Bridge line appearance for location-aware mobile devices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8934883-B2
Application number	US-201314047870-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 7, 2013
Priority date	Nov 24, 2008
Publication date	Jan 13, 2015
Grant date	Jan 13, 2015

Abstract

A vPBX server manages calls in a bridged line appearance (BLA) group. A BLA group can include extensions for location-aware mobile devices. The vPBX server contains location based forwarding rules that can be applied together with BLA redirection rules in managing incoming calls. A single extension can appear as a user interface element (e.g., an icon or button) on multiple mobile devices. Using the user interface element, a primary user can view a secondary user's status, including the secondary user's location information. The vPBX server allows the primary user to redirect the incoming calls to devices in accordance with the forwarding rules and the redirection rules.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
identifying a bridged-line group, the bridged-line group including a first user associated with a first mobile device and a second user associated with a second mobile device;
generating a rule for designating the first user as a monitoring user for the bridged-line group, wherein the rule specifies that the first user is designated as the monitoring user when the first mobile device is in a pre-determined location;
receiving a call…

Assignees

• Ringcentral Inc

Inventors

• Vendrow Vlad
• Young Bruce
• Shah Praful
• Elpiner Boris
• Shmunis Vladimir

Classifications

• H04M3/42314

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• H04M3/42348 Primary

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• H04M7/006

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• H04W64/00

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• H04M3/546 Primary

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