Patent ID: 9596346
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A call system for bridging a communication connection between an initiator and a destination party based upon a current location of the initiator within a wireless communications network, the calling system comprising: a communication interface configured to receive from the initiator an incoming communication directed to an identifier of the destination party, which identifies a number of different geographic locations in which the destination party is located; an interactive unit configured to interact with off-network third party service providers via application gateways of the off-network third party service providers, the interactive unit comprising a communications control service operable to bridge at a communication interface the incoming communication of the initiator with one of the geographic locations of the destination party, based on the current location of the initiator; a call routing process created by the communication control service to determine, based on a current location of the initiator, which of the geographic locations of the destination party the incoming communication should be directed; a gateway mediation process created by the call routing process to communicate with at least one of the off-network third party service providers to inquire as to the current location of the initiator and to receive location data related to the initiator's current location, and to return the received location data to the call routing process; the call routing process being further configured to determine the initiator's current location from the received location data, to determine to which of the different geographic locations in which the destination party is located is the one of the geographic locations of the destination party to which the incoming communication should directed, and to return the one of the geographic locations of the destination party to the communications control service; and the communications control services being further configured establish a terminating communication to the one of the geographic locations of the destination party based on the initiator's current location via the communications network interface, whereby the incoming communication and the terminating communication are bridged at the communication interface, wherein the incoming call does not originate over a land line device.