computer device, retrieves a server phone number from a local memory based on the received request, and sends the retrieved server phone number to the computer device. The computer device wirelessly connects to a server based on the sent server phone number.

Claims

1. A method for wirelessly connecting a computer device to a server, the method comprising:

generating, with the computer device, data related to the location of the computer device;

establishing a first wireless call between the computer device and a first telematics server not local to the computer device and including a phone number look-up device;

sending, during the first call, the location data to the phone number look-up device;

retrieving at least one phone number from memory coupled to the phone number look-up device;

wirelessly sending the retrieved at least one phone number to the computer device;

discontinuing the first call; and

establishing a second wireless call between the computer device and a second telematics server local to the computer device using the at least one phone number.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the computer device is a telematics control unit.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the computer device is at least one of a laptop computer or personal data assistant.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein generating location data of the computer device comprises:

recording location information as spoken by a user; and

generating location data by performing active speech recognition of the recorded location information.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising automatically storing in the computer device the at least one phone number.