End user controlled temporary phone service device swapping system and method

• US 8,706,100 B1
• Filed: 09/23/2011
• Issued: 04/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Klone Mobile LLC
• Original Assignee: Klone Mobile LLC
• Inventors: Booth, Kenneth C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Khan, Suhail
• Application Number:
  US13/244,047
• Time in Patent Office: 942 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/203 composed of PSTN and data network, e.g. the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/206 composed of PSTN and wireless network
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42272 whereby the subscriber registers to the terminals for personalised service provision
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42297 with number portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42348 Location-based services which utilize the location information of a target

Abstract

User controlled temporary mobile phone service device swapping systems and methods including particular implementations and embodiments comprising a plurality of mobile phone user control accounts at least a first telephone number registered with each of the plurality of mobile phone user control accounts, and at least two different mobile phone devices registered with each of the plurality of mobile phone user control accounts, and a mobile phone user interface configured to receive input from the mobile phone user to indicate which of the at least two different mobile phone devices associated with the mobile phone user control account is to be associated and to transmit data indicating the association to a phone number registry.

Claims

1. A user controlled temporary phone service device swapping system comprising:

a plurality of phone user control accounts on a user controlled phone service device swapping system accessible through an Internet connection to a phone user interface accessible through each of a plurality of processors each under control of a different phone user, each different phone user associated with a different phone user control account;

at least two telephone numbers registered with each of the plurality of phone user control accounts, each phone user control account associated with a different first and second telephone number than each other phone user control account; and

more than two phone devices registered with each of the plurality of phone user control accounts, each of the more than two phone devices comprising a phone component that provisions phone communication through a phone telecommunication network and a unique identifier different from unique identifiers associated with each of the more than two phone devices registered with each other phone user control account of the plurality of phone user control accounts;

wherein the phone user interface is configured to receive input from a phone user associated with a first phone user control account to indicate which two of the more than two phone devices associated with the phone user control account is to be separately associated with the respective first or second telephone numbers associated with the phone user control account and to transmit data indicating the association to a phone number registry, wherein at least one of the more than two phone devices remains unassociated with both of the respective first and second telephone numbers while the respective first and second telephone numbers are associated with the two phone devices.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the more than two phone devices registered with at least one of the plurality of phone user control accounts is not associated with any telephone number.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the more than two phone devices comprises one of a cellular telephone, a voice over IP mobile phone device, a SIM chip, a tracking device, a watch phone, a personal computing device, a video phone device, a smart phone and a cellular chip.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the phone user interface is configured to receive the input and transmit the data even when the indicated phone device is located remote from the phone user.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the more than two phone devices comprises a tracking device and the interface is configured to illustrate a location on a map displayed on a computer display an approximate location of the tracking device.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the interface is further configured to automatically locate and record a location of the tracking device on a scheduled basis.

7. A user controlled temporary communication service device swapping system comprising:

a plurality of communications device user control accounts on a user controlled communication service device swapping system accessible through an Internet connection to an online communications user interface;

at least two different communications device numbers registered with each of the plurality of communications user control accounts; and

more than two communications devices registered with each of the plurality of communications user control accounts, each of the more than two communications devices comprising a communications component that provisions communication through a communications network and a unique identifier different from unique identifiers associated with each of the more than two communications devices registered with each of the other communications user control accounts;

wherein the user controlled communications service device swapping system is configured to receive input from a first communications user associated with a first communications user control account of the plurality of communications user control accounts to indicate that a first communications device of the more than two communications devices is to be associated with a first communications device number of the at least two different communications device numbers and a second communications device of the more than two different communications devices is to be associated with a second communications device number of the at least two different communication device numbers and to transmit data indicating the associations to a communication number registry, wherein a third communications device of the more than two communications devices is left unassociated with any of the at least two communications device numbers.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein each of the more than two communications devices comprises one of a cellular telephone, a voice over IP mobile phone device, a SIM chip, a tracking device, a watch phone, a personal computing device, a video phone device, a smart phone and a cellular chip.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the user controlled communications service device swapping system is configured to receive the input and transmit the data even when the indicated communications device is located remote from the communications device user.

10. A user controlled temporary communication service device swapping system comprising:

a plurality of communications device user control accounts on a user controlled communication service device swapping system accessible through an Internet connection to an online communications user interface;

two communication device numbers registered with each of the plurality of communications user control accounts; and

more than two communication devices registered with each of the plurality of communications user control accounts, each of the more than two communication devices comprising a communications component that provisions communication through a communications network and a unique identifier different from unique identifiers associated with each other device of the more than two communication devices registered with each other communications user control account;

wherein the user controlled communications service device swapping system is configured to receive input from a first communications user associated with a first communications user control account of the plurality of communications user control accounts to indicate that only a first and a second communication device of the more than two communication devices is to be activated for current communication with the communications network, and to transmit data indicating the activations to a communication number registry, wherein at least a third communication device remains unactivated for current communication with the communications network.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein at least one of the more than two communication devices comprises a personal computing device.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein at least a first of the more than two communication devices comprises a cellular telephone and at least a second of the more than two communication devices is not a cellular telephone.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the communications user interface is configured to receive the input and transmit the data even when the indicated cellular telephone is located remote from the phone user.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein at least a first of the more than two communications devices comprises a tracking device and the communications user interface is configured to illustrate a location on a map displayed on a computer display an approximate location of the tracking device.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the communications user interface is configured to automatically locate and record a location of the tracking device on a scheduled basis.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein a plurality of the more than two communication devices each comprises a tracking device and the communications user interface is configured to illustrate a location on a map on a computer display an approximate location of each of the more than two communications devices.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the communications user interface is configured to automatically locate and record a location of each of the tracking devices on a scheduled basis and display their last recorded locations on the map.