Flexible lifestyle portable communications device
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
- determining a state of a portable communications device, wherein the state includes information about previous communications;
comparing the state to a plurality of rules, wherein the plurality of rules include one or more conditions regarding previous communications, wherein each of the plurality of rules is associated with a corresponding one of a plurality of modes, and wherein each of the plurality of modes is associated with a corresponding one of at least two billing attributes; and
changing a mode of the portable communications device, based on the comparison, to one of the plurality of modes,wherein the information about previous communications includes a first device identifier of a previous telephone call and a first email address of a previous email, andwherein the one or more conditions regarding previous communications includes a second device identifier, a second email address, and a time window.
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Abstract
A method may include receiving a call at a portable communication device, entering a first mode when the call is directed to a first device identifier associated with the portable communication device; and entering a second mode when the call is directed to a second device identifier associated with the portable communication device, wherein the first mode provides access to a first set of applications and a first set of user data and the second mode provides a second set of applications and a second set of user data.
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25 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
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determining a state of a portable communications device, wherein the state includes information about previous communications; comparing the state to a plurality of rules, wherein the plurality of rules include one or more conditions regarding previous communications, wherein each of the plurality of rules is associated with a corresponding one of a plurality of modes, and wherein each of the plurality of modes is associated with a corresponding one of at least two billing attributes; and changing a mode of the portable communications device, based on the comparison, to one of the plurality of modes, wherein the information about previous communications includes a first device identifier of a previous telephone call and a first email address of a previous email, and wherein the one or more conditions regarding previous communications includes a second device identifier, a second email address, and a time window. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 21, 24)
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10. A system comprising:
a portable communications device including; a transceiver to transmit and receive user communications; a memory to store a plurality of rules, each of the plurality of rules associated with one of a plurality of modes, wherein each of the plurality of modes is associated with one of at least two billing attributes; and a processor to determine a state of the portable communications device based on words used in the user communications, compare the state to each of the plurality of rules, and change a mode of the portable communications device, based on the comparison and based on a location of a called party, to one of the plurality of modes associated with one of the plurality of rules, wherein the words used in the user communications include words spoken in a phone call by the user of the portable communications device. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23)
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18. A computer-implemented method comprising:
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determining a state of a portable communications device based on words transmitted or received in user communications including words spoken in a phone call by a user of the portable communications device; comparing the state to a plurality of rules, each of the plurality of rules associated with one of a plurality of modes, wherein each of the plurality of modes is associated with one of at least two billing attributes, each device identifier identifying the portable communications device; selecting, based on the comparison and based on a location of a called party, a mode from the plurality of modes; and changing a mode of the portable communications device to the selected mode. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 25)
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