One number service using mobile assisted call forwarding facilities

US6091948A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Oki Telecom, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Jerry R. Carr · Lawrenceville, US
• Robert C. Witter · Lawrenceville, US
• Clifton J. Barber · Forest Park, US
• Michael Anthony Wise · Langen, DE
• Anthony B. Waldroup · Forest, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 28, 1997
• Grant date: Jul 18, 2000
• Expiry date: Feb 28, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02D30/70
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A call forwarding automation feature in a wireless telephone provides automated activation and deactivation of conventional carrier system call forwarding. The wireless telephone provides for storing multiple call forwarding telephone numbers, selecting a call forwarding telephone number based upon location information, automatically activating call forwarding to the selected telephone number during a wireless telephone power down sequence, and automatically deactivating the call forwarding during a wireless telephone power up sequence. Programming is also provided for configuring and enabling the call forwarding feature. In another embodiment, the wireless telephone automatically prompts the user for activation of call forwarding each time the user powers down the wireless telephone. The process also provides the user an ability to select from a list of stored call forwarding telephone numbers to use, as well as providing the user an ability to manually input a new telephone number. In this embodiment, the location information is used only to provide a suggested forwarding telephone number, rather than automatically activating call forwarding without user input during the power do…