Stateful home phone service
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1. A method comprising:
- receiving, by one or more computing devices, a telephone call to a destination telephone number from a caller;
determining, by the one or more computing devices, an intended recipient of the telephone call based on an originating telephone number of the caller or identity of the caller; and
routing, by the one or more computing devices, the telephone call to one or more devices based at least in part on the intended recipient of the telephone call and based at least in part on information received from a security system, the information comprising an indication of a state of the security system.
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Abstract
Incoming messages, such as phone calls, may be routed to destinations based on a variety of factors, such as the state of the callee'"'"'s security system, the date and time, the identity of the caller, and the number of recent call attempts by the caller. Potential destinations include all or a subset of the phones associated with a subscriber and outside phones, such as cellular phones operated by third parties. The rules used to route calls may be defined or modified via a web interface.
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1. A method comprising:
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receiving, by one or more computing devices, a telephone call to a destination telephone number from a caller; determining, by the one or more computing devices, an intended recipient of the telephone call based on an originating telephone number of the caller or identity of the caller; and routing, by the one or more computing devices, the telephone call to one or more devices based at least in part on the intended recipient of the telephone call and based at least in part on information received from a security system, the information comprising an indication of a state of the security system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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5. A method, comprising:
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receiving, by one or more computing devices, a message; determining, by the one or more computing devices, a location of an intended recipient of the message within a premises based at least in part on information received from a security system of the premises; and routing, by the one or more computing devices, the message to one of a plurality of devices in the premises, based at least in part on the determined location of the intended recipient of the message within the premises. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 17, 18)
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9. A method comprising:
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receiving an incoming message from an external communication network; and routing the incoming message to a subset of a plurality of devices in a premises based on output from a movement detector of a security system associated with the premises, wherein the subset of the plurality of devices in the premises excludes one or more devices in the plurality of devices in the premises. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 19, 20)
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