Local phone number lookup and cache

• US 8,121,639 B2
• Filed: 10/30/2007
• Issued: 02/21/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: WI-GUI, LLC
• Inventors: McCann, Thomas R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mehrpour, Melody
• Application Number:
  US11/929,383
• Publication Number:
  US 20080214234A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,575 Days
• Field of Search: 4554561-4564, 455/404.1, 455/521, 4554121-4122, 455/460, 455/461, 340/935, 340/989, 340/993, 340/995.18, 340/428.34, 340/425.25
• US Class Current: 455/556.1
• 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 in a given location, the method comprising:

determining whether a phone number corresponding to the given location is stored in the computer device;

retrieving, from a database, a phone number corresponding to the the given location if it is determined that a phone number corresponding to the given location is not stored in the computer device; and

wirelessly connecting the computer device to the server using the phone number retrieved from the database.

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.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein retrieving a phone number from the database comprises:

retrieving the phone number through a second server in communication with the database.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

requesting, from the second server, a phone number corresponding to the given location, if it is determined that a phone number corresponding to the given location is not stored in the computer device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether a phone number corresponding to the given location is stored in the computer device comprises:

determining whether there is a phone number stored for GPS coordinates corresponding to the server.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a voice command that, at least in part, defines the given location, and wherein determining whether a phone number corresponding to the given location is stored in the computer device comprises;

determining whether a phone number corresponding to the given location as defined by the voice command is stored in memory.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the server is associated with an interne service provider.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the computer device is a mobile communication device.

4. A system for wirelessly connecting a computer device to at least one server in a given location, the system comprising:

a memory device; and

a processor capable of;

determining whether a phone number corresponding to the given location is stored in the memory device,

retrieving, from a database, a phone number corresponding to the given location, if it is determined that a phone number corresponding to the given location is not stored in the memory device, and

wirelessly connecting the computer device to the server using the phone number retrieved from the database.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the computer device is a telematics control unit.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the computer device is at least one of a laptop computer or personal data assistant.

13. The system of claim 4, wherein the processor is further capable of:

retrieving the phone number through a second server in communication with the database.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the processor is further capable of:

requesting, from the second server, the phone number corresponding to the given location, if it is determined that the phone number corresponding to the given location is not stored in the memory device.

15. The system of claim 4, wherein the processor is further capable of determining whether there is a phone number stored for GPS coordinates corresponding to the server.

16. The system of claim 4, wherein the processor is further capable of:

receiving and processing a voice command that, at least in part, defines the given location; and

determining whether a phone number corresponding to the given location is stored in the computer device by determining whether a phone number corresponding to the given location as defined by the voice command is stored in memory.

17. The system of claim 4, wherein the server is associated with an interne service provider.

18. The system of claim 4, wherein the system is a mobile system.

19. The system of claim 4, wherein the computer device is a mobile device.