Patent ID: 6665534
Filing Date: 2003-12-16
Classification: H04M,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
A priority incoming call alerting system for screening communication connections from a calling party to a wireless subscriber equipped with a wireless, telephone station which is served by a wireless communication system, comprising:means, responsive to an incoming communication connection directed to said, wireless telephone station, for determining a priority of said incoming communication connection; means for determining a privacy level assigned to a present physical location of said wireless telephone station, comprising at least one of: means for storing data, received from said wireless telephone station, indicative of a privacy level assigned, exclusive of said subscriber, to said present physical location of said wireless telephone station; means for determining a privacy level assigned to said present physical location of said wireless telephone station, from present physical location definition data received from said wireless telephone station, and pre-stored privacy definition data associated with said present physical location; and means, responsive to said determined priority of said incoming communication connection corresponding t said privacy level assigned to said determined present location of said wireless telephone station, for extending said incoming communication connection to said wireless telephone station.