Patent ID: 8364154
Filing Date: 2013-01-29
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: identifying, by a computing device comprising a processor and memory, a first mobile phone and a second mobile phone by one telephone number, wherein each of the first and the second mobile phones is associated with an activation priority that indicates a priority with which the respective mobile phone is activated for communications on a network, and wherein the first mobile phone is associated with a first activation priority that is higher than a second activation priority associated with the second mobile phone; changing the second activation priority to be higher than the first activation priority such that the second activation priority associated with the second mobile phone indicates that the second mobile phone is activated for communications on the network with a higher priority than the first mobile phone; selectively routing communications associated with the one telephone number to the second mobile phone having the second activation priority, wherein the one telephone number defines an address at which the communications are routed to one of the first and the second mobile phones having the highest activation priority without being routed to an intervening address defined by another telephone number; and generating a notification message on the first mobile phone when communications are routed to the second mobile phone.